Lorena showed us some of Sheffeltucky's finest attributes as CH4 invaded Lorain County. We gathered at Risko's enjoying the bar's lakeside location. A sliding glass door gave a great view to Lake Erie over a grassy lawn. Sometime well after 4 we we're On-On towards the lake. Virgin Matt arrived at the bar, asked what we were doing, was invited to join us, and he did. The trail quickly looped back towards Riskos and it was Beer Stop #1. The next section of the trail took us behind a shopping center and towards a bowling alley behind it. Next to the bowling alley, Hash-Historian Rear Ender Tu regrouped the pack for a historical moment: There across from the bowling alley was a building that once housed the drive thru where Ch4's TuTu worked and a guy named Chris used to buy beer. TuTu noticed he was often wearing running clothes, and convinced him to give CH4 a try. Soon Virgin Chris became H.I.R. Chris and shortly thereafter "Lorena", one of our most frequent hashers for many years and the only one who has an award named after him: he legendary "Lorena Award".... but that's another story. Anyway, who has the Lorena Award? Back on trail we went behind the bowling alley, through a couple of neighboring yards and around to the bowling alley's front for Beer Stop #2. Once again fortified with the life-giving elixir we took to the trail again. We continued past the aforementioned former drive-thru , past a post office, and behind a shopping center. The hare's trail then took us onto wide grassy trail into a patch of woods and Beer Stop #3. Virgin Matt explained that he had lost his eyeglass lens after taking a header on this trail a few days ago negotiating his way home from Riskos. Growing weary of being a smorgasboard for 'skeeters, we took the beer stop mobile and fast. The trail took us down few neighborhood streets, through a playground, and across a baseball field in to another patch of woods. On the other side of the woods we went through the long grass of the Sheffield canal, a wide & deep flood control ditch with a tiny stream at the bottom. The trail turned, we crossed the canal, and throught a treeline into a surprised woman's back yard. We made some vague reference to "Chris" and found an "On-In" in the neighboring driveway. On-In at the hare's lair! Ceremonies were conducted by Capital Queen and Too Drunk. Virgins Rhonda and Matt became H.I.R.'s. We had Free Semen drink as a visitor although he's not found a new home hash in Kentucky where he'll be living for at least a year. After everyone drank for all their hash-crimes, a naming committee spontaneously formed and we went off and named people at their first hash, an unusual move for CH4 in recent years. H.I.R. Rhonda became "Maximum Oral" and H.I.R. Matt became "Belchopolous". Lorena and Maximum Oral cooked up a feast of hot dogs and burgers on the grill and we relaxed from another day of strenuous exercise around a small fire. A fine hash was had by all.
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