Winners from bingo to football

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Chili, visitors, friends, and a seven-year-old bingo winner! What’s not to like here at the annual Beach Club Chili Cook Off and Bingo Game? It was all there at the monthly LMC Pot Luck Dinner.

The Chili Cook Off had 10 outstanding recipes providing beef, chicken, and other options for all of the 80 attendees to test and vote for. The emcee for the evening, Steven Gross, won for the “best chili” and was subjected to justifiable questions about a “fixed” election given that his wife, Fran, was one of the two folks counting ballots. Several visiting guests and new residents were in attendance including David and Teresa Goldsmith from Port Townsend, Mike and Judy Cavett also from Port Townsend, Max Painter’s brother and sister, Terry Umbreit’s sister, new residents the Josh Garlock family with their friend, also new residents Carmen Alcalde and her mother Evelyn, Sue Hunter, and probably a couple of more I have forgotten. (There it is, that memory issue again.) The Garlocks moved into the home vacated by longtime Port Ludlow residents Jeff and Steph Beres. After dinner a raucous bingo game run by Vic Draper and Alan Keisler went into high gear with several games being won by multiple players. BJ won two games, I won one, Jennifer Kim, (Rotary foreign exchange student) won a game as well as both of her host family parents, Richard and Judi Smith. Other winners were Karen Young and Cheryl Wheeler. The last game of the evening was a buy-in and the winner(s) got the whole pot, $140 in this case. There were two winners who split the pot, one being seven-year-old Jo Lynn Garlock! She was thrilled to win and told us that it was great to be able to replenish her savings with the money. It turns out she donated all of her savings earlier last year to the family of the Sheriff’s Deputy shot and killed in Eastern Washington.

In the spirit of giving to good causes, I have noted that a twenty-year-old nude model has offered to send an inappropriate picture of herself to anybody who has donated at least ten dollars to a charity supporting various causes associated with the fires in Australia. My offer is that I will NOT send an inappropriate picture of myself to anybody making a donation to United Good Neighbors. Frankly, I also won’t send a picture if you don’t make a donation.

How about those Kansas City Chiefs going to the Super Bowl to play the San Francisco 49ers? BJ and I lived in KC for almost thirty years, many of them with season tickets to Chiefs games. The home games were always accompanied by the best tailgate parties in the NFL. Lots of beer, BBQ, and good times generating so much smoke that one could barely see the Arrowhead Stadium from nearby Interstate 70 as you drove by. BJ’s brother-in-law from Indianapolis wore his Colts gear through the “tailgaters” at one game and was astounded at the amount of good natured fun he had bantering with the fans.

It seems as if the snow has gone for awhile. It sure was beautiful and exciting last week with several inches falling. My typical travel time on Beaver Valley Road was doubled with some folks having trouble navigating the white stuff. Oh well, as Earl Wilson tells us, “snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.”

Love a curmudgeon and have a great week!

(Ned Luce is a retired IBM executive who cannot escape the world of ink on paper.)