Tomorrow is my big day. First eye treatment day! While waiting Molly are covering the Breezy Point Pond Hockey Tournament for the Lake Country Journal. As magazines like to have features that fit the season, our work will not appear till next winter. Pond hockey is a return to a simpler life when kids played pickup games in the afternoon on outdoor rinks. Everything was not organized and play was not supervised by adults. I am describing my own childhood of the 1960’s.

Here are just a couple images of Pond Hockey. The games actually were moved to a local outdoor rink as the ice on Gull Lake was slushy. I will be returning to this area in five weeks for another pond hockey event … should be better ice, ponds, and photographs.

Pond Hockey (Notice how the goal pockets are very small … no slap shots, body checking or goalies)

(Video Link … Pond Hockey!)

Thankfully the fireworks were not hampered by the poor ice conditions. However, the lake is still devoid of vehicles … the ice is not thick enough for trucks.

Fireworks Over Gull Lake