TX > Fairfield Lake State Park>November 13-15 - 2015 Texas Fall Group Hang ver 7.0

[erinkae]

Jager it's fighting sleep. He's out like a light as soon as you start petting him, but wakes up when you try to do anything else.

Hahaha-sounds about right. Hope you guys enjoy the rum--I sure am enjoying the onion bread

[LostCause]

Everything is packed, 5 gallons of methanol purchased and picked up, just got to get the dates marinating in Crown Royal Maple for bacon wrapped drunken dates! Hoping to be there around 8:30am-9:00am tomorrow!

Those dates were pretty good! Thanks for bringing them.

[UncleMJM]

Dates, Rum, Mac n cheese, fried fish, rabbit stew… must have been good because the serving dishes were empty by the time I got there. No more mister nice guy next year. Gonna have to throw a few elbows.

I had a great time too. My only frustration is not enough time to hang out with all the folk I'd like to.

Thanks to everyone for making it such a great hang!

[LostCause]

Dates, Rum, Mac n cheese, fried fish, rabbit stew… must have been good because the serving dishes were empty by the time I got there. No more mister nice guy next year. Gonna have to throw a few elbows.

I had a great time too. My only frustration is not enough time to hang out with all the folk I'd like to.

Thanks to everyone for making it such a great hang!

Agreed. On the deliciousness of the food, the quickness on how it disappeared, and the limited amount of time available to spend with everyone. Hanging out once a year is clearly not enough. Looking forward to the next opportunity to hang. Great job to the OG crew that put this all together and kept it running for the last 7 years.

[UncleMJM]

As I see pics and videos, I realize that I forgot some thank you's that needed to go out beyond the banker, realtor, and ringmaster trio of Oldgringo, Rat, and Captn and I know there are more than those I have listed below as well.

Thanks to our hosts Kris and the Fairfield Lake State Park team, Sarge for the tortilla contribution to breakfast, to Humer91 for what looks like the best attended splicing section that I missed, to Brandy for teaching people which trees to chew, Rat for the paracord workshop, to the Huey's for the Saturday night fire pit, back to Humer91 for the Saturday dinner firewood, to ErinKae for historical record keeping, UGQ and Dream Hammocks along with too many other prize donors to remember, and a host of photographers.

I've had several people ask me about numbers so here's what I know:

Folks from our group combined to rent at least 40 camp sites, (for a combined total of at least 124 individual site nightly rentals).

We represented at least 6 states, (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Ohio, and Michigan, not including the Lamar students from a wide range of areas).

At least 90 people joined in for Saturday morning breakfast, several multiple plate fillers too

In addition to campers there were at least 4 that I know of who made day trips out to say howdy and check it out.

As far as a grand total goes, while I haven't gotten independent confirmation from our census department, we had about 130 signed up on the planning spreadsheet. Each year there are folk who sign up who can't make it and some whose schedule clears at the last minute who can and this year that came out to be pretty much a push. There were also people who may have signed up on the FB event beyond the spreadsheet. As I reconstruct people per site, add in the visitors, subtract out the cancellations/no shows, it looks like I could have skipped all the explanation because I come out to 131 so my "official answer" is about 130.

Yes, we will do this again next year, the weekend of the second Saturday in November.

[erinkae]

As I see pics and videos, I realize that I forgot some thank you's that needed to go out beyond the banker, realtor, and ringmaster trio of Oldgringo, Rat, and Captn and I know there are more than those I have listed below as well.

Thanks to our hosts Kris and the Fairfield Lake State Park team, Sarge for the tortilla contribution to breakfast, to Humer91 for what looks like the best attended splicing section that I missed, to Brandy for teaching people which trees to chew, Rat for the paracord workshop, to the Huey's for the Saturday night fire pit, back to Humer91 for the Saturday dinner firewood, to ErinKae for historical record keeping, UGQ and Dream Hammocks along with too many other prize donors to remember, and a host of photographers.

I've had several people ask me about numbers so here's what I know:

Folks from our group combined to rent at least 40 camp sites, (for a combined total of at least 124 individual site nightly rentals).

We represented at least 6 states, (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Ohio, and Michigan, not including the Lamar students from a wide range of areas).

At least 90 people joined in for Saturday morning breakfast, several multiple plate fillers too

In addition to campers there were at least 4 that I know of who made day trips out to say howdy and check it out.

As far as a grand total goes, while I haven't gotten independent confirmation from our census department, we had about 130 signed up on the planning spreadsheet. Each year there are folk who sign up who can't make it and some whose schedule clears at the last minute who can and this year that came out to be pretty much a push. There were also people who may have signed up on the FB event beyond the spreadsheet. As I reconstruct people per site, add in the visitors, subtract out the cancellations/no shows, it looks like I could have skipped all the explanation because I come out to 131 so my "official answer" is about 130.

Yes, we will do this again next year, the weekend of the second Saturday in November.

I will count up the campsites and see how many we can guesstimate joined us. I don't know if everyone got a chance to sign in.

[LostCause]

I will count up the campsites and see how many we can guesstimate joined us. I don't know if everyone got a chance to sign in.

I know Gracie and I forgot to sign in. Sorry bout that.

[erinkae]

I know Gracie and I forgot to sign in. Sorry bout that.

That's okay what site number and who all was in your site?

[LostCause]

We shared the hospitality site, 26.

[UncleMJM]

That's okay what site number and who all was in your site?

Speaking of site numbers, I didn't think to mention to you that there were at least 4 sites of folks at Cooks Ferry...