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Back patio. Mayfield. The 1950’s.
Wally and Beaver are out wreaking havoc in the neighborhood. Ward turns the chicken on the grill while Fred and Gwendolyn are absorbed in a game of pinochle.
Enter June, smiling ear-to-ear, carrying a giant tray of deviled eggs. Is she actually glowing? June is wearing a red dress that swirls and sashays in the summer breeze – it looks almost identical to our Short-Sleeve 1947 Dress. It hugs her hips in such a way that even Fred looks up from his deck a wee bit longer than Gwendolyn would like.
So, what is your go-to outfit for a summer evening barbecue? Aside from apron and tongs, that is.
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My favorite line from that teevee show..."Ward, you were kind of hard on the Beaver last night"
Ya know, that's just something that makes me laugh...
Now, for Summer fashion; I never use a fork when grilling- a long tong (that clampy thingy) is much better. The best strategy for grilling is to gently grab the steak,and turn it once, and then to let it rest, after the 'touch' is the same as your web (the firmness of the place between your thumb and forefinger,when squeezed) for 3/4 as long as it took to cook. Then put it back to reheat, for only a moment. MMMMMMMMM, you are now at GRADUATE level of the BBQ U .....
Oh wait...this wasn't just about food.....
FOO! can you realllllly live in the 'burbs' without a BBQ? (and IKEA furniture?)
Or a giant brightly coloured plastic bowl to hold the chips........................mmmmmmmmm chips..................and dip..................and hotdogs...........................
Mornin' RY..................you are holding the fort well.....................................
Suburbs, in Texas ... are small Towns, not just "Bedroom Communities" that people escape to after a day's Grind in The City ... Small Towns with Names like, Bugtussel, Gun Barrel, Mule Shoe, Possum Walk, n' such ....... In the "Subirbs" we find Outdoor Cooking, and they call it, "Charcoaling" or "Grilling" ... some even call it, Barbecue ....... but, it is NOT Bar-B-Q
... Hickory is just fine for cookin' over, but if Texas Smoked Bar-B-Q is what your aimin' for ... you need Mesquite Wood, and/or Pecan Wood ... and it does a lot of Flavor-Good to throw a handful of Pecans (Shells n' All) on the Coals, while they're glowing white-hot ....... When you go to make the Sop, do NOT put sugar in the mix, or any kind of Syrup, like that runny crap they make in Cincinnati, or parts of NORTH Carolina ... a little Wildflower Honey maybe, in proportion to whether you're makin' two gallons of Sop or ten ... but count on the sweetness of your meat to come from the caramelized Vidalias that we import from, GEORGIA(Also in The SOUTH) Bar-B-Q Sop starts in a Cast Iron Dutch Oven or Cauldron, just like any Proper Gravy, so's you can build the pot up from the bottom, one ingredient at a time, giving the flavors time to meld together, and not just dissipate and become diluted, or overtaken by one ingredient or another ... and always go easy on the Salt ... (Sea Salt is Best) NOTE: If you are doing Lamb ... always sautee' or at least boil the Garlic before it touches the Meat or goes in the Gravy ... Raw Garlic is too sulphurous not to clash badly with the natural sweetness of the meat ... A simple, quick dish for a Lite Dinner(what yankees call, Lunch) is a chunk of Lamb with a bowl of whatever Sop to dip in, on the table ... and on the plate with the meat, two thin slices of French Bread or Ciabatta, toasted, and slathered with ripe Avacado(with a tiny bit of Lime Juice mixed in) a Tinkerbelle Pinch of Sea Salt sprinkled over, and top the Avacado with a generous schmear of Grapefruit Marmalade ... Serve with a Laurent-Perrier Rose', chilled to thirty-six Degrees ... A dish I found in Tunisia years ago .......
Since you mentioned it, ROADYACHT .......
In Louisville Kentucky they are now making a free range organic bourbon, it is not quite up to par with the good stuff, it has a low alcohol content, I think it is bottled at 15 proof. They are not permitted to label it as bourbon. I believe they call it Subbourbon. (courtesy Guy Noir)
Is this the Guy Noir of PrivateEye fame?
Is this the Guy Noir of PrivateEye fame?
That's the guy.
That's the guy.
I might have located Smokey hanging out in the burbs... http://video.foxnews.com/v/1777329236001/madison-wisconsin-explains-fox-news-hate
RY - You are so bad .... Your favorite quote from the Leave It To show!!
