Miracle on ice

As a follow up to my previous post, my father figured out what the birds were. One was a Redstart and one a Magnolia warbler. No idea why they were both in my trees that day. I haven't seen them since. When I was walking home today I saw some large birds circling that may have been osprey. A good bird watching week.

James was in a hockey tournament this weekend. The team he was playing on was a cobbled together team of individuals and the teams they were playing against were entered as teams (you could sign up either way). The first game they played against James' new AAA team (mostly). They lost 10-0. The next two games I don't know who they played but they won. The fourth game they played again James' old AA team (mostly) and they lost 4-0. Despite being a cobbled together team, they won enough to make the semi-finals and they were up against James' old AA team. They decided to play a defensive game and kept the score to 0-0 and won in a shootout. And I thought they didn't have a change of making it to the finals but they did. They ended up in the finals against a team that beat James' new AAA team (remember they lost 10-0 there). This team was from Quebec. Now James' team lost but only 4-0. They again played a defensive game and so were playing quite well together by the end and got to play 6 games, so really did quite well and James was very pleased with his silver medal. He called it the Miracle on Ice. James asked to order pizza to celebrate. I'm planning on ordering enough so that I don't have to cook tomorrow either. Makes it easy for me!