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Light ‘er up, boys!

Posted in Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , on September 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

My associates get themselves properly fueled up before lighting the first fire of the season. (Image property Mike Judge)

We’re back!

And it’s not even October yet…

The outdoor burn ban in Island County goes away at 8 AM this Friday, Sept. 20, thanks to “an increase in fuel moisture levels and a return to more typical seasonal weather patterns.”

Translation: Burn, baby, burn!!!

With all reasonable care, of course, and within the sanctioned guidelines.

I mean, as my nephews often remind me in the voice of someone speaking to a small child or an escaped mental patient, “This isn’t the ’80s, Uncle David.

“You can’t spray your dad’s carpet cleaning chemicals on the burn pile anymore, even if it did make pretty colors in the night sky.”

Lil’ punks, trying to save the environment and whatnot.

Their grandpa wouldn’t recognize this nanny state of ours.

Now where are my good burnin’ sweatpants? You know, the ones with only a few scorch marks on them…

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Beavis weeps…

Posted in Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , , on June 20, 2024| Leave a Comment »

No fire makes Beavis a sad boy. (Photo property of Mike Judge)

Burn, baby, burn … while you can.

The outdoor burn ban comes for us all, and this year it arrives in Island County at midnight on Sunday, June 30.

That’s the word from Island County Sheriff Rick Felici, who doubles as the Fire Marshal.

After that, there’s no legal burning of natural debris, even with a permit, until we get back to the rainy season — which is probably closer than we all think, given Mother Nature’s capricious ways in Washington state.

You can still have itty-bitty recreational fires in approved fire pits and use barbeque grills.

But lighting up a Beavis-worthy inferno in the burn pit at your sister’s farm? That’s frowned on by The Man.

So, light ’em while you got ’em.

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Back away from the fire pit, son

Posted in Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , , on June 25, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Weep salty tears of regret — but just don’t light them on fire.

A little later than last year, but it’s here.

The Island County Sheriff’s Department has issued a burn ban, which goes into effect Wednesday, June 30.

So, you’ve got five days left to pay tribute to the one true fire god, Beavis, before you have to shut it down.

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Burn ban be gone

Posted in Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , , on October 2, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Gentlemen, get your matches ready.

Island County Sheriff Rick Felici, who doubles as the Fire Marshal, is allowing us to once again craft responsible mounds o’ flame.

Due to “the increase in fuel moisture levels and a return to more typical seasonal weather patterns,” the county burn ban vanishes at midnight, Friday, October 2.

All yard debris and land-clearing burning require a permit where open burning is allowed, with permits issued through the Island County Health Department.

To obtain a verbal permit for residential fires less than four feet in diameter, call (360) 240-5526 or (360) 428-1617, EXT 4.

For a written permit for fires over four feet in diameter, call (360) 679-7350 (North and Central Whidbey), (360) 321-5111, EXT 7350 (South Whidbey), or (360) 387-3443, EXT 228 (Camano Island).

Recreational fires less than three feet in diameter and two feet high do not require a permit.

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I’m tired, boss

Posted in Everything changes, tagged , , , , , on August 24, 2020| 1 Comment »

That moment when you realize the only sports available to write about this fall will be slug races.

Counting today, there are 130 days left in 2020.

And that’s going to be a long, looooooong time with next to nothing to write about.

Which is why, effective early tomorrow morning (Tuesday, Aug. 25), I’m leaving social media and taking a sabbatical from Coupeville Sports.

I’m not removing the blog – all 7,898 articles I’ve published between Aug. 15, 2012 and now will still be here to read.

I’m just not going to add anything new, at least for awhile.

Mainly because there just isn’t going to be much to talk about.

With the COVID-19 pandemic rollin’ on, one of the few guarantees we have is that there won’t be any prep sports played until Jan., 2021.

And even that comes with a really big caveat.

We know there won’t be a fall sports season.

Though, unlike last spring, there still is a chance those teams will play, just not until sometime in March.

Maybe…

If things go perfectly, high school basketball will lead the return, with the start of practice the final week of Dec., and the opening games of a pared-down season dropping the first week of Jan.

Unless the influenza season gets nasty and combines with COVID to create a less-than-perfect storm, at which point we may be on hold for some time.

Basketball may get shoved back.

The season may get bumped.

Or we may just not see prep sports at all during the entire 2020-2021 school year.

No one knows. And if they tell you they do, they really don’t.

So, for someone who writes a blog focused largely on high school and middle school sports in a small town, the future looks increasingly barren.

Tack on the fact I have always lived by the credo of “Publish Every Day,” having averaged 3+ articles a day for the last eight years, and life will be extremely frustrating for me.

Case in point, this weekend.

I published four articles Thursday — two about sports, one about our ferry system, and one extremely well-read one about murder most foul — then had nothing to write about Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

Or today, for that matter.

There is nothing ahead on the schedule. Nothing.

No games. No practices. No new hires. Nothing. Nada. Less than zilch.

I can spend a lot of time being frustrated, and resort to sprinkling in non-sports stories, then spend more time marinating in the soul-sucking hell that is social media, or I can take a break.

I have other writing projects I can go work on, and freed from having to be on Facebook and Twitter, I can get away from the cesspool.

So, I’m out.

Like I said, the blog will still be here, and we’ll see how things play out.

If prep sports return in 2021, I may be back. Or not.

Place your bets accordingly.

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