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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 01 Oct 10 - 01:34 PM Happy trails to the Getaway, all! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: katlaughing Date: 01 Oct 10 - 09:04 PM I'spose they've made it there by now and are singin'/pickin' up a storm...or maybe the storm was already there? Hope they all have dry beds and feet, at least.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: katlaughing Date: 02 Oct 10 - 11:44 PM Hmmm, guess no one took their laptop to keep us posted OR they're just having too much fun! Hope so and not too soggy! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Liz the Squeak Date: 03 Oct 10 - 03:21 AM Morgana has finally stopped hissing at me. Pretty good... last time it was a whole week! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 04 Oct 10 - 03:39 PM Well,I am in Wheaton MD, Staying at TJ O'Malleys with Chance and Susze on the outskirts of DC!! after a TERRIFIC Getaway, those guys really KNOW how to throw a festival!! Highlights? only 3 days of them, but outstanding Has to be the incident in the Peace Cabin (mostly Mudcat) at about 12.30 this morning when about 20-30 sang Happy birthday to all the tunes for it that the group knew! using multiple harmonies and a wonderful choral effect, If you could imagine a 5 minute piece on the Theme of Happy Birthday by Handel for a small choir, I think that is what you would get!! met a lot of new, and put names to some all ready met people , Will write more later when I get back, have to go wine shopping!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 07 Oct 10 - 08:48 AM Well, I am "Roughing" it in the Marriott in Hanover VA after a very nice visit with TJ and Julie in DC, (sorry I didnt get round to you BillD but things were a bit "busy" in a relaxed way) in a wonderful house full of music,(That TJ can really play Slack Key!!) with Frangipani in bloom outside the door,and mature trees and an amazing collection of Azaleas and the BEST of company, then yesterday we travelled to Hanover VA where The Shivers Played a gig, and this morning we are travelling on to NC, I Knew I was moving further South when the menu at the the Italian restaurant we stopped at for lunch had Grits and fried Okra listed, and last night in The Hanover Tavern it had something called Hush Puppies on the Menu??? Whats that about? back home they are a kkind of Footware!!!!! Chance and Suzette gave a BRILL!!! concert and to my amazement sang a song I first heard in 1956 during the Skiffle boom!!and I still knew the words!!!, It was good to see Mary again, after the Getaway, I like the "New Look" anyway, your Correspondent is called to Breakfast, I will post more and upload pix when I get somewhere more "fixed" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: SINSULL Date: 08 Oct 10 - 08:30 AM When will we see you in Maine, Micca? I have a note to pick you up at the shanty sing on the 16th. Is that right? Mary |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 08 Oct 10 - 10:55 AM Well here I am in North Carolina in the MOST AMAZING House that Chance and Suzette have here on Hanlon Mountain Just outside Ashville, It has more rooms than ALL the houses I have ever lived in put together!!! and views to die for, I will put some Pix up later, along with Getaway Pt2 if I can. The adventures so far, on the way down we stopped at something called "Cracker barrel" for lunch that smelled of spices and was full of strange Bric-a brac, we had a long and tedious (sometimes) journey arriving in Ashville at about 6 pm then Last Night I had Ribs for dinner!! with some sauce that was slightly sweet, but someonethat knows me must have warned them as they put a towel at my place!! instead of a serviette!!, Honest! I didnt get THAT messy, (Liz, Nowhere neaar as bad as the Ice crem incident) and Chance and Suze had something called Hush Puppies with their meal!! I thought that was a kind of footware, I didnt care for the taste, We arrived here on the Mountain after dark and had a really good night sleep and Now I am in My wing of Castle Fortunato, complete with private living room and Bathroom with seperate shower and Bath (Jacuzzi) that ia bigger than my bedroom at home!,I will have to take pix of the interior here, Suze tells me that I might see Hummingbirds at the feeder later, and ther was the sound of American Robins and Bluebirds while we were at breakfas, (hoping for pix of them too). I am aware of the Good Fortune am enjoying at having friends all over that invite me to stay and enjoy their homes and I cherish and appreciate their friendship and tolerence. Sins, I am flying up to Boston on route to Keene on Monday 11 Oct, I will call you from there and make arrangements as soon as I know whats happening, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: SINSULL Date: 08 Oct 10 - 10:57 AM Hush Puppies and Grits. Pure heaven. Enjoy and take pictures. SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 08 Oct 10 - 10:59 AM Mary .....and the horse.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 08 Oct 10 - 12:22 PM Well, I gotta go sit on the deck (in the 75F degree temps), and enjoy the birds for a while, makes a nice change from London at 50F if we are lucky!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Fortunato Date: 08 Oct 10 - 01:43 PM We took Micca to the Barbeque Inn in West Asheville, where he had beef ribs and made friends with the waitress who patted his shoulder and called him honey. The Barbeque Inn is the favorite haunt of the Asheville Police and Buncombe County Sheriffs so you know it's THE PLACE. