Idle hands.....

The hockey players have begun to show up. Some of them have been here for several weeks already, as they are in high school and needed to start school here. Others showed up early just because. They aren't required to check in until Sept. 13 at 6:00 p.m.

They've been naughty boys. Last Friday they threw a party at one of the local kid's home when his parents left town for the weekend. The story unraveled when a player left a note at his host house that he was staying overnight at our house. The coach called us to check, and of course they weren't at our house.

I remember when I was smarter than adults myself, even if it does seem like it was ages ago.

The coach called an early morning meeting on Saturday, ran the kids for an hour, and set up a rigorous practice schedule for this week - skating twice a day, getting off the ice at 10:00 p.m. with a 10:30 curfew.

On Sunday, our player texted MFH at 9:30 and asked if a few guys could come over. The curfew was 11:00 for the holiday. The Boy was sleeping, and they seemed rather loud but it was oddly loud - muffled kind of. I told MFH it sounded like they were in the attached garage instead of the family room downstairs, to which he said, "I'm going to casually check on them. It sounds like they're playing drinking games."

I'll be damned if they weren't in the garage playing beer pong. 11 members of the team plus a few girls, and I'll just mention here that all of them are underaged.

It wasn't pretty. MFH lost it. He made them clean up the mess, then lined them all up and told them that each one of them needed to go to the coach and confess, and he expected the coach to call him and confirm it. Then he came upstairs and called the coach himself.

So far not one of them has come forward.