Travel to the shore and a Rotary breakfast

Yesterday was a pleasant day for each trip to the shore. After helping to feed the horses I wended my way to through the Piedmont to look and boats, enjoy the water and talk and to other boaters. In the past this little trip has been interesting, especially the ability to chat with fellow boat people. However, being a weekday there was nothing there but boats which by themselves are not good conversationalists. I did meet one couple who they turned out to be horse people from western Virginia and had just moved to the shore They knew next to nothing about boats and perhaps too much about courses.

This morning I got up at 6:00 AM and dressed in the dark so that I would be attired properly for the sand hills Rotary meeting at the elegant Carolina hotel. There is nothing like eating breakfast under crystal chandeliers accompanied buy a pianist on a grand piano. At the start of the meeting an employee of the hotel came into the room to ask if anyone had a silver Buick as it had just been hit by another car in the parking lot. One of the members jumped up and exited with the employe only to combat a few minutes later chgrined. It turns out the whole thing was a prank by one of his fellow Rotarians. During the happy dollar time a member got up to say that he is building a house on a lake nearby and while the houses is in progress his dock is completed. The previous day he had caught his first fishoff his new dock. This was probably not the best time to relate to this story as the speaker for the day was from the fish and wildlife bureau who inquired as to the status of this Rotarian’s fishing license. I don’t know what happened after that meeting but the fish and wildlife officer was carrying a gun. He talked about the Lumber river which has been designated a wild river and the fact that they have problems with people poaching alligators. I didn’t realize that there were alligators this far north. On returning from the rotary breakfast it was time to feed the horses again and the cycle continues.