February meeting day???

[Rick Parker]

We have a significant amount of hail standing on the lawn and in the flower pots. We got hammered about 5:30 today.

[cindrrrr]

It started snowing here at the house again this evening....yeaaaaaa. Maybe a tree or two will fall over and I cant get to work tomorrow........ya know this snow isreally wet and heavy! Darn trees just fall over!!

[SL]

I drove home in light snow last night, had about an inch on the ground. This morning there was about 2 inches on the ground, and was snowing as I left for work. Gotta love the hills!!!

[decooney]

Hi Cindy,
For what it's worth, can I make a recommendation to your group, and I hope so, so here it is.

What works fairly well for some groups is to pick the same day to meet every month; like every 3rd Saturday, for example, and pick a default location too just in case nobody can decide. This way people can plan ahead without having to check CC just to figure out a date. With this approach, those who can make it will make it, and those who can't will try again on another month. This keeps it going, casual, and consistent. It also saves YOU time and effort from not having to get everyone on the same page on CC picking a day/date every month, which is just about near impossible and that exercise can take the fun out of it sometimes by the time you get everyone to agree, and someone always gets left out no matter what you do anyhow. Come up with a regular day each month and go with it. We've found if you break the cycle or day much, it throws everyone off and it starts to fall apart. As soon as you get back on a consistent day in the month and time, people will mysteriously show up out of the blue too.

By taking this approach, some months a large group will show and other months maybe just one or two; and even small groups can be fun anyhow. We've been doing this with the NorCal group for a number of years now and it usually starts out with the first person starting a new thread each month here on CC for our local club forum, someone just asking where are we meeting, and we rotate locations around each month which makes it even more interesting and very casual. Just my .02 cents for what it's worth. Good Luck and have fun.

[cindrrrr]

Duane
I am right in there along the same line of thinking. This was my goal, I have just not been approaching it right I guess.

Ok guys, lets make it the 3rd Saturday of each month. Towards the end, so it will fit for the guys that have indicated the end of the month is better.

If anyone has another idea, by all means jump in here. Since no one else really has indicated anything other as a preference than for now its going to be the 3rd one.

This March 17th, being the 3rd Saturday of March, lets make it in the Modesto area since we didnt make it in February.

The place and time will be Ridgeways. Time, address of restaurant to follow.