Keeping Company, Company Picnic

The annual company picnic was held on Friday.  It is usually in July, at the end of the month and held off site.  We have utilized the local community park in Factoryville, making a donation to the park for its use.  There are bathrooms, playground, baseball field, a water spout, and a covered pavilion with tables and benches. 

The ESOP group organizes the party, sends out invitations, orders the food, shops for extras, sets up prior to the party and breaks down at the conclusion.  In between the prior and conclusion we have fun!

There is food: from our insureds like Beta Bread and then shopping locally from Rays and the farmers market. My favorite was the macaroni salad from Downtown Deli.  I still am thinking about it.  I am also a pushover for dill pickles.  The food was great but mostly it is our company.  We enjoy spending time with each other.

Our new mother of twins brought her babies; we all got to hold and cuddle both of the babies.  They never once cried.  We do not know why mom and dad Percival say those babies cry.  They were perfect angels.  Tom Davis aka TD has been in love with babies as long as I can remember and he was loving those two.  

Games are always included in a DGK event.  We are a competitve lot.  My partner and I were quickly DQ’ed in the egg toss which was fine by me after I pouted of course.  Lauren Keyes and Bridget White won that game.  The “wash the soap until it dissolves” game took the longest and there were some bending of the rules but it was in fun.  I do want to mention that my team was the overall winner of the games, including the soap game no matter what the other team states.  I told you we are competitive.   

An additional treat from the picnic -  Monday is leftover day.