Your Friends will Love you...or will they.

Ah...summer will be gone before we know it! Did you get to do anything fun? Do you need new ideas, something different to do?

Try this:
Invite 8 to 10 friends to your home for dinner and games.

Get the grill going to cook a meat of your choice.
Prepare some potato chunks, corn on the cob, squash and sliced onion….put these in heavy duty foil, add a little butter, salt and pepper and put it on the grill.
Have cool cream pie for dessert, or ice cream is nice on a hot day.

Outside is a great place to serve dinner. Put a pretty cloth on the picnic table (or any table you have outside) and add a vase of pretty flowers. Use colorful dishes for a festive look. If anyone is helping you set the table and tells you that you forgot the silverware, tell them that you will take care of that yourself. Just make sure you have plenty napkins.

Put the cooked food in colorful serving dishes (NO serving utensils). Have everyone get seated. I’m sure someone is going to comment on the lack of silverware. You are going to get the clear plastic gloves you bought and pass out a pair to everyone.


THAT’S RIGHT! It’s a get it and eat it with your hands night! Including the pie (or ice cream).

If your guests would like to have a fresh pair of gloves for their dessert, have plenty on hand.

After dinner, have folded slips of paper (that you prepared beforehand) that have things written on them like:
* Ride a horse
* Play with hula-hoop
* Drive a Semi-truck
* Eat Watermelon
* Play horse shoes
* Wash the dishes
* Square Dance
* Change a diaper
* Swat flies
* Catch Butterflies with a net
Add some ideas or make up your own. Remember whoever is acting-out cannot speak a word and everyone else will guess what they are doing.

Have lots of fun and laughs with this!

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OFF THE BEATEN PATH....

How about a little "indoor" fun?

I just have to tell you about the great time I had directing Vacation Bible School at my church this year. WHAT FUN WE HAD!

The theme this year was "Operation Space". Of course, I love

Sci-Fi.

The above picture shows what this type of thing does to you....ha. I dressed like this on Wednesday night and Thursday night a very sweet lady came up to me and said, "You were so brave last night." I said, "What do you mean?" She said "Well, the way you dressed, with your hair sticking straight up. I know that had to be a hard thing to do. Things like that really damage a woman's ego."

Well..........I guess I'll have to go find myself an ego because that didn't bother me.

Guys at the church built a backdrop and we all decorated it like the bridge of a space ship. Then we hung dark blue material on the back wall and put stars, a space shuttle, space men and planets on the material. It was great!

My friend and I were Captain Ginger and Admiral Wess. We were on stage to teach the children songs in our opening and closing assemblies.

The night I dressed up like a bozo, a little 3 year old ask her teacher why was my hair sticking up and what did I have on my face........ha, ha. She needs to lighten up.

During the songs we taught the kids hand motions to go with the songs. For one song I kept trying to get them to wave both their arms. Never thought that would be so hard! One 5 year old had her arms straight and close to her sides. She said "I don't have any arms". I told her that was OK, we have some in the back room and I would get her a pair.

Kids.........they are adorable! They say whatever they want.

I got tons of hugs that week.

If you've never worked in Vacation Bible School, you should try it some time. It's such a blessing.

See ya later......

Ginger

Closed - Gone Fishing

Wouldn't you rather be fishing? From just sitting on the bank of the river with your line in the water to pro-fishing, there's just something about the idea of being outside on the river bank or in your fishing boat........

I'm not an expert, by any means. But, I do like to go sit on the river bank and cast my line out.

My dad loved to fish. We had a special place we would go trout fishing, down below the dam of one of our local lakes. If I could cast out to this one particular hole, I would hook a trout right away. On one of our trips, I was lucky enough to cast out to that hole every time. I was pulling them in one after another. Dad didn't have time to fish because he was too busy taking my fish off my hook. No, no, no.....I "do not" take the fish off the hook? See what I mean? I'm not an expert. And......I could never fish out of a boat. I get so excited when I catch a fish, I start running backwards. You can't do that in a boat! I can just see me toppling out of the boat to "join" the fish.

If "you" would like to learn more about fishing there are a couple books you can get. One is "Fly Fishing For Trout". To get this, go to:

http://paydotcom.com/r/4019/caseyginger/25444875/

The other is "All Things Bass Fishing. For this one go to:

http://paydotcom.com/r/52292/caseyginger/25444880/

And if you need fishing gear or apparel, go to:
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It's great to have information about something you really enjoy doing.

See you at the fishing hole,
Ginger