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Skriven 2008-05-05 20:11:14 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
   Kommentar till text 6554 av JOAN MACDIARMID (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: picnic
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Hi Joan!

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>> Oh yeah, that's definitely something we're watching.. just to know :)
>> Obviously, we can't know for sure, but it will help to have a general
>> idea.

>> In other
>> words, it helps to have enough lawn chairs! For
>> the Picnic in Quebec some years back (I think it
>> was) our Hostess suggested people bring a few
>> collapsible lawnchairs if they had them handy, which
>> helped avoid a game of "musical chairs". That isn't
>> a bad suggestion for most Picnics, in fact, unless
>> one is using a public park with fixed picnic tables,
>> and even then not a bad idea.

>> It IS a good idea :)  While we'll have plenty of chairs, they may not
>> be so comfortable for outdoor relaxing :) We also have some outdoor
>> chairs (maybe a dozen), but right now we don't have the chaise-lounge

> No problem, they are hard to eat from anyway!

hehe.. that's true.. fine for the beach maybe but not for eating (grin)

>> type.. I expect we'll get some extras before the picnic too.. not to
>> worry about us buying some of that stuff too, we can certainly use them
>> with other family get-togethers; but if some people have one and bring
>> them along, that would help too :)
>> We have a picnic table with benches, but you know how those are.. I
>> think you can comfortable sit maybe 6 people? I forget really.. will

> Two people with lawn chairs can make use of the ends!

haha true :)

> Ha! I had one of my messiest moments at a group picnic,
> not Echo, when I was in a group of people involved in
> computer stuff having a picnic in someone's backyard.
> I found myself on one side of a table with a few
> old-timers faced with the offspring of a board member
> who had wandered away. When they both sprang up to look
> for seconds, the whole table was overbalanced and
> turned over, letting the whole picnic table turn up
> and dump me and the oldtimers on our backs with all
> the plates on the table all over us! No fault here,
> just amusement that we didn't see this coming until
> we were on our backs with food garbage all over us!


Oh, the poor food (Lol) and poor you guys (grin)  but yeah, I can see how that
could happen!

>> have to look at it :) I also figure to take my sewing work-table
>> outside to use for an outdoor table.. it's a huge oak table that has a
>> removeable top so it's easy to move in and out of doors. That one
>> should seat another 8 or 10 people.. then I have a few kitchen tables
>> that we can take outside.. they have leaves to extend to seat 6 or 8
>> people :) That's if we want to be outdoors (smile)

> Yeah, we might be squeezed into the kitchen with
> pounding rain outside!

Don't encourage Binghamton to get rain :) :) :) But ... if we do... :)

>We adapt well, because we
> love each other in a sense! Burt should know we
> all enjoyed what he calls the Newark Flyfest in
> spite of the flies, because it was a chance to
> meet and share. The flies gave it a memorable
> definition.

That's so neat :)
Thanks Joan :)

Take care,
Janis

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