to many posts to read

DI said:

I don't have time to read all this helmet [censored], would someone
volunteer to summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us
the results. I'm guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some
outside chance, something important may be said by someone..

"Do what you want."

Problem solved; off you go.

In article <[email hidden]>,

DI said:

I don't have time to read all this helmet [censored], would someone volunteer to
summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
important may be said by someone..

I just had a lovely Montreal-style smoked brisket
on steamed light rye, from Omnitsky's Deli. No mustard,
just the red horseradish. Good slaw, but a somewhat
disappointingly soggy couple of pickle slices
(I wish they'd have half-dones) on the side.

It saved my life. I'm surviving for another day, anyways.

The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.

cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

"Tom Keats" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

DI said:

I don't have time to read all this helmet [censored], would someone volunteer
to
summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results.
I'm
guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance,
something
important may be said by someone..

I just had a lovely Montreal-style smoked brisket
on steamed light rye, from Omnitsky's Deli. No mustard,
just the red horseradish. Good slaw, but a somewhat
disappointingly soggy couple of pickle slices
(I wish they'd have half-dones) on the side.

It saved my life. I'm surviving for another day, anyways.

The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.

cheers,
Tom

This makes sense, sounds really good. But, I hate to hear about the Autumn
winds, they're about 2-1/2 to 3 months away around here, but Tropical Storm
Erin sure dumped on us last night.

Tom Keats said:

The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.

HA! It's finally getting hot here in Atlanta. Can't wait for the autumn
weather though (all 3 weeks of it).

\\paul

Quoted message said:

The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.

Oh goodness, yes. On our ride this last weekend, I could see the vine maples
already beginning to turn. It's cool and dampish out there right now, and as
I sit here drinking tea, I have to get up the motivation to get out, on the
bike, and on the way to work.

Wah! Wah!

--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

DI said:

I don't have time to read all this helmet [censored], would someone volunteer to
summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
important may be said by someone..

Jaunty caps: 7R 1E
Helmuts: 4R 2E

Fan attendance was spotty, but there was an unusual amount of singing
along to the organ numbers.

landotter said:

DI said:

I don't have time to read all this helmet [censored], would someone volunteer to
summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
important may be said by someone..

Jaunty caps: 7R 1E
Helmuts: 4R 2E

Fan attendance was spotty, but there was an unusual amount of singing
along to the organ numbers.

This whole thing sounds like a seventh inning stretch. ;-)

Paul Myron Hobson said:

Tom Keats said:

The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.

HA! It's finally getting hot here in Atlanta. Can't wait for the autumn
weather though (all 3 weeks of it).

We've had two weeks of 100+ heat here in Nashvile. Dog days indeed.
The lawn is crunchy and even the zinnias are fading. Still got the
tomatoes and okra hanging in there. ;-)

In article <[email hidden]>,

landotter said:

Paul Myron Hobson said:

Tom Keats said:

The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.

HA! It's finally getting hot here in Atlanta. Can't wait for the autumn
weather though (all 3 weeks of it).

We've had two weeks of 100+ heat here in Nashvile. Dog days indeed.
The lawn is crunchy

Yeah, after a certain point the "lawn cycling" technique
doesn't work too good.

Quoted message said:

and even the zinnias are fading.

Give 'em a drink! Are they at the palliative care stage?
Transplant a few mini sunflowers around 'em. A little shade
doesn't hurt. Maybe bury some sphagnum moss around
their vicinity, to retain moisture. You've gotta be in at
least Zone 2 if not Zone 1, right? Zinnias shouldn't be
fading just yet; they still have a ways to go.

Quoted message said:

Still got the
tomatoes and okra hanging in there. ;-)

^^^^

I used to hate okra (or as I used to refer to it:
snotweed.) But that was because for the longest
while, I never had properly prepared & treated
servings of it. I could go for a fine mess o'
fried-up, cornmeal-dredged okra & crawdad tails
right now.

A lot of folks don't like cabbage, but they've
been turned-off by experiences with overcooked
servings that have had the hell boiled out of 'em
until it turns yellow and stinks like sulphur.
A heapin' helpin' of savoy cabbage that has just
been tenderized by steam, and whacked with a big
pat of the unhealthy kind of butter and some S&P,
and I'm in hawg heaven. Although beet tops are
my ultimate favourite green veggie. Some knackwurst
on the side, and yer off 'n runnin'.

