Sunday, October 27, 2024--Miller Park

 

Shirley attended Sunday play while I'm taking a few days off after my dental surgery.

Her head count was 14 players. Not bad for a day that was a little dreary. After all, it's almost November already!

Work and play (10/26/2024)

 

The above pictures are from the 40th annual Lexington Barbecue Festival. As many of you will remember, we once held a petanque tournament in Lexington on the Sunday after Saturday's festival. 

When that got to be a little bit too much of an  undertaking, since it involved creating sixteen courts on a baseball infield at Lexington's Finch Park, hosting a house full of people at our Lexington home, trying to juggle our time between those wanting to spend Saturday at the festival and those wanting to spend it as a day of practice for the tournament, feeding people on Friday night at the Wien's home on High Rock Lake where petanque under the lights went on into the evening, and arranging a pizza lunch for Sunday at the park--among many other things to ensure our people from all over the country had a good time--we abandoned the tournament while continuing our habit of spending most of the day uptown at the festival.

This year, for the first time in the 40 years of the festival, Shirley attended without me as I continued to recover from dental surgery on the 24th. As you can see from the pics, she was joined by several of our petanque friends and had a great time.

Meanwhile, at the same time as the Winston-Salem/Lexington people were taking a break from petanque and enjoying the festivities, our people in the Morganton area were making inroads into reclaiming our terrains damaged by hurricane Helene.

We, of course, owe all those who pitched in--and there are many more days of effort ahead to complete the job--a huge thanks and are sorry that we were not able to help.

--Gary

John and Maty Jo reporting on GSO play (10/23)

 

New player, Amy

New player, Patrice

Greetings to You Both,

I hope Gary has recovered from his surgery and is feeling good and strong. We were thinking of you last Wednesday and hope to see you back in Greensboro soon. The weather was beautiful, we filled the courts, and stayed most of the afternoon.

Since you missed play, I am sending you a few photos of the day. We had a large group and several strong new players as well.

John and Mary Jo

October 20th at Miller Park

 

The month of October has proven to be one of our very best as far as nice, not-too-hot, and not-too-cold weather.

I'm not even the only one in shorts this year!

--Gary

3rd Saturday in October--Nevin Park

 

Dana's boule after Guillaume's shot

(r to l) Dana, Olia, Denyse, Guillaume, Denis

Dana & Frank

We had a great time playing in Charlotte on a wonderful October afternoon. There were ten of us, four of whom were first-time players at the Nevin Park venue,

Dana Lejune, who most often plays in Asheville and Morganton, was able to join us as he was visiting Charlotte while his Asheville residence was without utilities due to hurricane Helene.

 In addition, Guillaume brought a friend, Frank, whom we met for the first time. Olia and Denis were two other first-time-with-us players who showed up for the afternoon.

We sincerely hope to see more of all these Nevin-first-timers in the future!