Mudstock V in Anchorage!
This weekend, Anchorage Mudflatters came together for Mudstock V, right here in my home town! I’ve had several inquiries from people, wondering if I was perhaps lurking at a nearby table, or if I had infiltrated the group under another identity! I’m afraid I’m not cut out for that kind of stealth, and I’m sure I would have given myself away within the first five minutes. So, regrettably, I stayed away,(sniff) and waited for the report and pictures from the Middleway Cafe! However, it sounds like there was an intriguing couple of strangers hanging about. And even stranger, both Writing and mwThatOne told me they didn’t think it was me because I don’t sound like I drink Coke! And they are absolutely right… The intuitive power of Mudflatters. Wow.
Thanks to all of you for your support, and warm thoughts. I was with you in spirit!
AKM
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I (mwThatOne..) promised to get a table, so went to MiddleWay early. And, I had to post my ‘one of a kind’ sign at the table (picture attached)…..I, being somewhat of an event planner in my day (only informal & domestic, mind you) had plundered a discount store to find ‘favors’ last night….Felt that I scored with YELLOW duct tape with which I framed the sign, which sported the flashy yellow boots fashioned of a golden mailing envelope. My DH had found big golden stars which were used on place cards (with the logo yellow boots lifted from the webtubes x 6 per page)…. I brought sparkly and shiny ornaments with a string of snowpuffs to hold them, and assigned each mudpuppy to decorate their ornament with boots of duct tape, which they were to cut out, themselves.
At each place were chocolate covered snowpeople with top hats…yum!
Erin brought Mudflats buttons/pins to share! Welcome gifts for sure!
Of course we covered all subjects SP and more, but perhaps being in a public place was a little off-putting, so we were a tad more subdued than we felt the California Mudstock was. It was a fine time, however, and I’m sure we will be more rowdy (ourselves/Alaskan) next time…
There was a couple who seemed to be spying on us, peering at the sign, and talking behind a hand….the woman wore a Barbie t-shirt, and they moved from one table to another in order to be closer to us. Alas, no one thought to invite them to join us.
I have a few decorated-with-boots ornaments on my table here, waiting to be driven downtown and hung surreptitiously on a tree near government offices.
~mwThatOne
Clockwise from front - Lurker, Reagan, Erin, Aurora, SMR (hiding), Georgia, Writing (doing moose impression) & mwThatOne (party planner!)
Boots, ornament, pin, and YELLOW duct tape! Who knew?
Stay tuned for more adventures as mwThatOne heads out to stealth decorate with Mudflats ornaments!
Oh, look at all those warm, wonderful folks in cold country!
Cool YELLOW duct tape, too!
Thanks for sharing. Hope you all will do this again.
Love it! AKM – I just don’t know how you resisted seeing this in person!
The littlest mudpuppy is ADORABLE! Congrats on your lovely event!
Excellent write up – we had fun!!!
How cool… I am sure it was hard to stay away…but I understand your need also.
I also wonder about the couple…were they just lurkers or were they Palinistas reporting back to the queen…lol
Glad all went well for you and it sounds like a good time was had by all.
*sigh* Wish I’d been there- it looks like you all had a great time:) Love the sign- and yellow boots.
Looks like you all had a great time. It is too bad someone didn’t invite the lurkers. They might have been spies, at which point they would likely have moved away again, or they might have been kindred mudpuppies, just waiting for an invitation.
Thanks for sharing the pics. It’s nice to see all of you.
I’m thinking the lurkers were from the SP camp reporting back to the wicked witch. How funny. What a sweet little Mudpuppy indeed! Love the yellow boots too!
no…..Pat, I can assure you that they were not ‘kindred mudpuppies”…the
scowl on his face and the tshirt denoting a red bent. They just added to the ambience. My favorite lurker was the woman with the laptop wearing a red sweater. She was nearby on the edge of earshot the whole time.
Looks like fun was had by all! I’ll have to track down yellow duct tape when we have ours in Juneau.
um, the laptop did not wear a red sweater, the woman did!
mwThatOne: Thanks for the write up. It’s not a party until someone breaks out the duct tape! Hope there is lots left over for the next one!
What a great gathering!
For anyone interested in keeping some of the election campaign excitement going… here’s an invite from the Obama-Biden transition team and change.gov to lead a Health Care Community Discussion with friends and relations. Details at change.gov/page/s/hcdiscussion
“…This holiday season, we’re asking you to give us the gift of your ideas and input.
“Sign up to lead a Health Care Community Discussion in your home, community center, or even a local coffee shop, anytime until December 31st.
