There's few Canadian who don't love the arrival of spring. Even die hard winter fans love spring. However, as much as I love it, I also love to see remnants of winter sticking around as the days get longer and the suns brings people and leaves out. One of these remnants is the hockey net. …
Category: Driveway hockey
Scars
I stood groggily in front of the mirror this morning and for some reason noticed that line that runs perfectly horizontally across my nose about half way up. Imperceptible except up close, it's a memory carved into my beaker with an errant stick back on the driveway on Wolsely Street in Peterborough. I remember getting …
Car!
As I drove down the street yesterday, I approached two boys and a girl playing ball hockey on the street a few houses down. They had a net and one was playing goalie and the other two shooting. I could read their lips as they called "Car!" Ah, one of the great battle cries of …
The Wet Tennis Ball
Do you remember playing ball hockey way back in the day? I mean way back, prior to the invention of the now ubiquitous orange ball hockey ball. Back then, my memory tells me we most often used a tennis ball. Real pucks were for ice, sponge pucks were no good on any surface and …
Sponge Pucks
I don't know what made me think about this but as I was out and about today, enjoying the feel of Christmas in the air, I suddenly had this image of a sponge puck bounce through my brain. Remember those things? Damndest device ever made. They stuck brutally on concrete or asphalt driveways and parking …
When Old Hockey Nets Die
I'm not one of those handyman, McGyver types. I hold my own when it comes to fixing busted clothes-dryers, replacing panes of broken glass and I'll even change the oil on my own cars but I don't build entire rec rooms, turn 4 cylinder engines into V-8's with popular mechanics kits or wire the cottage …
Time Warp
I was out walking the dog in the neighourhood this morning and came across two young boys playing hockey in their driveway. I actually heard them before I saw them. It was that distinct sound that occurs when a hockey stick hits a paved driveway as a tennis ball or one of those orange ball …
Rink Tales 