It’s been a whirlwind these last 6 weeks but I’m finally at a spot to finish this thread. For mikes weekend we couldn’t have had better weather or ,better food or better people if we tried. In my opinion this was THE best gathering ever and really hated to see everyone go . What made this so amazing was it was all about Mike and the chance for us all to be together in his honor.
I can’t Thank you guys enough for helping pull this off and For everyone’s hard work . I gotta say with everyone pitching in it just took the stress away from me and Buff. Harry, as always,worked his self to death cooking and cleaning and bringing such good eats to share and a very special Thankyou H.
I also wanted to post about Sat night as I don’t think any photos were taken .
As most of you are aware Mike was very passionate about the wounded warrior project and we had many talks over the years of his wishes.
so Sat night we had a raffle to try to raise some funds to do this with. It was quite a diverse selection of cool raffle items which Harry ,Chubs and Jeff ,Jonathon, Kathy , myself and Derik and Donna. I was stressing over the raffle but Shannon stepped in when he saw me stumbling and it went over perfectly. New member Fluffy 420 brought his electronic expertise and set up the video equipment for the surprise call after the raffle and handled the camera duty like an old pro . I couldn’t have done it without him as I didn’t even know I had Tv on the farm.
The raffle generated $2500.00 for the donation in Mikes honor which I’m so grateful to everyone for. Theses guys spent a lot on traveling here and to pool that amount just shows how much Jersey Big Mike meant to us.
The Video surprise was to share our donation as a group with the well deserving candidate which I’m 100 percent satisfied Mike would have agreed with.
We picked our very own wounded warrior Celeste, big dog Ricks wife to give this donation to help her in her daily battle towards recovery. Words can’t express the feelings in the barn that night when her and Rick popped up on the Tv, that’s why no pictures were taken. She needs specific tools and equipment to aid in her battle and I’m so proud that we as a group are able to help and honor not just Mike but Celeste and Rick.
If anyone that wasn’t able to attend and would like to can donate directly to Celeste and Rick in mikes honor.
Thank you to all you guys from me and Buff. Rip Mike.