BS: Around the Kitchen Table

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 25 - 04:22 PM

My wife is on her way to a quilting conference in Portland. The one that's far, far from here. The one in Maine. She shall visit LL Bean's place of business, among other sites. Me? I shall stay here and put up with the sn*w forecast for this evening.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 08 Oct 25 - 06:28 PM

Ate out this evening, and just enjoyed for dessert
an apple-cranberry crisp.
Just sweet enough, and not mushy. Just right.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 25 - 06:11 PM

We use a round table in the kitchen. The dining table is used to measure and cut fabric.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Oct 25 - 09:05 AM

The table I have is different from a dining table that people can sit around and eat at, in a large enough kitchen.

My little table was found in a consignment second-hand shop.
It's wood painted white, but the top has a ceramic finish.
I think it is meant for preparing food and cleaning it off afterwards.

I use it in the living room; the kitchenette is much too small for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 25 - 11:29 AM

Jerry and all, have you come back into the house after a summer out and about? How's it looking at your kitchen table?

I have the Mid-century modern table from my father's house (with all of the leaves and wings up it can seat 12, but I keep it folded down to about 4'x4') set in my sunroom, it's a dedicated space for working jigsaw puzzles. I took them up again during COVID, then slacked for a while, but with the current administration I find that working the puzzle and playing classical music, or sometimes listening to an audiobook, is a great escape. I keep a large sheet of thick clear plastic over the top when I'm not working it to prevent anything from disturbing my progress.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Jul 25 - 06:52 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Jul 25 - 05:47 AM

It sounds like you have made fertile soil. Around here it is all clay.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jul 25 - 05:09 PM

That sounds like a wonderful service, keberoxu!

I have to clear my kitchen table because a friend is coming over for dinner. The garden is producing enough now that the menu is dictated by what is surplus. Today that would be eggplant, tomatoes, and basil.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jul 25 - 03:31 PM

I just attended a service of remembrance for someone I never met.
He was a long-term resident of the retirement community that I just moved into a month ago.
He was also a music critic.
So the remembrances were mixed, with people recalling
the honesty and sharpness of the music reviews,
and the gentleness and reticence of the man himself.

A classical guitarist opened and closed the service with solos.
He closed with the lullaby theme from Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid,
and that gentle melody is still ringing in my ears now.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jul 25 - 11:05 AM

beautiful

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 11 Jul 25 - 10:14 AM

An advisory went out to my part of the retirement community complex.
An apartment down the hall is going to have "Jackhammer" noises throughout the day.
Oh, rapture. At least they warned us first.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Jul 25 - 10:38 AM

Hold onto your illusions of beauty and joy.
Teachers, religions, and politicians grew
limitations to freedom meant to destroy.
The sky can be any color, not just blue.

but beauty belongs to you.

The most glorious truths are illusions
That does not mean they're not real.
Life in the sea and land aren't delusions.
They are as real as the way you feel.

but beauty belongs to you.

We are just an interface that translates.
Reality goes farther than we can see
Illusions like the heavenly gates
for some is as real as can be.

but beauty belongs to you.



donuel

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Jul 25 - 02:52 PM

A notice has been posted, where I am living now,
to watch out for bears appearing on the grounds outside.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 25 - 07:52 PM

The deer are active also in western New England,
where they are eating peas from a friend's raised garden beds.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jul 25 - 06:59 PM

The deer ate all my tomatoes off the plants. Oh well, they helped some creatures snack.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jul 25 - 06:53 PM

I saw a streaming movie '2073'. It is about a dystopia after 8 years of Trump. It is a flashback of history from a future perspective.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Jun 25 - 06:48 PM

The kitchen table is fairly clear, but the kitchen counter (the peninsula next to the sink) is beginning to be crowded with garden produce. I picked two more eggplants today (ask Joe Offer about my garden eggplant) and there are tomatoes in various stages of ripeness on the windowsill while a squash resides in a ceramic colander. And there are bowls of red potatoes everywhere.

Since Joe isn't here, I'll give the summary: he was crossing the US a few years ago and stopped in Fort Worth for a couple of days of touring around. When he pulled up in the driveway it was close to dinner time so I walked over and poked around the garden and came up with a nice-sized eggplant, and made eggplant Parmesan for dinner.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 29 Jun 25 - 02:43 AM

... like children ....