In my book, lima beans are still irredeemable and
irrepairable. Ketchup renders 'em choke-down-able,
but that's just a kludge. Cheese sauce might help,
if it's zested-up enough.

Oh, gawd, 'n then there's mung beans. pthththtththth.

I'm sure glad I'm not in jail, being served platefuls
of lima beans or mung beans or garbanzos for dinner.
With no bottle o' ketchup in sight.

Life can be a Leona Helmsley sometimes.

cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ozark Bicycle said:

landotter said:

DI said:

I don't have time to read all this helmet [censored], would someone volunteer to
summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
important may be said by someone..

Jaunty caps: 7R 1E
Helmuts: 4R 2E

Fan attendance was spotty, but there was an unusual amount of singing
along to the organ numbers.

This whole thing sounds like a seventh inning stretch. ;-)

Landotter is filling-in for Harry Caray ;-)

Let's get 'im to sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame.

Anyways, the side with the most 'E's loses every time.

Those Surly /wool/ cycling caps are intriguing.

I always wanted to see Mel Torme up in the pressbox w/
Harry Caray, supporting him in a belted-out version of
Take Me Out To The Ballgame. They'd probably have to
share the single microphone, without fightin' over it,
'n tryin' to grab it from each other.

If not Mel Torme, I'd have settled for David Lee Roth.
That'd be wild.

Y'know whom I also think could wonderfully lead a belted-out,
heartfelt version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the
7th inning stretch? Etta James. Or Koko Taylor. Or the
Marshall Tucker Band. Or Van (TB Sheets) Morrison.

Maybe Roger Daltrey, but I'm not so sure he understands baseball.

Jesse Belvin (God rest his beloved soul) would be perfect.

cheers,
Tom

--
At last, my love has come along.

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Quoted message said:

On Aug 19, 9:04 pm, Paul Myron Hobson <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

HA! It's finally getting hot here in Atlanta. Can't wait for the autumn
weather though (all 3 weeks of it).

We've had two weeks of 100+ heat here in Nashvile. Dog days indeed.
The lawn is crunchy and even the zinnias are fading. Still got the
tomatoes and okra hanging in there. ;-)

Meanwhile, we haven't had enough sun for even my Early Girls to turn red. As
usual, it's a race: which will come first, the tomatoes turning red, or the
first frost?

--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
http://www.bicyclemeditations.org/
See the books I've set free at: http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

(Tom Keats) said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ozark Bicycle said:

landotter said:

On Aug 19, 7:29 pm, "DI" <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> I don't have time to read all this helmet [censored], would someone volunteer to
> summarize it when it's over in a few months and tell us the results. I'm
> guessing how it will end, but just maybe by some outside chance, something
> important may be said by someone..

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Jaunty caps: 7R 1E
Helmuts: 4R 2E

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Fan attendance was spotty, but there was an unusual amount of singing
along to the organ numbers.

Quoted message said:

This whole thing sounds like a seventh inning stretch. ;-)

Landotter is filling-in for Harry Caray ;-)

Let's get 'im to sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame.

Anyways, the side with the most 'E's loses every time.

Those Surly /wool/ cycling caps are intriguing.

I always wanted to see Mel Torme up in the pressbox w/
Harry Caray, supporting him in a belted-out version of
Take Me Out To The Ballgame. They'd probably have to
share the single microphone, without fightin' over it,
'n tryin' to grab it from each other.

If not Mel Torme, I'd have settled for David Lee Roth.
That'd be wild.

Y'know whom I also think could wonderfully lead a belted-out,
heartfelt version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the
7th inning stretch? Etta James. Or Koko Taylor. Or the
Marshall Tucker Band. Or Van (TB Sheets) Morrison.

Maybe Roger Daltrey, but I'm not so sure he understands baseball.

Jesse Belvin (God rest his beloved soul) would be perfect.

Nahhhh, Tom Waits accompanied by a ball peen hammer on a brake drum
from a Bel Aire.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Claire Petersky said:

"landotter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

On Aug 19, 9:04 pm, Paul Myron Hobson <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

HA! It's finally getting hot here in Atlanta. Can't wait for the autumn
weather though (all 3 weeks of it).

We've had two weeks of 100+ heat here in Nashvile. Dog days indeed.
The lawn is crunchy and even the zinnias are fading. Still got the
tomatoes and okra hanging in there. ;-)

Meanwhile, we haven't had enough sun for even my Early Girls to turn red. As
usual, it's a race: which will come first, the tomatoes turning red, or the
first frost?

