Hannah Miller is Burnt Wienie champ for 2009!

Your scrapblog editor, in a not-so-rare senior moment, forgot to bring her camera-to-computer connection to Lake City, so can't put up photos from the 35th Coveted Precious Burnt Wienie Gala Potluck and Awards Ceremony at Pam's party pad in Lake City, Minn. She'll post them when she gets back to her other home Sunday night. But say! We're never at a loss for words, so let us just say that a good time was had by all, at least we think so, especially the scrapblog editor, whose pain in giving up the precioussss 'dog was eased by seeing delightful cousin Leah make the old aunties laugh; the honor of having U.S. Marine cousin Nathan Pepin and his lovely, lively girlfriend, Jen, there; Britta Augustin's surprise appearance; Larry's smokin' accordion music; chatting with the Cookies -- sweet Sonya (the only person the scrapblog editor has ever met who, like the scrapblog editor, has a rock tumbler), Maria (we promise we won't take any more photos of sweet, camera-shy Maria!) and Perrin (Batman Junior); the delicious food (despite the trauma of seeing only five desserts vs. 13 salads, God help us); the helpfulness of Ben Pepin, Tyler, Alex and Bridget Broberg and Zack Miller in the confusing but hot game of cribbage; the wonderfulness of Uncle Joe and Aunt Mavis, who frankly did most of the work; the welcome presence of zany, madcap CMill, MMill, ZMill, MMill, HMill and EMill, not to mention having our beloved Noah there, and the terrific awards ceremony, and finally, this sentence is going to end, whew! But we digress. Who won the BW, you're wondering! Cut to the chase! What's the nut graf here? Hannah Marie Miller won! Keeping with a long tradition of Miller family victories related to toileting issues, she won for calling her dad, Chris Miller, from her cell phone whilst seated on the family throne (i.e., toilet) and ordering up "toilet paper on the main level, please!" before some polite, shocked gentleman whom she had inadvertently dialed informed her that she had the wrong number! What an excellent nomination, expertly rendered by Moriah in rhyming couplets and iambic pentameter! The competition was hot this year, cousins. You should all feel proud of your garishly glorious blunders. We were especially impressed by Harry Greason's nomination of Aunt Florence for forgetting to put the rhubarb in her rhubarb cake, Patty Pepin's nomination of Steve Pepin for smashing one of Nathan's cars into another of Nathan's cars and destroying Patty's lawn chairs in the process, cousin Me's nomination of Mary Miller for pulverizing her spatula in a batch of hummus, and Katie's nomination (Katie wins the prize for most cleverly crafted nominations) of Jane Kirkwood Hagberg for washing her precious ring down the bathtub drain (judging by this and last year's nominations, cousin Janie has some Laundry Issues). But Hannah's blunderama stood out, and so she will have the preciousssss 'dog sitting on her bureau for the next year. Watch for photos coming soon.