Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Update: Hello to Small Dead Animals readers! Everyone, check out the Saskatoon event plan, and provide your input or let us know you’re coming.
Pictures of the July 22nd BBQ in Lakeshore Park Regina, are finally here. The following bloggers were in attendence for all or part of the day’s events:

Kate (AKA SmallDeadAnimals.com writer), Lance (Saskblogs Aggregator creator), Krydor (came with family), Hecticity (provided her own SK themed birthday cake), Eric (better late than really late), Pilot (brought exploding coals), Andrew (carried bocce balls), Brandon and Lins (cool blog t-shirts), and Uncle Meat (fellow juggler), Thoughts from an Old Man (my brother), Robert (a friend of mine), and several other non-bloggers who came along just to bask in the awesomeness of computer users who like to “talk big” online. Unfortunately Stephen and Amanda were unable to make it. Amanda’s car died on the way.

We were able to work around the gaps in volunteers though, due to the generosity and well preparedness of the bloggers, who in fine Saskatchewan fashion brought more than enough food to a potluck event. We have enough paper plates to last through the Saskatoon and possibly Kipling get-togethers as well (which are both in the planning stages right now). Lance has asked to take the lead on organizing the August 19th [tentative date] event in Saskatoon, and look forward to going.

Aside from juggling and frisbee, I never got to to try real Bocce ball, so maybe next time. I did juggle the Bocce balls with Uncle Meat - Kevin, who has practised more than I at knife juggling apparently. Kate offered chainsaws for juggling, but I insisted they not be started if I tried. I probably could juggle chainsaws, but they’d probably put my back out when I heave them high enough.
I was so busy cooking, eating, fretting, and driving Robert from the airport on his way back from Nova Scotia, that I didn’t get enough time to talk with everyone who was there. I never even asked Paul if Scrappins the lab/border collie also blogged. When I got back to the park, my brother and his fiancee had shown up.

By the time I finished talking to Brandon and Linsk, who had brought popscicles that I had no room left for in my tummy, it was time to go to the football game after quickly taking some group pictures.

The Rider game was dull for most of it, until about 5 minutes after many people left when there were only 3 minutes to go and we started scoring touchdowns again. I was stunned that we didn’t go for the 2 point convert after the first miracle touchdown, and it burned us in the end that we didn’t have it. I also missed the biggest hit of the game, as I beat the crowd in the halftime rush to the facillities underneath. The electric lights were not working properly, so as I fumbled in the dark, I figured the game must have been sponsored by SaskPower this time. Here’s a photo of a hyper-exhuberent me hamming things up, and Wynn taking a $400 ride off the field to find out he was just knocked a touch senseless. Smalldeadanimals.com had pictures of the little girls practically dancing on his “grave” at halftime.

After the game Ashley, Robert, Justin, and I walked back to Robert’s place and washed up for supper. We went over to the Freehouse to find that only Lance and Kate had come too, and the Freehouse had not made the reservation for 8 people at 9:00 PM like I phoned in earlier last week. It didn’t matter, there was plenty of room, and only 5 of us there. We had supper, talked about blogging, bikes, engines, roads, computers, and the disapointing football game. Ashley and Robert aren’t well known as talkers in groups, so I monopolized the conversation from our end of the table. I think Kate was the only one to order dessert, and it was apparently disapointing. You can almost tell why from this photograph:

More photos at Pilot’s World, and Saskboy’s flickr account (see my blog’s mainpage sidebar for link). Sorry for the poor quality photos, I resized some a touch too small. If anyone would like a large resolution image, just let me know and I’ll email the original to you.

I can’t wait for the Saskatoon Meet in August!