Michigan Chickenstock 2014 - planning ahead!

[chickwhispers]

I will also bring some food too, just don't know what yet!

 

[chickflick]

It will be hard to decide what food to bring for now. Opa says he may not come, so that means we'll need to take that into consideration. So, will have to wait and see what he does.

 

[chickwhispers]

Sounds good!

 

[Opa]

In past years I have brought two 6' tables and would suggest a minimum of 3 if you opt for two side serving. What I would be concerned about is that you will probably have to take table out of the pavilion to make room to have a two sided serving system. This could create a problem as the event ends. What has happened in the past is that clean up and restoring the pavilion to its original configuration is left to just a few people. My personal feeling is that what little convenience is gained by the two sided serving is negated by the additional problems it creates.

 

[preciouskitty]

Think I agree with Opa on the 2-sided. But, it seems to me, regardless of whether we use 2-sided or not, we are going to need extra tables/a slightly different food layout if Dr. Fulton is going to need to be projecting basically right in the center of where a lot of the food was last year...and, doing the presentation during "feeding" time.

Just my personal opinion, but I think it might be very distracting if there is a huge line of people filling plates, etc. right where the screen show is going on...

Hmm...need to ponder the logistics here...

 

[uchytil]

The speaker goes till noon. Can't food wait until he finishes? Clean up his stuff and serve. Do the swap after the food. That's why we need a schedule of events, and on posters stationed at a few locations. Then people can be better informed and on time.

The food table issue is no big deal - keep it the way it's been. It was just an idea a few ladies brought up at the last few CS's.

My best part of CS is talking to the folks I haven't seen for a year. Food, speeches, taking pictures, and whatnot are secondary, lol!

 

[LoveMyChicklets]

Sorry to barge in here but does anyone know if the swap/sell/trade thread has been started yet for CS? I haven't been able to find it

 

[chickflick]

The picnic starts at 10. People are going to be coming in late and setting the food on the tables. They'll be walking in front of the screen, and the Dr Need to figure something else out. Might have to set the food tables on the side of the pavillion... the side where the BBQ pit is, maybe.

 

[uchytil]

Sorry to barge in here but does anyone know if the swap/sell/trade thread has been started yet for CS? I haven't been able to find it

I think Farmerboy is running that thread. You may want to PM him and ask if it's started.

 

[Wynette]

I like Chickflick's idea of putting the food tables along where the grill side is; that makes sense to me.

The speaker must be situated at the back of the pavillion, because again, he'll be showing slides - we need as dark an area as possible.

I realize lots of peeps don't like change, but let's give it a try to do the two-sided food tables. Nothing wrong with a good try, and if it doesn't work out, then we can return to the old way next year. I can't tell you how many folks wrote me and stated that it took so much time to just get the eating part of the day overwith due to standing in line...let's work together and try to come up with a solution.

I agree that we should have an agenda with times - we did try that one year and it didn't work all that well, but here are some ways we can make it work this year:

1) Get the agenda fleshed out and finalized very early in the planning (like by the end of February at the latest).

2) EVERYONE be very verbal with all the rest of the folks about letting them know there is an agenda for the day and it WILL be followed for timing of events.

3) Post the agenda - in a whole lot of places!

I'm also looking at buying a bullhorn for announcing a 10-minute warning for upcoming events.

OH - Sam (or someone) had made a poster type thing that we could print off - we could also put the agenda at the bottom of that if there will be one of them done for this year, as well.

As far as using the front table for desserts after Dr. Fulton's finished, I think that would still work; we could just have folks put the desserts on the table to the very far left, toward the closed end of the pavillion, and then a few of us could move them all over immediately after Dr. Fulton's finished.

One last thing - I'll be bringing some bumper stickers, removeable tattoos, and possibly other BYC items for handing out at the sign-in table.