All advice on the grilling is taken in and considered. My fellow grills so well, I can't imagine there are ways his technique could be improved. We have grilled something nearly every night....I just do veggies and salad, and he cooks the main course: pork chops, chicken quarters, filet mignon, Boston butt, Cornish game hen, lamb, shrimp, salmon, and anything we want....Of course, some of those are really smoked with hickory chips and water, the lid down, but all come out delicious.
As for Mr. P's dress that he is featuring above, I love it, but it looks best on a gal who is 5'8" and not over 135 lbs.... which has not been me for many years! I can admire it on someone else, and wish I still had my girlish figure, but will not buy it so as not to compromise the dress. Wonder if Mr. P will ever sell clothes designed to help those of us with a Kathy Bates/ Mrs. Doubtfire figure.
I went to a barbeque @ a nudist camp once. Made clothing selection quite simple but an apron was absolutely necessary and I do believe it might (should) be required by OSHA or there might be a resulting frivulous lawsuit. I consider cooking for anyone other than yourself and/or your lover in the nude "bad" naked. Prefer Margaritaville attire in the warm months and my old Mangy Moose sweatshirt in the coooler months. However when guest are invited I have a collection of aloha shirts including my favorite featuring the evolution of the surfboard by Paradie Found (Magnum PI's brand). Wooden buttons are a must. I think when you gather your duds the next morning to toss in the laundry hamper they should remind you of the fun you had the night before
We barbeque and or grill 12 months of the yearand really enjoy it. Salmon on slow qued on a cedar plank is excellent. Make out own sauce and use no sugar, honey,molasses, or any sweetener. Don't want to hide the flavor of the meat but instead try to enhamce the taste.Have many friends that are winery owners that request the sauce and the give me a bottle of wine when I bring them a jar of my sauce.I have found that with queing low and slow that timing is very important. Is this a two or three beer roast. the roasts or turkey breasts that are for me a three beer are for my soon either a four or five beer cooking time but its funn that the thing to be eaten is on the grill for the same length of time either way. Have got to figure that out someday.
Morning!
Paolos loved your Ivan poem!
My daughter kidnapped me over the weekend...haven't been camping IN YEARs!!
Think I'm recuperated!!
The guys are the grill chefs and I'm not picky!!
Have been known to be in a dress before!!
RY....now that just makes me laugh too.
My favorite go to thing for an outdoor barbecue? Insect repellant.
We like to cook out.......eat in.
Jalopkin~my favorite Texas 'burb' will always be Happy, Texas...I had the pleasure of living there for a couple years...great people!
Paolos~you got me!
Boots are always a sure bet, but regardless of what I wear to the BBQ, I always seem to be the one who leaves wearing the baked beans.
Oh! Forgot to say the camping revolved around a hog roast.
It was fantastic. It was done in a smoker, though. I have been to a hog roast where it was done in the ground. That was to die for!!!!
The boars head in hand bear I
Bedecked with bay and rosemary.
That, as Carol reminds me is delicious cooked in a fire-pit.
Miss Carolbabcock ~ I was only following IVAN's lead, I can't claim it as my own. It was writ by our old friend Will from across the pond back in the days when Ivan was just a wee lad (Ivan won't fess up but he has been around for a loooong time).
The boar's head, as I understand,
Is the rarest dish in all this land... Good to have you back, Miss Hazel.
Back in the 60s I'd be out there at my grill cooking dinner in the rain, snow, sleet, you name it. Of course I used an umbrella a lot of the time.
My neighbors thought I was nuts and that grilling was only for summer.
Every thing tastes better off a grill.
Girlls RULE!
er...grills RULE!
GRAYGOOSE: Good On You !!! Happy , Texas is a neat little Town, indeed !!! Pleasant people to be around, its pretty, quiet, and it was called, "Happy" originally ... because they only had to wait two years for Indoor Plumbing !!! Up till the Vitreous China arrived, Indoor Plumbing was a two gallon Tomato can over in the corner, about a third full of Saw Dust ... (Now, there's a fact that National Geographic didn't even know !!!)
BTW; Your stuff is Good ... but I'm stickin' with FINLANDIA ....... No intents offended ...
Was that a 3.8 liters per flush tomato can?
