The 2006 Greater Reading Open kicked off on Thursday night with the arrival of Witzee, his kid Craigy and Donna all from North Carolina.  Luke was coming in from California and picked up Kyle, Shane, and Rachel for the trip up to Reading.  Nothing too exciting on Thursday other than Kyle and Craig setting off fireworks in the backyard and Rachel walking into the screen door fudgesickle first.  On Friday,  Pops arrived at noon and we loaded up his new Caddy for the trip to Twin Ponds while Donna and Karen were cooking up a storm.  Over at the course, the women’s league scramble was hogging up the course but we eventually got out around 1 PM and set up the 2 man scramble – Dog and dean, Gator and Sko, Pops and the other Ford, and Luke and Witzee.  Of course Luke and Witzee crushed everyone shooting one under par as Lukie birdied #10 all by his own self.  And of course nobody paid the winners.  Back to the house for some stromboli and beer (and gin and tonics for some) and then a Texas Hold em card game broke out.  Unfortunately, the game had an unhappy ending – click here for details.  Later that night there was some intense political conversation on the back porch and the ex-marine tossed Burnzee off the porch and into the bushes much to everyone’s delight.  AT about 2:30 am the party wrapped up and everyone went into bed except dean who preferred  sleeping in a chair on the back porch.  Saturday morning, the party started at 8:30 AM but nobody showed until about 9:00 – Cousin Jim was there trying to make up for his late showing last year.  In fact the group in front of us finished early and we didn’t have anyone to send to the first tee.  Well JMO and his gang from Yardley finally arrived and it was time to read the instructions.  For the first time in Reading Open History the event was announced as a four man scramble or reasonable facsimile thereof.  The Heydt gang was immediately installed as a 6 stroke favorite.  Things went well until Pops started telling people to grab a cart and get in line messing up the 4-some line up.  Unfortunately the shot girls got nabbed early and were forcibly removed from their cart so the only way to get shots was to go to the pavilion.  That put a damper on the drinking activities but apparently dean and Karen found a way to work it into their schedules.  After 9 holes the 4-Clemens 4-some was in the lead at 6 under with 3 other 4-somes at 5 under.  Witzee’s gang  had a hammer lock on high score at 4 over after 9.  Midway through the back nine the skies opened up and we had some serious downpours.  This only encouraged Pete “ the Gentile” Schwartz as he pounded the ball the last 4 holes in 3-under par as the rest of his 4-some looked on in amazement.  Meats dragged his 3 4-somes in in under 4.5 hours and the award ceremony got under way.