Guests
Hal Messimer visited for the 3rd time and has made application to become a member.
Chuck brought a guest today; Bob Mitchell
Birthday Bash
All are invited to Nick's 89th birthday party, which will be held at his home this Sunday afternoon. He requests guests arrive sometime between 2 and 3pm. No gifts, please.
On that same note, he paid a $6 fine for the privilege of celebrating yet another birthday.
Joker - Joker
Congratulations to Richard for his Joker-Joker win today. You'd think he could have done better than a lousy $2!
Out 'n About
Chuck and Lonna went to Orleans, California for 10 days, in part to visit with Lonna's mom. His fine would have been $9 had he not made a fatal and costly error. In describing there trek to the northern part of our state, he inadvertently mentioned having crossed over, ever so slightly, into Oregon for a brief time. Cha-ching. The fine was immediately doubled. Sorry Charlie.
Have You Heard The One About??????
Little Johnny 's next door neighbors had a baby. Unfortunately, the little baby was born with no ears. When they arrived home from the hospital, the parents invited little Johnny's family to come over and see their new baby.
Little Johnny's parents were very afraid that their son would make a wise crack to say about the baby so the dad had a long talk with him before going to the neighbors. He said "Now, son... that poor baby was born without any ears. I want you to be on your best behavior and not say one word about his ears or I am really going to spank you when we get back home."
"I promise not to mention his ears at all" said little Johnny.
At the neighbors home, little Johnny leaned over in the crib and touched the baby's hand. He looked at its mother and said "Oh what a beautiful little baby."
The mother said "Thank you very much, little Johnny."
He then said, "This baby has perfect little hands and perfect little feet. Why... just look at his pretty little eyes.... did the doctor say that he can see good?"
The Mother said "why, yes... his doctor said he has 20/20 vision.
Little Johnny said "well, it's a darn good thing 'cause he sure couldn't wear glasses!!!
Upcoming Events
August 11 - Board Meeting
Look Who's Coming
August 2 - Hal Messimer, Silent Killer
September 6 - Ray Nelson, Guitars Not Guns
October 4 - Ted Cheeseman, EcoSafari's
If you have ideas for speakers, let me know....I'm plum out of 'em.
Fine-Free Badge Changes Hands
$12 was the winning bid that gives Art the safety of the fine-free badge for the month of August.
Happy/Sad Dollars
Art paid a happy dollar because he received a skate sharpener from his son, who developed the item and has or will be receiving a patent on it.
Fenton dropped in a happy dollar for the successful launch of the space shuttle.
Doug and Bruce pitched in a buck apiece in honor of the A's.
Dave G. was happy a dollars worth that softball season is nearly over.
Richard confessed to the birth of his first granddaughter. Kaitlyn Nicole Mitchell, weighing in at 7 pounds even and a petit 18 1/2" entered the world at 1:26pm on July 18th. As I just happen to have a picture of her, it appears below. She's the one with the smaller ears.
Don put in 2 dollars in honor of Kaitlyn's birth. Thanks Don!
Dale loaned his car to his daughter so she could take a trip to northern California. During the course of the trip the air went out and at one point she backed it into their paddleboat, breaking a tail light. That won't happen in future, however, as shortly after that mishap someone stole the paddleboat. Needless to say, this was worthy of the sad dollar he placed regretfully into the pot.