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Jun 25 - 05:34 PM

Dogs have owners, cats have staff ...

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 28 Jun 25 - 09:43 AM

Ptolemy was following me to the shops ....

"Is that your cat?"

"No, he's his own cat. We're his staff."

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Jun 25 - 07:40 PM

I'm living in a retirement community now, and we have a communal dining room; so we sit around a series of dining tables and talk as we eat.

We spent some time talking about pets.
This community permits people who have pets (some restrictions) to bring them when they move in. HOwever, if you move in without a pet, you are not permitted to get one after you arrive.

The people with pet dogs kind of stand out, well, the dogs do, I mean. They make more noise, and they have to be walked.

But tonight I met two roommates, two women, who own a pet cat. The cat owners are harder to spot because the cats don't come out and they are not seen or heard outside of their apartments.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jun 25 - 08:13 PM

Inspiration for today: Try not to be miserable.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Jun 25 - 11:02 AM

I never really left MC. Various medical things (like surgery for a subdural hematoma) and traveling ("Ya got twenny-four hours to git outa town") have curtailed my visits a bit. Yes, I'm on FB and LinkedIn, but that's all. No X or TikTok for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 23 Jun 25 - 08:41 PM

I'm still getting back into the rhythm of this place. I want to respond to to individual posts, but it looks like I have to lump them together. I'm not complaining about the state of folk music in this country. It is what it is. I've had a good, long run and am grateful for it. I ran a folk concert series at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center for 29 years, did a short-lived folk festival there. I played in a lot of festival on the East Coast and as far west as Missouri. I am blessed to have a few old friends and we get together often. On my 90th birthday back on June 14th, I was blessed to have Colin and Myra Healy and Frank and Barbara Shaw here at the house to help me celebrate. We are old friend from way back.

In recent years I have focused more on my writing and have published two award-winning books. Facebook fits my adventures more now, and I've made a slew of friends there. Many of them are here on Mudcat, too. My life is full.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 25 - 06:57 PM

Everybody loves Beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Beer
Date: 23 Jun 25 - 06:45 PM

Goodness, this is getting like old home week. I just came back a few months ago. Made a number of friends and met a good many as well over the years. But to see you Jerry, Donuel, Rap, S R Sage, it feels good. I'm still in contact with a number of mudcatters. Some things you just hold on to.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Jun 25 - 11:14 AM

Ain’t no ancient and obsolete thread title, Jerry. More things have been discussed, settled fought over, plotted, decided, and so on over kitchen tables than in boardrooms. Glad you’re back, even though I’ve been following you on FB.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jun 25 - 04:46 PM

Too bad you experience a "vacuum" in southern Connecticut.
Isn't there a place down there where
someone sings sea shanties all night, once a week?
I've forgotten the man's name now, but he's been around a long time.
No, I haven't seen him, just read about him here on the 'Cat.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Jun 25 - 04:24 PM

Jerry, some of the friends you miss have passed, but their words remain, if it weren't for the technically lost MOAB thread. The talents, shtick, and personality live in our hearts. Your kitchen table is a fond place to be to shoot the breeze.

Subject: RE: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jun 25 - 12:30 PM

Here's your other discussion thread started a few years ago (and back down in BS now that you're logged in again!)
How're my friends doin? (Jerry Rasmussen turns 90)

Welcome back, Jerry. Those kitchen table threads were always a pleasant read. And no surprise you may be sitting with a guitar in your lap as you visit.

Subject: BS: Around the Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 17 Jun 25 - 12:04 PM

I realize this an ancient and probably obsolete title for a thread. I started it many years ago because I didn't see any way to have a general conversation on here. I never liked the annotation that this was BS, or that anything not related to a specific music topic was. I always loved Mudcat, but I probably won't be active if there is no room for general friendly communication. I have that on Facebook. I miss all my friends on here.

I've been sitting around playing songs from the Anthology of American Folk Music. My love of traditional music is still strong, and Folk Legacy labeled my music as the new tradition. I live in a folk vaccum now. I can't travel long distances and most places around here play more contemporary acoustic music. The folk music I here is all Folk music revival songwriters of the sixties. People with a love for traditional music are too scattered, here in southern Connecticut.

My good wishes to all.

Still Jerry after all these years.