Annamill's gathering 2/10/01

Subject: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 09:31 AM

Hi my friends! It's that time again! The river is frozen, the fireplace is hot, and I have plenty of room and blowup beds. Last night the big full moon on the icey river was magnificent!

There will be plenty of food, plenty of drink( including the vile black stuff Mick ), plenty of friends, plenty of music. I still have my big couch, though it all the worse for wear.

I hope everyone can be there.

Love, annamill (I almost wrote annap again)

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 10:25 AM

No idea how I am getting there but count me in. Thank god! Something to look forward to in these bleak times.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: bill\sables
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 02:18 PM

I don't think I will be able to make this one Anna but I will be there in spirit.
Bill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 02:23 PM

SINSULL, You couldn't make it last year, but we loved your lemon squares. I'm glad you could come this time. Lookin' forward!

I'm sorry Bill. Maybe next time. How are you feeling?

Love, Annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Bert
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 02:28 PM

That's OK. Bill, just make the spirit 'whiskey'.

Anna, is this going to be a dry run for the tour, complete with stage and audience or is it just a Mudcat gathering.

Hurrumph!!!, that didn't sound right "just a Mudcat gathering", but you know what I mean.

I'll practise as though it is going to be on stage.

See Ya!

Bert.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: karen k
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 02:50 PM

I've put it on my calendar. Sure hope to be able to make this one. Will need directions and the motel list you posted before. Can't do the sleeping on the floor thing anymore. Keeping my fingers crossed that I can be there this time. Really looking forward to it.

k

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Naemanson
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 03:43 PM

If I remember right from other posts this will be somewhere in Jersey, right?

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 03:46 PM

Is this open to anyone? And if so, is there anyone from the DC area going with whom I might hitch a ride?

Carol

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: bill\sables
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 04:08 PM

Hi Carol C, I would like to bet that Allan C will be going from WV.
Bill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: CarolC
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 04:11 PM

How about it Allan?

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 04:11 PM

Here we go! Karen, I have a pretty comfortable sofa bed in a private room if you like. You can have it.

Carol, only Mudcatters ;-)

I hope the DC people will come. We have Rib and Marge, Charlie Baum, Kathy, ummm, oh lots of people.

Naemanson, yes we're in Jersey. If you decide to be here, I'll send you directions.

Bert, bring Tre please! Glenn has created a music room with a sound system with mikes and everything. I won't be charging at this gathering ;-), but, if I get enough performers, I could set up a gig easily enough. We'll discuss it.

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: MarkS
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 06:19 PM

Anamill - Sorry, the Mrs and I cannot make it since we will be returning from the Tom Rush 60th birthday bash in St Thomas that day. Otherwise would love to and will try our best to be around the next time. We are in Eastern Pennsylvania so Jersey should not be much of a stretch. Kind of feel bad not to be able to come as would love to meet Catters in person. Sigh
MarkS

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Burke
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 06:25 PM

Is there some other thread with details telling what this gathering is all about?

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Susan of DT
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 07:18 PM

Sorry Anna - I'll be on an airplane heading west for a business trip.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 07:54 PM

Burke, these are simply gathering of 'Catters at anna's home for music, friendship, and food......no real agenda. Anna was the first to open her home to a bunch of people she didn't know and since then we must be the "getting togetherness" group on the net. The tone of this place changed a few years ago and folks began reaching out in the 3-D world and since that time ther are fewer "good friends, unmet" then there used to be. Kast summer, Allan C. and Bill Sables (from England) took off on a big loop of the US staying at 'Catters homes nad having gatherings from Connecticut to Colorado. This is avery different kind of place here and the open feelings and friendships made are pretty significant. If you can, make it to anna' or to one gathering or another.....sometimes as part of fests, sometimes just for fun.

A month or so back, we had one in Manchester, New Hampshire and Manchester, England going on at the same time!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: R!
Date: 13 Jan 01 - 03:08 PM

This sounds very tempting. You're not too many miles northeast of me. Annamill, I'd love to be included in your gathering provided this pinched nerve in my back has healed by then. I'd need the name and number of a nearby hotel.

