The First Gather Fourth of July Picnic: Thank You for Coming!!!

Hey Colonel - Great Way to Thank Everyone and I think everyone there had a great time. Everyone was very positive & fun & I am amazed how all the goings on - such good writers in that OHC group! I have to give it to Ludo for hanging in like he did! Thank YOU Colonel for a good time - wish I could have interacted a bit more but I'm sure someday you'll have another online Shindig! Salud,

M.T.

Thank you! Ludo was THE party animal. We'll have to put another one together but for now the ole Colonel is going to kick back on the OHC porch!

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

It was a good one Possum, thanks again.

So sorry, I got there late. Darn Air Canada! Truthfully, I was with the grandkids and couldn't get away any earlier. Thanks for a blast, Colonel!

A good time was had by all I'm sure

Thanks for beaming back my Jesus Boot. It just missed that rascal missile.

John,

Let that horse rest up in the pasture a bit. Thanks again for coming!

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

Martha,

I think you saved my butt! I was fading fast and you kept up the momentum with your neat DJ work. Thanks again.

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

It was one for the record books, Colonel. I think I had a great time, but darned if I can remember half of it

Jayne,

You were there in spirit...I saw your spirit down by the blue bayou! Thanks for posting your band report to the OHC.

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

Cheryl,

What was the next play on the Gigantic Scrabble Board? Molly played "Queen" down on your Q in "Liquid" then she went off to the races! Glad you got your shoe back. Too bad it didn't give those rascally Korean missiles a boot (Elmer Fudd??).

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

Donna,

Your breakfast was great! Thank you for dropping back by!

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

Somebody's goat came made a mess right on the q conjunction. That's the real reason Big Molly took off. I believe I would have beat her, too.

Col. Possum, sir, while I was not able to post during the event, my heart was with you all and I could hear the laughter& great music and smell all that delicious food! mmmmm! Can't wait for the next shindig!

Does anyone have that Sheeps e-mail address or phone number please

yours desperately "L"

ps maybe Dolly would like to meet Dr Oza@@@

Cheryl,

That sounds like trash talk! I'll have to give Molly equal time..I think I see a grudge match in the futue! Oh Boy...

Good luck,

Colonel Possum

Dannielle,

That would be great, I tried to sing the "OHC Picnic Theme Song"...but it was more tequila bravdo than skill. We needed YOU!

Thanks for the kind thought,

Colonel Possum

Ludo,

The sheep is riding with Molly in the cab of Miss Pete. Mess with Big Molly's favorite sheep and you might get a knuckle sandwhich (and she's got some mighty big knuckles!)

Peace, Love & Happiness!

Colonel Possum

I swear I didn't touch that sheep your honour, even though she led me on with those big brown eyes, and that cold wet nose - oh wait that was Mariana.

Colonel, thanks for opening up your home to us! It was a blast! Hopefully I'll be at my own computer the next time we all meet so I can party a little heartier.

Ludo,

A reliable source has just told me that Molly has donned a sheep suit! Beware of Dollys coming your way!

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

Aileen,

Hey, I enjoyed your company very much! I was looking forward to joining you for a few whacks at the painted bowling balls on the Gigantic Croquet Court! Maybe next time.

Thank you,

Colonel Possum

Colonel, a wonderfully fun time. Thank YOU for holding this party. Er, when's the next one?

PS- Let me know if you find my socks, will ya'. The last thing I remember was a giant rabbit autographing them, and then they disappeared. Maybe somebody thought they were a prize?

Kathryn,

Thank you. You know the neat thing about having your Gather friends over is you don't need to clean up the house (of OHC Operations Center in my case!). Yeah, let's do it again!

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

Hey John,

I think I loaded those socks into the Beam Port with Cheryl's boot! Better check with her...hmmm...maybe not!

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

Oh my what a great time i had sorry i was late. The band was great.All had a blast. You sho can throw down when it comes to a great party on the OHC Porch
Thank you, Colonel
Can't wait for the next bash

Marley!

Thank you for getting Tante Marie back on her chain! Stop by this afternoon for a cold one.

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

Colonel - Oh! Thank God!! I'm back at the farm.

After spilling my kool-aid on a blotter, I slipped on the mushrooms and hit my head against some window-pane. The next thing I knew I was walking with a disturbing god that looked like Carl S. and sounded like Kathryn E-Oleski while visions of sugar cubes danced in my head. The "god" vanished in a fiery cackle that ended with a flagalating noise and was replaced with George C. in a tuxedo painted like a mountain scene. He was strumming a guitar and walking a glowing white road that led to a garden full of people conversing and Gathering.

Everything after that is still mostly a blur. It's good to feel terra firma under my feet again. Anyone got some cold clear spring water?

P.S. The brownies were great !!

Bill's Spirit,

Check out my comment in the party article. I expanded on this "CarlKEO Deity" of your wonderful hallucination!

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

Colonel - LOL - I'll check it out. BTW - Congrats on a great party.

Bill's Spirit,

Thanks man. Your poster looks great on the OHC Operations Center's east wall, right over Dannielle's OHC Theme Song and Cheryl's Beam Port!

Cheers,

Colonel Possum

When is the next party, Sir Colonel? Salud,

Richard,

My Mother-In-Law was the same sort of person your Mother must have been. She loved Philadelphia. She was tough, insightful, playful, serious, concerned. She loved the poetry -- sometimes sombre -- of Alfred Joyce Kilmer who was killed in action on July 30, 1918 during WWII.

Your "gathering" is so in keeping with JOYFULNESS and what life could be and so I think that extending these experiences is what will amount to 'salvation' as our blessed EARTH moves along its future path, if it is both fortunate and wise.

As a boy I too loved SOME poetry. One POEM I have never forgotten is one of Kilmer's best I think. It is somber, deep, and yet its message goes deep into one's heart. Its TITLE IS : "THE HOUSE WITH NOBODY IN IT." It has seven verses and below I send to you and to our many gather friends,only two of them: (I hope I'm not breaking copyright laws)

#1:Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track
I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black.
I suppose I've passed it a hundred times, but I always stop for a minute
And look at the house, the tragic house, the house with nobody in it.

#3 : This house on the road to Suffern needs a dozen panes of glass,
And somebody ought to weed the walk and take a scythe to the grass.
It needs new paint and shingles, and the vines should be trimmed and tied;
But what it needs the most of all is some people living inside.

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There seem to be many, many folk who want to live in "your kind of "house".

Dick

Dick,

Thank you for this most thoughtful comment. I have walked past this house many times. I love old neighborhoods and live in one. Old neighborhoods have abandonned houses that cry their past and beckon the passerby to fill their present. A house is a return to home and to the extent that the OHC provides a house for positive memories, I am complemented.

Thank you very much.

Cheers,

Colonel Possum