Greetings from the long-overdue kids birthday party! Guess what season we're in..... yeah, mud. The roads seem to be particularly bad this year and this is the required footwear if you plan on exiting the house.
So I got the trusty four wheeler out and left it at the ready near the front door.... the plan was to haul people back and forth from vehicles parked at a remote location.
Here is the view as you are walking up the 'driveway'. It looked pretty bleak out there on Sunday.
The road is officially closed, as evidenced by these road block devices.
That's because the road is so soft that my truck sank overnight and we barely were able to extract it with the tractor. Center top are four holes that were where the truck sank, nearer the filled ruts and scratching of the tractor. This was Saturday fun... It may take a double click to enlarge these photos for proper viewing.
Anyway, the cooking was going well, with the spaghetti sauce simmering since about 11:00 A.M. Rosie kindly delivered some pub-brew from H&H, so I had coping mechanisms in place..... Peg did most all preparations for the day except for the sauce (with some help there as well).
This is Bryn, the youngest of the tribe. It was Bryn that discovered the presence of 'mushrams' in the sauce. They were from some really huge mushrooms....
Next Rosie arrived with a major load of laundry!! Lucky she didn't fall off the four wheeler with that to manage.
The remote location. A heavily graveled road spur right close to Johnson's house.....
Donna arrived and got her first ride on a four wheeler. I think she liked it, or at least didn't complain about it.
Table is all ready, food is done, let's dive in.....
After dinner, I did the dishes while the others played a game that they seem to enjoy more than I do..... it's called Rummicub, or something like that. Next, I took a snooze in the recliner in order to rest up for the birthday cake..
which I did a nice job on this year. I ordered it just right.
We didn't have enough birthday candles for the combiined age, so Peg got out some alternate candles... I eventually hauled Bryn and Donna back to their vehicles and Rosie spent the night on our couch. So ended another sucessful birthday party.
10 comments:
why is the road so bad this year? I like your cool straw hat. looks lke a great time despite the bleak landscape...a sure sign of spring...bleak landscape. The mushroom looks odd and sorta not like a mushroom. mushrooms are too weird for me.
did you have deep frost there and is that why the road is so bad? hmmmm...ice not quite off green bay but getting very close. lots of birds. what a great time of year!
Yeah mushrooms are weird, but I think most people would be if they were treated like me, I mean a mushroom.
crooksandliars caught the quote you did:
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I just got word that my flight instructor's son, Brian, just started a blog. It's here...
http://brianjkrueger.blogspot.com/
You really should take a look at what this young guy has done in the last few years.
The pictures are great. I can't remember when the roads were that bad altho years ago they were that bad a lot. Glad you had such a nice party and wish I could have been there.
Lucy
Great birthday pictures! looks like a lot of fun. I didn't know the road could get that bad - I guess I always thought it was sort of graveley.
Hey Carlo,
Thanks for the feedback. Those ice flyin' times were a blast. Hope you've been doin lots of flyin. I'll be home for easter weekend so maybe I'll see you up in the sky.
By the way, You've got a lot of great stuff on here!
Talk to You later,
Brian Krueger
The party looks like fun, I do love that spaghetti sauce-with mushrooms and all yum yum. I think the cake look reaaly good too. I do love cake. j girl
FSM would be proud. How about some new news?????
Thanks fur da help last nite Carlo!
s.d.
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