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

[DavidA]

Norma, I sorry to hear about your diagnosis.
I hope that you do well with your treatments, and fighting it off, and being as healthy as possible.
Good luck with everything, including your continued rowing.

David

[Edscapade]

Hi Team,

I am in Germany for a week on business. What a beautiful country! It reminds me of home in Washington state with all the hay, grain fields and dairy farms. Big difference is most have solar panels on their homes and barns. For me that is a good thing, as that is the part of the business I have been in the past 30 years!

Yesterday before I left - got my meters in for the day and surpassed 12 million lifetime meters. Pretty stoked about that... I found a hotel here that has a rower so I can continue on.

Norma - will have you in my prayers and hope that you will recover and be pain free!!

Take care all and Happy Rowing!

Ed

[Kona2]

As my two K9s get up there in dog years, I find myself trying to slow down the passage of their time on earth. And you can't. Several of us on this team have older dogs and cats and probably an iguana or two (but that's another story), and we are sometimes faced with loss. Ron lost his dog Hannah today. She adopted their family for at least 12 years and had a good life with them. She is probably playing up there with all the other dog stars and dog angels in the Universe. We are sorry for your loss, Ron. It has been a hard day for many things in Lunie land.

It is almost a necessity for me to try to keep the hard things in life balanced by what is light. So I will tell you the story of how my sister, Kate, got her dog Bullet. Kate has always been a command and control kind of gal. It wasn't something that she learned to do later in life. I'm pretty sure she was that way in the nursery. Kate and her husband were driving in southern Arizona, and stopped at a rest stop. Someone had dumped off a puppy that looked sort of like a cattle dog and maybe part border collie and maybe something else that hopped the fence. Kate insisted that they had to take the dog with them. Her husband resisted. Kate insisted. The dog went with them. When I asked her if she was going to keep the dog, she said certainly - and her name is Bullet after Roy Rogers' dog, Bullet. Kate has always had a "thing" about John Wayne movies and Roy Rogers shows. Maybe it is because they were heroes from a simpler time and right and wrong was more easily spelled out. Over the next few years, Kate taught Bullet how to be a handi-dog. She had Bullet figure out how to bring the phone to her, open the refrigerator and do all the kinds of things that handi-dogs are trained to do. For awhile there, I thought perhaps Kate would start training handidogs since she was pretty good at getting them to do what she wanted them to do. But no - it was just that one dog that she had bonded with. In fact, she kept the dog and got rid of the husband but that's a different story, too.

Sometimes people and pets come into our lives in such unexpected ways, and we find ourselves going in directions we never dreamed would be in our future. Seize those moments and enjoy where they take you. And let there be lots of light in our Lunie Universe to help counter the heavy hearts we have when we have loved and lost.

[Kona2]

Hi Team,

I am in Germany for a week on business. What a beautiful country! It reminds me of home in Washington state with all the hay, grain fields and dairy farms. Big difference is most have solar panels on their homes and barns. For me that is a good thing, as that is the part of the business I have been in the past 30 years!

Yesterday before I left - got my meters in for the day and surpassed 12 million lifetime meters. Pretty stoked about that... I found a hotel here that has a rower so I can continue on.

Norma - will have you in my prayers and hope that you will recover and be pain free!!

Take care all and Happy Rowing!

Ed

Whoop, whoop and hooyah! Let the sunshine in ! Congratulations, Ed, on achieving TWELVE million lifetime meters! Outstanding! We wish you many, M A N Y more !!

[Edscapade]

As my two K9s get up there in dog years, I find myself trying to slow down the passage of their time on earth. And you can't. Several of us on this team have older dogs and cats and probably an iguana or two (but that's another story), and we are sometimes faced with loss. Ron lost his dog Hannah today. She adopted their family for at least 12 years and had a good life with them. She is probably playing up there with all the other dog stars and dog angels in the Universe. We are sorry for your loss, Ron. It has been a hard day for many things in Lunie land.

It is almost a necessity for me to try to keep the hard things in life balanced by what is light. So I will tell you the story of how my sister, Kate, got her dog Bullet. Kate has always been a command and control kind of gal. It wasn't something that she learned to do later in life. I'm pretty sure she was that way in the nursery. Kate and her husband were driving in southern Arizona, and stopped at a rest stop. Someone had dumped off a puppy that looked sort of like a cattle dog and maybe part border collie and maybe something else that hopped the fence. Kate insisted that they had to take the dog with them. Her husband resisted. Kate insisted. The dog went with them. When I asked her if she was going to keep the dog, she said certainly - and her name is Bullet after Roy Rogers' dog, Bullet. Kate has always had a "thing" about John Wayne movies and Roy Rogers shows. Maybe it is because they were heroes from a simpler time and right and wrong was more easily spelled out. Over the next few years, Kate taught Bullet how to be a handi-dog. She had Bullet figure out how to bring the phone to her, open the refrigerator and do all the kinds of things that handi-dogs are trained to do. For awhile there, I thought perhaps Kate would start training handidogs since she was pretty good at getting them to do what she wanted them to do. But no - it was just that one dog that she had bonded with. In fact, she kept the dog and got rid of the husband but that's a different story, too.

