The Weather Board is a Cavalry Club tradition. It is an old chalk board that has hung inside the river porch door for as long as any of us at the Club can remember. Its intended purpose was to give the day’s weather and river conditions and to keep track of the member’s whereabouts while out fishing and hunting. Club members would usually sign in and out with notes, called “chalk-ins” like, “Joe Earl- fishing the pipe line pool-7:30am- be in for lunch-don’t eat mine”. So of course, the Club being peopled by a bunch of irreverent scoundrels, someone like old Uncle Alphonse would chalked-in, “ate your lunch for breakfast Earl”. For better or worse, the Weather Board has degenerated into a forum for Club member's Noel Coward like wit and Jack London like prose.

Although the daily weather, stream conditions, dinner menus, day’s catch, flush & shoot numbers and members comings and goings are still posted, it is not uncommon to see chalk-ins like, “Lester shot over 16 flushes near Portage Creek- fired 31 shells- hit nothing-nice shooting four-eyes”. Or, “Caught Pat putting "County Fair" in his empty “Blanton’s” bourbon bottle-another cheap Mick”. As the seasons wear on, or during bad weather the chalk-ins are likely to become more abusive and usually, anononmous.

During late grouse season last year, when the boys were well into a crock of bourbon Old Fashioneds and were tossing around ideas on what to put into this web-site, somebody, I think it was Captain Jim, thought it would be a good idea to go electronic with the Weather Board. Everyone thought it seemed like a good idea, but no one quite knew what old Jimbo meant by "electronic". He sometimes get real cryptic when he gets too far into the bourbon. So we had our little geek fellow explain it to us. Once we understood that all Captain Jim meant by "electronic" was that we could also chalk-in on the web-site weather board from anywhere, instead of on the real weather board at the Club. This idea had great appeal to the boys who head for Florida after the first frost (they blame their wives for this early departure). So we turned the little nerd loose to see what he could do. He put something together that he thinks will work just fine and won't cost us any extra dough. So we're going to try it out for a while. Like at the Club we don’t care what anyone chalks in. We just erase what we don’t like anyway.