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19524. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 2:45:06 PM They do that on Fridays here too, Mags, but no broiled. Deep-fried, breaded catfish is it.
Anomie, your memories of that type of Southern gathering are really neat. I fell in love with them after moving here from Texas. Every once in a while out here I get behind a car full of people with windows down and cane poles hanging out, and a few months ago Bob and I passed by a guy on foot with a huge mess of fish in one hand and a cane pole in the other. Poor folks fish people's ponds and the creeks, and they'll eat perch and bream (sp?--it's like crappie and not spelled like it should be, I think). People who boat fish rather than bank fish don't think bream are worth the trouble because they're small, even though they taste great.
When we first moved here from West Texas, Dad and Bro were going to do all the rural "Where the Red Fern Grows" stuff that we never could do before, and they bought a little flat-bottomed boat, a beagle, rods and reels, camping equipment, and .22's. The beagle became a spoiled inside dog and the guns got used rarely (never on deer), but they still love to fish and float rivers. 19525. wonkers2 - 5/31/2006 2:50:17 PM In Louisiana they call crappie sac-a-lait. I've caught a lot of fish on a cane pole. The best bait for sac-a-lait are minnows. And you need a quill bobber because they bite very lightly. 19526. Magoseph - 5/31/2006 3:26:02 PM Did you see this, Arky: "We used to frequent one, Flexi and I, but...” It makes me very angry when I make such an egregious grammar mistake. May I hire you as my private teaches? I will pay well.:)
Hey, Wonk, how’s the Cap’n? He can’t be too well since he didn’t react at my post to Jex.
19527. Magoseph - 5/31/2006 3:26:56 PM teaches=teacher
(Not my day. I guess) 19528. wonkers2 - 5/31/2006 3:46:23 PM The Cap'n sez, "Mago, why were't you nekkid when you jumped out'n the cake? Apparently somethin' was lackin' in yer upbringin'!" 19529. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 5/31/2006 4:55:38 PM Happy Summer, Everyone!
 19530. wonkers2 - 5/31/2006 5:21:23 PM Very nice! 19531. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 5/31/2006 7:21:29 PM Thanks Cap'n, I thought Monhegan would appeal to a sailor. 19532. wabbit - 5/31/2006 8:25:44 PM Beautiful, as always! 19533. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 9:22:54 PM Oh man, that's fabulous, Wow.
Mags, you probably wouldn't want to hire me because I can't see what's wrong with it. What am I missing?
But I'm in a fog. At 46 years old I got my first speeding ticket today. Mose bought me a coke float, which helped a little, but I'm thoroughly depressed. I was going 56 in a 40, so I'm told by experts Mose and Bob that it may be expensive. I could go to court and fall on their mercy, but I took a day off work to do that for a $150 late-fees ticket (outrageous, when you already pay a penalty, etc) and got a whole $25 knocked off the price. This court date is in the middle of that seminar which I can't miss any part of.
First day of summer break.
sigh 19534. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 9:24:21 PM That grass is toe-wrigglingly appealing. 19535. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 9:47:23 PM Wonk, I never met her, but one of Bob's grandmother's favorite memories of him was when he caught a fish without a worm when he was a kid. For years she was bed-ridden and wouldn't talk, but when he came to see her not long before she died, she mentioned that event.
Kids up the road, who've since moved away, would walk or ride four-wheelers by the house on the way to go to that same creek to fish and swim and it just mortified me. Bob lived in and around that creek his whole life and it's probably safer and less polluted now than it was then. 19536. judithathome - 5/31/2006 10:39:10 PM and we had a great small-town lunch buffet, which is like the best of Southern holiday family potluck, and stuffed ourselves to the gills.
Would this be the infamous Annie's? I'd kill to go there tonight...been starving all day. 19537. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 10:54:28 PM No, but it's about as good. It's in the town where I work. It's not soul food like Annie's, so the flavor's not up there with hers, imo, but it is home-cooked Southern comfort food--the good kind, not like a lot of restaurant buffets. 19538. arkymalarky - 5/31/2006 10:57:09 PM The town where Bob's school is has a good place like Annie's too, but more bbq oriented, called Mama Maxine's.
19539. robertjayb - 5/31/2006 11:42:45 PM Arky,
re: your ticket.
In texas you can go to the court and arrange a defensive driving course (for a fee, of course) that you take
online (another fee) and which will wipe out the ticket. Plus you can get a discount on your auto insurance.
The online course is a bit of bother but you do it in your own time and it is far, far better than listening to some bored "instructor" drone on and on.
Here I think the costs run about 50% of paying the regular fine and court costs.
19540. arkymalarky - 6/1/2006 12:12:14 AM Thanks Robert! I'll look into that.
I also got a letter and form about possibly being in a jury pool. Another first for me. I do not like the current judge in this particular court, though I don't know whether I'll be in his court or not. It's not just because he was such a drip about my late fees fine, but other stuff unrelated to me personally. 19541. arkymalarky - 6/1/2006 12:14:32 AM Chris Matthews makes me nervous just sitting listening to him. I want to holler "just shut up and let him answer the damned question without rephrasing it or clarifying it ten different ways and answering it for him.
We just got back from picking Gus up from his haircut. Judith, you remember Gus when he appeared in the yard at the end of the gathering last year? He's completely peeled now. He looks like that cat with the "lion cut" whose picture you sent a long time ago. But unlike the cat, he's happy as a clam. 19542. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/1/2006 1:03:57 AM Tanks 4 da kind words my DEARS!
Seven times down, eight times up–such is life!
19543. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 6/1/2006 1:56:25 AM 
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