As my title dictates, I am very enthusiastic...about ALOT of things that I will detail in this blog. This could become a blog about Minnesota Sports, but I don't want to bore people. Also, this blog could also become something to do during the sad, dark, cold time I like to call: THE OFFSEASON. This is a time I bet that exists for a lot of people in which america's past time is on a hiatus. It is unfortunately a time in which the HORRIBLE artic cold of Minnesota comes out and bites us! It is a time with no sun, nothing going on except for those Minnesota sports teams that try SO HARD...yet fail alot of times....With this, this is how my life goes year after year, starting with january of course:
JANUARY: No sun, no baseball, times inside, no fun. The Superbowl usually adds some excitement. And snowball fights and forts.
FEBRUARY-MARCH: The TRANSITION period begins! This is when the twins players get together again and begin training and the beloved spring training takes place! The timberwolves usually end their season, two months before most, thus ending a season of PAIN. Also, this is a time in which i am able to escape t
he minnesota cold and travel to California! HEY HEY HEY!APRIL: The BEGINNING of HAPPY TIMES: THE REGULAR SEASON!!!!!!!!!!! Regular season is always exciting, yet it always puts me and all of minnesota into a sometimes horrible life of extreme UPS and DOWNS. The twins lose a game and you know the day is going to be bad. The twins win, and you know it could become the best day of your life!!!
MAY-JUNE: Time that school/work ends. A time of excitement and the final change of the artic season: Minnesota finally BLOOMS and becomes beautiful again. This beauty lasts usually until September...yay. This is also when baseball season is new and fresh, and especially with the twins, you still have NO idea how the rest of the season will go. This is opening to the great summer of twins, hiking, camping, boating, sun...
JULY-AUGUST: Summer times. Baseball, sun tans, lakes...Minnesota is truly what it is. GREAT.
SEPTEMBER: This is CRUNCH time. This is a time when i am constantly nervous. A time in which all of us in Minnesota are on the edge of our seats. This is when the minnesota twins decide if they are good or bad. 2009 they decided they were amazing in the last full of month of the season and won 17 of their last 21 games, including an amazing, nail biting tiebreaker win vs. the collapsing detriot tigers... SWEET! 2008, they decided to completely give up, and then have a HEARTBREAKING game 163 loss...thus proving coin tosses are LAME.
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER: The cold usually begins. This year, Minnesota was weird and it snowed during October. What? And THEN it became October in November!! This is also the horrible time in which the baseball season ends. OFFSEASON TIME. October always brings a horrible time in which the twins ALWAYS realize that they are in WAY over their head by being in the playoffs and then have a heartbreaking loss outta the playoffs,even though they are trying so hard.........which then starts a week or two week long period of mourning. THEN the award season begins later and we are happy! AND THEN there is nothing for awhile....
DECEMBER: One word: CHRISTMAS! This is a great break from the nothingness that is the offseason. And then we begin all over again!
Now that I got everything I wanted to about baseball...FOR NOW(hahah)....time to discuss nature.
At my internship at the Audubon Center, I have the privilege of hanging out with a long section of land...aka a Transect, and then documenting what happens there every week. My friend, the land(which still needs to be named!), is located in a very woodsy area off of a cross country skiing trail. Yesterday, there were SO many signs of animals!! We were "fortunate" to get 2 inches of snow this week, and so i could see many tracks! There must have been a deer party at the transect, because there were SO many deer tracks! THEN there was a cute little tree stump with a hole in it. In that hole, there is a pile of acorn, with small animal tracks into the hole! I can only imagine that a cute lil chipmunk/squirrel is perhaps living there? But after finding that, I also found something even more exciting: BIG paw tracks that HAVE to be from a wolf!! The tracks are a little bigger than my fist...so I am only assuming this! EXCITING! I will give updates with anything else I may find observing my friend the land!
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