Sometimes people and pets come into our lives in such unexpected ways, and we find ourselves going in directions we never dreamed would be in our future. Seize those moments and enjoy where they take you. And let there be lots of light in our Lunie Universe to help counter the heavy hearts we have when we have loved and lost.

Ron - so sorry for your loss! In our family our pets are just a big part of us, I know it hurts. I don't remember who said it - when I die I want to go to heaven where the dogs go. That is my hope that I can reunite with all of ours someday. We have been very blessed to have many in our life throughout the years.
God bless,
Ed

[bg]

Ron - so sorry for your loss! In our family our pets are just a big part of us, I know it hurts. I don't remember who said it - when I die I want to go to heaven where the dogs go. That is my hope that I can reunite with all of ours someday. We have been very blessed to have many in our life throughout the years.
God bless,
Ed[/quote]

well said ed....i want to go there as long as my cats are there too.i am so sorry ron...sending comforting thoughts...and a wooo hooo and congrats on your milestone ,ed :}

[Drivetofast]

Ron I'm so Sorry for the loss of your family member

[Kona2]

Day 20 of 32....onwards!!

1 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual Club 21,919,401 308 71,167
2 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 19,944,039 198 100,727
3 Free Spirits Virtual Club 13,085,573 136 96,217
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 12,748,097 100 127,481
5 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 11,690,043 56 208,751
6 RowPro Team Virtual Club 10,802,402 117 92,328
7 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 9,004,592 226 39,843
8 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 8,415,066 140 60,108
9 Borgess Health & Fitness Center Health Club 6,218,416 128 48,581
10 Empty the Tanks Virtual Club 6,142,955 45 136,510
11 Team NAS Pensacola Military Facility 5,097,367 472 10,800
12 Rockwell Collins Recreation Center Corporate Fitness Center 5,075,042 119 42,647
13 Team Canada Virtual Club 4,984,413 56 89,007
14 TimbukTWO Virtual Club 4,798,444 62 77,394
15 Rowbot Fitness Health Club 3,962,653 92 43,072
16 buckhorn/welland YMCA 3,954,587 5 790,917
17 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual Club 3,779,311 12 314,943

[bg]

Thank you all so much for your concern. This team means a lot to me and your thoughts for me are very special.
Every day there is so much tragedy in the world and my loss, while painful for me, is small in the grand scheme of things.
If there is a special place for pets, I know Hannah is running now. As a greyhound she was born to run and loved to run.
Today I am trying to look back at all the love and joy she brought into our lives and remember the fun we had together. I remember snow blowing a "race track" around our house and how she would race around and around and then roll like a nut in the snow. I remember how she would run around our fenced in area chasing and tossing her favorite toy, a deflated and very bedraggled soccer ball. I especially treasured the long and peaceful walks on the back roads around our house.
I hope that we gave her twelve good years to make up for the two hard years at the track. When we visited the greyhound rescue sight we instantly bonded with Hannah. She had been there a while because other people didn't want her since she had scars, from what they didn't know. But when we looked in her eyes we knew.
Once again thank you for your support.
Ron

and thank-you for posting about hannah...i have no doubt that she had 12 wonderful years with you and your family :}

[normadelaney]

Thanks from the bottom of my heart to all my Lunie teammates who have sent or posted kind words of encouragement and support. It will surely help to carry me through the next treatment campaigns, as will following all of the goings on in the Luna-Tics team room. I will have to say that one of the hardest parts of the whole treatment regimen is the interminable sitting in waiting rooms, sometimes for hours on end. That’s when I pull out my phone and check out what’s going on with my Lunie friends. Many thanks for that!

[danwho]

Just back from a business trip to San Francisco. About time to saddle up
(give or take the 3 hour time difference).
Congratulations Ed on 12MM - awesome accomplishment!! I didn't quite have Ed's perseverance to find a nearby rower, and I thought it might be best to rest a knee that was giving me some bother.



Norma, all my best wishes to our "Stargazer".

And Ron, sorry to hear about Hannah. And I loved that racetrack in the snow memory.

[Kona2]

Day 22 of 32....

