by Dean in Eureka, CA » Fri Jul 16, 2010 1:13 am
Howdy All,
Yeap... Just made a run into town to pick up a few things and check on the animals.
A very incredible event so far, with some pretty awesome surprise visits.
1. Ended up going out there on Monday instead of Tuesday as planned, because they switched the gate combo earlier than planned to move early-early birders over from SD to the grove. As of Monday there were about 100 folks already enjoying Pamplin Grove the day before Early Bird set-up happened.
2. We got a surprize visit from a couple of Tennessee Tearjerkers this morning. They weren't able to tow out to the event, but decided to fly to SF, rent a car and drive up for the day.
3. Two Model-A's showed up this afternoon with very interesting trailers in tow. They are from Kentucky and are touring the US. They're spending the night with us tonight, before heading back on the road tomorrow.
4. So far we're up to 17 states and I've been told that it's very likely that we may be getting a visit from our friend Troy & his lovely family from Thialand. (IRG1.0 attendees)
5. The weather, although a bit warmer than this Fogcrawler prefers, has been fabulous for all in attendance... Got up to over 90F in the shade at the meadow today and down at the river. I pretty much stayed tucked in the shade of the big trees, where it stays at least 20 degrees cooler. (Thank God)
The river is perfect, best it's been in over 15 years...
6. Have met many new friends and it's been awesome getting to spend time again with old friends. (My assignment this time is to visit with everyone, so no cooking for me, except the pit barbeque tomorrow)
7. Although all original dutch oven demo folks had to cancel, we've got great volunteer replacements. Ruth and Larry from our local group (Mrs. President and the First Man... AKA Sweating Eagle came out this morning and did a wonderful apple fritter demo. Dave & Kathleen are doing a dessert demo tomorrow featuring sugar free cooking and Cliff is going to be doing demo of his own too and both have agreed to let Outdoor Cast Iron Cooking do videos of their demos.
Still not sure of how many are in attendance, or how many tears... But I'll tell yaa, it's like Trailer Trash Heaven, when standing out on the meadow. (I waited until the sun went behind the trees and BTW it's nice and foggy here in town right now, it's sure a nice night for star gazing out at Pamplin)
Two party's did have to head back early because of medical emergencies... Hope All Is Going To Be OK.
Still waiting on a few no shows, but you guys get here as soon as you can, because you're missing a real nice family event with a great bunch of folks.
Have a safe trip getting here and pay good attention at the 101-36 intersection... The new overpass is so close to being finished, but I've noticed that each time I use it on my errands, it's been configured differently each time. Sometimes when leaving and wanting to head South on 101, I've had to go North to the next exit to turn around on 101.
Well, I need to get some items here, hit the store and head back out and get some shut eye... Gotta get that pit fire going real early in the morning.
