Barn Bash 2009
 

We're planning our Barn Bash for the last weekend in May, and this year I'm taking all my doggies. Last year, I paid a neighbor teenager to care for them. Hubby and I always get the cottage at my son's house and it has a good fence around it, so I'm going to take them and pray for no disasters. I know I'll end up keeping them in crates most of the time.

This is going to be loads of fun, with family, friends, neighbors, even co-workers. We're getting a bigger pig this year and will probably end up renting a camper sleeper. Heck, there's 18 just counting hubby, me, kids+, and g-kids. Then, there's the in-laws, my sister+, cousins, neighbors. I'm counting probalby 80 people to be there, hopefully not all at the same time!

Hubby will drive his truck with doggie crates and pull a trailer with 4-wheelers. I'll drive my Tahoe with doggies and there will be groceries and stuff stashed in every corner. I usually shop here and transport it, so I have more visiting time there.

Is this a family reunion? Or just a get-together? It sounds like fun, whatever it is!! I love a good hog roast!!! Yum!!!

Oh how fun. I would love to have a barn bash. But if i had my way I would live in a barn. I love barns. they are the greatest thing invented. I also collect barn stuff. Have fun....

It's something Jeff wanted to start. Last year, it was just our little immediate family, his MIL and FIL, and his closest friend Wade +2 kiddos. So, it's not actually our family reunion as in blood relatives, but since some of the friends have been around for 20+ years we feel like they are family (some are Godparents to our g-kids).

This year, he's inviting the world - COME ON OVER. Last year, we had a 39# pig. We'll need a much bigger one this year, maybe from the 4H Club auction tomorrow night. My g-daughter, Christian, is showing her pig (BonBon) tomorrow night.

That sounds like a ton of fun! How many dogs are you taking?

I love a good hog roast too. So darn good and with all the carry-in dishes...Yum Yum! Sounds like a great time.

I'm taking 6 doggies - the 5 Yorkies and 1 ShihTzu. We don't travel much and they are usually good on trips.

I sure wish that I lived closer because I'd go get Janet and drive on over!!!! It sounds like lots of fun!!! I could even bring my 4-wheeler.

I sure wish you all could come.

Don't you love the 4-wheeler? Unfortunately, I get too brave on our big one and want to "cut up".

Wow, that sounds like a really fun time!!! How do you cook the pig?? BBQ??

We have a big homemade smoker (on wheels) that they smoke it in. The men will put one on and sit out by it most of the night - drinking and lying! It actually becomes more of a pulled pork, so tender and falling apart that you just pick it up with your fingers and dip it in your sauce. We put some in tortillas for the kiddos.

I plan to buy as much already prepared side dishes as I can. Jeff & Emily actually have 5 refrigerators and freezers, so keeping things cold is no problem.

You know, that sounds like a lot of fun!!!

Nothing better than a good ole pig roast!!!

Wish you were closer.. I would crash your party!!

I dare you!

We have a small narrow valley behind our house and Glen and Jaci have made trails for the 4-wheeler to drive on. It's pretty steep going up the other side and I don't try it when it's muddy because I'm afraid that it won't make it. I love to go and ride around there once in a while. I like to "cut up" too! I love my 4-wheeler!! Did you ever see the pictures where we went and rode in the mountains? I'll try to find them and post a link. I'd only had my 4-wheeler for a couple of months!!!

Here it is.....

http://www.4womentalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2875

Yes, I remember those pictures, like a little family convoy, I think. I'd love to see them again. We don't have house behind us and it's fairly grown up and has a pond (wetlands act) back there (probably 20 acres. Hubby cleared and mowed a little winding path and cut some dips and slants. We can even ride bikes through it. Of course, it's almost berry picking time, so the trail takes longer to get around!

Be careful, Diana!! A good friend of ours who's in her 70's was out on her 4-wheeler, she's a tough old gal and very independent, she somehow turned it over on herself and broke her back in several places. They had to lifeflight her from her ranch to the hospital. This was about 5 years ago. She recovered with no paralysis or anything, but she wears a rather large plastic back brace now, and seems to be in pain. She's not one to complain and tries to act like nothing is wrong. This would have been harder on someone who was not as tough as she is. Even experienced riders have problems with the 4wheelers. From a Harley rider who knows risky hobbies are worth it, just be careful when you're having fun.

