Mint Hill, NC Games 05/22-05/23

**Barclay** · 22nd May 09, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by thatcelticband

Are you coming to the Clover SC games? We're playing.

What's the date on it, Shawn? I'd love to see you guys (and your wives) again.

I need to schedule a trip up to Ashehole in the near future, maybe one coinciding with your next gig at Jack's is in order. Especially if Bill and Nelson and the other Asheville rabble (or Sett) are able to do a gathering ... that's the 26th of June?

:-)

**piperdbh** · 23rd May 09, 07:29 PM

A brave representative of XMTS has just returned from the Mint Hill games. There was one dandelion visible there, and it happened to be pinned to the newly-acquired size 8 1/2 bottle green Balmoral of your devoted correspondent. There was not one mention of our beloved community here, nor was there much else going on, save on the field of competition where the sheaf went over the bar once (that this reporter observed) and the caber turned a 10:00 once, as well. There was no tent full of X-Markers, as has been reported from previous Games, and, as a consequence, there was neither jollity nor great enjoyment of this small event.
That is not to say that the day was a complete washout. After departing the environs of the aforementioned Games, this reporter and his lovely young wife delighted in the beauty of the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in nearby Belmont, NC, toured the bucolic campus of Belmont Abbey College, and enjoyed dinner with some friends at P. F. Chang's Chinese restaurant in Huntersville, which is home to the Loch Norman Highland Games.
This is your roving reporter, signing off.

**JolyStNicholas** · 24th May 09, 02:53 AM

Thank you kind sir for that grand news report. It rained here all day Saturday
thus the two parties who were suppose to come to view the puppies had to reschedual for another time.
I guess i didn't miss much by not coming up for the games. Sorry your time wasn't the best, but sharing time with you lassie and enjoying each others
company always makes up for other short comings.
Hope to see ya at other games in the near future.

**Barclay** · 25th May 09, 07:42 AM

Sorry, David - between the horrible weather and an ill dog, I just couldn't get out there (but I did get the mud off my kilts ans hose, and finally off my truck too)!