I had my, what could theoretically become, annual Birthday Barbecue on Saturday. I would like to thank all of the people that attended and made the evening special:
- Bardole, Shannon
- Bennett, Charlotte
- Cousin, Amy
- Daniel, Jeffrey
- Degeneffe, Austin
- Degeneffe, Melissa
- Degeneffe, Scott
- Dill, Colby
- Dill, Dan
- Dill, DJ
- Gorshe, Derrick
- Gorshe, Jen
- Henning, Monica
- Howard, Jesse
- Howard, Kalista
- Howard, Kelly
- Howard, Saydie
- Howard, Taylan
- Hugen, Todd
- Janson, Jay
- Jauhari, Andree
- Jenson, Terra
- Johnstone, Jack
- Johnstone, Jason
- Junck, Sara
- Kahler, Logan
- Kahler, Russ
- Kewer, Jeff
- Krause, Dawn
- McAlpine, Willy
- Nitchals, Peggy
- Parsaei, Nader
- Perkovich, Becky
- Roberts, Lori
- Roberts, Steve
- Runestad, Anders
- Stensland, Carla
- Stensland, Johnathan
- Wever, Ada
- Wever, Amanda
- Wever, Greg
- Yin, Amy
Next year, I will move the barbecue back to its traditional spot of the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. Feel free to circle the date May 28 on your 2011 calendar that you have yet to purchase. It will perhaps be an even smaller and more intimate gathering. I might start instituting a survivor type invitation policy similar to the fashion of invites that Jay uses for Symposium.
Special thanks need to be extended to the following people:
Sara for taking the pictures for the invitations.
Sara for providing the s’mores goodies.
Jay for making three desserts: chocolate raspberry cookies, key lime bars and apple crisp.
Steve for providing homemade salsa and chips.
Becky for making a pasta salad.
Scott and Melissa for bringing a banana creme pie.
Shannon for baking a fresh rhubarb pie with rhubarb picked from my personal rhubarb patch.
Johnathan for bringing over cornhole.
Logan and Russ for running the grill.
Mom for baking a cake and creating a watermelon fruit thing.
Derrick for being the fire-starter.
Andree for being the best dressed person at the party.
Shannon for opening the party.
Willy for closing the party.
There isn’t any photographic evidence to support that this party existed. I was too busy to touch a camera and Sara didn’t take any pictures this year. Maybe next year I will add “Party Photographer” to the list of Staff positions for this shindig.
If you wish to be hired for this position (no pay, no benefits, possibly a STAFF t-shirt*) simply send the answer to the following question to bennett@photography139.com:
Why would I make an awesome Party Photographer?
I suppose I should start planning Friendsmas now. It can wait a couple of months.
*That is not a joke. There will be staff t-shirts next year.
I am saddened that the Tale of the Mystery Pickle is not included in this post.
I don’t do requests, but it is possible that there might be a whole post on this subject brewing.
Perhaps brewing isn’t the proper term.
That would be awesome – I would love to see a picture of this monstrosity, if you have one. Shan came and visited last night, and we never got to the tale – I am just filled with curiosity.
Strange, considering you were eating pickles.
That definitely made it ironic. We would allude to the story, but it was always in the middle of talking about something else, so we’d both promise to get back to it. Then the conversation would get so far away that we’d forget!
The pickles were delicious, however. They travelled surprisingly well.
Truth is that there is not much of a story.
Basically it can be summed up like this:
“Girl Eats Pickle. Doesn’t Die.”