Korthal....you're so right! Everything does taste better on a grill. We've grilled for a Christmas party with the grill in our garage and the door up. And yep, we do hear muttering about those crazy neighbors.....that is, unless they've joined us.
Last night.
http://www.petermanseye.com/photos/610011
The night before.
http://www.petermanseye.com/photos/609961
hello all, been following this "chat" for just about a month now. one questions, why is everyone talking about food? today's topic is June's dress and barbeque attire. so let me start please. years ago, pre-internet, I purchased Peterman's nantucket sweater (still have it) if it's a chilly evening it's my go to piece. I may be eating hotdogs but my sweater makes me feel like I'm eating lobster and looking like Andi Macdowell. (Kathy Bates would also look amazing) And to keep you foodies happy - I LOVE deviled eggs - but only if I'm wearing my fav sweater! (p.s. please no devil eggs receipes) :)
REDSUIT, welcome to the fray.
Most of us get over the topic and on to food because we love to eat and drink.
Always in moderation.LOL!!!
redsuit ~ I can't speak for any of the others, it is a chore for me to even speak for myself, but I always stay on topic.
So does Tommy Typical. That is because we (Tommy and I) have found an interconnectedness between all things, both animate and inanimate, which is why TT is comfortable attending a nudist BBQ and I am comfortable reading about his little quirk, as it were. We (the Village and I, not that I can speak for any of the others) think TT may still have some residual issues from his free spirited hippie days, but who are we to judge? In all fairness, before I can give you a thorough report on why we are the way we are, I need to know something about you. I only have one question. Are you teacher, active or retired?
Greetings: "...apron and tongs." I always wear just an Apron and Thongs.
Ivan, Ivan, Ivan ~ In my freezer, where most people keep frozen orange juice, are bottles of Grey Goose -- my drink of choice with olives and ice.....to paraphrase you, Finlindia is nice, but......ahhhh, Grey Goose
Captain Neptune ~ You and TommyT spend way too much time hanging out together or seperately.
I know I'm still fairly new 'round here, but I for one think we should have a village get-together/BBQ... Clothed, please and LOTS of drinks (of course).
mbailey.........I don't know about the dress code you state, 'cuz up above Mr. Peterman clearly states "Aside from apron and tongs." as if that is, indeed, a choice of apparel. I will bring deviled eggs------but, rest assured, I'll be clothed and leave the apron and tongs at home--just so there will be no confusion.
Any grilling I do I do fully dressed...at least from the waist down. In days of old when I had hair I was in the bath in my hotel room in our nation's capital and walked into the hot end of a hairdryer with the' tender vitals', as it were. The primal scream I let out was heard back in Hanging Dog NC, the place of my birth!
Welcome redsuit to our happy little Village of the happy and rather unique people (self excluded...I'm rather plain). We always revert to food, that being our fav topic. With several chefs in the house and many gourmands it is necessary to please our raving appetities.
mbailey, I'm relatively new as well, so don't worry about it. I've suggested we all take a tramp steamer around the world and didn't get a single taker. I wonder why?
TT---someday I'll tell you the story of my ex-father-in-law and the nudist camp. What a hoot! Moral being--when you are old, never trust a fart! (And that was coined before Bucket List, which is a great movie.)
Ivan, I'm converting and letting you adopt me, as long as you promise to feed me like that! Of course, you will have to adopt our sweet Roadie, paolos, and TT as well...I like to have fun when I go grillin!
Miss Hazel, I'm so very very glad you are feeling better and have joined us again!
Smoke wafting up from the grill always will travel in the direction of a beautiful dress...which is one reason to let the men do all the grilling. I prefer to stay in my favorie halter dress, coll and collected, hair done to perfection, tossing about light discussion about world affairs with the other ladies. Of course we all have on our summer hats and are secretly comparing..."Whose looks the most scrumptious? Where did she get that thing? I'd kill for that one!" Me, I just accept the adoring looks and move on to religion or politics, those also being such simple things to share with those you enjoy the company of.
My dress is always linen, crisp and cool against the skin, worn with a hint of scent that just lingers long enough to say"She was here...."
That's COOL not coll!!!!
Eye Guys, why don't you put spell check in this thing???????
Of many things I think: "Of cabbages and sealing-wax, and whether pigs have wings." One of our topics leaves me puzzled: From our fine cross-section should come an answer. To some, "grill" and "barbeque" are verbs; to others, nouns -- "noun-people" tend to separate from "verb-folk."... anyone know?
