The Bridge Club (LDBC) is in the midst of a very active Fall Season despite the weather playing havoc with all our planning. Many of us trouped down to the Marriott Harbour Front (right turn just before the bridge to Sanibel Island) at the beginning of October. A little over a dozen of the members of our Club spent some time bucking headwinds to get at least one day playing in this Regional Tournament organized by ACBL members and staff located in southwest Florida. Among Landings members intending to play in this tournament which was scheduled to take place less than 15 minutes from The Landings were Jerry Poissant, Barbara Coneys, Pat Tylander, Bill Ferris, Jacky Crump, Marina Kotch, David Hutson, Lynne Birdt, Bob and Peggy Cihi, Wanda Jacobs, Ginny Nightingale, Sue Wotton, Cheryle Luchene, Cheryl Tromley, Lindy Worrall, and Ron Bailer. We had to battle with Hurricane Milton to play in this tournament, the second southwest Florida hurricane to attempt disruption of our bridge season in the past 3 years (Ian, 2022), not to mention the pandemic among our disruptions. We do not have results to show for our Sanibel efforts at this point, but with future tournaments close to the home front from early November (Fort Lauderdale), mid-November (Daytona Beach), and early December in (St. Augustine and Vero Beach, and Tampa) we will soon have some future results to report. At least some of us got to go out of the country to Toronto this year to the Nationals (see the August Landings Live for pictures and a partial account of their experiences.)
Back to the home front for more local news, we are working on adapting to our new time for regular LDBC bridge sessions—Mondays at 9 am to noon every week through mid- May. This new hour will undoubtedly be seen as more civilized than the 8 am time forced by Ian, for the last couple of years. Some of us are at least contributing to the LDBC treasury with over 100 dollars as funds from our play at the Southeast Carolina Club of Clubs Collective online platform during this past September thanks to our partnership with this club from playing online bridge there. That opportunity continues to be available every day during the year, even though we have our own Monday morning sessions. The more bridge the merrier!
