Dawn - thank you for this thread!!! I have already purchased plates, plasticware, paper-towels and cups. I'll be picking up some ice, bottled water and Red Diamond Tea on Friday but everyone if welcome to bring other beverages of their preference. I've got long tables and tablecovers. Pioneer Woman's recipe for pulled pork is on the menu if anyone wants to just bring buns! Yea for fruit salad!!!! But I'll probably be over by the pie......{{{slurp!}}}....ha!

Yes, the weather is looking a bit dreary....but this is Oklahoma. Heaven only knows what kind of weather we will actually get on Saturday. I still believe we'll get a break in the clouds and have partly sunny skies from 11:00 AM until 3:00 PM!!!

Going to bring brownies, pasta salad (probably asparagus and lemon ish flavors), and baba ganoush dip with pita chips.

Oh yum, y'all are making me hungry. The next best thing to seeing everyone is the food and then the plants. At least for me that's how it is. I know that for many people the plants might be second after the people but for me it is all the yummy food. (grin)

Bruce, Your description of the pie sounds heavenly.

Paula, You're welcome. If no one else volunteers today or tomorrow to bring buns, then Tim and I can bring them along with the fruit salad. I'll be watching this thread to see what happens. I agree that the pie sounds heavenly!

I believe the weather will be kind to us as well and, if it isn't, we'll just work around it. Nothing's going to stop this group from enjoying our annual gathering.

Mia, Brownies! Be still my heart....I love brownies. I can't wait to see how much the little guy has grown. He always is so adorable in the photos you post on FB.

Dawn

Bruce! LOL. Thanks again. Umm, okay, am committing to a pea/corn/bacon/pasta salad with a buttermilkish dressing. . .

Also, as with Dawn, Paula. . . anything else needed. And we'll throw in a couple packages of buns.

I'm thinking chips and dip, and banana nut bread.

I'm in for a bowl of cole slaw....can't have pulled pork without it!

Sharon

I am bringing cucumber salad with fresh dill. Wonder where I got so much fresh dill lol. And maybe something else.

Me too maybe something else. I'm craving shrimp dip, among other things.

Which sheet cake would you like? Chocolate sheet cake or pineapple w/coconut sheet cake? One of those and a new Crunchy Green Pea salad I've been making this spring. Do we need to bring folding chairs??

We'll bring bean salad with a citrus dressing, and maybe Albanian (lemony) cole slaw.

Patti, My vote is for chocolate, but I'll happily eat whichever cake you bring.

Chairs are optional, but nice if you want to eat sitting down. Sometimes we sit down on the ground, but it might be too wet for that this year.

redbirdroad, Cool! Both salads sound yummy.

Dawn

I'll bring something, though it may be of the chip and dip variety.

I have lots of bread and butter pickles I can bring. My daughter volunteered to make fried pies (they are the best).. We can also bring some fresh soft herb goat cheese made from our own goats along with crackers.

Uhmmmm? I'll commit to bringing a side dish. Beyond that I haven't narrowed it down. Maybe garlic potato salad or maybe quinoa taboleh or quinoa & black beans or ??????

I'm hungry. LOL- That always makes food decisions harder.

Andia

Oh my gosh....was this such a good idea? LOL!! Who can read this thread and not be STARVING!!!!

I was planning on bringing my grandma's German Cole slaw but we may have enough coleslaw at the party! It's vinegary and delicious! Lol

Sharon- is yours creamy or vinegary?

If hers is creamy, I'll still bring mine! If not I can always bring a veggie tray with some yogurt dip or lentil salad?

LOL, amunk01! Yeah, I thought about bringing mine, too. . .now I'm thinking I really need to wig out and maybe bring sauerkraut balls or something equally outlandish!

Sauerkraut balls? Umm, YUM!!! I'm bringing a take home container if you bring those! Haha

Baked beans, and potato salad. And right before I go visit garden dragon/Andria's wonderful garden friday I am baking dozens of oatmeal cookies. Lol....what fun SF will be!

I've never made them before, Alexis, but they look doable. I used to love them at a fun German restaurant, so have had them on my "to make" list for several years. They reminded me of a baseball. . (hard ball), as when broken, they had the same kind of thready/string-like appearance. Those and Scotch eggs. . . have any of you tried them? I keep saying I'm going to, maybe THIS is the year.

Very funny Lisa. Ahahahaha. But really I can not wait.to see yall. I would drive 4 and a half hours just to visit even if we just ate chips lol

My coleslaw is creamy :)
Are we really doing this if there is a torrential (and cold) rain?
I guess the bigger question is....am I a wimp? Answer....probably. :-O

Sharon

Amy - my DH loved your vinegar coleslaw so please bring it!!! You shared the recipe with me but he said it didn't taste like yours. heh!

