SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES:

Springtime in this new century featured a “ three-peat “ with wagonmasters Hicks and Keenan at the southwestern theme at Lake HiRi in the Mojave. 

A new twist to the conventional main meal scenario was suggested by Lenore with a different locale selected. The group journeyed “ a short piece “ to Calico Ghost Town where an inviting long table reserved for the Hookups at the restaurant allowed them to savor the meat dishes from a menu whose choices the members had pre-selected from an inquiry mailed to each rig owner or owners prior to the outing.                                                                                                                       

Margaritas and sangrias on the oar house/ore house meeting place mellowed moods and readjusted attitudes prior to soups, bread, and Bingo in the evening.  The weather was very cooperative. Although an artist had been commissioned to make a painting of the lake and bridge, the traditional T shirts with that rendering on the backs were too “ busy “ for clarity, even though Robb had been warned by son Jeff, the screen-printer, of that probability. Another Robb Hicks “stumble” was the misstatement on the bottom of the drawing which directed that Art Keenan designed the bridge. In actuality, his son, Jeff Keenan, did the useful actual drawings. It was indeed Art’s idea to construct such a useful  thing in the first place, however. And with capable “volunteer laborers” as well!