Cookout Highlights
Jul. 25th, 2005 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssian*** Guests included a friend from TH, a former co-worker, friends from the music store, Deb's family, and my family - quite a range of people (nineteen in all, including us, unless I lost count!)
*** As far as I know, no one got completely lost trying to find the place, although there were a few missed turns, mostly due to the great, clever, artistic, carved wooden road signs that are, unfortunately, unreadable unless you're on foot (no sidewalks here, though), and invisible at night. To best imagine what these signs look like, picture impalement stakes with letters carved in them.
*** Discussion which ranged from politics to religion to heavy metal to operating systems to hardware to customer support to the lack thereof to spiders to penguins to voodoo sacrifice of chickens and involved most everyone at one time or another
*** My sister-in-law brought enough food to feed several thousands. To name a few items: potato salad, pasta salad, cucumber salad, broccoli salad (my father had trouble with this one: "I can't figure it out. I hate all the ingredients, but I like it."); there were at least three desserts involving chocolate (including a choclate frosted brownie with chocolate sprinkles)
*** Everyone was treated (or coerced) to go on a tour of the trees given by my daughter -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kk1raven was the first to be taken in hand and led around the yard (as an aside, I had Rachel give me the tour this morning before she left for MA with my parents - I'd estimate that people got off easy, and only saw about a quarter of the trees... =)
*** At one point, Rachel handed out instruments to everyone sitting in a circle. My mom wound up with the drums, Rachel kept the plastic recorder for herself, and maracas went out to the others: the men getting ones with fancy designs, the women with the plain plastic ones. Unfortunately, the jam session was not recorded, so the sanity of the rest of the world will not be lost (or, won't be lost through those means, at the least...)
*** Brandon provided entertainment by demonstrating his techniques of lawn mowing (and eating, whenever I would blink), giggling, and thbffffftttting, as well as demonstrating his Baby Bob imitation.
*** My friend R. wore out several teenagers and other assorted youngsters, outlasting them all tossing a football around (don't tell him, but they really might have wanted to get back to the video games, and not actually been exhausted...)
*** The local wildlife hid quietly and observed us safely from a distance, but the cats were the only ones who showed themselves (and actually let non-family members pet them!)
*** Of course, getting to actually meetkk1raven was definitely a highlight! It helped that at least one other person understood some of the implications of the penguin discussion, which began with me gesturing to the latest National Geographic upstairs in my room, and everyone looking up to see where the penguins were... if only they knew the truth!
*** Another cookout can be expected in about four weeks or so, on a Sunday
*** As far as I know, no one got completely lost trying to find the place, although there were a few missed turns, mostly due to the great, clever, artistic, carved wooden road signs that are, unfortunately, unreadable unless you're on foot (no sidewalks here, though), and invisible at night. To best imagine what these signs look like, picture impalement stakes with letters carved in them.
*** Discussion which ranged from politics to religion to heavy metal to operating systems to hardware to customer support to the lack thereof to spiders to penguins to voodoo sacrifice of chickens and involved most everyone at one time or another
*** My sister-in-law brought enough food to feed several thousands. To name a few items: potato salad, pasta salad, cucumber salad, broccoli salad (my father had trouble with this one: "I can't figure it out. I hate all the ingredients, but I like it."); there were at least three desserts involving chocolate (including a choclate frosted brownie with chocolate sprinkles)
*** Everyone was treated (or coerced) to go on a tour of the trees given by my daughter -
kk1raven was the first to be taken in hand and led around the yard (as an aside, I had Rachel give me the tour this morning before she left for MA with my parents - I'd estimate that people got off easy, and only saw about a quarter of the trees... =)*** At one point, Rachel handed out instruments to everyone sitting in a circle. My mom wound up with the drums, Rachel kept the plastic recorder for herself, and maracas went out to the others: the men getting ones with fancy designs, the women with the plain plastic ones. Unfortunately, the jam session was not recorded, so the sanity of the rest of the world will not be lost (or, won't be lost through those means, at the least...)
*** Brandon provided entertainment by demonstrating his techniques of lawn mowing (and eating, whenever I would blink), giggling, and thbffffftttting, as well as demonstrating his Baby Bob imitation.
*** My friend R. wore out several teenagers and other assorted youngsters, outlasting them all tossing a football around (don't tell him, but they really might have wanted to get back to the video games, and not actually been exhausted...)
*** The local wildlife hid quietly and observed us safely from a distance, but the cats were the only ones who showed themselves (and actually let non-family members pet them!)
*** Of course, getting to actually meet
kk1raven was definitely a highlight! It helped that at least one other person understood some of the implications of the penguin discussion, which began with me gesturing to the latest National Geographic upstairs in my room, and everyone looking up to see where the penguins were... if only they knew the truth!*** Another cookout can be expected in about four weeks or so, on a Sunday
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Date: 2005-07-25 09:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-26 05:14 pm (UTC)Once I got past all the stakes I had a great time though. The food was good, the company was good, the tree tour was amusing and it was really nice to get out and do something with real live people other than the couple of people I regularly do things with.
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Date: 2005-07-27 05:30 am (UTC)