FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Big Mick
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:42 PM

I am always available to help in whatever way you need help.

Mick

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:51 AM

And me.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Maryrrf
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:59 AM

Is anything besides food needed for the Friday potluck? I may not have time to prepare anything so whatever I bring may very well be storebought - if paper plates, cups, beverages, etc are needed I could bring some.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 09:11 AM

Storebought should be fine for the Potluck--lots of us do that.

Years ago, I attended a potluck evening dinner and everyone was to bring something their mother would have made. I went out and bought a box of Entenmann's doughnuts--because that's what my mother would have done.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: artbrooks
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 09:14 AM

How about chips and gen-u-wine New Mexico salsa?

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Nancy King
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:00 AM

We're assuming everyone will bring something (store-bought or otherwise) for the Friday night potluck -- right? What Carly is referring to is something easy to put out for the midnight snack on Saturday, which the camp will not be providing.

I'm going to be picking up the paper goods tomorrow, and after I do that we'll know how much is left in the budget. We thought maybe someone with a Costco membership or somesuch could pick up a whole bunch of cookies or fruit or other nibbles (for 140...) which won't be a big deal to put out for the snack. Do let Carly know by PM if you can help with this.

Yikes! Only a week to go...

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Ferrara
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 04:24 PM

If you'd like to help with Saturday or Sunday midnight snack, or with Friday potluck clean-up, the best thing to do is PM Carly. She is experienced at organizing this kind of thing and offerd to co-ordinate it.

We used to have volunteer sign-up sheets and everyone helped for a couple of hours in the kitchen. Midnight snacks were one of the jobs. In recent years the camps have handled it, but this year it's up to us. It will take several people, since the same people shouldn't have to shop, set out food and do clean-up.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Ferrara
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 06:30 PM

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT MEALS

Well it's always a challenge to get used to a new camp, and this year is no exception. This year the meal procedure is quite different from the buffet-style meals we've been having.

The actual meal times will be on the final schedule grids, probably tomorrow. Here is the thing you need to keep in mind:

The camp is allowing only 30 minutes for serving food at each meal.

After that we can use the dining room for about another half hour, then have to leave and let the kitchen staff clean up.

We'll have access to the dining hall at other times, including evenings and late-night, and have even scheduled some workshops there. But do either plan to be on time for meals, or have someone pick up something for you if you really have to be late.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:10 PM

Will beverages (coffee, tea, water) be available throughout the day, or should I bring bottled water, a coffee pot and half-and-half with me?

Janie the h2o and caffeine junkie

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:24 PM

Coffee, Tea...etc..WILL be available...We may have to make it beyond meal times, but they leave makings handy. There are actually coffee pots & microwaves in the cabins.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Ferrara
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 03:03 PM

We'll need to let them know whether we want coffee supplies in all of the cabins/lodges. We'll also have to make sure the coffee pots are refilled, turned off, etc. Some of you may also want to bring your favorite kind of coffee though. I dont' think there is hot water for tea in the cabins but I think there will be some in the dining hall and the retreat center.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Ferrara
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 08:44 PM

Well we have made some changes to the schedule grids, to accommodate all kinds of needs & problems including different meal times than at Ramblewood. I'll get them up tomorrow, or late tonight.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Ferrara
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 11:53 PM

Okay, here is the last-and-final version of the schedule grids (may it be so!)

We had good reasons for making these changes and gave it many hours of thought. Still, it's a "given" that every change inconveniences and frustrates someone who was perfectly happy before the change! -- But with luck this will be better in lots of ways for most people.

The Workshop List is now organized by days, and has extra information about each workshop.

Workshop List

Saturday Schedule

Sunday Schedule

Saturday Schedule - Printable MS-WORD format

Sunday Schedule - Printable MS-WORD format

Rita

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 11:56 PM

Oh boy--

I've been reading these threads with great envy for the last few years. Now I am going to be forced to do some serious pleading, begging, and penny-saving to convince John we really do HAVE to go next year! A workshop on squeezeboxes!!!! Doo Wop!!!! Old Timey!!!! Country!!!! What bounty! What fun! Can't wait to read the FSGW Debriefing afterwards. Hope your weather's lovely and everybody manages without any sleep (unnecessary, right?). I am absolutely pea-green with envy.

(Lest I give the wrong impression, John would also like to be there. It's just that we can't miss Walnut Valley, and affording TWO festivals in the space of two months...well, it could be tricky! Cloning workshop, you said??)

