LUNA-TICS TEAM ROOM: Year-round "Looney" fun.

[Kona2]

Stephen W lives in an interesting part of the world - Cheshire, GBR. In fact, all of our teammates live in interesting parts of the world. Stephen's reindeer last year was Cheshire...not just for the area itself, but also because Lewis Carroll of Alice fame had a house there...and we know about the Cheshire Cat who disappears except for the smile....This year, though, treks about the Cheshire region have led me to The Mersey Forest. Now this Mersey Forest is not exactly the Sherwood Forest of old. The regional parks website says The Mersey Forest is a growing network of woodlands and green spaces across Cheshire and Merseyside, which has been creating 'woodlands on your doorstep' for 20 years. It's a Community Forest area that started a a focused long-term tree planting program to improve the local environment. These programs started in the late 1990s and now provide a network of trails for walking, biking and cycling and horseback rides (everyone defers to the horses in the US on trails...I wonder if this is true in the UK as well?). Very cool environmental program!

The bunny trail of this is that seeing the name "Mersey" and not knowing whether it was pronounced as Mercy or Mare-sy or some other item, sent me down the trail to a silly song about Mairzy Doats.

Mairzy doats and dozy doats
And liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too,
Wouldn't you?
(Repeat)

If the words sound queer and funny to your ear,
A little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy."

Oh mairzy doats and dozy doats
And liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too,
Wouldn't you?



Stephen (MERSEY)

Congratulations, Stephen, on earning the Concept2 donation and freeing up your reindeer! Now...onto the antler lights!

[Kona2]

Well, Richard T has tapped out the reindeer award bank as he has already rowed 500K during this Challenge (save some meters for the January Virtual Teams Challenge, too) ... and is surely generating LOTS of Concept2 donation $$$. Yep, with the 500K, Richard has the reindeer, the antler lights, the flashing harness, the tail wag...and now the ear wag (flirty reindeer that Dasher is). That's a lot of meters! CONGRATULATIONS!


DASHER

[Kona2]

I suspect that David T can provide better tales of the history of Sherborn MA than Reindeer Central can invent. Sherborn is still somewhat rural, with many residents fighting to maintain its rural character in the face of escalating land prices and taxes. For many years, the apples grown in the area were pressed into what was called Champagne Cider that was exported as far east as Belgium and England (according to the town history site). One of the things that I found interesting was that the town operates with minimal salaried city officials, and uses an open town meeting where all the citizens vote on major expenditures and policies.



David T (CHAMP) for Champagne

Congratulations, David T, on earning the Concept2 donation and freeing your reindeer, Champ.

[Kona2]

Plus some!

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! We've got some more celebrating to do! Congratulations, Anita, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season! Anita posted a half moon plus more and sailed right across the ONE million meter milestone! We wish you many, MANY more!

[Kona2]

Ron (DANCER)

Congratulations, Ron, on rowing greater than 400,000 m thus far in the Holiday Challenge. You've really earned some big Concept2 donation $$$....and some swagger with that reindeer tail wag

[Kona2]

Ed (VIXEN)

Ed's now rowed over 300,000 m in the Holiday Challenge....picking up the flashing red harness that reindeer Vixen coveted....AND earning some ever important Concept2 donation $$$. Hooboy! We'll be able to see where the sleigh is headed easily with all these antler lights and flashing red harnesses! Well done!

[Luna]

Well, Richard T has tapped out the reindeer award bank as he has already rowed 500K during this Challenge (save some meters for the January Virtual Teams Challenge, too) ... and is surely generating LOTS of Concept2 donation $$$. Yep, with the 500K, Richard has the reindeer, the antler lights, the flashing harness, the tail wag...and now the ear wag (flirty reindeer that Dasher is). That's a lot of meters! CONGRATULATIONS!


DASHER

Way to Row DAD You Are The Man

[dtangerini]

Good stuff Kona!
My father once owned the building where the Champagne Cider was pressed.
Champ

[just27]

We'll be able to see where the sleigh is headed with all the antler lights and flashing red harnesses!

Amazing, I missed two days (which included visiting the PGB's preschool class, and making Grinch kabobs with a couple-dozen 3-5 year olds; I got a real workout with that little gig!) and the luna caribou have expanded into an impressive thundering herd. It looks like some of those podium reindeer (inspirational meters ... well rowed!) will need more bling ... or, maybe some Christmas elves, cavorting around in the background!

Grinch kabobs:



I grew up singing Mairzy Doats nonsense, and had no idea there were "real" words involved!
Mares eat oats ... the things one learns on K2's bunny trails! (Now, about that "kiddley divey" ... ?)

