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  Hello everyone and welcome !  The club was represented for the first time in a big petanque tournament at Amelia island in Florida both teams did excellent Jeanne  and Drew and  Amine and Saïd, they got to see and play against some top champions from Canada and France What a great time and result for the club thank you for going there  A + LOVE Arsene

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Hello and welcome everyone. About 18 of us got together yesterday at the French legation in downtown Austin what a beautiful place to play at.  we had 4 new players showing up  Jim was one of them he had just returned  from France where he played in a local club there,we had Albert a retired french teacher it was his 75 years birthday he celebrated playing petanque with us,we also had 2 special guests from the west coast Stephanie and Randy who had previously only played indoor petanque on the island of Hawaii but rapidly adapted to metal balls It was a perfect day A + LOVE Arsene

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Hello and welcome everyone. Every Wednesday the club get together at the french legation this particular wednesday 10/21/09 it was raining all over Austin but since a few performers  from the texas renaissance festival were in town we took a  chance and got together anyway  sure enough the legation was probably the only place where it wasn’t raining in Austin we played for 3 hours the Clan Tynker were part of the visiting friends   http://www.clantynker.com/  Kelsey and Jules from  Flourish and Fool and Thierry Amisse and when jugglers /petanque players get together they try to stretch the limits  check it out  A + LOVE    Arsene

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 Hello and welcome everyone Meet Jeanne Harrington, the owner of two  of the most beautiful petanque courts in the US. They have the feeling of playing in Provence.   Hear what she has to say:  The game of petanque helped me to go through moments of my life where I needed  friends and support.  With the help and ideas of Geo Durrell, after he built the ones in the Lakeway park, he told me the kind of granite to buy and where to get it.   He taught me the game, showed me how to build the score keepers, and gave me the website where I could learn the rules and the dimensions for my first court. The company of friends  was getting bigger, so I even built a second court.   People are welcome to play here  by  invitation only.   A +  LOVE Arsene     A +

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Helle everyone and welcome!     Everyone  Wednesday afternoon the Heart of Texas Petanque club get together at the French legation and the games are on the professional level even so we are not playing by the rules, sometime we play 5 against 4 for the sake of the friendship meaning at one point you have about 20 balls on the ground you have to remain sharp and on the game just to make sure that it is one of the ball of your teammate But what fun and great laugh.  OH no they are throwing  petanque  balls at the photografer  ?? Keep on learning.   A + LOVE Arsene Arsene

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Hello everyone and welcome . Once a year some of the top acts in the country from different renaissance festival  get together at Gettysburg and besides being tourists we play petanque,  check out all those guys  A + LOVE  Arsenewww.michaelrosman.com
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Hello and welcome everyone !  As many of you knows I travel the country doing magic shows at Renaissance festivals,when I started about 30 years ago i did teach petanque to a lot of my friends since than at a lot of festival people have being playing the game during the week on site because the festival are usualy only open on week end, so we have a perfect petanque court to choose from on sometime up to 50 acres depending of the festivals,so if you find yourself near a state where there a Renaissance festival check it out during the week where the players are ,off make sure the festival is open at the moment we are at the Pittsburgh renaissance  festival check out all those talented petanque players   http://www.pittsburghrenfest.com/     A + LOVE Arsenehttp://www.pittsburghrenfest.com/

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Hello everyone and welcome.    Here another great member of the Heart of Texas Petanque club Jacques Richard :Chef extraordinaire.  Here what he as to say about himself :  I am a native of France and like a lot of native I learned the game of Petanque around 5 or 6 years old with plastic balls.   Being a chef i had the opportunity to travel a lot around France especially in the south in Marseille where i had the chance to witness all the champions coming to  ( la Marseillaise a Petanque ).    I discovered Austin about 10 years ago to participate at the opening of a French restaurant  Aquarelle where i am currently the executive Chef  and about a year ago Arsene came to my restaurant and we spoke about Petanque shortly after I became a member and enjoy playing as much as I can with everyone in the club. A + LOVE Arsene

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Hello everyone and welcome. On Sunday  I went to  the French legation.   I wasn’t able to be there for over 2 months.  It is  one of my favorite spots to play Petanque.  Over 20 people showed up for great games even so it was another 106 degrees Food and drinks were of course part of this fun day.  Great to see everyone.   One of our original members of The Heart of Texas Petanque Club  just had a beautiful  baby girl. Congratulation Leah for  Ella Marie. I am sure she will be playing the game in no time A + LOVE Arsene

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HELLO AND WELCOME EVERYONE   Another great way to meet a member is to know a little more about them so here it is.           Adria  Adria McCuaig was born in New York, grew up on the East Coast and abroad, and spent 14 years in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Austin (for grad school) three years ago.  She’s surprised to find herself a regular petanquer.  A neighbor in South Austin, Julia, told her about the Legation games.  Being a francophile since sixth grade (when French class began, at which she did pretty well), she decided to check it out.   Eventually she fell in with the Pease Park crowd, showing up regularly.  Now, she truly cares about how well she tosses the boule, and keeps talking about the need for petanque camp in order to improve her skills, especially her shooting skills.  (Others interested should contact her.)   She dreams of getting beyond the first round in some future competition.  This past spring, she and partner Ed were eliminated pretty quickly in the Heart of TX competition (thank you, all organizers), but it was okay because she walked away (eventually) with a pink elephant t-shirt. 
Having been to France about eight times, Adria finds it amusing that it took Texas to open her eyes to the beauty of petanque.  She never threw a boule abroad, but remembers references to the game, and to pastis, in Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence.  Now she’s really into the game, the camraderie, the food, the wine, the homemade beer  . . . It suits her.
Adria does work sometimes.  Before completing her Masters in Art Education (as of yesterday), she taught art and other academic stuff.  She would like to open her own art studio and offer classes for kids and adults in things like clay, calligraphy, cardmaking . . .
Nous verrons.     A + LOVE Arsene