Two golf clubs - one bagpiper
This weekend Oregon Piper made balls fly at not one but TWO golf club events!
First, the 100 year anniversary of the Portland Golf Club, one of Portland's finest and oldest courses. Upon arriving I realized I was not the only one in a traditional costume: golfers were decked out in retro-looking 1920's golf attire that I'm sure any Portland hipster would kindly kill for. One group apparently even rolled up in (what looked like) a shiny Ford model-T.
Second was an 83rd birthday party for a man by the name of John Maslen, who just so happened to be a former member of one the oldest and longest running pipe bands in the nation, the Clan Macleay Pipe Band.
"Do you still have your pipes?" I asked him after finishing a set.
"I do, but the chanter was broken in half by a stray basketball..." Maslen replied.
So...the moral of the story today is two-fold. 1) things get better with age (and the parties get better too), and 2) if you happen to playing your pipes on skid-row and a stray ball comes your way, RUN (or play the most aggressive D throw you can muster and YOU SHOW THAT BALL). Foooour!!