Rowana

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Allan C.
Date: 13 Jan 01 - 05:46 PM

Anna, you're breaking my heart! You know good and well that I'd swim through beer with my mouth closed to attend another of your gatherings. However, I will not be able to get there this time. *sigh*

Allan

(wanderingawaymumblingtohimselfaboutthecrueltiesofreality)

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jan 01 - 06:54 PM

Well, I'm pretty sure I can make it. Three-day weekend - right? I've never had time or opportunity to sing into a mic before...could be interesting. ("Oh jeez - who let Jeri get near that microphone again. Will someone go sit her down in her chair and give her some cheeze doodles or something...")

Looking forward to seeing you and Honey again, and maybe getting a peek at the wedding photos. It will also be nice to see that lovely house now that you've had a chance to live there a while.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 10:57 AM

Hasn't changed much Jeri. ;-) BTW, don't you remember singing at that little pub when folk1234 came out and we went to hear some folkie type music. You were up there girl! Played some fiddle, did some singing.

Susan, can't you postpone that meeting???? This is much more important!! Will Dick be able to be here??

Rowena, because this is a tourist area, the motels can be expensive. Roger (Rib) and Marge stay at a Red Roof motel nearby. Maybe I can get the number from them. You're more than welcome to sleep here. The sleeping is mostly rustic. On blowup beds in the gym, or the music room, or on a big couch in the living room. This couch holds two people, one at each end. One end is already spoken for for Jeri. But the other is open.

Allan, your heart is not breaking half as bad as mine. :-(

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: R!
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 12:27 PM

What a dear you are, Annamill. Thanks for your very kind offer but rheumatoid arthritis makes it difficult for me to get around easily. I will try the Red Roof Inn. Looking forward to this.

Rowana

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 12:30 PM

Well, Reen. I see on the other thread that you have a new name. Well, a very nice one too! You'll find this a wonderful place and wait till you meet them in person and hear the talent of our 'catters.

I'm refreshing this thread to get more Mudcatter's to come to this gathering. So....

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 12:40 PM

Microphone???? What microphone????

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 12:46 PM

I have a music room set up for Honey's band "The Jettyrat's" (not folk). It has a new sound system with two mikes. We can even record if we like. It'll be fun. It'll be a not so dry run for future gigs.

By the way, it's much nicer than the old, cold, damp basement.

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: folk1234
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 04:33 PM

Ah! Tales from a past gathering.
Jeri, you not only sang on stage, you danced! As I recall, you were trying to emulate that electric bass player who seemed to jump straight up on every 3rd or 4th beat. I, of course, sat gentlemanly, quiet, and composed in the audience, clapping politely for those on stage (I think?).
Anna, I don't think I can make it. Jed Marum is going to be up-this-a-way around then. Plus I'd need some boondoggle, at taxpayers' expense, to get to NJ next month.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 05:14 PM

Folk1234, I don't remember jumping. I certainly don't think I would have jumped while I was playing. Singing, maybe. Weren't you off to one side playing Jimi Hendrix style air guitar with your teeth?

I'll see if I can learn any old Heart songs before the gathering. Or maybe some Stevie Nicks, or Linda Ronstadt or Joni Mitchell or Janis Joplin, or...maybe I just better forget it.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 05:18 PM

Basement?? Now I really am confused. I thought we fishing off the dock? But if Jeri is going to jump up and down maybe we better keep it in doors.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Allan C.
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 05:29 PM

SINSULL, the only cure is to go there and see for yourself. I have not seen the new digs, but it has to be a true marvel if it is any nicer than the former home.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 07:39 PM

If I can get some transportation issues worked out, I may be there. Sounds like a great event. How far ahead in advance do you need to know?

Carol

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Jan 01 - 07:43 PM

(Jeez... "ahead in advance". Duh! I must be from the Department of Redundancy and Repetition Department.)

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 12:45 PM

CarolC, you only said that so that you could say that!!!

