Hey Everyone!
A few weekends ago my Dad's family got together at Big Eau Pleine park in Marathon county and gathered for a little Timmerman fun.
I had to work both Friday and Saturday but I still got to spend some quality time with them.
The Ranger's station was a cute little A-frame.
When I arrived on Friday, Mom, Dad, and I set up camp and went to grab some firewood from Blaze the firewood seller. Blaze, firewood, ha get it? But for real, that was his real name. All I thought of was Blaise Zabini, like Blaise from Harry Potter....yeah you know what I mean.
We went back to camp, started up the fire and headed over by everyone else to see who was here and who wasn't. As we said our 'hello's' and 'good to see you!'s' we waited for Uncle Dan to show up and set up camp so we could go for a fish fry at the 'Moon Saloon' in Moon, WI.
Fish fry was meh, definitely could've been better.
Also, kind of a loud environment (with the Olympic opening ceremony playing on all tv's and loud music playing across the bar) for a dinner.
But, that's just me.
I drove Mom and Dad back to camp, and headed home so I could get some shut eye before work in the morning.
Dad prepping the fire.
Mom & her handy-dandy gloves.
Found this lil baby frog...well, Mom found him first ;)
No idea what body of water this was, but I passed it on a really awesome road bridge. I'm assuming it was the Wisconsin River...but don't quote me.
Saturday, I got up there around the same time as Friday and I'm super sad that I missed out on the pontoon party boat ride :(
But, I spent some time with Mom and Dad getting our pudgy pies ready for competition. Last year we had a 'meat' competition. This year we decided on the camp classic, pudgy pies. If you don't know what a pudgy pie is,lord help you it is basically a sandwich similar to a grilled cheese, but it is made on a cast iron grill. You take whatever type of bread (can be pretty much almost anything, pancake, waffle, garlic bread, french loaf, etc.) and put it down on one side of the grill, put your filling of whatever you want on the bread (can be sweet i.e. pie filling, or can be savory i.e. sauce, cheese, meats, etc.) and top with another piece of the same bread type thing and flip the other half of the iron onto of the pie and put it in the fire to cook. Don't over cook it or obviously it'll burn, but just cook them to your preference.
Our 'Olympic' competition had 'The Original' which was made by my mother, we had quite a few reubens, an ode to Fronie, a dirt cake pie (which was super tangy and surprisingly good!), apple pie, and a couple of 'pole pies' made by Aunt Ann (which were basically the west coast version of a pudgy pie, totally not the same). Overall there wasn't a single pie that wasn't good.
Yum-yum clan, y'all know how to make 'em.
Later on, Mom and I walked down to the boat landing and looked at the super beautiful view of the lake and the sun set. Holy balls it was so beautiful. Stood there for about 10 mins just soaking it in.
Later that night we went up to the fire hosts camp of the night and had some good (and very loud, thank you, Cody) chats. A few of the fam said they had never tried Rum Chata before (and if you haven't either, I strongly suggest you do) and I was flabbergasted so I ran back to the camper to grab that and whatever else I figured everyone would like to try.
Survey says: It's damn good.
We also had a few 'Tippy Cow's' to hand out and those went over very well also.
Later on, someone, got a little too rowdy, so most of us decided to go for a walk and somehow ended up chilling at Mom and Dad's site with Mom and Uncle Joel.
Best campfire time goes to Saturday night.
Mom making the pudgy pies for competition
The lake we camped by, in its beautiful glory
Sunday was picture day. The kids reenacted an older photo of them sitting on a dock (circa 1970-something?) and just missing 3 boys, it turned out pretty darn good! Grandma and Grandpa made some good lookin' kids. (and they made some even better lookin' ones ;)
Later, we got all packed up and headed over to Dan's site for some foods and stories about family secrets and possible mob affiliation? Doubt it, but would be kind of cool.
Then we said our goodbyes and headed back home.
Only took slightly longer than normal, but we got 'er!
The spouses
Trying to figure out where Aunt Ann's next plot of land will be.
Let's do it again next year!
And like I said, we definitely gotta get together more than once or twice a year.
Be there or be...a piece of shit :)
Hope you're all enjoying the end of your summer!
xoxo
Myself and my beautiful girl cousins (missing Chelsea and Monica)
(sorry for the quality of the photo, it was getting dark, and it's not like we all hadn't had a bit to drink....)
Abbey, Brook, myself, Veronica, and Megan
When I arrived on Friday, Mom, Dad, and I set up camp and went to grab some firewood from Blaze the firewood seller. Blaze, firewood, ha get it? But for real, that was his real name. All I thought of was Blaise Zabini, like Blaise from Harry Potter....yeah you know what I mean.
We went back to camp, started up the fire and headed over by everyone else to see who was here and who wasn't. As we said our 'hello's' and 'good to see you!'s' we waited for Uncle Dan to show up and set up camp so we could go for a fish fry at the 'Moon Saloon' in Moon, WI.
Fish fry was meh, definitely could've been better.
Also, kind of a loud environment (with the Olympic opening ceremony playing on all tv's and loud music playing across the bar) for a dinner.
But, that's just me.
I drove Mom and Dad back to camp, and headed home so I could get some shut eye before work in the morning.
Saturday, I got up there around the same time as Friday and I'm super sad that I missed out on the pontoon party boat ride :(
But, I spent some time with Mom and Dad getting our pudgy pies ready for competition. Last year we had a 'meat' competition. This year we decided on the camp classic, pudgy pies. If you don't know what a pudgy pie is,
Our 'Olympic' competition had 'The Original' which was made by my mother, we had quite a few reubens, an ode to Fronie, a dirt cake pie (which was super tangy and surprisingly good!), apple pie, and a couple of 'pole pies' made by Aunt Ann (which were basically the west coast version of a pudgy pie, totally not the same). Overall there wasn't a single pie that wasn't good.
Yum-yum clan, y'all know how to make 'em.
Later on, Mom and I walked down to the boat landing and looked at the super beautiful view of the lake and the sun set. Holy balls it was so beautiful. Stood there for about 10 mins just soaking it in.
Later that night we went up to the fire hosts camp of the night and had some good (and very loud, thank you, Cody) chats. A few of the fam said they had never tried Rum Chata before (and if you haven't either, I strongly suggest you do) and I was flabbergasted so I ran back to the camper to grab that and whatever else I figured everyone would like to try.
Survey says: It's damn good.
We also had a few 'Tippy Cow's' to hand out and those went over very well also.
Later on, someone, got a little too rowdy, so most of us decided to go for a walk and somehow ended up chilling at Mom and Dad's site with Mom and Uncle Joel.
Best campfire time goes to Saturday night.
Sunday was picture day. The kids reenacted an older photo of them sitting on a dock (circa 1970-something?) and just missing 3 boys, it turned out pretty darn good! Grandma and Grandpa made some good lookin' kids. (and they made some even better lookin' ones ;)
Later, we got all packed up and headed over to Dan's site for some foods and stories about family secrets and possible mob affiliation? Doubt it, but would be kind of cool.
Then we said our goodbyes and headed back home.
Ann, Sandy, Marge, Dan, Joan, Dad, and Mary (missing Ed, John, and Twig)
Let's do it again next year!
And like I said, we definitely gotta get together more than once or twice a year.
Be there or be...a piece of shit :)
Hope you're all enjoying the end of your summer!
xoxo
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