Root canal surgery and I fought, and it won. Home to find my computer ailing, and in computer hospital. Missed y'all.
Welcome back Miss Georgia! Sorry to hear about the root canal...yuck! I've never had one, but my Mom has had several and they seemed too aweful to even think about!
Pooka Report---she ate some of her food by herself today! YEAH!!!!!!!
Missed you too, Georgia. Grill and barbeque are both nouns and verbs. In the UK, a grill is part of the kitchen cooker thing where heat is applied from above. I think in America, you call it a broiler. A barbeque is an outdoor cooking device that produces heat from underneath, traditionaly by means of a charcoal fire.
Monkeys make toast under the gorilla.
Korthal, how exquisite! One of those for my hair and a red dress for the barbecue then add Ivan's cooking, a side from ChefDeb and Hazel's smile and we can all enjoy the night away. Andy, can you supply the drinks?
MissGeorgia ~ A short time back, Ivan sent us a promo about the Labor Day festivities on Tybee Island. It's the 4th or 5th annual. I had every intention of taking the family down but someone, and she knows who she is (she may or may not be lurking just inside the village gates), messed up my schedule and it won't happen this year. If you should go, I expect a full report. I said some one, but in truth there were some two involved. I wonder if the Halls of Montezuma are going. It sounds like a fun time for all. Maybe next year.
RUSTY:
To get one for your hair you'd need to grow your own. Which is possible.
It only lasts that one night so you have to be there to snatch it before it's gone.
If you or any other one wants some send me a private message. I ship.
Miss Korthal ~ Does the bloom close up or fall off? I admire your patience and your green thumb. I was watching the Medal ceremony after the Gold basketball game and chuckled when those giants accepted the tiny bouquets of flowers. I chuckled a bit longer when I noticed that two out of the group raised them to their noses to smell the proverbial roses.I am easily amused.
PAOLOS:
It closes up and just hangs there.
If you leave it it is supposed to become some kink of fruit. I don't know what kind and I don't know how long that would take.
I'll not find out because I always pinch it off and take it to bed with me so I can enjoy the fragrance as long as possible.
KORTHAL.....................I look forward to your flower picture and updates, it's part of the lore and a nice thing to look for...................
The photograph of Levittown makes me think of Eddie Money because he grew up there & I named one of our dogs Eddie after Mr. Money. Because I just love him & his voice. He played the Scituate festival this year and I will miss him. I saw a documentarty on Levittown ( or maybe it was a feature on EM......not quite sure) & he was featured w/ his parents & I just remember how happy and loving they were w/ each other. Those hooded eyes, oh my....................OT, BUT it DOES link to the photo, does that count?
PARK & CHEFD...................how's tricks?
IVAN & MOOSE..............................you made me hungry this morning.................
HAZEL....................good to see you...................GEORGIA................I hope you are feeling better..................
Where is that wild & crazy Smokey? probably grilling some hotdogs.....................mmmmmmmm.....................hotdogs.................
Who the hell is Smokey? I hope I'm not losing my marble ... but is it that guy who was a figment of Bert's imagination a couple days back? Or have we picked up another one?
Redsuit: are you evoking Santa Claus, or are you yet another incarnation of one of our people who suffer from multiple-muliple-muey multiple personalities?
korthal~it really IS beautiful...so tropical :) It looks as though it's fairly good sized. I have some old school "giant moonflowers" that are blooming now. I'll try to get a couple good pictures for you this evening. They bloom all night into the morning hours and the flowers are 8-12 inches across. Hummingbirds love them...
redsuit~nice to have you here! I've only been hanging around the village for a couple weeks myself so it's nice to know I'm not the only newbie. I've found that I've quickly become addicted as this 'place' gives my mind so much room to run. I have enjoyed having something else to think about besides my home, home on the range, where...you get the idea...
Ginger, so glad to hear Pooka is improving! and glad you are improving as well, hazel! Keep up the good work girls!
George Hall~I am STILL laughing about your hair dryer incident! Tender vitals, now THAT was something I'd not heard before but will, from now on, refer to them as such!
