I have curled since I was 16 years old. I started in Regina but now live in Delta, BC. That’s been 56 years curling now! In 1993 I started dating my wife Cindy. She was not a curler but loved coming to watch me. It was obvious that she had to learn how to curl. She joined a team at the Tunnel Town Curling Club in Tsawwassen and quickly became addicted. She signed up for the Elaine Dagg’s Foot Curling camp and was an incredibly fast learner. I love watching her do her practice slides three quarter of the way down the ice almost to the far hotline! Cindy is a lefty and I am a righty. We have fun showing off as we slide out together at there same time with me from the left hack and Cindy for the right hack. We have attended the Four Foot Curling Camp together twice since she first went. One time in Kelowna our coach was Rachel Homen! Getting to know Rachel in-person was such a wonderful experience. She has such a great personality and she was such a good teacher. She is now one of our curling heroes. We Love Her! We married in 1996 and have curled together in Mixed and Doubles ever since. Cindy also curls in the ladies league at our club and I curl in the men’s. Cindy even made it to the senior ladies Provincial Playdowns when they were in Campbell River, BC a few years ago. Not bad for someone who never curled until we met. I am no longer her curling coach and teacher as she has become mine. We enter as many mixed and doubles bonspiels as we can each year. In Mixed and Doubles Bonspiels Cindy loves to participate and lead the fun of the event. She dresses me up in the Bonspiel theme every time. Our mixed Doubles team is an Irish name theme “Guiness & Murphy” Curling is truly the best couples sport there is. There is no need for us to be snowbirds. We spend our winters being “bonspiel birds”. It is so wonderful to have to love of my life also be the best curling partner I could ever want. She keeps me calm when the pressure is on with “Remember Ron, curling is for fun”. We love going to the Briar, and the Scotties. Even the Worlds in Vegas where the patch was at the pool! We would love to go to St Johns!
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