Seven of us met to kick-off the fourth year together as a motorcycle club. After viewing a "Stuff They Didn't Tell You"...video from the Lutheran Hour's Men's Network we moved to the task of laying out a ride schedule for the coming three months, February, March and April. One downside in the discussion was learning that a landslide on the Cherohala Skyway had undercut the pavement in the vicinity of the North Carolina-Tennessee border. The road was reported to closed on the North Carolina side and open on the Tennessee side up to the Brushy Creek area.

The meeting was pretty much a video event with Dan showing a preview of what he is putting together, with Steve, from their weekend at the antique motorcycle gathering at Barber Motorsports in Leeds, Alabama mid October. From the looks of it they'll have a lot to show us after they have the footage edited (no small task).

We also took a look at another episode from Lutheran Hour "What They Didn't Teach You In Sunday School". These are available for your viewing at:  http://www.lhmmen.com/ under the tab "Shorts".

In spite of the dreary skies and a few drops of rain three riders rode in to join five others to establish a quorum for our September meeting. We also had cameo appearances from Dan and Abby.

No Baloney Shop videos have been posted by Lutheran Hour Ministries since early August so we tried an episode from " What They Didn't Teach You In Sunday School". It was good and we'll probably use other episodes in the future. We also viewed a pair of videos that prompted discussion about " what would you do in this situation? "

In spite of a number of the riders being roped into lingering summer obligations there were seven at the meeting including "first timer" Robert L. who rode with us on the 10th on his pristine new Harley. Paul, who rode in on his newly acquired Harley, joined mid session to bring the count to eight.

After a few tense moments trying to establish an Internet connection through the church's WiFi, they were hooked up and kicked off the meeting with the latest episode of LHM's Baloney Shop. This was followed by a short video that had more than one of the guys reflecting on how things used to be, and are no longer. This video is below in case you'd like to give it a gander.