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First Night Gathering The tents were set up, so it was time to eat dinner and just hang around. Hooray! |
Old-Timers Dave and Brian were happy to see each other. |
Happily Reading Beth's good at getting through books. |
Good Car! I'm impressed that my Scion made it up the slope. |
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Movie Screen This year's major innovaation - Mike brought a movie screen, and we watched Shaun of the Dead. |
Early Morning We all found our spots in the shade on Saturday morning. |
Happy Dog There was a new batch of dogs this year. |
Muddy Dog I was pretty fond of 'em all, though. |
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Lazy Morning Lounging around, waiting to do something. Aaah.... |
Newcomers This was Shane and Preston's first time here. |
More Newcomers Mike's new fiancee and Preston's Mom had a pretty good, relationship-related reason for coming... |
Elizabeth I'm not sure how much she enjoyed the whole "camping" thing... |
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Happy Pup ...but it's a rare dog that doesn't enjoy it. |
Charlotte It had been *far* too long since I'd seen Char. |
Back In Town For that matter, it had been far too long since I'd seen Ray and Mel, but I didn't get a picture of them for almost a day into their arrival. |
Sean and Sarah Arrive I really couldn't have guessed that they were going to come. |
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Mike Since Ray and Mel moved away, I haven't gotten to many chances to see Mel's Dad. |
??? and Preston I really wish I didn't suck at names so badly. |
Jacob It had only been a few weeks since I saw him, but still, it was good to have him back. |
Making Breakfast It's nice to see that I'm not always the first one up. |
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Making Bacon Jacob took care of the pork duties this morning. |
Waiting for Bacon Well, I gues that Sean wasn't so much waiting as eating another breakfast... okay, so nobody in this shot wanted bacon. |
Turtle The only really interesting animal of the weekend. |
Turtle, Under the Chair He sure was a determined little guy. |
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Turtle, Under the Chair, II Even if we did have to keep him away from the fire... |
Gen I was still sad that she didn't bring Keith. Or Bailey. |
Elizabeth Possibly the best stand-alone picture I've gotten of her so far. |
Jacob Reading comics while camping seems odd, but I enjoyed it too. (Note: this, and the last three, pictures were taken by Mel. Plus the pig gore. She liked the pig gore.) |
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Relaxing with a Dog She was a good girl, whose name I again can't remember. |
Wheelbarrow of Pig Getting ready to be cut into bite-sized pieces |
Pig Cutting The first attempt to quarter the pig was not altogether successful. |
Pig Cutting, II Mike started off Round II with a hack-saw... |
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Pig Cutting, III ...and after this, he started with an axe and a hammer. That's one frozen piece of pork! |
Wheelbarrow of Pig, II The pig was, eventually cut into useful-sized pieces. |
Scaredy-Dog This poor puppy was scared of everything. Aww... so cute... |
Starting the Pig Time to start the main event... |
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Starting the Pig, II ...and here we go! |
Starting the Pig, III I never had any good shots of this happening before. |
E and Shane, Hanging Out They didn't stay much longer than this. |
Rare Picture of Tim I wish we'd had a better picture of my scary beard. Maybe Darren has one? |
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Char I think that's friends-page worthy... |
Hannah, E, and Shane Is Shane falling asleep back there? |
Elizabeth and Shane They took off right after this. Bye, guys! |
John's Hat That's about all you can see here. I think we got the picture because it's odd to see a St. Louis native wearing a Chicago hat. |
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Dark Beth This would have been a good shot with more flash. |
Darren and Hannah They also took off shortly after this... but at least they got pig first. Mmm... |
Yummy Pig Sauce This was *definitely* the best pig of all time this year. |
Sauces and Pig There were two kinds - an apple one, and a tomato one. |
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Sampling the Wares I think waiting for someone to actually taste it would have been better than this pose. |
More Pig Cooking Mmm, that looks tasty... |
More Pig Cooking, II ...of course, that could just be memory. |
Tired Doggy Food coma... |
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Cutting the Pig Finishing up the cutting for later. |
More Music I like the spoons in the background. |
Still Cooking There's always more cooking to be done. |
Jacob and Char It's good to see friends so happy to see each other, isn't it? |
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Packing Up Gen was the first to get her stuff loaded up in the car. |
Beth and Sean And they never saw each other again. |
Mel and Ray Preparing to leave, the same as me. It was good to see them for as long as we did. |
Char and Bunny ...but before they could go, Charlotte brought out a stuffed bunny! |
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Kill The Bunny DEATH... |
Kill The Bunny, II ...TO THE... |
Kill The Bunny, III ...BUNNY! |
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