Historic day at Miller Park

 

On July 7, 2024, Carolina Petanque scheduled Sunday afternoon play to begin at Miller Park at 4:00 PM for the first time in memory. We began playing at 1:00 PM on Sundays back in around 2005 (?) even though we officially didn't form the club until 2007.

Our reasoning at the time was to allow those of the group who chose to do so to attend Sunday morning worship services and still join in playing in the afternoon. 

Keeping with that tradition, play is now scheduled to start later--not sooner--in order to help to avoid some of the summer's heat. Preston issued an email on July 12th stating:

 We will play again at 4 pm this week on Sunday to beat the heat a bit.. Plan on Sunday play to be at 4 pm until further notice. There was positive feedback last Sunday by many players so we will keep it at 4 pm probably through August. 

I will not be setting equipment out at 1 pm . As always, the park is available for play to anyone coming out at any time... but  Sunday's official start time will be 4 pm.

Join us for some fun evening petanque. Everyone welcome.

Preston 

The play pictured above on July 7th was well attended, though our decision to mark the event with a hotdog cookout may have had some bearing. 

Anyway, we all had a great time and had players from Hickory, Morganton, and Greensboro as well as the locals.

 

We look forward to Sundays at 4:00 PM "until further notice."

Miller time (6/30/2024)

 Sunday afternoon at Miller Park in Winston-Salem.

At home with friends (6/29/30)

We were happy to have Gail Dickerson and Eva Cowan visit and play a few games on a hot Saturday afternoon in Lexington.
 

Asheville--RendezVous on 6/28/2024

 

Timothy Cronin

Roz Potts

Eric Dickerson

Shirley was in Asheville at RendezVous for a club board meeting and met some new folks, as well as seeing old friends.

Back in GSO again for the second week in a row

 

Tina Currie

As some of you may know, Shirley and I are trying to cut back, at least a little, on some of the travel we do for petanque. We had told John & Mary Jo, who are doing a great job, along with some help from Frank, of coordinating play efforts at Tanger Garden, that we would probably be making the drive over for Wednesday morning play only once or twice a month.

But Tina sent us a message that she was back in Carolina after a somewhat extended trip to Texas and wanted to know if we'd plan to play in GSO on the 26th. So we did!

Take a look at the last picture above and you'll see the one little corner of shade we had left by the time we finished as contrasted to the first few pictures where shade was abundant.

Maybe we should start a little earlier than 9:30 (hint, hint), John and Mary Jo!

--Gary

Miller Park (6/23/24)

 

Preston & Tess were off to the beach again for a well-deserved break, so Shirley and I were tasked with the setup of the terrains and the retrieval of the rakes, circles. scoring pegs, umbrellas, extra boules, etc. for the first time in a while.

As luck would have it, though we were diligent about arriving at the park well ahead of the scheduled 1:00 PM start time, we found, to our surprise, that Parks & Rec had installed a lock on the electrical panel box in which our realtor's lock box resides. 

Therefore, we had no access to the key to the storage room where all our equipment is kept.

Shirley was able to save the day by calling park Director William Royston

who, even though it was a Sunday morning, dispatched one of his employees to the park to allow us to retrieve our storage room key. Since the petanque group was only given a single key, our system of using the lock box has worked well for the past four or five years.

We moved the lock box to a bathroom door handle which should provide protection from the weather and still allow us to share the key among responsible members of the club.