Fortunately, green tomato recipes abound.

I think many of 'em must've been invented in the PNW.

I'm particularly partial to green tomato pie, which
can be as lusciously sweet and satisfying as apple pie.
Maybe it wouldn't hurt to help the green tomatoes out
with some loganberries.

Then there's pickled green tomatoes, and chutney.

But, yeah. A nice, plump, red, homegrown tomato is
indeed something to behold and admire.

So, I'm rootin' for your tomatoes.

cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

In article <[email hidden]>,

Claire Petersky said:

Quoted message said:

The weather is changing. Autumn winds are rushing in,
and stirring the dead air of summer. The local wildlife
is frantically grabbing whatever's available, in
catch-as-catch-can mode. I think maybe it'll be time
for full-fingered gloves sooner than I'd like.

Oh goodness, yes. On our ride this last weekend, I could see the vine maples
already beginning to turn.

And those helicoptery eastern-maple seeds have
been gently gyrating earthwards. And falling
horse chestnuts have been thunking & splattering
on the roofs of parked cars.

How I recall September walks to school when that
was happening.

There's a stretch along E 22nd Ave, between Knight Road
& Victoria Drive, alongside Lord Selkirk School, where
many such eastern maples grow. The floral greenness of
that infra-urban area would impress you. This is my
home stompin' grounds -- a backwater part of east
Vancouver that was once known as Cedar Cottage.
They had to give it a name because the Inter-Urban
stopped there, right by Tommy Geer's Drugstore at
the Victoria/Commercial diversion.

Ernie's Corner Grocery Store remains at the
corner of 20th & Welwyn. I guess Ernie himself
is long gone. The sign remains.

I understand a certain Great War veteran took it
upon himself to plant those trees, and many others,
to commemorate his fallen comrades and the efforts
they gave. For a couple of decades I walked beneath
the shade of those trees that were an unacknowledged
gift, on my way to & from school.

Many of 'em are still there.

Quoted message said:

It's cool and dampish out there right now, and as
I sit here drinking tea, I have to get up the motivation to get out, on the
bike, and on the way to work.

Wah! Wah!

Why is winter so long, and summer so short?

Anyways, at least we can comiserate.

"I'm going back to the ones that I know,
with whom I can be what I want to be!

Just one week for the feeling to go,
and with you there to help me
then it probably will."
-- Jethro Tull

cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

landotter said:

(Tom Keats) said:

If not Mel Torme, I'd have settled for David Lee Roth.
That'd be wild.

Y'know whom I also think could wonderfully lead a belted-out,
heartfelt version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the
7th inning stretch? Etta James. Or Koko Taylor. Or the
Marshall Tucker Band. Or Van (TB Sheets) Morrison.

Maybe Roger Daltrey, but I'm not so sure he understands baseball.

Jesse Belvin (God rest his beloved soul) would be perfect.

Nahhhh, Tom Waits accompanied by a ball peen hammer on a brake drum
from a Bel Aire.

The angle-grinder and steam column version was light years better.

--
Dane Buson - [email hidden]
.... when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer
has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
-- Fred Brooks

In article <[email hidden]>,

Dane Buson said:

landotter said:

(Tom Keats) said:

If not Mel Torme, I'd have settled for David Lee Roth.
That'd be wild.

Y'know whom I also think could wonderfully lead a belted-out,
heartfelt version of Take Me Out To The Ballgame during the
7th inning stretch? Etta James. Or Koko Taylor. Or the
Marshall Tucker Band. Or Van (TB Sheets) Morrison.

Maybe Roger Daltrey, but I'm not so sure he understands baseball.

Jesse Belvin (God rest his beloved soul) would be perfect.

Nahhhh, Tom Waits accompanied by a ball peen hammer on a brake drum
from a Bel Aire.

The angle-grinder and steam column version was light years better.

That might be a little overboard for such a traditional
and comfortably familiar ol' tune as "Take Me Out to
the Ball Game."

But maybe Alice In Chains could come up with something?

Nazareth's old "Please Don't Judas Me" kinda sounds to me
like a dirge version of Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
Just turn the major key into a minor, and there you are.
One or two steps away from Pearl Jam & the whole grunge
resentment/sarcastic/bitter/despondent thing.

Anyways, wherever Harry Caray is, I hope he and
everyone around him is having a good time.
Even Howard Cosell.

Cubs fan-ship is such an enigma.

cheers,
Tom

--
Smells like MLB attitude
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca