If you think that your job forces you to think fast, the lead official in a Canadian Football League game played in the Eastern half of the country is forced to do double duty !

Montreal Alouettes are hosting the Hamilton Tiger 🐅 Cats 🐈 so at the end of each penalty, the umpire describes the infraction in French and then immediately after does the same in English.

Watching 👀 a game a few years back in Ottawa, the public address guy 👦 would do the same, but on EVERY play ! The very definition of thinking on your feet.

Montreal 10-8 at the half in a defensive battle !

Montreal 31 – 18 (F)

There were three Greg Maddux moments from the road this time, and one of them led to something pretty awesome showing up in the mailbox 📬!!! Here’s one of them…

Thank you to Mr David Epstein for the gift 🎁 of one Greg Maddux rookie card !

David was the center of the third Maddux conversation over the seven weeks on the road and now has cemented a place in the story of chasing HOPE.

We met during Week 6 of 7, while David was working at the Spring Mountains Visitors Gateway and immediately jumped into a conversation about life and the path that had brought us to the point in our lives.

At one point, the conversation led to my appreciation for the baseball ⚾️ career of Greg Maddux, and David had grown up as a lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan, so the focus was on the time where Maddux pitched for LA.

In a show of appreciation to David, I will wear my Maddux Dodgers jersey to our Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 practice today. The ongoing search for others who choose to live life in a positive manner is a challenge. Sometimes, you strike gold and other days, not so much, but that day out in Mt Charleston, Nevada, it was like hitting the jackpot.

  David and his two co-workers are the real deal and represent the U.S. Forestry department incredibly well !

Welcome 🙏 to Saturday, July 25th ! The weekend is here…

Isaiah 64:8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Red Letter Day for the World of Professional Softball as for the first time in the history of the sport, a game will be televised on network TV 📺!

All three games are set to be televised, so regardless of who you are pulling for, pull for the series to go the distance !

Friday, July 24th, is highlighted by sleeping 😴 in Laurel Fork !!

Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day :
Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :

Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

In hockey 🏒 they give two assists on a goal when multiple players help achieve it. The second assist on getting me home last night goes to Travis Osborne with Marion Harris taking it from there. The trip back was long, and the back half without Lin as she needs more treatment in Missouri ( new date for return is 8/3) but by the Grace of God, I am 🏡🏠🏡!

Seven weeks full of great people and enjoyable experiences with more than a few stories to tell.

Have a Blessed Day 🙌😇🙏