Ivan~Thanks for the info regarding Happy! I did not know that about the name or the plumbing, but I don't doubt it. I looked after a cow herd about 30 miles Southeast of Happy and was able to ride out to the caprock and look across the canyon to where the last of the Comanche rode in and out of Palo Duro Canyon...the REAL Trail of Tears. I felt privileged to be there. It seems like hallowed ground. Are you familiar at all with an artist by the name of HD Bugbee? He had a small sketch of the same spot but I doubt many people would recognize it. I'd probably give my right arm to have the sketch or at least a print.
Some day I will have to try the Finlandia...My gray goose is actually after the nicknames I gave my 2 grown boys...One named Grayle and the other, Gus...thus, the gray and the goose. :) Then I was introduced to the vodka and it just seemed appropriate to have as a favorite! The bottles used to be so much prettier a decade ago...as was I, I suppose...
I was about to serve up some texas barbeque with Robert Earl
when I discovered the stain on my white tee shirt...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPGqQWjM-ZQ
Miss Park ~ I am afraid I may have frightened Miss redsuit away. I hope not. I did not intend to. I am not the big bad wolf. I am certain that Smokey was a bertgaffe. Miss Bebe mercilessly jumped on it although I tried to dissuade her. I think it would be a hoot if TMGMIMW would sign in as Smokey, but we all know that's not happening.
Park, I'm so glad you asked....and Paolos so glad you answered......I have not been reading very assiduously lately I admit and so have missed a few things here and there......
GRAYGOOSE:
Do try to post some photos. I'd love to see what flower you have. What color are they? Mine are also large but only 8" to 10".
MISS ANDY: As they say in the Poison Ivy Ward, To Itch His Own !!! I have no qualms about Your Preference for Graygoose ... it IS Good ... and preferences are those to which you are certainly entitled(thats a very Jewish Word, entitled, so I use it as often as I can, especially dealing with The Tribe) Vodka is the Diminutive Form of the Russian Word for Water ... Finlandia is like the Run-Off from the Glaciers ... Heavy/Thick, super cold, clean tasting, no aftertaste, smooth and no medicinal tinge ... I was mixing it with Cranberry Juice long before that combination became High-Camp with Yuppies and other effete snobs, tho' I much prefer just to pour it three fingers deep in a glass, all by itself ....... I'll just have to get a couple of cases of both, for the Village Picnic ... !!!
MISS GINGER: You are alway most Welcome ... but it helps around here, if one REALLY likes to eat ... I cook the things I grew up eating, and Recipes I have picked up in my Travels ... I would adopt the entire Village, if I could ... I have never known another Group of Persons that I have enjoyed so well ... As You age with us, you will come to know exactly what I mean when I say that ... We have more in common here than just an appreciation of Mr. Peterman's discoveries ... We suffer a Jerk once in a while, but they never stay ... Some of us get busy for long spates ... but we always come back, because we all like to EAT !!! (BTW; Spellcheck is no fun ...)
PAOLOS: I am suddenly reminded that I owe you a Kee Chee Recipe ... I have spaced that now, for almost six months ....... My apologies, and I will get on it soon's I clear the decks of this evening ... I'll come in early to do Supper for the Krewe, and I will bang it out ...
MISS GEORGIA: Sad to hear about your Dental Doin's, and can heartily recommend steadily sipping, Bisquit ... and a cup or two every four hours of Chicken Soup ... and don't watch the News for a day or two, to avoid the tendency to grit your teeth ... Read some Books by Momlly Bloom ... they will definitely make you feel better !!!
MISS BEBE: That was the whole idea ... "The Best Part of Wakin' Up ... is Bisquit in Your Cup ..." A little Coffee Royal will jumpstart your day , and you need not be bothered with Starbucks, or places like that, who serve Dishwater with feygeleh sounding names and stupid Prices , so ridiculous thay make John Maynard Keynes happy !!!
MISS PARK4: I'm with you on the Smokey thing ....... I musta been absent that day .......
GRAYGOOSE: WOW !!! What a Great anecdote !!! Thank You for sharing it with me, and I understand completely about the Choice ... Thats one of the Best reasons I ever heard ... May Every Thing Work Out Exactly the Way You Want It To .......
Well now, I'm off to be The Whizzer, and then I'm gonna keep my Word to Paolos .......
See y'all later .......
