Little late in the Congrats, but the sentiment is still as meaningful. Thank you for making this hobby so fun (& at times frustrating). Thank you for being helpful when I was completely stumped. The enjoy your enthusiasm and friendship. Happy Anniversary my friend!

That's amazing! Congrats. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

OMG! 17 years. boy i remember when...

deniserows
with haircutting scissors towards...

Happy 14th!

Old Blue

Oh, Old Blue, thank you! I often think of all of you and continue to hope I’ll get back to boxing soon. Sending much love!

Are there any Sonoma County boxers around any more?

It seems you need to recruit some new boxers. We have the same problem here in East Kern County.

We used to have a lot of boxers in the Bay Area, including Sonoma Co. The numbers have dwindled. <sigh>

I hear ya. The Central Valley is a virtual ghost town, letterboxer-ly speaking.

However, I am holding an event in Napa on 3/09. 18 have already signed up, some from as far as Portland, OR! Visalia isn’t that far away, just saying’…

Thank you for the heads up - I'll put it on my calendar!

MJD, We would be at your event, but were already entered in the Black Canyon AZ pack burro race that weekend. Enjoy and thank you for hosting.

Have fun!

Someone from Sacramento sent me a stamp - but forgot to add their trailname. If you could shoot me a private message to remind me what its for that would be helpful. :)

You have a new boxer in CA named Pigwhistle ... per her words she lives in the East Bay Area, in Pleasanton and Dublin. If anyone lives nearby to that area, would you consider reaching out to her here? She is brandy new to boxing, discovered it on the internet and does not know anyone else who does it. She came to my Zoom for beginners the other day and is all excited to be a part of this hobby! Thanks, folks!

We live very close to there. I will reach out to her and see if she would like a buddy

Oh, she recently found one of our boxes! We sent a short welcoming message earlier this week.

Just a reminder, we have an event this Saturday, March 9 in beautiful Napa!

https://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.php?eventId=4854

thanks so much for organizing the event,,, it was great to see friends and catch up

Hope you have a great day and a piece of pie too!

DoubleSaj and Old Blue

Happy Cake Day! 🎂

Momskie,
You’re my Cake buddy! We should go all out, and have both cake and pie today :)

Happy AQ-versary to both of you!

And happy AQversery to JampersandJ too.

Old Blue
OK, so I'm 2 day late, but have a happy day too!

Thanks for coming!

A new show premiered on the Food Network a few days ago, called The Best Bite in Town and the first stop was our hometown – Davis, California! They featured six local eateries, of which we’ve personally frequented four. Now some of you know that DoubleSaj and I are proud members of the Davis Odd Fellows Lodge. Two of these establishments have close ties to our lodge: The Hot Dogger and Handheld Sweet and Savory Pies. Both owners are lodge members and the latter does a weekly dinner buffet for the lodge.

The other restaurants were Zumapoke, Hikari, Sudwerks, and Tommy J’s. My favorite burger in town is Tommy J’s 'shrooms burger and it wasn’t even presented on the show! In all, these 6 eateries had 12 separate “bites” featured on the air. Of these, nine are new to us and we are looking forward to trying them.

EVERYTHING looked and sounded great! If you want to know who won, you’ll need to watch the show.

There's nothing like good eats!
Old Blue

What? No Murder Burger?!?! (I laugh, but I guess it closed)

We will have to try out some of those locations next time we are in the area.

Murder Burger (renamed Redrum) closed 5 years ago, it basically could not compete with In and Out, which had opened across the street. Redrum's burgers were great, but slow to make and there was zero ambiance inside or out. In my mind, TommyJs' burgers are the "replacement" of Redrum's, but TJs has atmosphere.

Just heard that the next airing of The Best Bite in Town will be in Placerville!!

You had me at hand pie.

Come up and try the Chicken pot pie (hand pie)! it's my favorite,

Old Blue
There are quit a few boxes up here that you haven't found...