It's Monday in March....

And after this weekend's pounding of snow my March patio hopes have been pushed back a fair bit.  I've been thinking nice Monday thoughts like "I promise to never ever take summer for granted again" which I don't think I do, but times like these makes t-shirt weather seem way too far off.

The weekend: extremely mellow, which after the previous weekend makes total sense & about the only option that was on my excitement/party menu.  That is directly due to the infamous Funnel Cup Tournament, which I'll get to in a bit.

So Saturday night my friends and I attended a very nice semi-surprise party @ the Good 'Ol Huntsville Legion.  This place is awesome - beer is $3.75, there's 80's tunes, good people etc. & you have to take your hat off because there's portraits of Her Majesty on the wall and I guess that's just the rule when in the presence of a likeness of the Queen, no matter how faded and smoke stained.

Anyways, having left the party for a quick jaunt to the pub to catch Waterhouse live I checked out early with a take-home Sapporo glass and hit the proverbial hay.  Ben and Tebby followed later, ending up at my place after what looked like a pretty productive post 2am trip to Mac's (pizza pops, energy drink, gummy bears etc.).

 All in all a very average, chill kind of night by Huntsville standards.  It wasn't til Sunday morning rolled around that the trouble started. Tebby and Benny awoke on my couch & armchair respectively to find that their vehicles, which they had parked in front of my place to be Good Folks & not drive home tipsy, were GONE.  Not There.

Now the reason I use CAPS is because there have been many times when we've all parked our vehicles overnight there, right on Main st., either because I'm too lazy to drive around the building to my spot or because there's too many people over for other parking options. But NEVER has anyone woken up/come back to find their wheels not there.  After the hungover shocked feelings faded, thoughts were thought: theft was quickly ruled out as both vehicles were gone and there's no car thieves in Huntsville that industrious, also it had puked snow all night & the need to scrape the streets might have something to do with the situation.

To make a long & still ongoing story short, cuss words were cussed and after far too many phone calls it was determined that the inconsiderate jerks shown below, pictured sans the grade school educated doorknobs that drive them, were to blame.

Yes, the Town of Huntsville, along with Edwards Towing, without any signage or notice, decided to have all the cars & trucks that may have been in their way towed.  Apparently side streets were also no exception, according to the nice lady that talked to Benny from the Edwards office.

                               Not even so much as a courtesy note stuck to a parking meter saying

        "Hey sucker(s), don't call the cops, your vehicle's not stolen, it's just that my buddy at Edwards is hard up for cash right now so I told him he could follow me around all night in his truck & tow away anything I thought was in the way of my plow. Give 'em $185 bucks & you can have your car back.

                                             p.s. - No, I didn't feel like plowing around you."

Gee whiz, I guess having a town job has it's perks eh??  I mean besides all the benefits and passing the time by driving in circles all day.  And that's the end of my story - the rest of my Sunday was too pleasant to mention.  Next time:  Funnel Cup low/highlights.

I was going to end this by posting the link to Cdn. Shredder Mark McMorris' groundbreaking triple cork 1440 http://snowboarding.transworld.net/1000147921/featuresobf/mark-mcmorris-backside-triple-cork-1440-video/ but by the time you read this everyone in the western hemisphere will have seen it 6 times sooooo here's a nice little pic I Stumbled Upon: