Attendance at tonight’s meeting was on the light side. Perhaps
that was why Thibs had so much food left over. Thibs puts a lot of time, effort
and love into cooking for us, so he was understandably disappointed that his
efforts weren’t appreciated by more members.
I have to admit that while I had expected to eat at the club
tonight I did not plan well for it and was not able to do so. But I’m going to
make a conscience effort to make it for the remainder of the season (The
Pre-meeting Dinner Season.)
I hope you’ll join me as Thibs really does a great job and you
can’t beat the price of only $8.00.
Dan Dunn reported on how planning for the Iron Adventure is
coming for 2014. The American Legion is committed to making their participation
bigger and better and to have enough steaks! They will also have dancing on the
second floor of their building. The local shops will be staying open later and
the vendors will be located downtown rather than at the main venue. This will
enable more vendors, who don’t conform to HD’s rules, to participate. However;
most of the events will be at a central location on the mountain rather than
spread out as they were last year.
Dan mentioned that they were spending a lot
more money on entertainment this year. Rich Jones advised that HD was bringing
in their official band, Déjà vu, which plays at all
their big events. Click the links below for a taste of what to expect, keep in mind these are not professionally produced videos.
Tom Lloret advised that there is no official club ride this
Sunday. But as usual, if the weather cooperates and you want to ride, show up
at Dunkin Donuts on Rt. 32 in Montville at 10 AM and you might find other
members there to ride with.
As I reported in an earlier blog post, this Sunday is the
showing of Why We Ride in
Plainville. Tickets had to be purchased in advance and are now sold out. I know
of 9 people who will be attending. We will meet at the usual spot (Dunkin
Donuts) at 11:00 AM to get to Sliders Bar and Grill in Plainville for Noon
where we will meet up with other members and some Hartford HOG members for
lunch before the movie. I’ll be wearing my patch and suggest you do to.
Patti Dueller is making preparations for the Christmas Party
which is on Saturday, December 14th at 6:00 PM. This will be a
Pot-Luck Dinner, so plan on bringing a dish.
There will also be a Yankee Swap.
If you want to participate bring a wrapped gift. The value of the gift should
be about $15 - $20. When you turn in your gift you will draw a number. Once the
game starts participants will go up to choose a gift in numerical order. If you
are not the first person to go up and someone ahead of you has a gift that you
like, you can force them to swap with you. So it’s good to be the last person
to choose a gift. However; the first person to choose a gift will have the
option of forcing the last person to swap. The
way I’ve played this in the past the first person to pick a gift had the option
of all the gifts after the last person made their choice.
Patti noted that this is an adult party and alcohol is usually
flowing freely, so consider this if you were thinking about bringing children.
If you do bring children, be sure to bring a wrapped gift for them to open as the
other gifts in the Yankee Swap will be for adults.
Surprisingly Vinny Yannone did not have a report for Middlesex
County, but he did warn that as of 6 PM tonight for safe driving, keep in mind
that there are
18 billion
760 million
955 thousand
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Wet leaves on the road.
It was mentioned that Lane Ventura is doing well after having
his hip replaced.
Kaitlyn Perry advised that she will be participating in the
Samaritan Swim fund raiser at Eastern Point Beach in Groton on January 1st
and that she has posted a Pledge Sheet on the bulletin board in the meeting
room.
Paul Neves reported that Wreaths Across America will be this
coming Wednesday, December 11th. A.O.B. is at 7:45 AM at the
Waterford Walmart parking lot. They are reportedly saving 5 spots for NLMC
members, so don’t hesitate to participate if you can make it.
We voted in a new member, Donald Alexander of Danielson who rode
to the meeting on his 2005 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500. Sorry, I left the camera home. You'll just have to come to our next meeting and meet him in person, although he did NOT check off the Nice Guy box on his application, I'm sure you'll like him.
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