The Annual Excuse | Gone Fishing
Nine rods go up to the cabin and two of them get wet.
This design has the Final Touch: the wording is stamped, stitched or foiled to match the artwork, so the card reads as one finished piece.
Start from it and your wording is painted in the same way, exactly as you type it.
What the Final Touch isA just because invitation for the weekend that has run every year since the first one: the same cabin on the lake, the same truck beds full of rods, the same claim that this year the fishing gets taken seriously. Coffee is on before light. One boat goes out at six with three people in it. The rest stand on the dock holding mugs and offering advice across forty feet of water.
By mid-morning the rods are leaning against the porch rail and nobody has moved them. One trout is landed, photographed from three angles, and put back. Dinner was always coming out of the cooler. Cards go down on the folding table once it gets dark, and the same argument from last year resumes at the same point. Very little fishing is done. Attendance is still mandatory.
What goes on it
Every line replaceableThe wording on this card
Mandatory attendance for
TEAM DOYLE
Saturday, June 19, 2027 · 9 AM
PIKE LAKE CABIN · 27 Walleye Rd, Pickerel, MI
Fish if you must.
Every line of the wording is an example, and yours to replace. The title is painted into the artwork. Type your own and it is drawn again with your words.
What to actually tell people
- Give one time: when the boat leaves Everything else on the weekend arranges itself. Post the launch time, and let people decide privately whether they intend to be awake for it.
- Keep two spare rods by the door Tackle optional only holds up if someone brought extra. Half the group has not owned a rod since high school, and a loaner keeps them on the water instead of on the porch.
- Assign the bunks before anyone drives up One cabin, nine people, and a loft that sleeps two comfortably. Send the sleeping list with the directions so nobody is negotiating it at midnight with a duffel bag in hand.
- Plan a dinner that does not depend on the catch The fryer comes out every year and is used about once. Put something in the cooler that cooks regardless, and treat any fish that arrives as a bonus course.
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The artwork
Keep this one, or describe your own party and get artwork drawn for it.
The wording
Every line on this card is an example, the painted title included. Change all of it; the design holds.
Sending
By text, from your own number. Guests open a link. Nothing to download.
The price
One credit for the invitation. Six guests or sixty, the number does not move.
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