Good for you Pooka, I'm praying for you!!George, Tender Vitals on the 'Alfa's show are called fruit. go figure. Thanks for the laugh!! I have my first book signing for Daddy's Magic Lunchbox on Sept 1, I am so excited!! It's my true childhood story. look it up on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Sorry, I had to share!!!! GINGER=Be Well:} You Too Haz:}
PARK..................it is the figment & it lives, it LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PAOLOS...............my deepest regret was not seeing R.E. last year when he was very close by.............won't let that mistake happen again. I can't help myself, Smokey gets me all.....................well, corndoggy...........................
IVAN......................mmmm.....mmmm......good...........................
Mmmmmmmmiss Bebe ~ Robert Earl will be in Jackson October 25. Make the professor drop what he's doing, gas up the Auto and make it a long weekend. If he whines about it, serve up your best June Carter Cash and tell him you're going to Jackson, and that's a fact.
SUDDEN THOUGHT: No matter where each of us lives, the sun never sets on those of the Village.
Eddie Haskell puts shiny new pennies in his Bass Weejuns, slaps on some Skin Bracer and a freshly pressed button down and intrudes on the whole backyard affair. He watches as June bends over to pour the lemonade and remarks to Wally. "Gee Wally, you're mom is hot." Wally reddens. "Gosh Eddie, That's my mom." In every small town there was a sexy mom with a well turned ankle, a buxom teacher fresh out of college, a soprano in the church choir who wore a polka dot bikini at the Country Club pool who drove the little boys wild. June must have been a beautiful baby cause baby look at her now. Cut to sizzling burgers and wolf whistle sound effects. Clothes don't make the woman. The woman makes the clothes. Nice images JP and just made me dream of Jeannie.
Good morning Villagers, I'm off to work. How all of you have a wonderful day today!!!
bebe, I can relate to missing that close concert...I had my heart set on seeing Dwight Yoakam tonight but didn't buy tickets far enough in advance. Practically all our travels have to be spontaneous due to the nature of ranching and livestock. Robert Earl is, without a doubt, one of the best and it would be a shame to let that venue pass by! Lookout Jackson! Y'all are such inspiration to me! I just checked the concert listings for the stage I intended to see tonight...lo and behold! Guess who's scheduled to perform there next month! Sure as shootin'! REK!! Eureka! The cattle may have to fend for themselves for a day or two...
korthal, I'm fixing to have a big onset of flowers in the next night or two. I'll make it a point to submit a photo. If you decide you want some seeds, let me know! The plant itself becomes like a bush and gets as tall as 3-4 feet. Right now, mine are loaded with white blooms.
I've got to get a move on this morning, so have a great day everyone! Hope to check in later~~ Tata!
http://youtu.be/oMjWV2lqlqQ
GRAYGOOSE:
Can't wait to see you photos. I might want some of that. Thanks for the offer.
No new topic yet again today?
Not so far.
Maybe the "Boss" is in a different time zone, and WE are still on his 'old schedule' But don't worry, that just means we'll soon be seeing some 'other time zone' clothes and curi exotica
Good morning all - late lunchtime here, well, yesterday's leftovers. Strange how it tastes better next day.
Maybe J Peterman went fishin' with Peter Lake and Smokey. If we had a new topic, we would have missed TT's scene with Eddie, Wally and June. I am certain there are still those moms out there that drive the young boys wild, but now days they get sent to jail for it.
No disrespect intended, but if we were casting for a production, I had already been thinking that TT would be a shoe-in for Eddie Haskell. "oh HelLO mrs. Cleaver...."
His work is never done
http://youtu.be/82E1d-2T0qc
CD ~ Only because of his great acting talent. If we are type casting I'd go with...I better not say. I am in enough trouble already.
Uh-oh the last couple of times people had trouble finding the new day's topic I got into it no problem, but now I'm on the outside looking in. Can someone please show us the way to the rabbit hole? It's my first break of the morning and I need my daily dose of village banter to make it to noon!
Miss Graygoose ~ Gotta love that Texas music! Pat Green,
Billy Jo Shaver, Townes Vandamm Zandt, Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle,
David Letterman. It’s not country, it’s not western, it’s bigger than all that,
it’s Texas. Don’t get me started on
Texas music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQW9Y9frows
I, too, can't into today.....even trying to sneak in a back door.
So far all the doors and windows are locked. We'll have to wait till someone gets home.
More coffee.
Paolos! You opened a can of worms~~~~ Texas music is in my soul!
