Weekend curling results

The season is underway. So what happened over the weekend.

In Chicago - the group of plovers finally won a game on Saturday. Not sure if they made it to Sunday or not but I am sure they had a good time. They spent a lot of time downtown in Chicago enjoying the local watering holes.

In Potomac - two Nutmeg teams made the journey. One made it to the second event final where they finished runnerup.

In St. Paul - Derek and Charrissa made the trek and just missed qualifying for the playoffs. A good run through the C event and just came up short.

Later,
JH

New stuff

The blogosphere (are the kids still calling it that) is expanding once again. The LBI curling club decided to create a blog (there may have been beer involved). Coach Ray has entered the blogging world as well.

You can read about the shenanigans at the LBI CC annual meeting over at that blog. Some pictures as well.

Later,
JH

Pre blogging days

DC and me contemplating our navels before we could write about it. This is LBI at its finest.

LBI here we come

The annual meeting of the LBI curling club will be held this Saturday. We are off to the land of surf and sand tomorrow. DC will be there. Coach Raysome anonymous guy will be there. Their lovely wifes will be there. The rest of the crew will be there. Could be some late night blogging occuring.

The weather has taken a turn for the better. The planning is almost done. Now just have to stock up on the beer, wine and food on the way onto the island. Monday is a holiday so it will be a nice long weekend for everyone.

The only thing we will miss is the relighting of Old Barny. Guess we have to wait till next year.

Later,
JH

New curling club

Did you hear that the Columbus curling club now has a dedicated facility? Not quite along the lines of this but certainly enough room for expansion. Best of luck to Stu, Hal and the rest of the crew out there. As with any new club, they could use some funds so why not send them some. Don't forget Pittsburgh is also raising funds as they try to build a facility as well.

Off to the GNCC executive meeting tonight in Albany. I think the agenda might be slightly different than the LBI annual meeting. Our agenda as provided by President Andrea:

Agenda- cocktails followed by pre dinner snacks along with more cocktails. The dinner with cocktails of course. Dessert will follow with desset cocktails. During all of this we might disscuss new membership or just listen to the facinating stories from Jeff our GNCC rep. He can fill us in on all the exciting GNCC meeting details. Or...........we can just have cocktails instead. There will also be plenty of beach redneck quoits and Kubb throughout the weekend! Oh yeah, and cocktails!

Curling season really has started.

Later,
JH

Some people's worst nightmare

That will be the response I expect now that the LBI curling club has become a recognized club in the GNCC. Why, because I am now the GNCC rep for the LBI CC which means I get a voice and a vote. Regular readers know that I can get a little incensed about curling and especially curling politics.

Anyway, that was our big news from the GNCC annual meeting. They also passed a one dollar increase on the dues. Otherwise it was a pretty calm meeting.

We will still maintain our strict new member policy. If you want to join you better learn the secret hand signal and attendance is mandatory at the annual meeting.

By the way, did you notice I got the winner of the Preakness right?

Later,
JH