Remembering the 2022-2023 Boys Basketball Season

 The high school boys basketball season is winding down, with the State Tournament coming up this weekend in Dayton.  In the four divisions there will be 12 games spread over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  I'll be there for all of them.

I reviewed my detailed records for this season that started for me back on November 22, 2022.  From that day until March 11, 2023 I attended basketball games on 53 days, totalling 63 varsity games.  I was at 54 boys games and 9 girls games at 13 different venues.  This includes 9 boys regional games at The Stroh Center at Bowling Green State University.  I never even counted the junior varsity games.

I saw 55 boys teams from Ohio and 1 from Michigan, and 9 girls teams from Ohio.  Some teams I saw multiple times and many I saw only once.  I had some favorite teams that I won't mention here--sometimes they won and sometimes they didn't.

On my website, Davey1.com, my friend Dave Sigler and I updated schedules and scores for 173 teams that played 2,065 games, and that number doesn't include any tournament games that are on the tournament brackets on the website!  So we were very busy!

For me, it seems like basketball season is 365 days a year, and that's ok with me. Next week I'll start getting ready for next season.

Family Memories from Long Ago

Kind of a heavy heart today remembering my parents.  Today would have been my mom's birthday, but she passed away in 1994, followed by my dad in 1996.  I miss them.  Lots of great memories of our life years ago, including travels like these. 

This is picture is old!  It's my dad, mom, and me, on a vacation to Colorado in 1969.  But this particular photo was taken in St. Louis, Missouri at the base of the Gateway Arch (you can see I'm holding a  booklet with a picture of the Arch on the cover).  

We went on many vacations together when I was a child and had a good time on every one.  Wishing that I could turn the clock back. 

Homespun Vernonware Collection

Here's a few pieces of our Vernonware dishes.  This is the Homespun pattern, last made in 1958.  My wife and I enjoy these a lot.  The two on the right are called "jug" pitchers. These pieces haven't been out of our box for a few years.

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CSX 726 Waits.

CSX 726 waits for a signal at North Baltimore, Ohio on Friday, July 31, 2020.  He was headed westbound, waiting to enter the intermodal yard there.

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BNSF 8515 rolling along!

Rolling westbound through North Baltimore, Ohio on July 31, 2020 is BNSF 8515 with a very long consist.  Enjoy the video, everyone.

Rollin' On!

Here is CSX 3166 rolling westbound through North Baltimore, Ohio on Friday, July 31, 2020.  Enjoy the video.

Inaugurate Now.

Ok, friends and everyone else. I'd like to set down and have a little conversation with y'all.  I've come up with a novel idea (not related to the Novel Coronavirus) that I think is worth talking about.  Some of you will probably think this is just crazy, but just give me a break.  Just consider what I'm about to say.  Sleep on the idea if you need to, but don't just write it off too soon.

I think we should just inaugurate Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States right now.  I haven't just come up with this idea suddenly.  There's been a lot of thought put into this, and I think it could work.  We all know that Joe is going to be the nominee to run for the Democrats, and we all know the blind and deaf Republicans are going to nominate Don.  The only problem with this thinking is that it's really not going to be a close race, and we all know who is going to win already.  We're going to have a free and fair election, with no fraud or dishonesty.  Except, of course, for Don's dishonesty and lies when he says it ISN'T a free and fair election, with no fraud or dishonesty, because he lost.

Just think of the advantages of inaugurating Joe now.  There are many:

• We would be rid of the most corrupt President in the history of our country.
• We could restore respect and honesty to the Office of the President.
• We would have a President that is more respected around the world by our allies, and also a President who respects our allies.  And stands up to our foes.
• We would have a President who is NOT a racist, and a liar, and is not dishonest.

Those a just a few examples of what we have to gain by inaugurating Joe now.  And I can't think of a single disadvantage of being rid of Don.  So, what do you think?  Can ya work with me on this.  I think it's time has come.  But these last 3 1/2 years have just been too much.  I don't think the country can take another 4 years of this nonsense.  Let's give it a try.

Respectfully submitted for your consideration.