The Blanding Bugle

Volume 17 Issue 6

June 2008

Soccer Wrap Up

I can't believe we survived another soccer season, but we have.  The kids all had a great time and we didn't have any frost bite. That is a wonderful blessing. The last day of soccer, May 22, was so cold I (as the coach) could barely hold the marker to write on my coach's board. I had a t-shirt, sweatshirt, fleece jacket and then a Gore-Tex ski coat on and I was still freezing. And when I wasn't writing I had gloves on. 

Jessie scored every game even if her team didn't win every game, but don't tell Jessie they didn't win every game.  The girls on her team were great sports and had a blast.

Chris and Matt loved playing goalie even though they were some of the smallest kids on the team.  Matt continues to improve with his left foot and even scored with it. Chris was the ever-ready bunny, full of energy and always ready to go at it. It was great fun to coach them this year.

Mike and Jason went undefeated all season and somehow in the 10 games they only have 5 goals scored on them! WOW!!! Mike scored a few times and Jason, even though he was the primary goalie, scored a hat trick (that three goals in one game). What was truly amazing about this team is that it was made up of kids from the ages of 12-15 and the older boys were heads taller than the younger players and extremely talented yet, that didn't stop them from passing the ball to the younger boys and making them step up to the challenge. It was truly amazing to sit back and watch these boys share the ball.  No superstars on this team, but it was a team full of super kids!

And to top off the year, Jason, Kray and Doreen were invited to a pre-game and post-game chat with the referees at the Seattle Sounder's home opener at Qwest field.  It was a great opportunity to learn from some of the best referees out there.  The weather was awful, but the game was great!

Bam! it was all gone!

WARNING: Never ever go to the fuse box and just start flipping switches because bad things start to happen.  We found out the hard way.

Our outside freezer and fridge were mysteriously without power one afternoon and so to fix the problem, Steve went to the fuse box and started flipping fuses trying to find it.  Little did we know what was going to happen.  The fuse wasn't in the fuse box but in the power room in the ground fault interrupter that was tripped.  In the process, he had turned on and off the library's circuit and fried my computer's hard drive. 

The crash was devastating as three years of digital pictures were lost (I was about three days away from burning the those pictures on CDs), homeschooling data was lost, websites were lost, my writings, my books (don't we all want to write the next best seller), my journal, our family journal and thousands of other pieces of data was lost.

Thankfully we found a company who could, for a very steep price, find it all and they did! WHEW!

Mike