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: GUEST,Pete peterson
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 12:55 PM

sounds like fun! hope to be there-- i will need directions to the new Place. (I found the old one all right)will Susan of DT and Dick G be there (I hope?)

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Naemanson
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 02:11 PM

Boy, that's a no-kid weekend. I wish there was some way to get there from here. Someday trains will run from Maine to the rest of the world but not now. Anyone willing to carpool?

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Naemanson
Date: 18 Jan 01 - 03:35 PM

That's from Maine, of course.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Clifton53
Date: 20 Jan 01 - 08:28 AM

Hope to be there on the saturday, can't say fer sure yet but I will make every effort, just hope the weather's ok for traveling so everyone can get there. Peace

Clifton

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 20 Jan 01 - 06:25 PM

I spoke to Susan and Dick and Susan is going to cali for an important meeting, but Dick will be there. Clifton, I'll have the black vile stuff ready ;-) Will be good to see everyone and to meet some new friends. I sure hope you can make it Naemanson and Carol.

Everyone is welcome.

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: CarolC
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 06:28 AM

This is a big disappointment for me, annamill. I was really looking forward to getting to meet you and the other folks at your gathering. However, it looks like I'm going to be out of the country on that weekend. I really appreciate you making me feel welcome, and I hope I can make it to your next gathering.

Have a great time, everybody.

Carol

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 04:12 PM

Just re-freshing to keep interest peaked. Everyone's welcome! Food, drink, music, and Mudcats.

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 05:07 PM

Yeah annap....Carol is throwing you over to go to Orillia in the middle of the witer to meet some dubious 'Catters up there. Makes you feel pretty bad doesn't it? Mid-winter in Ontario at a place that you can see all of from the bed of a pickup and has a penchant for closing down about 3 in the afternoon. A place so devoid of anything that one of its residents, a certain Little Hawk, has nothing to do but read symbolism into long winded Dylan songs and hold worship services for Major Tom, psychotic astronaut. A town where a single lit fart constitutes a fireworks display. A little village with a mall so boring that the store owners go to people's homes to hang out. A micropolis so small that Tim Horton's serves the coffee after its 20 minutes old.....often several days after.

How does this make you feel anna? I'd write her and complain if I were you!!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Clifton53
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 05:51 PM

I will be there one way or the other, just have to iron out a few work schedule details. If I can help anyone get there, let me know.

Clifton53

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 06:05 PM

So Spaw, how do you really feel about Orillia? ;-)

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:28 AM

'spaw, this just goes to show.. put Mudcatter's together anywhere and there will be music, love, all the warmth you could use. Rather there or at my place, fun will be had by all.

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Big Mick
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:51 AM

Shit...........gotta gig that weekend........I will make one of these, Anna m'love. The best to you and Honey. I will be cooking seafood when I come........

Love to all...Mick

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:58 AM

Promises, promises...

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Naemanson
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:59 AM

Clifton53,

You got a deal! Just swing by Maine on your way and pick me up! *BG*

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: R!
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:11 PM

Is this still on? I need directions.

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: Clifton53
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 08:36 AM

Sorry Naem, if I could fly I would be glad to come get 'ya.(BG) I was thinking more if someone could get close, or take a train to my town etc.

Clifton

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 01:04 PM

Reen, I've sent off your direction in PM. If anyone else needs directions let me know. I've moved, you know. From the little house in Sea Bright with the damp celler to Little Silver and a big warm music room.

All are welcome!

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 02:41 PM

Evidently this weekend is also a holiday weekend (Lincoln's Birthday) and some people will be staying til Monday which is fine with me. I'll take that day off if people would like to carry this over one more day. What fun!

Love, annamill

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 03:09 PM

Annamill-

COuld you send me directions, too? Or run off a map and provide a link to it. Or sumthin'....

Subject: RE: Annamill's gathering 2/10/01
From: annamill
Date: 30 Jan 01 - 12:12 PM

Dick, I sent off your directions. I have moved out of Sea Bright last August just before the wedding. So if anyone needs new directions, please PM me and I'll send them along. I'm getting excited. (easy 'spaw!)

Love, Annamill