Nutmeg at the Bog Spiel

The "we" in the following is Charrissa with Derek, Matt and Chris. (editor)

We were sorry communicators this weekend. I'll tell you - we were so tired all the time - pretty much we played our games, hung out and socialized (and ate meals) and then took a nap, and then came back and played. We did manage to squeeze in a little sightseeing on Saturday - checked out the Cranberry Harvest Festival (as far as we could see, it was just one room of booths, not much), tasted wines at the Cape Cod Winery, and checked out some cranberry bogs (no harvesting going on though).

We had a very tight game - but pulled off the win in the 1st event final! Very exciting. We played great teams all the way through. The first event final was against the junior boys team - Team Hoge (they were at Nutmeg for the Blazing Leaves). As a team, it wasn't our best game, but we got some breaks. We went into the 8th, tied with hammer, Derek had an open takeout to win the game.

We played great teams all the way through - it turns out that all of the other event finals were won by teams that we beat - and I think we may have been each of their only losses. We played Bob DeVine of Broomstones in the semi-final - that was a good match. His last shot was a kinda of crazy double angle runback to remove our counter, try to stick around to take two and tie the game. Didn't make it.

We also played a team from Border (a Canadian club on the border, not surprisingly) and Ed and Candice Clark from Nashua - they were playing with Mark and Debbie Kanakis - Mark threw third.

Border CC is a fantastic club to visit for a bonspiel . Two sheets attached to a giant old house, 3 floors with upstairs viewing. (editor)

One other personal highlight - I was very proud to note that I was the only female of all 16 players in the semi-finals. Well - I guess I'm sad to say that, because it still indicates that men are stronger at curling - but I was proud to at least be representing!

Food was good, hospitality was good, the bar was excellent (they made me cosmos all weekend!).

JH for Charrissa