I caught the figure skaters out of the corner of my eye. This is the only way I see anything on TV these days. No one was watching it, but the TV was on in the family room. There was nice music playing, an occasional round of applause and the comfortingly authoritative voice of the commentators.
It all made for a nice, calming background noise for our house. And it reminded me of my Mom, who simply loves figure skating.
Coming home from Riverhead on Sunday I took a wrong turn and found myself in the Shire. Or maybe it was the little green people who had taken a wrong turn, or at least gotten off the train at the wrong stop at Speonk.
And then I saw the squad cars and put it all together with St. Patrick chasing the snakes out of Ireland, and bringing green beer to America, and realized it was only a little community policing, just to make sure that all the Leprechauns got home safe following their reveling in Montauk.
Time to get ready for baseball! All Pro Sports Academy of Bellport will be holding Spring Break Camps so players can get a jump on the season. The camp will run from 9 to 11 a.m. from Monday, March 25, through Thursday, March 28. Players will focus on proper hitting, fielding and pitching fundamentals.
The cost is $140 for four days of baseball. For more information, call 631-286-5144
The Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center will host a concert on Saturday, March 23, at 7 p.m., to benefit the New Beginnings Community Center of Medford. The Stylistics, the group that recorded “I’m Stone In Love With You” and other hits from the 1970s, will perform. This group actually recorded 10 top hits during that decade and evolved into a best-selling soul group.
Tickets start at $55 and go all the way up to $200, with the latter including a Meet and Greet with the band. To buy tickets, or obtain more information, visit www.whbpac.org or call 631-288-1500.
The Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center in Riverhead is holding an activity-filled night, called “Penguins and Pajama Sleepover Party,” on Tuesday, March 26. Enjoy dinner, birthday cake and fun with the penguins.
This overnight adventure begins at 6 p.m. and ends 7 a.m. after a continental breakfast. The cost is $49.95 for aquarium members, and $64.95 for non-members, and children under the age of 2 get in for free. For information and reservations, call 631-208-9200, ext. 426.
The deadline to enter your artworks in the Greater Westhampton Chamber of Commerce’s annual Art Poster Contest is next Tuesday, March 26, so don’t wait! All entries will hang at the Westhampton Free Library from Wednesday, March 27, through Tuesday, April 16.
The top five vote-getters will be chosen at a dinner meeting on Wednesday, April 17, and the winning artwork will be used as the chamber’s promotional poster. Visit www.whbcc.org for all the details.
Mom tells me that this is the time of year for the big ice skating events, when they determine who advances to the Intergalactic Finals, and there are matches held all over the place. The good news is that she no longer has to rely on the major networks to broadcast the competitions as some website in Kazakhstan allows her to watch them all online.
Maybe when I am old enough to retire, they’ll have a website like that for horses. It they had a 24-hour horse channel, I would buy it. Or, in the very least, I’d have it playing in the background at all hours and watching it out of the corner of my eye.
on Mar 18, 2013