2023 IWP Picnic: IT WILL HAPPEN

 

IWP: Menu (its time to check-in)

This is a Pitch-in, meaning everyone should bring at least one side-dish. A good rule of thumb is to prepare at least enough to feed 1.5 times the number in your party/family. (ie. if there are 10 people in your party/group/family your side dishes should be enough for about 15 people.

Single/coming alone? If making a side dish is impractical just pick up a bucket of chicken or toss a contribution in the donation jar.

EVERYONE BRING ICE: no such thing as too much ice.
It melts you know.

What we already have: (We are good on meats! We need side dishes.) UPDATES ARE IN RED.

Burgers, all beef hot dogs, brats,  Kickapoo Joy Juice, Charcoal, Potato Salad, bottledd water. meatballs, greens with turkey necks and greens with no meat, red velvet cake, banana pudding cake, apple snicker salad, corn on the cob, and Mac and cheese

We’ve got paper & plastics taken care of (plates, cups, utensils, napkins, paper towels), also trash bags & hand sanitizers.

What we still need:

• buns (hot dog & burger),  fixins’ (burger & dog) condiments & lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, peppers, mayo, mustard, catsup, hot sauce
• popsicles, bottled water (it’d be great if along with a bag of ice everyone brought a gallon of drinking  water)
• Soda sweetened and unsweetened ice tea, lemonade, juice.
• chips & tortilla chips (spinach & French onion dip and salsa), pretzels, peanuts.

• mac& chees,
• potato salad,
• summer salad or cucumber salad,
• corn (?),
• Green Beans,
• Veggie and/or fruit trays
• casseroles (?),
• your call (?)
• 2-3 small watermelons (chill one beginning the night before, we’ll through the other two in ice when you get there.)
• DESSERTS: wherever possible diabetic desserts.

You are not limited to what's on this list and more than one person can bring the same dish.

Everyone bring some ICE, seriously EVERYONE bring at least one bag. We will be out there all day and will need to replenish melted ice all day. You can get bags of ice at the drive thru window at McDonald’s. It would also help to freeze some gallon jugs or 2 liter bottles of water.

Wanted to bring something already on the menu? That's fine duplication means we’re sure to have enough of it.

Its time to tell us what your bringing and how many people. You can do so at the Facebook Event page on any comment thread.

The event page, not the group page! (link below)

As the picnic approaches I  I will consolidate and update the above list daily. Updates will be in red. So check back here.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/events/476811729792127/

or EMAIL: indianaglenn@gmail.com

Etiquette For Your July 4 Barbecue

Time to RSVP:

The Picnic is  week from today (July 7)

1. Got to the Facebook “Event” Page and Rsvp
2. Tell us how many guest will be with you and what side dishes you are bringing

Do not RSVP at the group page, it is for keeping the mailing list current. Go to the link: https://www.facebook.com/events/476811729792127/

Let us know on the Facebook event page or email us at indianaglenn@gmail.com

Less than a week until the Independence Weekend Picnic!!!

We are going to have a photo booth set up with a beach themed background for selfies.

What we also want to do is create a piece of artwork to use as a backdrop for our group picture that we take every year. Along those lines, I'm going to order a large 'blank' backdrop with the hope that we can get anyone, everyone, someone to help us create an appropriate design.

We're open to suggestions and ideas. It could be a mural, it could be a graffiti design, individual artwork etc. or any combination of all these as long as it is themed along the lines of our annual picnic, ie., a collection of scenes of past activities such as the hayride, the food, the game ‘Pit”, specific people, the saddle barn, the nature center or the military museum, etc. It can be any medium, ie., urban art, cartoons, sketches silhouettes.

We will have the blank backdrop mounted on a hard service with art supplies provided.

If you or anyone in your family want to help create this background comment, make suggestions or ask questions below.

Please respond soon so we can discuss and formulate ideas, needs, and possibilities:

Some possible scenes to depict: