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Dawn-a-pa-Drew-za (Part 1)

Posted on August 23rd, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.

I can’t believe it’s already been a week since we arrived at “The Farm”. We had an amazing time.

Let me back up a little bit. It all started a little over 2 years now, I think. Spracky told be I need to listen to this podcast from a married couple that sounded like they were around our age. They lived in Wisconsin and were putting on a show a couple times a week, sometimes less. Their names were Dawn Miceli and Drew Domkus.
First impressions, I didn’t get it, I just didn’t get it. Spracky asked me to listen again, so I snagged a couple shows and listened to them while I was at work. Next thing I know I couldn’t stop laughing. I called Spracky and let her know what a good choice it was, and I have been hooked ever since.

Spracky and I began to hang out on the forums, and got to know a couple other listeners. Eventually we had the opportunity to go to Lexington and hang out with some of the other listeners, and at the last minute Dawn and Drew showed up (I posted about this previously in my blog).

We got to hang out with them for the weekend and we became more friends then fans at that point.

Earlier this summer, Drew and Dawn’s father were driving near where we lived, and we got to hang out with them. Drew invited us to the “Dawn-a-pa-Drew-za”, which was to celebrate Dawn’s birthday. Of course we said we were in.

All of the folks invited would be camping out on Dawn and Drew’s farm in Wisconsin. We made arrangements and borrowed my brother-in-laws tent. We packed up the truck a week ago Tuesday, and went to work on Wednesday.

We left right after work on Wednesday and drove 18 hours up to Wisconsin, the entire time posting tweets on Twitter. We got to the farm a little earlier than we were expecting to, but Drew was down. We set up camp and started to help out around the farm.

It may be difficult to believe, but I really enjoyed it, working outside in the fresh air, on a beautiful farm…it was amazing.

As the day went on, a couple of more campers showed up. I believe Manda and the Wang showed up, Shultzman (who won the eBay auction to sleep in the RV), Mark, and Thursday76 (the smartest minion) and Lulu Zander. I can’t remember if anyone else showed up on Thursday. We started a small party and then crashed out.

Next, the weirdest thing began to happen, it started to get cool…maybe even COLD…in August…this was messed up. We packed for summer weather…hot, humid weather.

I have gotten a complaint that my posts are too long, so this will be a multi-post story.

Dax out-

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