Lin

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Susan of DT
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 07:52 AM

Can food for the potluck be heated/cooked/microwaved there? Different sites have had different kitchen rules.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 12:01 PM

Susan..there is a mini-kitchen..(like you'd find in a church) in the retreat center. So we can heat stuff and wash our own pots & pans. There are also microwaves...(even in the cabins).
We can lay out stuff and eat in the dining hall, but we'll have to carry things back & forth if they need to be heated. (Only a very short walk)...Then we'll need to clean up after ourselves before we all quit for the night. So...if everyone takes responsibility for "dealing with what you bring", it should be fine. It's 'different', but workable. (The last 5 years we didn't have any place to wash dishes, and that was awkward.)

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Ferrara
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 12:15 PM

This also means that if you bring lots of potluck, you can re-heat it for yourself or for the group at midnight snack time. Just remember it all has to be carried to the dining hall, and carried back later. We will need lots of help on that.

In addition, we'd like to have volunteers to take charge of the potluck or midnight snack activities each night, so that we (Carly, Nancy, Charlie and I) can finally sit back and enjoy ourselves. :-) We have a volunteer to be in charge for Saturday, now need Friday and Sunday.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Janie
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 12:51 PM

Come on Catter's, let us see some volunteers. THE FSGW folks work really hard to make this event, which we love so dearly, happen. Much of the work falls on a few people, and happens long before we begin to drive up on Friday night. It would be great if those who did the bulk of the work have a chance to relax and enjoy themselves. If lots of people volunteer, then no one has to work too hard.

If you have not yet volunteered to help with something, pm Carly and get yourself signed up. They have already let us know they need help. Lets not make them run us down at the Getaway to say what they need help with.

Jacqui, Sinsull, Tinker and I have volunteered to run the silent auction. If no one else steps up to take a lead volunteer roll for Friday pot luck or Sunday night snack, I will do so (but boy will I be muttering under my breath at those who take full advantage of the fun without contributing to helping it happen and run smoothly.)

You don't want me muttering, do you?

When Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy

Janie

BTW--men can also volunteer

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: MMario
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 12:55 PM

dagnabit Janie - you weren't suppossed to tell anyone that!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 01:04 PM

since a lot of good potential volunteers don't read this everyday, I wouldn't worry. It 'shouldn't' be difficult to recruit a couple folks during arrival, if we don't get 'em right here...It won't be a terribly complicated job....mostly just observing and nagging a bit and directing traffic.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: GUEST,Nancy King at work
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 05:38 PM

Well, since I haven't seen much -- or any -- adverse comment on the NEW FINAL schedule Rita posted, I have to assume it's PERFECT! :0) (At least I hope it doesn't mean everybody's been PM-ing their complaints to Rita....)

There are several things about the schedule that are not quite what we would wish, but it's the best we could do, particularly in the face of several last-minute challenges. We probably wouldn't have scheduled so many workshops, but Mudcatters and others came up with so many good ideas we just had to include! Next year we'll try to aim for fewer workshops, some of them longer than 1 hour.

I do want to send a special thank-you to Carly's husband, Dean Clamons, who set up the schedule grid in the computer in both Word and HTM versions -- and also changed all the times on the workshop list when we had to scrunch things into a tighter time frame. And then he re-did all of it when more changes were made, again, and again, and again...   A very patient man, our friend Dean.

Looking forward to seeing y'all this weekend!

Nancy

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Barry Finn
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 07:40 PM

It really is perfect Nancy.
See ya
Barry

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 02:10 PM

Weather Forecasts for the Getaway at West River, MD

Weather Underground
National Weather Service, NOAA
AccuWeather.com
Capital Weather

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 04:06 PM

yep...chilly, but clear and sunny. We can live with that. Kids can run about in the daytime.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Micca
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 04:49 PM

Geez Guys there is no need to be THAT accomodating for us Brits!!! that looks like the forecast for London for the last few days , even the temps Thursday

Sunrise 06:53 (GMT)
Sunset 16:34 (GMT) 50°F 33°F   

Friday

Sunrise 06:55 (GMT)
Sunset 16:32 (GMT) 51°F 35°F

Saturday

Sunrise 06:57 (GMT)
Sunset 16:30 (GMT) 51°F 39°F 2 moderate   1035   56   
Sunday

Sunrise 06:59 (GMT)
Sunset 16:28 (GMT) 53°F 42°

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 04:54 PM

Also a reminder that this year, we're camping on Standard Time (Daylight Losing Time?), so it gets dark between 5 and 5:45 pm.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Amos
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 05:07 PM

Ya jes' had to make it really really cold, didn't you. I know what you Eastern Seaboard guys are like -- I was raised in New England, where the snow blows uphill both ways. But it seems a bit extreme to say "cold weather" and "no hootch" in the same blow!!! LOL!!!! Haven't y'all learned anything since Plymouth???? LOL

Amos-in-Sunny-San-Diego....

