Who would have thought that after hours of driving rain this morning that I would have had such an exciting day at the Icebreaker? I came home with "an attitude of gratitude" that I wanted to share. And the rain is starting again as I look out the window...

First, thanks to Dick [Detwiler] for the wonderful course setting. I'm sure I get the "most stream crossings" award. But despite some of my poor decisions and very wet boots I had a great day. Thanks, Linda [Kohn], for getting that control moved to the bottom of the spur!

I'm grateful to Rick [Woorkner] and Linda for all the work they did prior to most of us arriving. Tyler [Borden], thank you for all the work you did to streamline the registration process and for sitting at the computer all day. Tom [Cornell], thank you for the T shirts. The color is perfect! Unfortunately I needed a green shirt for St. Patrick's Day, but I'll be ready for next year. Mary [Kolva], thank you for all the wonderful refreshments. Mike [Meynadasy], thanks for checking in about the membership after the meet. Bob [Bundy], thanks for booking the shelter. Thank you to all the volunteers whom I haven't named who came and made our meet possible.

I don't know if the membership sign was especially helpful, but we had a number of new members today and quite a few renewals. For those who didn't renew, some wonderful person has made it possible for us to renew online. I actually don't know who.

Thank you everyone who obliged my request to take your picture.

And it was SO great to see all those RIT students come and participate! Maybe Linda's O course at RIT will bring forth some energetic new members for us? I hope we see them come back again and again. Since I was already losing lots of time between #2 and 3 I got to help one of them twice! Trust the compass. His was still in his pack.

We all contributed to making the meet today possible. I hope you all had as fun a day as I did.

So let's all do Sandra [Lomker] a favor and check our calendars and see how we can help out this season. The schedule looked really empty.

See y'all at Mendon.

Laurie Hunt

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