A warm, humid late morning start welcomed the first summer practice leading up to The McCullough Scottish Games in October of this year. I practiced with Chuck Trader, long-time friend and returning athlete from last year's Games. Chuck has been working out at Bali's since last year and is ready to compete. Way to go 'Big Guy', your hard work will pay off!
We started off with the over the bar toss of a 42# stone, then on to weight over bar with our 35 pounder. I introduced Chuck to the Scottish hammer and he did well with this "new" event; we will continue to work on our throwing technique. A priority of our practice time was to work with the caber from last year, which we now affectionately call 'Toothpick" as we also attempted to handle the new caber of 16+ feet and 80+ pounds, which we call '%*@$^!!!!!!!!'. All we can do is continue to throw and, in time, we will get better.
It wouldn't be an "official" practice without the due humor and harrasment from my English neighbor David, who concurred with Chuck that I am definitely a 100% bonified madman. I wonder if the kilt had anything to do with this?
We missed our other athletes:
Kathy, who is away for the month at Cape Cod, Jeannie, who suffered a bump to the head this week and is recuperating - "Get well soon, Jeannie", Aaron who was waiting on Comcast's installation at his new apartment - "Congratulations on your new job and apartment, Aaron"; and Paul, who was at the dentist's - "Hope he used Novocaine, Paul", and my dear Robin, who will be practicing tomorrow.
Our visitors at the end of today's session were Patrick Vadnais, his Mom, who is visiting from Springfield, MA and Pat's son Ryan.
Next practice is Saturday, August 2nd at 10:00AM. Hope to see you all there!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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Thanks for the congrats! Sorry I missed the practice. In all honesty, i could have made it, as the guy was supposed to come between 8 and 11am, but didn't arrive until after noon.
Can't wait to get back out there soon!
We look forward to your joining us for the next practice, Aaron.
A Scotsman was heading out to the pub and turned to his wee wife before leaving...
'Jackie - put your hat and coat on lassie.'
'Awe John that's nice - are you taking me to the pub with you?'
'Nah, just switching the central heating off while I'm oot.'
A very popular man dies in Aberdeen and his old widow wishes to tell all his friends at once, so she goes to the Aberdeen Evening Express and says 'I'd like tae place an obituary fur ma late husband'
The man at the desk says 'OK, how much money dae ye have?'
The old woman replies '£5' to which the man says 'Ye wont get many words for that but write something and we'll see if it's ok'
So the old woman writes something and hands it over the counter.
The man reads 'Peter Reid, fae Kincorth, deid'
He feels sad at the abruptness of the statement and encourages the old woman to write a few more things, saying 'I think we cud allow 3 or 4 more words fer ye money.'
The old woman ponders and then adds a few more words and hand the paper over the counter again.
The man then reads 'Peter Reid, fae Kincorth, deid. Ford Escort for sale'......
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