COY ARTICLE


It was a snowy morning on Sun. Dec. 4, as we arrived at O'Malleys at 8:00 AM for a breakfast buffet. It was delicious as always. We decided that we will help the Michigan Veterans Home on Monroe with their Christmas this year.
Larry R., who always does such a great job as auctioneer, got us started off by donating a jacket patch depicting an eagle and all branches of the service. Another highlight was a wall hanging showing all of the tee shirts of the Midnight Ride and two photos of the bridge crossing, photo-screened on fabric and quilted by Faye. If you want to see this again, you'll have to be invited to Len and Jan's house.
Don's special bottles brought a good price and Randy got an extra one for being the high bidder. I am trying the plum colored bottle this year. ! ; There was a brisk bidding war for Verna's brown bread and Joanie's candies, while Larry had spouses bidding against each other!
Marilyn helped out by bringing articles around for a close-up look. Many wreaths and handmade items were snapped up fast. We are all so talented at crafts! Harry toted out a box as big as he could carry containing fudge, brown bread, brownies, and pecan pie. I managed to get it all in the freezer to save for Christmas. Sorry Harry!----No baking for me!
When you consider time and money spent preparing donations and then the fun we had spending more to buy the goodies other people brought, everyone truly made a wonderful donation. Joanie tells me we made more than $1600.
On Thurs. evening, Dec. 8, we met at Knapp's Corner Meijer to shop for the Vets. We had tags with special requests from the home.&n! bsp; Joe and Diane, Jim and Julie, Joanie, Len and Jan, Harry and I loaded our carts with the gifts that had been requested and then took our purchases home to wrap and take to the Vets Home. Once again it was snowing, and it truly felt like Christmas. Happy Holidays!

Marcia

ACD ARTCLE

We hope everyone had a very happy holiday season. With the New Year upon us we'd like to reprint an article by Dave Doyle our Michigan Wing News reporter. This article is about "The Friendship Brick". Dave gives us a little history of the brick and how it gets from place to place. So if you've been the recipient of this token of friendship please don't take offense and remember the spirit in which it is passed from home to home. This token of fun and friendship has resided with us and we're sure it will find its way home again. So without further ado here are Dave's words of wisdom.

"The Brick that builds friendships
Chapter G has a traveling brick. This not just a common construction brick (although the original brick was) this brick is wrapped in a decorative knitted scarf with an accompanying logbook and pen. "Friendly" members of the chapter pass the brick from bike to bike during clandestine periods known as rest stops. The trick is to pass the brick without the recipient's knowledge that it has been bestowed upon them. Once per ride the brick will quietly make its way from the current guardian into the next victim's motorcycle. Once found the new master of the brick will dutifully record the occasion of the discovery, plot their next target, gather several co-conspirators and learn to lock their bike. This year I was the chosen target to be given the brick during the Midnight Ride. I wondered why my trunk was so hard to close. There is one restriction; you can't pass the brick on to someone else during the same ride. So while several of us were chatting around the hotel's campfire (a mosquito candle) I was bemoaning the fact that with all the bikes on this ride I could not take advantage of the opportunity and search down a victim to pass on the brick to. Than one of our friends pointed out that the Midnight Ride was over when we arrived at the Casino and everybody was again, fair game. What a relief to find that his bike was unlocked when my chance came along!"
Reprinted from Dave's article in this fall's Michigan Wing News.

Jim and Julie Meredith

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