The Tattoos have come and gone, making their mark on the Twenty Inch Board (as well as anything else that could our would move, btw!), and now it is time for our special Group Three to make its way to the Promised Land of fish and honey! Moresoever than any prior Group, E-14’s Threes is a group of couples, six in number to be exact, and we look forward to their arrivals starting tomorrow, Friday, with veterans Martin “Mad Man” O’Malley (guru commercial realtor) and beautiful bride Cynthia “Houston” Stratton, Esq. coming in early from Houston, Texas, and rookie business succession planner and CPA Mindy Jones and beau Joe Di Naso coming in from Phoenix, Arizona.
Returning veteran 401k plan manager par excellence (and world traveling fisherman of the same caliber) Chuck “Heleena” Ballweg returns again to us this year, this time with his bride of many years Edie Klecker, and is dragging along with him (not kicking and screaming, btw, as he, too, is an avid world-class fisherman) George Choe and his new bride Mira (who is now expecting their first child—likewise an Extravaganza womb first!). New-to-Montana and coming in all the way from Massachusetts, are Don & Karen Irving, who will meet up with my long-in-the-Extravaganza son Tyler “Lefty” Clausen and his paramour Chelsea Pollack.
Having shifted from their traditional, heavy wine drinking Group One to the more mellow Group Three, we also welcome back Santa Rosa builders Jimmie “The Hawk” Hagle and his business partner Doug “Big D” Pacatte who will be joined by returning Montana MD Jeff “Doc” Georgia and Richmond, California rookie non-profit ED Jim Becker.
And then, in this august group of twenty who arrive in June and depart in July, that leaves the dreaded “Sailor Four”—a mini-group of reprobates headed up by my engineering brother Kers “Dead Drift” [so named, unanimously, last year by our guides for his propensity to fall asleep every time he sits down!] Clausen and his soul/sailor/business mates veterans (kinda, that is, because he missed half of E-13 by missing his outbound flight!) Scott “Not So Flash” Gordon and State of Washington AIA Mike Gentry together with rookie sailor and alleged fisherman Rich Deveau. My goal this year is to have all of the Sailor Fours be in the same state of the union, let alone locale, at the same time—something that never happened during E-13!!
The weather and rivers for the Threes is shaping up just nicely, thank you very much, so bring it on Threes and top the very high bars (and bottles) now left for you by the E-14 Ones and Twos!!
Best to all from the scene of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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