We had graded the land and marked off the four pits. Because of the weather we had not been able to get the concrete poured. On the Thursday before our event the weather called for a dry and sunny Friday. I called all our club members to see if their Friday schedule had any free time, I then called all my jobs I had lined up for Friday and postponed them. Friday, I picked up the concrete, met a few members on the site and proceeded to mix the concrete. We all work until dark managing to get 3 courts poured.

Saturday morning, my wife and I went to breakfast and got to the pits about 7 am. Determined to have the courts ready we doctored up the courts right up until 10am. 

8 people had showed up despite the forecast for heavy rains for the day. I decided to do a round robin games to 21 due to the small amount of players, we no sooner started playing and the sky let loose, we played on for a while.

I lost my first game 22 to 1 ( my excuse is I lifted 3300 lbs of concrete 4 times the day before , but I wasn’t going to let Randy Walker know that since he has beaten me 50 times out of 51 tries before, he wouldn’t believe me) I went back to the talley board to record the first round play, Sabrina from the fire dept wanted to return the entry money and reschedule it was raining HARD, the walkways were slick and muddy, and I was on a losing streak 0-1. So the decision was made to cancel the rest of the event.

The Fire Dept had cooked up some Italian sausage and hamburgers under the shelter ( those sausages with peppers and onions were some kind of good). We will reschedule soon, hopefully we can triple the attendance on a nice day and possibly get in a 4th pit.  The fire dept wants to see how the 2 tournaments we run for them this year turn out before we add more pits (but they were already telling me that they had more land and could clear it, so they might have caught the horseshoe bug even in the rain.)
 

P.S.  about an hour after people started leaving the sun broke out for about 3 hours (but it was still too muddy so it was a good call)

Mark Maters