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Stay safe Ken, and out of harm's way! Received great news this afternoon. Our fencing coach had his interview at the embassy in Italy and will be receiving his working visa shortly. So he and his wife will be our house guests for a few weeks until they locate a suitable rental. We anticipate much wine and private lessons will be forthcoming in the weeks ahead and just in time for some major national tournaments scheduled in the first half of 2018. Woohoo!

I blame Brent /\ /\ /\ /\

Excellent Jacob, now you can have regular get togethers with the Florida crew?

Keeping an eye on this all the while trying to stand still in 30-45mph winds.

Happy Birthday Todd!

Happy Birthday Tom!

Knave! Since we have met a lot of both the men and women fencers we have more of a personal interest I guess. I will admit I did some fencing binge watching this weekend.

Get well Suzy!

Just finished watching the women's finals with the Italian fencers Arianna Errigo, Valentina De Costanzo and the Russian Inna Deriglazova. I can't wait for the numerous responses from my fellow HCers. Waiting for Race Imboden to fence tomorrow. Lance has met with Race at both the Anaheim Grand Prix and the US Nationals. A really nice and personable guy. We wish him well.

Makes me want to grab my surf board and hit the waves.

That is some breakfast! Breakfast wine FTW.

Happy Birthday Gene!

Happy Birthday Bryan!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Jeff!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Calling Steve... Happy Birthday Nums!

Vivaldi Four Seasons is awesome but there is no way you will not doze off at least once.

Did you buy them from Single Power?

Happy Birthday Dinster!

Happy Birthday Mikey! I am having sushi and Riesling to celebrate your birthday as you would if you were here but you are not which makes me sad but happy to know you are probably celebrating with some other folks and hopefully enjoying some great wine and or single malts and having great curry which I know you like but curry does not pair well with most wine and scotch so please be careful because there is no greater tragedy than to have a meal that does not pair well with a great wine as I am sure you know because based upon the posts you make here you do appreciate fine wine and pairing fine wine with fine food so enjoy your day and think of us often but not too often because that would make your relationship with HC kind of like a cult and that would be creepy

Lance's Russian teammates helped out with a app they built which allows me to inventory Stretch's wine cellar. I call dibs on the Kosta Browne. Starting to tune up his weapons for this weekend's north american cup tournament in Kansas City. Much money will be spent buying new gear this weekend so I anticipate i will be drinking old wine to ease the pain.