Tuesday, October 4, 2011

10-04-11

We had a little get together last weekend for my 70th birthday.

I went up to the cabin on Wednesday morning. Bob arrived a couple of hours later. Our friend James came up Thursday morning just as I was starting a project. Bob and James went up the hill to sanitize the camp spring and another spring that is further up the hill.

While they were gone I took care of the few projects that I was working on. When they returned to the cabin we got to discussing the upper spring and the fact that we need a lot of pipe to bring the water down. I happened to remember a large coil of plastic irrigation pipe down in the barn so we went down there and drug the pipe back to the cabin. There was about 300ft of pipe so we drug it all the way up the road to just above the spring. Bob and James pulled the pipe down through the woods and connected it to the spring. Now we only need about 300ft more to get the water down to camp.

Chuck (AKA Swamp), showed up around 9:00 Friday morning.

Bob left on Friday around 1:00. James stayed until late that evening.

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L to R: James, Bob, Sonny, Swamp and me.

In the mean time, Joanne and Dave showed up around 10:00.

Patti got there with my brother, Sonny an hour later.

Our old friends Jerry and Lorraine arrived around 1:00.

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Around 4:00, Kathi and Bob, (Patti’s sister and Brother-in-law from Oregon) pulled in with there youngest daughter Anna-lee and her one year old son, Lucas.

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Becky, Kathi, Bob C, Bruce, me.

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Connie, Anna-lee and Lucas.

Lucas was the hit of the party. He was very well behaved and charmed everyone.

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Doug and Paulette arrived late afternoon.

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Matt, Elisa, Mike,Renee, their son Cody and Ray (Mike and Elisa’s dad) showed up around 7:00.

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Renee, Elisa, Mike and Cody.

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Ray and Matt

Saturday:

First thing Saturday morning even before I had a chance to have breakfast some unknown person must have put a huge load of toilet paper in the toilet and plugged it solid. I worked on it for about an hour and after getting S%^T all over me I finally had to go to town to buy a plunger.

I took Chuck along for company.

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We went to the Boonville hardware first. They were closed so we went across the street to the Boonville market. They didn’t have what we needed so we had to drive to Philo, a small town 5 miles west of Boonville, where we went to Jacks Market and Building Supply and got a toilet plunger and headed back to camp. When I got back to camp I gave the plunger to Dave and he and Sonny got the toilet cleared. Joanne cleaned the bath house from top to bottom. Thank You, Joanne!!!!!

Josie came up Saturday around noon.

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Josie and Matt

Becky and Dennis from Myers Flat showed up Saturday. I was very pleased that they made it.

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Becky, Dennis, me and Gaby.

My niece, Connie and her husband, Bruce showed up.

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Around 12:00 we went down to the old home site and shot clays for about an hour.

When we got back to camp it was time to start cooking. I was planning on making a big batch of Nopalito’s and grilling  four Tri-tips.

When I got to looking for the stewed tomatoes for the Nopatito’s I realized that we had forgotten to bring them. So, its off to Boonville again. The store didn’t have the Mexican style stewed tomatoes that I normally use in the dish so I got the “Italian Recipe” and raced back to the camp.

When I got back to camp both of my daughters were there.

Gabriella with her husband, Morgan

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and my youngest, Felice and her friend, Marcy.

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Felice is on the left.

Needless to say I was very pleased to see them.

Peter, the property owner, came up Saturday afternoon, late.

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Doug and Peter.

Everything turned out fine in the end. While I worked on the Nopalito’s,

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Morgan grilled the Tri-tip’s.

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Every one brought something to share so we had ton’s of food.

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The most interesting setup was Loraine’s Dutch oven tree where she baked 34 potatoes.

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They were done just right. Loraine has been known to cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner in this way.

By noon on Sunday the only ones left were the hard core group. Patti, Joanne, Dave, Sonny and Me.

We spent Sunday afternoon cleaning up and Monday morning packing. We came home Monday afternoon.

It was a fun weekend and I want to thank everyone who attended.

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