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19518. anomie - 5/31/2006 10:42:20 AM Maybe we'll get some pics from Venice and from Pelle's cabin?
I love Venice. Been there once for a day. Way too short a time and I will go back.
Ive heard of Murano (glass), but are you kidding about the other 'uranos? I'll have to grab a map today. 19519. Magoseph - 5/31/2006 11:17:19 AM Ano, Pelle posted pictures of his cabin, but I can't remember where and when--maybe if he sees your post he'll repost them.
Around here, the fish fry is a fixture on Friday’s evenings in most family restaurants, all you can eat. We used to frequent one, Flexi and I, but we gave up the habit the last six months because the restaurant ceased to carry the broiled fish.
19520. alistairconnor - 5/31/2006 11:18:35 AM Burano is the pretty fishing-village island with the multicoloured houses. Yes, I invented the other ones. 19521. Magoseph - 5/31/2006 12:47:48 PM I jumped out of a cake naked! >/i>
Jex, this sentence drenched out a memory about a fake cake and me jumping out of it, not naked, however. I must tell it sometimes... 19522. Magoseph - 5/31/2006 12:48:42 PM Oh, messed up my tags...sorry. 19523. Magoseph - 5/31/2006 12:49:23 PM Again! 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.
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