The First Gather Fourth of July Picnic: It is Time to Party Down at the OHC

It is time to party down! You are invited to Gather's first Fourth of July Picnic hosted by the Old Hippies Corner (OHC). Yeee-Ha!

1) Before the Fourth, post an image, song, poem, recipe or whatever around the picnic categories below. Feel free to create your own theme! Please title all your contributions to the picnic: OHC Picnic: (your title)

2) Just like the First OHC Contest, all posts will be added to the OHC time capsule. It will to be planted with great celebration later this year in a remote location of Nevada (see the Colonel's images Time Capsule )

3) On the Fourth, the Colonel will post an OHC Picnic article. Partygoers can communicate with each other via comments while we sit down for a little BBQ on the OHC porch and watch fireworks for the evening. Since y'all have real things to do that day, I will man the post for 24 hours (Whoa! That's a challenge for this ole boy!).

Hey, here is a peek at some of the things the Possum Posse is already cooking up:

Martha Jette plans to set up her infamous wadding pool for International Guests.  Get wet and party beyond borders! Carolyn Madden are you headed for our hemisphere? James Moylan?

Summer Foovay is out by the woodpile setting up a  "Foovay Petting Zoo" with wild horses and snakes and birds and foxes and chipmunks and.... possums? "Miss Pete" has been helping her bring in the pipe corral sections. I hope I can convince Summer to put her kayak in the blue bayou that flows in front of the OHC!

Marlene Blanco 100% Cajun wild woman will take you a little further down the bayou in her bateau to catch some catfish for the BBQ, Cha! She might even take you to a Bayou bar for a cool one.

Mariana T. is working on a psychedelic solar-powered rocking chair for the porch. I hope she brings some of those great New Orleans recipes!

Jude Cowellhas a corner of the OHC porch reserved for cat limericks. She just borrowed my stepladder to hang some of her ultra cool drawings from the porch ceiling. Rock On!

Digital Dogs has been hammering on something all afternoon; could it be a Digital Doghouse?

Here's some stuff on the my wish list for the party:

I'm a lucky ole Colonel if I can get Jayne Jezebel to do the light show for the local bands with her Jezebel prism and kozmic light.

 AstroGirl S. ,OHC Wizard of All Things Technical (WOATT), is presently at the outer reaches of our universe with only a dial-up connection. I hope she can beam in for a bit.

It would be cool if Dannielle S. brings her banjo for a little porch pickin' with WM H.and maybe Cheryl C. can teach my old dogs some new tricks!

I haven't asked Stephen Schneider yet, but some New Mexico peppers would be great on the grill!

John S. can hopefully find some old timer party photos from his vast photograph collection of the San Fernando Valley (we be SFV homeboys!)

I hope Kathryn Esplin-Oleski  ("Auntie K" as my cats call her) can set up a miniature theater for feline theatrics.

It would be cool if I heard Tom Countrymandrive up in his in his 1966 GTO from yesteryear.

I'll be stacking up ice for the coolers and anna g. 's pet Penguin.

Of course, It won't be a party without donna f.and her quick wit and maybe Meryl Johnsoncan throw some of her magic seeds in front of the porch for next year's party. 

OHC Fourth of July Picnic Categories (examples, please contribute your own themes):

Tall Tales (e.g., The dumbest thing I ever did with fireworks - my parents had to leave town and the neighbors were glad to see us go, Veteran's Corner – story, image, poem or song relating your service in the Armed services)

Music (e.g., Best Music Links for a Blogosphere Picnic, I saw *** at the Fourth of July Rock Concert at ***, I wrote this song after a pint of Jack D.)

Food (e.g., Nobody makes a BBQ sauce like mine, Best Nutria Rat Pie Recipe, How to BBQ Tofu – are you kidding?)

Pets (e.g., My dog hates fireworks and goes under the bed for a week)

Kids (e.g., "Hon, who took the Roman Candles, they were right here?)

Bring your animals if you can, all mine will be there. Sage and Big Molly are planning to attend. They are not spring chickens anymore but can still shake a tail feather. You can meet Miss Pete, my truck, and crawl around the 1300-pound Possum Trophy that I tried (and failed) to deliver to WM H. after the first OHC contest. Look for party updates!

Party On!

Colonel Possum

16 June 2006