With the calendar year just getting started, temperature still dipping into the 30's and ski trips coming to an end, it is hard to think much about cookouts yet, and backyard BBQ's. However, the calendar does fill up quickly.  So, plan accordingly.  Remember The Huntsville Ski Club will help pay for incidentals!

Here are several ideas on how we can promote our club with huge payoffs...

• Always include web address on flyers, club literature, applications, and merchandise
• Wii Ski: take to happy hour or other venue where public will see you
• Car magnets (available from VISTA)
• Community activities:
  -  Adopt-A-Highway and other environmental activities
  -  Volunteer at events
  -  Participate in charity functions (walks, raise funds, etc.)

What The Location Of Your Mess May Say About You
by Shelter_Pop Staff, Joseph Cote, flickr and provided by a club member...

We've learned what a mess says about you, but have you considered the impact of where that mess is located? Author and environmental psychologist Sally Augustin, PhD, sheds some light on this surprising revelation. (And yes, we've learned lots from this!)

The Entryway

Chances are you are: Extroverted "A mess in an entryway that contains personalizing items [think knick-knacks, photos, art, etc.] communicates a need to clearly and immediately establish information about themselves to their visitor," Augustin says. "People with this sort of mess are also apt to be extroverted and interested in establishing a bond with visitors. Personalizing items also establish territory."

52 Weekends in the Tennessee Valley is a book written and illustrated by club member Chuck Frew and his son while exploring the Tennessee Valley together. The book captures the best and the down home feeling of the many short trips that are available to our adventurous members near and around Huntsville and the Tennessee Valley area.

Chuck forwarding this copy of the book cover for 52 Weekends in the Tennessee Valley, as seen on the left. During the monthly club members meeting 2010, Chuck provided a pictorial overview of his trips and he sold out of the copies that he brought with him. The book was written and all pictures taken by he and his son without TOO much bloodshed as we understand...

The publication retails at Barnes and Noble and Books-A-Million at $24.95 plus tax.  He sold them for $18.60 plus tax, or $20 each, if HSC members were interested in obtaining a copy for the coffee table.

Thanks... Chuck for sharing your experiences and the pictorial trips through the Tennessee Valley...

You may contact Chuck Frew @ 256-679-8558