You know winter is over when you can throw on some shorts after your day job, run to the Houlton Community Park and climb on a bleacher to watch an exciting little league game. 

The parents are great and not matter how tired you might have been that day because of adventures at work, it all disappears when you hear the crack of the bat and see an inside the park home run.  Little league is exciting!  Here is a link to

There is nothing like seeing a team in uniform at the local ice cream dairy bar laughing and eating a treat win or lose.  Lot of life's lessons learned on the ball field.  Games lost in extra innings, beating a team that  actually had more talented players but not that night, hooping and hollering and seeing a kid excited because he helped his team with that pop up catch, or stealing home and striking out an entire inning of opposing players.  It is apple pie, baseball and you pick the car make. Even the local radio station in Houlton Maine covers the game results and progress as the season gets underway. Here is an earlier blog about how exciting finally having a local team to sponsor can be even on the little league level. http://activerain.com/blogsview/368511/The-Day-I-Became