Taking a Drive to the Neighbor's House

Last evening, after another interesting session chasing high school girls up and down a basketball court, we got ourselves invited to the neighbor's house.  So we got in the car and drove about 3 miles to see them.  If that sounds a little odd you have to remember that these our the neighbors who have the distinct privilege of being the parents of my little buddy Brady, and since they moved about a week ago to new digs we have a bit farther to go than just across the cul-de-sac.  What's a few miles between friends anyway?  Our friends Larry and Darlene (parents of Jason...Brady's dad) are up from Boise so we got the old gang together for some good times.

After the ice melted yesterday morning the rain continued pretty much non-stop through the afternoon.  That kept things wet into the night.  The sky cleared again overnight so everything was rather frosty and icy again this morning, but still nothin' like yesterday.  I had a breakfast meeting with a good friend and leader of the church, and then it was time to teach the confirmation class.  I just finished the prep work for tomorrow morning's worship service, and the folks that come out tomorrow morning at 9:30am are in for a few surprises.  That's all I'm going to say...if you want to know more just come on down to St. John's Lutheran in the Latah Valley tomorrow morning and find out what's goin' on!

In a little while I'll be back out on the court.  I have 3 games (ouch...that was my knees talking) of boys youth basketball to officiate, then I will be headed home to whine about it.

The weather ahead this week is looking fairly quiet.  Right now the temperatures are in the low 40s, and over the next several days we should see dry days with highs in the upper 30s to around 40 degrees.  If you want to read a good explanation of why our weather has been rather tolerable lately, in spite of the La Nina that is going on, check out this article from the National Weather Service Spokane office...it's quite interesting.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/otx/cases/LaNina_2011/LaNina_2011.php