“We’ll provide you with a special Moderator’s Guide that will give you everything you need to get the discussion going. Secretary-designate Tom Daschle will even choose some discussions to attend in person.”
Oh, how wonderful. I will have to get some of the yellow duct tape, for hubby for christmas. Duct tape is his all time favorite present. He will be in heaven with a new color. Looks like you all had a great time. Sure wish I could have been there.
Wonder if the lurkers read this blog – and showed up intentionally or were just innocently there? I’d say wearing a Palin tshirt says they were there intentionally. Hope they heard some good stuff!!
OT, but replying to Krinkle Bearcat Palin,
Thanks for posting that message on Health Care grass roots meetings, you are fast…I was just about to do that too…I’ve just signed up to lead a discussion here in ID and had come here to invite others to do same. Good work Krinkle.
“There was a couple who seemed to be spying on us, peering at the sign, and talking behind a hand….the woman wore a Barbie t-shirt, and they moved from one table to another in order to be closer to us. Alas, no one thought to invite them to join us.”
if they were Barbie spys that means they are on the forum, isn’t that where Mudstocks are announced?
OMG! I bet they were Barbie spy’s!!!! That is Hilarius! I can’t wait to see what trees the ornaments get put on, maybe the gov. office???hehehehe!
The one thing
They have to read this blog to know where the meetin’ place is . . . they are spies, big time, both here and at the restaurant!
Oh, I want some of those cute yellow boots, please share where you found them.
I don’t suppose it would be appropreate to throw one of them at Bush and SP, no, no, don’t waste good boots,… remember you are suppose to be a “Peaceful” Granny. Ok, but I can visualize…tehehe
That was very clever! And good for you for such a great event! And those spies should keep an eye on SP–she’s the MIA governor.
@mwThatOne.. (10:23:44),
Considering the demeanor you have recounted of the “lurkers” close by, it would be my opinion that they were indeed sent by the Palinista camp to lend an ear.
You know they monitor these boards….the Mudflats are in the know and they have to keep up with all of the latest Mudflat twitter!
Kindred Spirits,
Yes indeed. Where can you by yellow boots?
I don’t feel qualified to moderate a health care meeting, but I would love to attend one. Anyone out there in the Bay Area planning one or knows where one will be?
How about buy yellow boots?
Great pictures and write up! How fun!
I am sure they were lurking trying to see if they could find out who AKM might be. Scary thought! I could just see the minions scurrying back to the Queen with the sacred information and her yelling off with AKM’s head.
Foiled again! HA!
Thank you all for sharing!
Thanks for all of the hard work mwThatOne and Erin. It was great to meet you all. Hope that we’ll all be able to get together again — perhaps in a couple of months there will be action on the Alaskans for Truth issues and some President Obama news that we can mull over.
Take care & hello to everyone from cold Calgary!
Wow! someone came from Calgary!
And I was wimping out on the cold being about 12 degrees at night when I went to Park City last week! It 40 during the day, and I got out around 6:00 PM before it got really cold! And the weather was so bad when my friends left Sunday that it took them 13 hrs door to door because the weather caused them to miss their connection to Wisconsin. With a 5 year old.
A standing ovation for the people in the cold areas. May people from AK get the heat they need for the winter from their MIA governor. All over the media, and nowhere for the people she’s supposed to be serving with that “servant’s heart.” She’s probably looking for servants to do her bidding….
I think SMR lives in AK . . .
AKM, you really should consider going someday. You could drag along a few friends, both men and women so you could maintain your cover. I’m sure you could safeguard yourself enough not to give yourself away; and the mudpup’s in attendance, knowing how important it is to keep your anonymity, would not tempt you.
Just sayin’ cause you started this whole snowball rolling and you deserve a front seat to your handiwork at some point!
Okay, I know you won’t – but it’s at least worth thinkin’ about, eh?
Regardless, coats, hats and gloves on! to the people in the cold areas!
SMR lives in AK at the moment but is moving to Calgery at the end of the school year. The spouse has already made the move, so I suspect SMR and family have headed there for the holidays.
Thanks InJuneau – I thought she was the one who worked for the oil company in AK – brrrr, that’s a heck of a move!
To all who want to know about the boots- I got them used at Once Upon a Child. I’ll have to look at the brand and report back.
As far as the lurkers go, the guy was sitting at a table about 20 feet away, and seemed to be staring at us. I thought he left, but it turns out he moved to a table right behind us with a woman wearing a Sarah Palin sweatshirt. One of our group heard him say, “There’s the sign” so I would say they definitely were there on purpose. Makes you wonder…
Thanks to everyone who came- especially mwThatOne, who got the ball rolling and made the table so festive.
