First Weekend of Deer Week - Saturday

Hey! So here goes my attempt at trying to explain Saturday's events. I should note that if you haven't read Friday yet just scroll down since I'm posting backwards again.

So Saturday was a beautiful day! Everyone was up bright and early (except for me of course...I like to sleep in!). Darcy took off to go deer hunting, and then his brother Mike and Mike's son Ryan arrived about 10:00am. Mike had only visited the camp once before and Ryan had never been up. Mitch was really excited to see his cousin, and even more excited that Ryan brought along his electric guitar. The two of them had a great time playing AC/DC tunes, and they played really well together. Our camp sounded SO loud!

Around lunch time Darcy had come back, and then Adam, and Chrissie arrived with their two kids Luke and Magnus (aka Moose). They were staying at their camp (which is beside ours), so we visited over there for a bit and eventually we ended up back in our yard. Later in the afternoon, Dean's father Winston, brother Jimmy, his wife Katie, and their two sons Tommy and Clarke (aka Clarkey), and their dog Zera all arrived. It was decided that Jim and family would take up residence over at Adam's camp (since they had way more room).

Once everyone got unpacked we were all gathered in our camp yard. What a sight! There were little kids running in every direction..it was really quite funny. Mitch and Ryan entertained them with the guitars, soccer, and their attempt at building a fort/teepee. Here's a picture of them posing with it..Mitch and Ryan to the sides and the little guy inside is Jim's 3 year old Clarkey.

Winston stayed over for a little while and then decided to head back to Dean's camp. Before he left, we had a surprise visit from Gammy. He and Coll were in Miramichi visiting Coll's Mom with the baby. He decided to come up for a quick visit (he only stayed a little while), but he'll be heading back up mid-week. Here's a group shot of everyone while Winston and Gammy were still there. From left to right is Dean, Mike, Winston, Jody, Jimmy in the background, Gammy, Melanie and Katie.

It seemed as though the minute Winston left, the straggling between camps began. Everyone was everywhere, total chaos! The kids were going from camp to camp, so were the adults, and we were doing our best to keep the dogs inside the camps. Anyway, for some reason Jake was let loose and he was hanging out over at Dean's camp. Kim and I took a walk over there so she could mix a drink and ended up staying for a chat with Winston and Adam. Jake was in that camp (hogging the couch as usual), and Adam's son Luke had fallen asleep in the chair. So, I told Kim to put Jake outside so we could move Luke to the couch. About a minute later, all we could smell was skunk! UGH! If any of you read my last posts, you'd remember me mentioning the skunk (I even had some pictures of it). Well, apparently he does spray (Dean and Darcy)!

So, Kim, Adam and I grabbed our flashlights and started back to our camp where all hell was breaking loose. People were flying in every direction! Darcy was screeching and trying to hold onto Jake, meanwhile somebody had dumped ketchup all over him. Poor dog! The smell was really overwhelming. We know a great remedy for getting rid of skunk spray, we had the same thing happen to our cat earlier this year. We actually helped out Matt and Karine with it one time too..remember Matt? :) Anyway, the recipe is a bottle of peroxide, a quarter cup of baking soda and a couple of teaspoons of dish soap. We knew it was the only thing that would work, but we weren't sure if we'd ever get all the ingredients (especially baking soda). I have to say, everyone really pulled together! Dean took off on the four-wheeler going to different camps and collecting peroxide and baking soda (thanks Kevin!) Chrissie was off to get a bucket to mix everything, Jade went to her camp to get some incense to burn (the inside of the camp reeked). Jimmy, Mike and Jody were grabbing water jugs from the shed, Katie took all the kids and the other dogs to Adam's camp. It was complete craziness! Anyway, we eventually got everything, I mixed it up and Darcy washed Jake with it twice. The third mixture was used for Darcy, he really stunk. He took the biggest "hissy fit" I've ever seen, and he kept yelling "I stink"..like we didn't know that! He can laugh about it now anyway!

So, here's a picture of Jake getting scrubbed down..

And another of him afterward. I found an old blanket and wrapped him up. He laid right down in front of the fire, he was so cold and traumatized. We all felt so bad for him. Imagine having four huge water jugs of ice cold water poured over you in November? The poor thing..


All I can say is Thank God everyone chipped in to help out, and that the stink eventually went away. Talk about killing the "party atmosphere" pretty quickly. It didn't take long to get things revved up again though. The boys brought out their guitars, and a whole bunch of guys from camps down the road showed up. I thought that was so funny, especially since they all knew about the skunk incident! So here are some random shots from the rest of the evening....

That's Chrissie, Dean, Darcy, Mike, Ryan and Mitch...

A nice picture of Mike and Jimmy..(I should note that these two guys hung around together when they were younger, and haven't seen each other in a very long time).
A "Jade Sandwich"...ha ha!
And finally Melanie, Kim, Kevin and Adam...


I have SO many pictures, so it was hard to choose which ones to put on. I wish I could have added all of them! Anyway, a great time was had by all. The party rocked on till about 4:00...and by then it was raining. We've decided that this will become an annual event, hopefully that plan sticks! It was great to see everyone again and I hope you all had as much fun as I did!

So, a new crew of people are heading up there this week with Darcy. Kim just left today (Tuesday), and Dean and Jade arrived. Tonight Gammy is going up, tomorrow Aaron, and then on the weekend Kim, Scott, Jana, Rene, Mitch and I will arrive. Should be a good time! Until then,

Liss :)