Our Challenge teams are holding up well ! Keep going,...keep going !

1 FRENCH INDOOR ROWERS TEAM Virtual Club 22,853,477 308 74,200
2 Age Without Limits Virtual Club 21,199,600 198 107,069
3 Free Spirits Virtual Club 13,748,167 136 101,089
4 LUNA-TICS Virtual Club 13,279,032 100 132,790
5 ANCIENTS Virtual Club 12,385,956 56 221,178
6 RowPro Team Virtual Club 11,327,242 117 96,814
7 Community Fitness Pointe of Munster, In. Health Club 9,108,280 226 40,302
8 Greenville Indoor Rowing Health Club 9,042,517 140 64,589
9 Empty the Tanks Virtual Club 6,483,720 45 144,083
10 Borgess Health & Fitness Center Health Club 6,370,840 128 49,772
11 Rockwell Collins Recreation Center Corporate Fitness Center 5,348,068 119 44,942
12 Team Canada Virtual Club 5,132,936 56 91,660
13 Team NAS Pensacola Military Facility 5,097,367 472 10,800
14 TimbukTWO Virtual Club 5,072,631 62 81,817
15 Rowbot Fitness Health Club 4,306,066 92 46,805
16 buckhorn/welland YMCA 4,144,008 5 828,802
17 Final Results Fitness Health Club 4,028,272 97 41,529
18 Overcoming disAbilities Virtual Club 3,940,299 12 328,358

From yesterday:

Season meters as of 338/365 = 170,012,710 m

Total meters on the day = 841,326 m

Oars in space (participaton) = 26 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

7.4 MM Ron
7.35 MM Richard T
4.7 MM Jay
3.85 MM Jim
3.5 MM Rosi
3.25 MM Cathie
2.85 MM Marie
2.6 MM Anita
2.2 MM Christa
1.85 MM Sarah H
1.65 MM Ken G
900 K Dominic
800 K Tim K.

Tom P 1,500 m
Ross m ... a palindrome!
Jodie 3,000 m
Harold 4,000 m
Robyn 4,000 m
Bobbie m ... also a palindrome!
Howard 4,119 m
Gene m ... also a palindrome!
Katerina 5,000 m
Melissa 5,000 m
Michelle 5,000 m
Walter 5,000 m
David T 6,000 m
Jane m ... a palindrome, too !
Roger m
Cathie 7,000 m
Mike M 7,000 m
AJ 7,019 m
Sam 7,243 m
Marty m
Scott m
Dominic 9,586 m
Lily 9,6 m
Mikkel 10,000 m
Rebecca 10,000 m
Rick C 10,000 m
Stuart m
Minnie m... a palindrome!
Reba 11,262 m
Steve G 12,000 m
Jay m
Ken G 15,000 m
Dominic 15,186 m
Ron m
Tim K 20,000 m
bg 22,307 m
Ronnie m
Sarah H m
Rosi m
Ed 25,000 m
Jim 26,000 m
Marie m
Anita m
Christa m
Richard T 267,840 m

From today:

Season meters as of 339/365 = 170,442,434 m

Total meters on the day = 429,724 m

Oars in space (participation) = 18 percent

MILESTONES...Bragging Rights...Celebrations:

3.8 MM Ronnie
3.55 MM Rosi
2.25 MM Christa
2.1 MM Roger
800 K Jeff P

Gene 4,000 m
Bobbie 4,005 m
Rebecca 5,000 m
Norma m
David T 6,000 m
Cathie 6,500 m
Barry S 7,376 m
Jeff P 7,500 m
Jane 8,035 m
Marty m
Baz 10,000 m ....hooyah for feeling better!
Kevin 10,000 m
Rick C 10,000 m
Ron 10,000 m
Steve G 10,000 m
Jon C 11,002 m
Danno 11,617 m
Roger m
Norton 12,148 m
Howard 12,271 m
Stuart m ... a palindrome!
Jim m
Jessica 20,000 m
Kiba 20,000 m
Anita m
Christa m
Ken G 22,000 m
bg 22,153 m
Reba 22,585 m
Richard T 25,000 m
Rosi m
Ronnie m

[Drivetofast]

Wicked Strong Wins Wood Memorial Horse Race. Named For the People of Boston Will be Going to the Derby 1st Sat. In May

[bg]

Wicked Strong Wins Wood Memorial Horse Race. Named For the People of Boston Will be Going to the Derby 1st Sat. In May

enjoy the derby :} will you be posting pictures????

[Drivetofast]

California Chrome Will be the horse to beat Sure it will be favorite. BG GOOOOOOOOOOO UCONN Men and Women