It's Friday evening August 4, and that can mean only one thing: it's VFW picnic eve. Tomorrow is the day we've been we've been anticipating for months. Well, maybe not months, but for a few weeks any way. The 'rents have baked four cakes for the cake wheel booth, and we've been up at the post almost every night for the past week, cleaning and getting things ready for tomorrow. We even spent the evening up there tonight helping out our friend and fellow post member Chef Carl get ready for the fried chicken dinner being served tomorrow. Yes, I spent my Friday evening cutting, slicing, and chopping. And I came home with all eight fingers and two thumbs. We peeled what felt like two bushels of cucumbers for the picnic staple Summer Salad. In addition to the cucumbers, we peeled onions, and chopped green peppers and tomatoes. And I'm proud to say there were no casualties in the kitchen with all of the knives being used. We were even serenaded by the folks in the canteen area gathered for Friday night karaoke. We all left there tired, but we commented on how we laughed and had a fun time while we were cutting and chopping.
The 'rents and I have everything lined up for our booth, the corn toss game. The corn toss game will be an inaugural event at the Mill Creek VFW picnic, and I'm happy to say that the 'rents and I thought it up. We even got to pick out the prizes for our booth - we're having very cool felt Cat-In-The-Hat type hats, inflatible electric guitars, giant inflatible crayons and glow-in-the-dark necklaces. I bet you wish you could be to win a prize. Come on over - you get four corn bags for fifty cents, and one in wins.
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