Thanks so much for your concern, Gayle. I really try to be careful when I'm riding. I know that I could be hurt very easily. There is just something when you get on the 4-wheeler and you have the wind blowing through your hair that makes you feel like a teenager again!!!...................ok, maybe 40!!!!!!

Heck, Diana, I revert all the way back to 25!

:sidesplit: We're a lot alike!!!

A couple of our neighbors have golf carts and a couple have mules. This time of year the road our dirt road is full of ripples from the 4-wheelers running rampid! I think my foot's ready to get back on my 2-wheeler, but my lazy butt is procrastinating.

I wonder if everyone on this board knows what a mule is??? I didn't till a few months ago........ :D

Here's a mule......

Yep, looks like a mule to me. The only kind I will ever ride, that is;)

Hey Betsi, that's my preferred mule ride too - although I have ridden the four legged kind many moons ago! :D

Mules and golf carts are all over some of the plants I call on, only they aren't as clean and pretty as the one in the pic. I ride in them frequently to visit customers. Yep, hard hat, safety glasses or goggles, riding in a mule. That's the life. LOL

What I wonder is how they got the name "mule"????

Cause they work so hard?! I swear those things will almost climb straight up. I think Frank and Linda's is just like the one in Diana's picture. Danny and Susan's is green. I wanted to get a Kubota to match Harold's tractor, but he talked me out of it. I think I like my 4-wheeler better!

Marilyn, I still have my steel-toed boots and pink hardhat from my Brown & Root Fab Yard days.

Sandy, you actually wore the pink hardhat? I have one hanging on the wall in my office, and I was visiting a female customer the other day who had one in her book case. I was given two, at different times by different contractors. One of the ladies I worked with wanted one of them, and she wore it. I never did, but it's still a conversation piece when people visit me for the first time.

I wear the traditional white, visitor hardhat, unless a plant requires that I wear theirs. Alcoa makes visitors wear a florescent green hardhat and vest. My vest is always way too big. It looks like an ugly smock. LOL

Yep - I had three different hat for my different job duties. I was Project Secretary, on the Safety Steering Committee and at the end I was Yard Office Manager (over all offices). So, I had/have a white hat, a gold hat, and my pink one. To be fashionable, I had/have a black pair of boots and a brown pair.

I recently went out to Delta's Fab Yard and Kiewit's and wore the pink hat because I know people at both yards and knew they'd be expecting me to come bold!

I LOVED my seven years at the Brown & Root Fab Yard.

In my position, it's important that the guys take me seriously. If I turned up in a pink hardhat, I'm not sure what they would do. A few of the guys at Lyndell Corpus Christi would get a kick out of it. They are pretty cool, but many of them would not take me as seriously, I'm sure. I do have pink nails and a pink iPhone sleeve some of the time, but that's different.

I've been trying to get Kewit's business, in Ingleside, but they have been a tough nut to crack. There's an inside sales woman at a competitor down there that they really like. She is tough to compete with. I have inside sales guys, and it's just not the same.

Marilyn, our project (Thunder Horse) is mostly gone out of Kiewit. The people I know at that yard work for BP or Technip. I don't know if my Hubby knows anybody in Management or not.

Trust me, my pink hat doesn't lessen the respect I get from anybody. They know the person that wears the hat, no matter what color it is.

My pink hard hat!

Sandy, you should make that your avatar pic. You look very nice in your pink hardhat. Here's mine. As you can see, it's never been worn. LOL
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Now the one I saw in a customer's office was hot pink. I was wondering which color you had. Love it!!

The reply was all spellchecked. Sorry.

You got me curious about the colors of hard hats. I decided that if I had to wear a hard hat, I would definitely design my own. There's a nice coppery one that I saw.

I would have it done up with designs, like motorcycle or snowmobile helmets have. I think I might have one made now! You just never know when you're going to need a hard hat! ;)