Hello All!
It’s August already. We are always trying to cram beach, pool and barbeque into three months, but in the end many of us cannot wait for fall and winter. That is when we start up with our indoor fish that we neglected somewhat during the summer, and we return to our club meetings. Many of us have ponds or tub gardens outside that we are having fun with right now.
I know it’s been a while since our last farewell meeting for the summer. Had lots of personal stuff I had to deal with. What a great meeting with Food, People and of course Fish! My friend from Nino’s, the hero place in Smithtown really hooked us up with the heroes. The owner and the two guys that work with him all went to my store for many years and may join us when we start up again. They took their tanks down a few years after I closed my store, losing interest.
Our club keeps growing and at the last meeting I was able to talk to more of the members, both old and new, and got to know them. I think many of the members also were able to meet and talk to people that they did not before. I like having presentations and parties, but I think the meetings where we have nothing planned also work. We learn from each other more sometimes than in a presentation. I am going to keep mixing it up with some things planned and sometimes just a mingle meeting.
As far as fish go, I am very happy with our fish auctions. We have some amazing breeders in our club that are always bringing fish to the auction, and I thank them very much. If you have even one fish, it’s fun to see what you get for the fish and who buys it. Equally fun is bidding on fish to see what you win it for. It is not, however, fun to bid against the president LOL.
We have also had some great fish shows and members should bring a fish. You never know if you are going to win. Our last fish show winners were me with First and Third, and Ray sandwiched between with Second. Our regular raffle and special can raffle were also a great success with many members winning filters and lighting for their tanks.
Our next meeting will be Friday, September 20. Have a good rest of the summer!
Tom Keegan, President
To see photos from this meeting and past meetings, click here.