If anyone wants to see another picture of Reagan in her boots, go to http://mamadance.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/thats-my-girl/
Yellow boots- our local walmart had lots of yellow boots a few weeks ago
what great pictures and what a pretty little girl , is her name Aurora? How beautiful-every year for years when I buy a new calender I try to find one with pictures of the aurora borealis-last years was Finland and my new 2009 is Alaska yahoo…that made me happy
glad you guys had fun-I am not sure I would have been as brave as you all-that is like stepping into a hornets nest and sister sarah still scares me- IMHO you guys are very brave
Kudos to mwThatOne and Erin for making Mudstock V so delightful! Nice to meet everyone! Decorating the Christmas balls was fun, though it occurred to me later that we should have made them in pairs, to send as messages to our legislators–as in “have the balls, or get the boot.” Let’s hope they take their duties seriously in the next session.
Proud Community OrganizerWA (11:03:42) :
Great pictures and write up! How fun!
I am sure they were lurking trying to see if they could find out who AKM might be. Scary thought! I could just see the minions scurrying back to the Queen with the sacred information and her yelling off with AKM’s head.
Sounds like a scene from “The Wizard of OZ”: the flying monkeys winging back to the Wicked Witch of the West to report on Dorothy, aka AKM:) Anyone have a pail of water handy to throw? (heh heh) Just don’t throw the magic red- I mean yellow- slippers…there’s no place like Mudflats, there’s no place like Mudflats…
AKaurora (13:07:49) :
“have the balls, or get the boot”
heh heh…very funny:)
re:spies … Be patient and friendly. It is quite possible that they will become converts if we treat them kindly. : )
Sue (13:21:44) :
re:spies … Be patient and friendly. It is quite possible that they will become converts if we treat them kindly. : )
Is that the same as kill them with kindness? (lol)
Oh what fun, wish I could have been there!!
AKaurora (13:07:49) :
“have the balls, or get the boot”
OMG……had to LOL on that one! the “hard work” SMR and Erin refer to re: my contributions to the festivity ~ t’waren’ nothin’ ~ was SO much fun. Wait until you hear of the disposition of the ornaments. I found the duct tape at WM (sorry, don’t really like to go there, but do it on special occasions..and this was quite special). There are other colors than mudflat yellow there, also. Too. I felt that it would ‘progress’ the project…
fa la la
I actually thought about checking it out, but I probably would have only lurked as well.
As AKM likes to say “when worlds collide.”
I am glad the Mudpuppies had a good meeting. Maybe I will make it to the next one.
Good thing I live far away… might have ordered a plate of cheeseballs to throw at them. Lick ‘em and stick ‘em!
South Side Chicago
Carry on brave mudflatters everywhere (especially Alaska)–we are proud of your work in the name of truth and justice for all!
I’m so glad you had a good time and the photos are great.
SMR, you shouldn’t have hidden!!
mwThatOne.. (15:12:17) :
AKaurora (13:07:49) :
“have the balls, or get the boot” to send as messages to our legislators–as in “have the balls, or get the boot.”
All of our legislators need to have the balls–look at what a mess our country is in because of lack of oversight, outright fraud, trampling on the Constitution, the list goes on, etc.
Look at the hole we’re in in CA-they made a big deal about the vechicle license fees in 2003, and now the Republicans are playing chicken with the budget over that. Their message: let’s screw over little kids for early childhood development, pay people with IOUs, delay tax refunds because the GOP wants to act like people who need a boot in the balls….
You Alaskans ROCK!!!!! Writing great moose impression!
Keep an eye on these guys! It never ends. Please stay vigilant and get some more yellow boots and balls!
Ward tied to scheme to avoid prosecution
http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/story/624288.html
STEVENS TRIAL: Filing describes ex-senator who persuaded witness to lie.
By RICHARD MAUER
rmauer@adn.com
Published: December 16th, 2008 12:05 AM
Former state Sen. Jerry Ward convinced a key witness in the Ted Stevens trial to invent and then lie about a broad immunity deal because Ward was trying to protect himself from federal prosecution, the Justice Department said in a new court filing Monday.
I’ve been a lurker here for some time now but have only posted once. I am especially heartened to see so many nice people representing the Anchorage area because I recently found out my nephew is going to play Summer baseball there. That’s a ways off, I know, but I just wanted to get some feel for what he can expect. This will be the furthest from home he’s ever been. He’s a very special young man and I’d like to be able to connect with someone in the area. It can’t hurt to have a mudflatter nearby if he was ever in need. I can be contacted at writeheart@yahoo.com
Thank you in advance!