Hi, Everyone,

We just returned home from the Fall Fig meet at Tim Drag's house. Thanks to Tim and his lovely wife Michelle, and beautiful children for graciously hosting this gathering. It was great seeing familiar faces and meeting some of you for the first time in person. My wife kept commenting on the ride back to Saratoga on how nice everyone was and how it was good to see so much sharing and generosity with each other. It was a perfect day. We hope it becomes an annual event! Again, many thanks to Tim and Michelle.


PS Barry thank you for helping to put this enjoyable day together.
Vito

Just wanted to drop by to thank everyone for coming. It was a pleasure to be with all who attended.

Our first annual Global Fig and Fruit Forum get-together was a complete success. The food, figs, and company was unparalleled.

I will be making it an annual event so we'll see everyone next year!

If anyone needs anything, please feel free to sign up and send me a PM via the fig.yuku.com board.

Thanks again!

Tim

Good times
Gorgi my old friend it was good to see you
Bass I'll be up to visit in a few weeks
Vito Marcus Ricci Donna always a pleasure
New guys frank Jon Tim victor Pete great conversations.
And the wife's had a great time making fun of us.

Tim, I need you to send a private jet to come pick me up so I can make it next year. :)

One of the best days ever. Will be taking care of all  my new figs today. Was such fun, again much thanks to Tim for his hospitality  and for Barry's help getting me there.
Was a fig lovers dream day
Coop

It was all an awesome fig event.

Good moment(s):
Everybody got to meet some old fig friends and more important; some/more NEW (former virtual-friends) other FF members.
It is good to put a face on FF users... Those name tags helped too.

Funniest moment:
There were tons of figs for the raffle. Every one was scurrying around, reading labels quickly deciding
which/what one (?!?) to best pick when his/her name comes up next...

Cutest moment:
Happy Drag baby boy was very well behaved, mostly on Michelle's lap.
Suddenly he was set go loose on the lawn grass (well protected in some kind of a jump suit).
You should have seen him fast-crawling on-all-fours around the yard 'discovering/inspecting' things around!
He reminded me of one of those old fashioned wind-me-up baby tin-toys... Veeery cute!!

Funny/Cute:
Tim's dog knows to eat/scrape pieces of a hamburger right-off a fork from my hand!

Food:
Delicious and abundant; how much can one eat? Same for the deserts....

Thank you both Tim & Michelle for going through all the trouble HOSTING this successful event.