We’re down here in Rio Dell at the Blogger’s Picnic, and since the city is famously wireless, we’ve managed to find a hot spot for live blogging.
Heraldo showed up in full chef regalia and has fired up his very cool grill to cook up some gourmet dogs:
Heraldo's hemi-powered grill
Meanwhile Carson Park Ranger is giving a lesson on bocce technique, which Carol is recording for an audio upload that should follow soon.
Bocce lessons
And over on the Rio Dell bocce court, EkoVox and his ladyfriend (who brought along a ladyfriend of her own) are beginning what may prove to be a cut throat tournament.
the tourney begins
We’ll try to bring you updates as the festivities continue (after we eat some dogs).
Update (noonish): A fair number of bloggers have gravitated to the elaborate Rio Dell miniature golf course:
mini-golfers
That’s the Town Dandy lower right, offering pointers to some young golfer/bloggers.
Update 2 (12:30): Uh oh, Anonymous and company just showed up – uninvited. This could get ugly.
Three anonymous trolls have arrived.
Update (1:15): Things are inded getting ugly. It might be time to go before the police come. (Does Rio Dell have police?)
trouble
Sep. 21, 2008 at 4:03 pm
[...] don’t know what picnic the Bob at the NCJ went to, or Jack, for that matter (although I think I did see that guy over at the kid’s [...]
Sep. 21, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Where the heck were ya!
Sep. 21, 2008 at 5:22 pm
I wondered why our siren kept going off in Ferndale. Something about getting a posse up to guard the bridge to keep certain “undesirables” out, just in case.
Damn, CPR, you look way better in real life.
Sep. 21, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Didn’t you see me at the picnic table way off to the side hunched over my laptop? I know I was being kinda antisocial, but you know how bloggers are, don’t cha?
Sep. 21, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Quite a showing. Very cordial and amiable.
And only one pair of brass knuckles had to be confiscated.
Sep. 21, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Right Eko! I am glad we all lived up to the agreement to leave the firearms at home. Finally, some honor among bloggers!!!
-boy
Sep. 21, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Was I getting teased here for live blogging via Blackberry? hah. Someone had to do it!
That was a lot of fun and there were some conspicuously missing faces in the crowd… like Bob!
And Eko- Sorry about those brass knuckles… they were really intended for self-defense. Seriously!
~Monica~
Sep. 22, 2008 at 9:19 am
Weren’t the brass knuckles for Kristabel’s spanking bench? Ouch!
Sep. 22, 2008 at 10:12 am
Monica wrote, “Was I getting teased here for live blogging via Blackberry?”.
Speaking of such, one thing I was wondering if it would work would be to do a live web cam of the blog.
That park supposedly has wifi. If someone had a laptop and web cam, you could set it up where it could cover most of the goings on.
One problem would be battery power and how long the laptop would last.
Sep. 22, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Hoa-ha-ha!
You added more pictures! Very nice indeed. Still have sand in my ears from the trouble.
Sep. 22, 2008 at 7:12 pm
OMGEEZ!! LOVE that B.B.Q Grill man!! Too AWESOME!! We live in Houston, Tx. and we REALLY could c0ok on that cool Grill!! til l8er
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Sep. 22, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Those *#%^@^& Anonymi….Luckily we had the Southern Humboldt Blogadeers who out flanked them two to one. That’s when Rose and Tom from KGOE pulled their greatest WWF tag-team wrestling moves out and quashed their attempts at unleashing their bitter pill on the picnic. Luckily, Captain Buhne was smart enough to duck out early before he too was could have been unmasked by the anonymi.
There ain’t nothing like the smell of mini golf astro-turf in the afternoon.