[Kona2]

I grew up singing Mairzy Doats nonsense, and had no idea there were "real" words involved!
Mares eat oats ... the things one learns on K2's bunny trails! (Now, about that "kiddley divey" ... ?)

Ah. The translation would be "and kid's eat or like ivy, too..." A different kind of greenery ingestion than the grinch kabobs...

[Kona2]

Whoop, whoop and more reindeer !! We've got another reindeer trotting out from the reindeer stable ! Gene has earned his Concept2 donation (and a bit more!) and freed up his reindeer. It's just a matter of time before that reindeer will be sporting a set of antler lights, too. Way to go, Gene !



Gene (STARLIGHT)

[Kona2]

Thunder, thunder.....is it the hooves that are OUT of the stable or the hooves of all those still in the stable? Keep claiming those reindeer - it's good stuff !

37 reindeer !!

Season meters as of 225/365 = 76,306,221 m

Total meters on this day = 1,831,640 m

Oars in space (participation) = 39 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

4.3 MM Ron
4.05 MM bg
3.55 MM Ed
3.5 MM Richard T
2.55 MM David A
1.9 MM Cathie
1.65 MM Minnie
1.0 MM Anita
950 K Mikkel
650 K Ted
650 K Jeff P
600 K Marty
450 K Nataliya
450 K Kenneth G
400 K Norma
350 K Howard
300 K Tony
250 K Steven
200 K James G
150 K Mike G

Thanks, everyone, for rowing and ski-erging with us! You're the best reindeer of all !

From yesterday:

Tristan 1,200 m
Gene 2,500 m
Mike M 2,995 m
Lily 3,000 m
Marty 3,000 m
Nataliya 3,000 m
Bobbie 3,799 m
Anita 5,000 m
Jeff P 5,000 m
Lynne 5,000 m
Paul B 5,000 m
Paul S m
Rivka m ...a double double
Sam 5,600 m
Keith S 5,763 m
Jim 5,795 m ...and a new profile pic too !
Diana 6,000 m
Christa 6,100 m
Rick 6,366 m
Karyn 6,406 m
Zander 6,500 m
Jay R 7,146 m
K2 7,242 m
Cathie 7,500 m
David W (AZ)8,000 m
Rosi 8,000 m
Bernie 8,020 m
Ronnie m
Tony m
Ross 9,496 m
Jay 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Steven 10,108 m
Jane 10,208 m
James G 10,335 m
Dan W 10,613 m
Stuart 10,751 m
Peter G 11,014 m
Teresa 11,018 m
Howard 11,019 m
Marie 12,000 m
Paul R 12,446 m
Greg C 12,649 m
Sarah 12,906 m
Melissa 13,000 m
Harold 13,042 m
Robyn m
Norma m
David A 15,764 m
David T 16,000 m
Nathan 20,547 m
Mike G 23,761 m
David W (GBR) 27,466 m
Ron 29,697 m
Ken G 30,000 m
bg 30,528 m
Richard T 43,766 m
Mikkel 48,019 m
Ed 50,000 m

From today:

Lily 2,500 m
Nataliya 3,000 m
Mike M 3,047 m
Jodi 3,051 m
Marty 3,434 m
David T 4,000 m
Jay R 4,221 m
Rivka 4,400 m
Bobbie 4,500 m
Lynne 5,000 m
Paul S 5,008 m
Ross 5,218 m
Diana 5,355 m
Sam m
Gene 5,700 m
Zander 5,700 m
Terry 6,010 m
Karyn 6,348 m
Rick 6,352 m
Rosi 7,000 m
Jeff P 7,500 m
K2 7,782 m
Cathie 8,000 m
Mikkel 8,025 m
Jim 8,220 m
Tony m
Jane 9,312 m
Norton 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Teresa 10,016 m
Jay 11,000 m
Ronnie m
Howard 11,198 m
Norma 12,738 m
Jason H 14,500 m
David A 14,535 m
Ken G 15,000 m
Stuart 16,264 m
Steven 16,383 m
RIchard T 20,000 m
Tim K 20,000 m
bg 25,313 m
Ron 33,097 m

GO BRONCOS !

[bg]

Plus some!

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! We've got some more celebrating to do! Congratulations, Anita, on achieving a ONE million meter rowing season! Anita posted a half moon plus more and sailed right across the ONE million meter milestone! We wish you many, MANY more!

wooooo hooooo and congrats :} and amazing rowing everyone.....and omg...i signed up for the crash-bs...
and thanks for the atta girls

[Drivetofast]

Manning better ask for long johns and a hot water bottle for Christmas. And hope his few remaining games are in domes If the broncos make it to Super Bowl Its In New Jersey this year

[Kona2]

Steven (HUDSON)

Woohoo! Hudson's got his antler lights - and Steven has earned his Holiday Challenge pin! Great !