Sharon - we had scheduled the installation of a carport so we'd be covered Saturday. Today we received the dreaded phone call that it's delayed due to weather. Duh! Anyway - this morning our ABC affiliate said the rain Saturday would be gone between 3 and 5 AM with light (10 mph) N winds for the day. I'm believing it's going to still be a lovely day!!!!!

What a wonderful forecast, Paula! Now I'm more excited than ever. We may have to drive through heavy rain down here to make it up there where the rain apparently already will have ended, but we'll be there. C'mon Sharon, don't wimp out on us. We've all been wet in the garden before. Now, if necessary, we'll all be wet at the garden party together. Raincoats, umbrellas, hats, boots.....we can do this!

Paula, Do you want those of us with pop-up canopies to bring them? A few pop-up canopies to add to what you already have, and we'll have lots of covered space, even without the carport.

Fingers crossed the news knew! I just said the same thing to GDW, Dawn, that no doubt we'd be driving through rain to get there. . . who cares, right!

Pop-up canopies would be great!!! That's what we used last year....but DH broke ours at deer camp this year. blech.

Okay, we'll bring ours Paula, and now I'm going to start an SOS thread to tell folks that if they've got one, please bring it! Nope, you cannot stop me....once I am determined, I have a big mouth and use it.

Okie-dokie, New P.U.C. (no, not Public Utilities Commission, Pop Up Canopy!) thread started. Now, I have to get off this computer and get outside and finish digging up plants.

I made the mistake of getting on my computer at lunch time, and now I cannot get off of it. The garden awaits and the fire ants probably are bored without a human out there for them to climb on and bite. I need to get out there and fulfill my destiny, which appears to be that of being a fire ant victim. It's okay. I've got Come & Get It, so I'll defeat them in the long term.

Sharon...you could come with me! Together we can overcome any whimpiness!

So...is it weird to bring a casserole like a broccoli, rice and cheese casserole. I may need to borrow your microwave to warm it up, Paula. And then I thought of deviled eggs. Is that a weird thing to bring? I have a chinese coleslaw recipe that is pretty good, but it sounds like several people are already bringing that.

No potluck or picnic is complete without deviled eggs!!!!!!!!!

I almost always make deviled eggs as an extra, but won't get them done this time. Don't have much room for anything besides plants!!

Hazel--yeah, I was rethinking the pea salad, too, as it looks like so many are bringing salads. Who knows. . . I could pull a reversal on that, too, like I did the door prize! LOL

Well, Nancy, you can never have enough salads. I love salads. I really have no idea what I will decide. Having to warm up a casserole might be a pain.

Grandma's vinegar Cole slaw it is!

Hazel- bring deviled eggs!

Nancy- you can't go wrong with pea anything!

Rain or shine we'll be there, but I don't have a canopy to contribute! Bummer! I'll see if anyone in my family does, but I don't think we have one.

Same here--sorry we don't have a canopy!! Rats.

I think, maybe...we've got the canopy(s) covered!!! And this latest weather update is still telling me the time we'll all be together will be clear and pleasant!!! All of these dishes sound delish!

I'm so silly...I'm just as excited and stoked for this year's Fling as I was my first. In fact, it's even better now! Can't WAIT to see you all!!!!

OK...I'll be there, jacket and/or rain boots on or in the car. Creamy coleslaw in hand, along with a door prize. No canopy, but I do have an umbrella! :-D Sharon

Paula, that is so FUNNY that you said you were stoked. That's exactly what I was thinking earlier this evening. I am so stoked! We are SO hip! :)

We're bringing sweet and spicy meatballs. I'm really looking forward to meeting you all in person!

You know, y'all, I don't want to point any fingers at anyone, least of all because all those other fingers would be pointing back at me, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how we are going to have time to wander around and grab plants to take home. If you read the food list, you'd think we are going to sit down and eat nonstop for three hours straight. Do we always do that? Okay. Maybe we do.

Our Spring Fling clearly is about family, friends, food and plants. Sorry, I couldn't make plants start with an 'f'. I tried and it just didn't work. Oh, and pets, who are practically family as well.

We're less than 24 hours away now. Wow, just wow. Can't wait.

Fun, friends, foliage and fur babies? :)

Foliage

What I want to know is how do we eat so much while talking non stop

Mia, That's great! I like it.

Kim, I have no idea, but we do it every year.

Dawn

Just big Trey of pick OKra.olives and dip made with cilantro. Watermelon for kids perhaps ????

Flora

Fauna

haha!!