It was a beautiful, sunny October morning in 2005 when I headed off to the Winfield Curling Club for our regular Monday Morning Ladies League curling. I took my camera with me to snap some of the idyllic scenes of the reflections on Duck Lake along my route to the Club.
Alas, two of our regular players were not available to play that morning but we did manage to find one spare. I was the Skip. We were fortunate to score on ends 1, 2 and 3 then our opposition scored in end 4, giving us the hammer in end 5. With only my last rock remaining, we had the shot rock but the opposition had two rocks in the house in 2nd and 4th position. I elected to play a draw to score 2 when a player from the sheet next to us said “Hey, did you know that if you did a double take-out you would have an eight ender?” I hadn’t noticed and nor had my teammates as we were focused on how I could draw in and count 2. So obviously a change in strategy! With all the confidence I could muster I delivered my rock and much to my utter surprise and delight I made it!
Someone shouted “Does anyone have a camera?” Luckily, I had mine and was able to snap proof of our accomplishment.
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