...at the new hangar in Lancaster. Of course, one challenge was that the Saturday temps were in the high 80's. However, when I woke up on Sunday morning and stuck my nose out of the patio door, it was ******* freezing.
I seriously considered postponing the event. However, when I phoned around and found out that several people were planning to come anyway, I put postponement to the back of my mind. In order to avoid legal action for frostbite and pneumonia, I drove over to Home Depot and bought a forced air heater and the propane cylinder to go with it. That, plus the snacks and drinks, kept everybody happy. The cafe at Lancaster also sold a number of coffees and a couple of lunches. We kept the hangar doors closed except for pulling out and pushing in the plane.
The following canardians arrived (thanks guys):

Doug Bryan
Scott Carter
Ron Gowan
James Redmon

In addition, Gerhard Deffner flew in with Ron Handley and Tom Allen flew in with Sheila in, er, "normal" planes.
I received apologies from Vance Atkinson, whose Cozy III is undergoing signficant overhaul, Jesse Huerta (suspected magneto problem on his Cozy IV) and CC Chamberlain.
Highlight of the afternoon was a 5-ship formation departure from runway 31, with me in the lead on the left, taking my sister for her first ever backseat canard pusher flight. After takeoff I did a right 360 to move to the back and the 4 other guys did a low fly-past, then I followed them. The fun part is of course the 2g pullup at the end of the runway. I did another pass just for grins and then landed back on 31. My sister liked all of the flight except for the steep turns - I believe that she still thinks she is going to fall out of the plane. It must have been OK, however, since she said that next time she will let me fly her to Fredericksburg for lunch. Now all I have to do is to work out how Marsha is going to get down there...I guess it will need to be a canard convoy.
Thanks to everybody who attended. I now have a 35,000 BTU forced air heater available for local canardian use if people find themselves having to work in their hangar or garage when it is too damn cold.
STOP PRESS James Redmon has an article about this party, complete with pictures, on his web site.