[We missed Josie at the winery on this day as she was sandwiched between the girls hockey game and the boys basketball game. So, here’s a shout out . . . ]
[And one of our favorite songs by her written by a fellow Minnesotan . . . ]
[After the girls hockey game but before the boys basketball I was able to make a cameo appearance here. The Super was able to stay longer . . . ]
[CLSO board member Jim and Jan Pence were co-hosting and recommended we give this a try . . . ]
[So we did . . . ]
[And we liked it . . . ]
[It drew a smile from the Super . . . ]
[The aforementioned Jim Pence, with Jan in the lower left corner . . . ]
[If you buy season tickets, you can go to every concert! BTW, do either of you play a string instrument?]
[Violinist, Lesley Donahue, with a soon to have 3rd daughter on the left; the next day’s concert narrator, Kevin Lee, on the right . . . ]
[Thanks again to the Garden Bar on 6th!]
February 9
After the quarterly wine pick up party at Carlos Creek Winery, it was on to the CLSO concert at the AAHS Performing Arts Center . . . ]
[After the pre-performance maestro’s notes, flutist Deb Mercier took the stage to introduce her children’s book “Catching the Waves: The Science of Sound” to go along with the performance . . . ]
[Deb Mercier with her book (Echo Press photo) . . . ]
[The book was illustrated by Faythe Mills and is available at Cherry Street books (Echo Press photo) . . . ]
[The CLSO . . . ]
[The CLSO audience . . . ]
[We concluded the evening with a lively book club discussion of “Guns, Germs, and Steel”.]
I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. ~ Woody Allen
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! This is the follow-up to the original, “alexandriacardinals.wordpress.com,” which overwhelmed the system’s ability to handle it any more. Thus, this is “Part 2.” As the original was initially described:
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“It all began in a 5,000 watt radio station in Fresno, California” . . . wait a minute, that was Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show! Let’s see . . . oh yeah, it all began in 2003 when retirees, i.e., old people, in Alexandria, Minnesota, who had no desire to become snow birds, went looking for mid-winter entertainment here in the frozen tundra of West Central Minnesota. We discovered girls’ high school hockey, fell in love immediately, and it remains our favorite spectator sport to this day. Initially, and for several years, reports on these games were e-mailed to those who were actually snowbirds but wanted to keep abreast of things “back home.” It was ultimately decided a blog would be more efficient, and it evolved into a personal diary of many things that attracts tens of readers on occasion. It remains a source of personal mental therapy and has yet to elicit any lawsuits.
~ The Editor, May 9, 2014
p.s. The photo border around the blog is the Cardinal girls’ hockey team after just beating Breck for the state championship in 2008. It’s of the all-tournament team. The visible Breck player on the left is Milica McMillen, then an 8th-grader – she is now an All-American for the Gophers. The Roseau player in the stocking cap I believe is Mary Loken, who went on to play for UND; and the Cardinal player on the right, No. 3, is Abby Williams, the player we blame most for making us girls’ hockey fans who went on to play for Bemidji State.
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Photos contained herein are available for personal use. All you have to do is double click on any of the photos and they will become full screen size. You can then save them into your personal “My Pictures” file. They make lovely parting or hostess gifts, or holiday gifts for such as Uncle Ernie who wants to see how his grand niece is doing on the hockey team. If any are sold for personal profit, however, to, for example, the Audubon Society, National Geographic, Sven’s Home Workshop Monthly, Curling By The Numbers, or the World Wrestling Federation, I only request that you make a donation to the charitable organization of your choice. You have two hours and fifteen minutes. Pencils ready? Begin!
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