Pig roast

highpockets · February 25, 2006, 09:25:11 PM

I can't get this pig roast thing off my mind. We do them fairly often here in Louisiana. Of course it is based on who has a pig we can steal. :D

I had ideas of trying to come. Problem is, I don't know where is, when it is, and if I need to bring a hog?
My bride decided that we needed a travel trailer about three years ago. It has been out of the yard three times. I kind of wanted to just take off and come that way but am not where or when. Thing is I am afraid that she will be back in school (teaches) during the time of the roast.

Who from down this way plans to go?

Buzz-sawyer · February 25, 2006, 09:33:12 PM

Everybody whoze anybody will be there..... ???

8)
Sounds like a good chance to meet ya....I have been to the last two....errrr I mean I HAVE NEVER MISSED ONE :D :D :D

Corley5 · February 25, 2006, 09:59:32 PM

Just 161 more days ;D

I haven't missed one yet either

Jeff · February 25, 2006, 10:13:45 PM

We technically had a first Forum get together without the pig in 2003. The only ones here the night before was Chet and Judy, Onewithwood and seems someone else. It was the 100th anniversary for Michigan Forestry and we used that for the first forum party.

Jeff · February 25, 2006, 10:14:41 PM

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=2801.0

Here we go! The first one!

Jeff · February 25, 2006, 10:18:29 PM

The first link tells about it before hand, this link tells a little about it after. Small group back then but it was fun!
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=3663.0

chet · February 25, 2006, 10:56:55 PM

:D 8) Neet lookin' back. And ta think OWW was still a youngster dat hadn't hit da big 50 yet. ;D

Jeff · February 25, 2006, 11:17:57 PM

that was da summer of da WAX LADY!

highpockets · February 26, 2006, 08:48:54 AM

I am assuming it is still at Higgins Lake on Aug 9th? I don't have a calender that has the days numbered so it is easier to ask. Actually I thought it was farther but looks like about 1220 miles the way the highway flies. How much is diesel?

chet · February 26, 2006, 09:02:05 AM

It's even closer ta ya than that. ;D It's at Jeff & Tammy's in Harrison Michigan. Not much closer, but a little bit.

Corley5 · February 26, 2006, 09:34:19 AM

Diesel is around the 2.60 mark up here >:( :(. Bought it at 2.32 in Georgia on my way home and thought I died and gone to heaven :

isassi · February 26, 2006, 10:44:45 AM

Well Highpockets, we need to have our Southern Sawyers Convention first, then hitch rides north....hope your trailer sleeps lots comfortably :D

highpockets · February 26, 2006, 07:58:21 PM

Joasis, I've been thinking about the same thing. I was thinking about somewhere around Mena Ark or
Fort Smith. I talked to Jacque ( my wife) and she said they would most likely have to start back to school somewhere around Aug 14th so I think Mich. may be out for me. If she insist on me going without her, well maybe we could work something out. How long can you be gone?

Speaking of hog cooking, I am going to get an 80 lb. pig in the morning. Dressed and ready for the fire.

isassi · February 26, 2006, 08:41:02 PM

I would love to go, but I don't have that much time to commit. However, if you get the circle mill from Kevjay, I will make time to come and meet you guys when you set it up. We can always spare a weekend. Let me kow and we'll get together realy soon.

I have been batching it this weekend, and the pig sounds good.......maybe, just maybe...I will let my wife make it up to me when she gets back and cook and clean lots...for the mess I :D have been making....

highpockets · February 26, 2006, 09:35:38 PM

We'll do something

Coon · February 26, 2006, 10:38:19 PM

Sounds 8) that you guys are already planning for the BIG PIGGY EVENT..... I just wish that I could attend but I am not going to be financially availabe to make it to the event. An income I have goes to living and towards my monthly therapies in BC.

Is there someone that would be willing to make and sell videos of the Piggy Roast 2006? I would be more than willing to purchase a copy. Sounds like it could be a very good fundraiser for the FF. Copies could be made and sold especially to anyone of those who could not attend. Heck I am sure that everyone would purchase atleast one copy. ;D ;D Just a thought.....
Brad.

Jeff · February 26, 2006, 10:43:46 PM

Thats an interesting Idea. I'm thinking we will need to get a BUNCH of paper bags first.

Coon · February 26, 2006, 10:46:35 PM

:D :D :D

ARKANSAWYER · February 26, 2006, 10:58:21 PM

Last years video would have been of a bunch of guys running around in red T shirts with a little dog not sure which way to go. The little dog should be at this years Piggy Roast as well.

Jeff · February 27, 2006, 12:33:32 AM

highpockets · February 27, 2006, 04:55:27 AM

That looks like a fun crew.

crtreedude · February 27, 2006, 06:10:54 AM

Yeah, except I think I need some eye drops to get the red out... :

Perhaps Harold and I will be able to fly up there for the piggy roast - or perhaps come up with another plan. ;)

TexasTimbers · February 27, 2006, 08:53:11 AM

It's hard for me to plan that far ahead but, Lord willin I would like to plan a vacation for me and the wife and make the next one. I don't have any idea what there is to do/see up there though. ???
Not that it wouldn't be worth the trip just to meet you kind folks, but I'm just thinking we might as well make a mini-vacation out of it and see a part of the country neither of us have never seen.

Jeff · February 27, 2006, 01:25:49 PM

We have a travel section where there has been several posts made on things of interest in Michigan. NORTHERN Michigan. Nothing against Detroit, but thats a different world down there...

Tom · February 27, 2006, 06:01:23 PM

Have you ever Seen the Great Lakes? I hadn't except for Great Lakes Training Center and an afternoon in the Loop at Chicago.

I got to see Superior and Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and the Mackinaw bridge. That's a reason to go all by itself. I got to see a water powered sawmill and an Indian Reservation intact with Casino. :D I got to eat in a quaint little town with a good restaurant that served a big hamburger. I took side trips through cedar swamps, saw pure, clear, running water streams. I saw trees that I couldn't recognize, I can now, mostly. And, I saw the SOO, souix, ...uh ! The Sault Ste. Marie and the Soo Locks, big ships and tugboats.

Man! There is lots to see.