(from Nanci Griffith's "Heaven")
I think I'll go to Heaven
I heard it's peaceful there
They don't allow your troubles
Everyone's had their share
If I can be someone who never needs a disguise
Then maybe I'll go to Heaven
Heaven is in your eyes
and one of my favorites...Gulf Coast Highway
http://youtu.be/okUYwIdxRWs
Hmmmmmm......it seems he's gone away for the weekend w/out telling us and leaving the picture of the log cabin for us..........
T for Texas T for Tennessee. In Kinky's book, Heroes of a Texas Childhood, Mr. Friedman writes about Willie and how Nashville so misunderstood him. Willie once laid down in the middle of Broadway on a snowy night and waited for a truck to run over him. When Kinky comments that was a fairly gutsy suicide attempt, Willie responds there ain't much traffic at 3 a.m. in Nashville. Texas Music is about the true gypsy who is defined not as a man who has made millions but one who has spent millions and ending up learning there are some things even the IRS can't take away while leaving a trail of heartbreak at the Hank Williams level. Austin has been at the heart of it all. As Asleep at the Wheel sings I saw miles and miles of Texas all the stars up in the sky. Gene Autry was great. Bob Wills was goldang unbelievable. http://youtu.be/6l7rLA9Jm1I
Word in the Village is that our fearless leader has been spotted with Elvis at a 7-11 Store in Memphis.
Is this not true?
Anybody have any thoughts on suburbia? As in the pic at the top of this prolonged topic? Do those 'Little boxes made of ticky-tacky that all look just the same' make people more equal? My grandpa, Dad's Dad, had a suburban little box to live in and the neighbours tried to get him sent to a care home because he had filled his backyard with sunflowers that grew to 10ft plus, which they thought was crazy. You had to walk through the paths underneath them to get to the shed at the bottom of the garden - neatly stacked clay pots, old gardening magazines, seed packets with planting dates written on on them, garden tools, an old watering can - and up on the top shef, a dirty old copper kettle with curves sexier than the lady in the red dress. Asking Grandpa if I could take a look, he told me it was a wedding gift to himself and grandma. In the days before they had a cooker, the kettle was over the fire all the time. It must have bought back memories because there was a tear in his eye when he told me to take it home with me as he hadn't the 'elbow grease' to clean it any more. I am by no means the greatest housekeeper in the land, but I do clean that kettle in loving memory of Grandpa - and I plant sunflowers in my garden for him.
T is for Turkey T is for Texas! If you've never been to "Bob Wills Days" in Turkey, then you've missed out! LOL! Lots of mud and booze...but if you happen to have too much of the latter, you wind up locked behind the gates of a 30 foot stock trailer.
We can't forget Joe Ely if we're talking about Austin...http://youtu.be/xMjQE2dapos He was late for the last performance I attended so by the time he finally arrived, I couldn't remember the concert~spent too long in the club car that night~I'm sure it was all good
I understand last year was the 40th anniversary of Bob Wills Day in Turkey, Tx...found this clip so y'all could see what we're missin'
http://youtu.be/ak-IenmNrz4
Pretty "hokey", huh?!
Hazel, I can't imagine neighbors who would object to your grandpa's sunflowers...it wouldn't be the kind of neighbors I would want. Enjoy your treasure from Grandpa's garden :)
Y'all can turn the page now.
thanks Eddie. I've got to say that if anybody plays Eddie Haskell, it's the guy with the quicksilver wit and the naughty streak that runs right through his core. that's you, paolos. I don't think TT was invented yet, in the time of Beaver. TT made his slightly psychedelic debut in the early sixities I think. But you, you were there, in the Cleaver's backyard, getting June's boys in trouble...Eddie Haskell. What a guy. You too paolos.
Miss Park ~ There was something very oleaginous(to use a favorite Miss Bebe word) about Eddie that is most assuredly not Typically Tommy. I think Mr. Typical is better suited to the character of Dennis the Menace maybe even more so than Jay North (I think that was the guy). I must admit that the name I omitted at 11:08 was my own. Oh my friends' mothers knew, I know they knew. I don't remember seeing Eddie's own mother on the show. Now SHE would have been a character study, I wonder who they'd have cast in her role.
You know, never having considered it before, I'd bet that Barbara Billingsly could have carried off both roles, much like Patty Duke and her cousin, her identical cousin.