The weekend selected for the last trial was a big surprise when a BLUE NORTHER came in with 2 inches of rain and dumped 6 inches of snow the day of the trial. We pushed it to the next weekend when Mother Nature decides to dry the moisture from the weekend before with high winds. Not just a slight breeze but 35 mile per hour sustained hurricane force winds. Then as soon as the trial was finished, it stopped. Go figure!!

The next day Sunday was to be the first day of our Sunday clay shoots. Yeah Right!! It turned very cold with a north wind of about 25 miles per hour and we were all there wrapped up like professional Eskimo skeet shooters trying to get in some practice. We tried until we all looked at each other through watery eyes and runny noses and decided that enough was enough!!!

With the three spring trials finished now and looking at the standings we have some pretty tuff competition to overcome this coming fall. Good luck everyone.

Like I said, the Sunday shoots have started and we welcome guests to come on out and shoot with us. Don’t worry about how good you are, none of us can shoot either. Hope to see you out there.

A big thank you needs to go out to Doug Huchabee for being so kind to have delivered the pallets of clays to us from Joplin. A big thank you also goes to Rob Kimery for allowing us to store those clays in his warehouse. It truly is a big savings and help to the club.

The monthly meeting will be April 28th at the library. This month will be nominations for next year’s officers. Please try to attend this meeting and help in nominating your clubs officers.

Roy has just informed me that he has reserved the same picnic area at Mohawk Park that we had last year. If you have never been to one of the club picnics, you really should try to make the time to attend. The food is superb, and Roy (Tiger Woods) will be there to show us once again his golfing expertise, along with horse shoe throwing sensation Charlie Hess. Watch for the date in this covey rise. See Ya There !!

It is turning into summer in a hurry. Remember to give your dogs fresh water every day, even twice is not too often. Dump out and refill, mosquito eggs hatch in that warm water. Dogs then drink it and it will give them heart worms.

GSPTRNR “Greg”