Last weekend Jon and his team were in Hibbing for the 12 team Bantam A tourney.
They started out with a win which is always good and ended up winning the next two games, allowing only 2 goals and winning the pool winner tie breaker allowing the least amount of goals. I caught the Saturday games after the morning groom and the second one was probably the best game I have seen them play all year. Great hockey. Played with heart and passion. The automatic bid to the championship game was on the line, and they stepped up to the plate and delivered. I don't like to single out individual accomplishments in a team sport but Jon had a nice weekend with a hat trick in the Sat evening game en route to 10 points on the weekend.
The played Hopkins in the championship game and lost, probably in a emotional low from being "up" from the day before. Still, a solid weekend earning the second place.
In between games I snuck over to Giants Ridge to check out the Silver trail which is the skate course for the state meet. I have high expectations for the Ridge with the events they put on and was disappointed to see 3" of fresh snow not groomed. I hate to be critical and negative but with the low snow year in the Midwest, it pretty much burned me not to see this snow packed out. Don't get me wrong, it was great to be skiing in fresh powder and the opportunity to do so but concern of hosting a state meet 3 weeks ago was not evident, imo.
Overall the coverage was good and the skiing was great and skiing under the lights was a blast.
Warroad and other towns claim to be the hockey town of USA but I would put Hibbing up there as well. There is so much history in the area with hockey, the mining, Bob Dylan, Kevin McHale, there really isn't a town like Hibbing in the state. The memorial arena is a classic. I made a too long of a video capturing a touch of the local flavor.
(skoyles photo)Monday I made the trip back east to catch the action at MT Itasca for the Little Falls invite. I have never been to the LF Invite which is normally held at Ripley but wanted to check it out this year since it was Jake's SR year. Unfortunately, they weren't able to have it at Ripley. Jake won the classic and put 12 more seconds on in the pursuit to take the overall win. Mt Itasca is a great place to watch and during the skate race I was able to ski next to Jake and watch maybe 70% of the race.
For Christmas, Jonell and the boys delivered a Mukluk fat bike. The fat bike is becoming super popular and I had my doubts. I have done a lot of snow riding with the 26 hardtail and looking at some of the conditions people are riding with fat bikes, I asked myself "why"? I have been riding at least once a week on Twin Lakes singletrack and this week it was much better with a line to follow. It is amazing what the bike can ride through and can ride much more than I imagined. The ski and snowshoe trails are perfect but I am staying off. I feel snow is meant to ski on and singletrack is meant to bike on and if there is a bike that can handle it in winter mode, all good. I am hoping to have a fat bike race either late February or early to mid March. Thinking of a course, it would probably start on the lake, go through a marsh area, little bit of ski trail, bushwhacking through the woods and finish up on some singltrack. Dates and time to be posted, hopefully, soon.
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Clues::
Air France Concorde
Christa McAuliffe, Concord, NH
Carnaval's Costa Concordia
Concord:::In the "eye of The Beast"
Downey Savings
90s:: "He gets 4 years.", "(His chance is OVER!!)":::2.1.03 (SS Columbia) & 11.26.03 (Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde).
My miracle of Ocean Beach, witnessed by MILLIONS on the West Coast
Mt. Zion:::Slowly being eaten away until one day paradise is gone forever
Carry That Weight
Unit 731::TSUSHOGO
Zastava Koral
"Something happened (which casued the market to fall to 6500.)" Told managers of CalPers funds to sell/manipulated CalPers' holdings?
Allowed the hustlers who got out of the market at/near its peak 90s, into real estate, out at real eastate market peak 05-07 to buy stocks dirt cheap and get back into the market at 6500.
In the course of decay and deterioration of the favor of the people the gods instructed their clone host tools in corporate to make changes to their products and subsequently in people's lives. The switch to plastic/disposable-based packaging is an outstanding example. Another is the extensive use/proliferation of disposable diapers. Whereas diaper services were the norm during the 20th cenutry a change occurred in the 70s/80s and parents began to incurr evil upon their children, and sadly in some cases think they were "earning" off their own infant children!!!
"Poisoning their brainwashed minds." xtainity brainwashed you. Liberalism is the poison.
The gods used xtainity to demonize Lucifer, ensuring people refused to heed the teachings of THE SECOND COMING!!!. Lucifer is the Second Coming of Christ!!!
xtianity is the product of the Apostle's books of the New Testiment and can't be trusted to contain the true teachings of Jesus Christ. Just like each one of you corrupt whores, the gods could have tempted them with immortality if they lied when writing the New Tesatiment. Then the gods dictated verbatim specifically to parlay into the destructive phenominah known as xtianity.
We have seen the gods engage in similar behavior to keep people away from good religions, with the Jews in Palestine and Muslims recently post-9.11, demonizing both.
This is another of the god's wicked curveballs, their reverse positioning tool extensively employed, utilizing positioning to prepare for the Apocalypse and your "consolation prize" of "1000 years with Jesus on Earth".
"1000 years with Jesus" may start at different times for different people::::
Medical advances I mention below may already be invented, courtesy of biotechnology, but reserved for the wealthy.
Proof money is not favor:::Not only will they die before the masses, since their clock began sooner, but some of these individuals may have been "guinea pigs" in the perfection of these advances.
Just clone host fakes who were sold they are the lucky ones anyways.
Even as peasant farmers we could be lulled::Good weather, bountiful harvests, etc. This illustrates old-world preacher's effectiveness::::
This stereotypical preacher had classic preaching styles:::Loud, damnation-fueled teachings. Contrast to today, preachers who are lulling the Damned into "cruise control, the old-world style was important to snap people out of complacency. Unfortunately, in today's enviornment people consider this style insulting, and they lose a precious message designed for the favored of yesterday.
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