Sunday’s high of 81 sets record for Houston
Pond Hockey event is becoming reality: The U.S. Pond Hockey Championships continue to develop
Well, it’s beginning to look as if I’m not going to make it to Minneapolis for this year’s US Pond Hockey Championships, which are going to be played on Lake Calhoun, right outside the office in which I used to work.
We’d been giving some serious thought to trying to bring the championship to Seabrook next winter. After all, we have a lake in our back yard, and it’s plenty big enough to hold a few regulation-size rinks. ‘Course, there is one BIG problem with our bid, in that there is one tiny problem we haven’t yet figured out how to solve- the weather. When you consider that the only thing frozen on the Texas Gulf Coast this time of year are the margaritas…well, it doesn’t present some problems when it comes to putting on a tournament that requires a frozen pond. And who is going to take a pond hockey tournament seriously if there are palm trees on the shoreline?
And perhaps we could get Jimmy Buffett to provide the entertainment?
As of right now, it looks as if our bid to host next year’s tournament is in serious jeopardy. How in the hell are we supposed to get a Zamboni onto a pond we can’t even guarantee will be frozen? I’m not sure how this is all going to work out, but something tells me we may well lose out to more northern climes. Damn the bad luck…or not. Hey, if the only thing frozen we can find ‘round these parts are the margaritas, how bad can life really be??