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 05:34 PM

yeah, yeah...I know from San Diego. Comfy both Winter & Summer....

I sure wish the last two days had been Getaway....it was shirtsleeve weather...and it looks to be relatively warm NEXT week!

(Well, certainly no hootch on the dinner table! Who knows what might appear late at night in a cabin...*I* certainly don't!)

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Amos
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 06:25 PM

Well, I don't care -- I am braving the frigidity and coming anyway, and I yam so excited I can't type! Se wioyu I mb[ta???



A

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Nancy King
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 06:28 PM

Hey, at least it's not supposed to rain! Remember the last time we went to Prince William Forest Park? Nasty! And the buildings are heated, so it really shouldn't be a problem -- just bring a jacket!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Amos
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 07:32 PM

I was thinking of a bundling board....


A

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 09:28 PM

one word, Amos.... splinters.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Amos
Date: 01 Nov 06 - 10:01 PM

Not once you learn how to handle them, Bill... it's not a problem .... it's an opportunity!


A

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Ferrara
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 02:17 PM

RE hooch or the absence thereof: Absent is better. If not absent, then invisible. (George Rathbone has a nice supply of magic wands and Invisibility Tokens left over from years of leading Fantasy Adventures.... Of course if you use them you might find yourself fighting a dragon or being turned into a toad.... The man has a weird sense of humor.)

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Janie
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 02:56 PM

Wheeeee! I'm on my way!

Rita et. al.--I will be arriving pretty early tommorrow and I make like a pretty good worker ant.

Janie

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Ferrara
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 03:12 PM

Wow, Dean has created the most incredible set of online schedule grids. You may want to print them and bring them.

First of all they're in color.

Second (this won't help once you're at the Getaway) if you hold your cursor over a workshop, you will see at least the beginning of the blurb for that workshop.

Don't try to use the links from grid to grid though, because we haven't figured it out quite yet....

We know it's late to get this glitzy feature this year, but now that Dean has figured it out, we'll have it available from now on (as long as we can cajole Dean into being on the committe, at least!)

Take a look.



Workshop List


Saturday Schedule



Sunday Schedule



Saturday Schedule - Printable MS-WORD format



Sunday Schedule - Printable MS-WORD format

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Ferrara
Date: 02 Nov 06 - 07:15 PM

Well I forgot to post when Dean fixed the links. Just for grins, if anyone actually sees this post, let me know, here or over the weekend. Around here we're packing, plus Bill's off to Dulles Airport to pick up Crane Driver & Sussex Carole.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 08:26 AM

Yep, I know this message will eventually be edited out.

I'm not going to be there, and I've avoided saying so because it would have been my eighth year in a row and it breaks my heart to not be there. I can't drive for 9 hour drive, get out of the car and party like I used to be able to do; the timing means missed work (and I HAVE to be there on Monday); the money - gas, tolls, missed work... mostly the length of the drive.

Everybody have fun, and post your stories when it's over. I want to hear about the great workshops, concerts, and impromptu singing, as well as who won the 2006 bunk-diving competition and who was busted by the booze police or did anything else amusingly (no permanent damage) embarrassing.

Lessez les bon temps roullez!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: Maryrrf
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 09:50 AM

I'm all excited - working this morning, picking up my friend Maria at 1:00 and we're heading up Route 301! See ya'll there!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 10:03 AM

We're at Tinkers and just about ready to get going for the final leg of the journey.

Looking forward to a great weekend!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: karen k
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 10:53 AM

I'll miss you all. Have a wonderful time. Look forward to lots of reports. I hate it that I can't be there but next year for sure. Be good to Mick, please.

love to all,
karen

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information
From: catspaw49
Date: 03 Nov 06 - 11:04 AM

ANYTHING that gets videotaped needs to be on YouTube......specifically embarrassing stuff.

Have a great time, but the rest of could use some video!

Spaw