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 09 Oct 10 - 04:06 PM There are some new pix Here in "Getway and after" We had Lunch in Weaverville with some local Musicians and we are going to hear some of them play "down and dirty" Old time and Bluegrass later, |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 09 Oct 10 - 04:16 PM I hope you packed some sweaters, Micca-me-love- it's chilly here! Not to worry, we've got wood in the the brand new woodshed and the stove is firing away. What time will I meet you at the station on Monday? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 09 Oct 10 - 05:08 PM Ali, we are going out "bluegrassing" (or is that Bluegrazing?) this evening and I will try and call you either this eve or tomorrow, meanwhilke look to your PMs |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: ranger1 Date: 11 Oct 10 - 01:11 PM Yoohoo! Mr. Roaming Gnome! When are you arriving back in Maine? I'm trying to get a couple of days off and need to know when you will be requiring your native guide. J-boy also wants to know if you will be available for the pub quiz. You can PM him directly, I am no longer the go-between. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Fortunato Date: 11 Oct 10 - 01:35 PM Mr. Micca (aka the roaming gnome) left Charlotte, NC on the 11:45 plane to Boston. He managed to visit NC, TN and SC in this visit. He sampled NC barbeque, Bluegrass and made the scene at The Mellow Mushroom in Asheville where we dined al fresco under sunny skies. And of course we took him deep in the NC Bald Mountains for a hike under Carolina Blue Skies and clean mountaintop air. The question is can you keep him in East London after he's seen heaven... He's in your court, Animaterra. cheers, chance |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: ranger1 Date: 11 Oct 10 - 01:56 PM Hmm, or perhaps tasted heaven? I like barbecue... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Noreen Date: 11 Oct 10 - 06:17 PM The Mellow Mushroom, Chance? Seriously???! :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 11 Oct 10 - 10:07 PM Noreen, YES, it was called that, and they had a very good locally brewed IPA!! Tams, I am heading for the Press room on Friday, if the creek dont rise, I am aiming to be in Maine by Tuesday afternoon at the latest hoping to make the Pub Quiz!! The Barbeque ribs was interesting!1 they brought a towel instead of a napkin!!when I can I will put up a photo, the mountaintop that Chance mentioned was called Max Patch, I didnt know he had a Mountain in NC named after him! So I am safely ensconced in "Tam Lin" nr Keene NH and going to crash soon as this day started at 5.45 this morning. More later |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Fortunato Date: 11 Oct 10 - 10:08 PM Yes, not to be missed, Noreen. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: My guru always said Date: 12 Oct 10 - 04:51 PM Well, he's going to be impossible when he gets back to Dear Old Blighty. I suppose we'll have to look at all the boring photos over Christmas Dinner *grumble, grumble, not really jealous* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: KT Date: 12 Oct 10 - 05:06 PM Hils, you were there, make no mistake. I carried you around in my heart all weekend! Walking through the meadow between workshops, I know I heard your voice in the breeze... "I roam and ramble....." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: ranger1 Date: 12 Oct 10 - 10:26 PM Micca, be sure to make arrangements with Jason (J-boy on here) about the pub quiz. I am merely the transportation end of things. Jason will tell me when and where and otherwise I am not involved. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Tinker Date: 12 Oct 10 - 10:33 PM Well, he shares photos on both sides of the pond Hils.... I watched the sun be danced up amid the greenmen, the morris dancers and the joyful frolics from this side and grumbled a bit and tried to talk KT in to traveling even further from home with me... if I could just straighten out a few more things... tink |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: KT Date: 13 Oct 10 - 12:47 AM When we goin', Tink? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: katlaughing Date: 13 Oct 10 - 01:20 AM Miccadarlin'...the frangipani is gorgeous and the sunrise, too! luvyakatey |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: My guru always said Date: 13 Oct 10 - 02:25 AM KT, you've got a heart big enough to hold all of us, thanks Sweetie!! So, when you & Tink coming over, huh???? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 13 Oct 10 - 09:42 AM Yeah, I vote for KT and Tink to visit, I would happily offer accomodation and Guiding services(after all I am a widely travelled gnome) Your correspondent is currently in a house in the woods in rural New Hampshire, where we had FROST last night, afer the 75 degrees temps of NC this is a bit of a shock. Attended the rehersal of Animaterra (the Choir) last night and heard lots of wonderful music including "Bright Morning Star" and several other beautiful tunes.This house is FULL of music!! I am moving to the coast tomorrow as a change of plan has shortened my visit to Keene, I will be in Portsmouth with Tom and Linn for a few days before heading North to Portlandwhere I hope to be by Tuesday, at the latest, as there is a possibility of being on a pub quiz team on Tuesday eve. I will get more pix up when I can, Micca, at Large |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Morticia Date: 13 Oct 10 - 11:19 AM Yes Tink and KT, when????? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: My guru always said Date: 13 Oct 10 - 11:35 AM Micca, I do hope you're remembering to pass on all the hugs we all sent across the pond with you!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Becca72 Date: 13 Oct 10 - 02:02 PM Micca, If you enjoyed it, they are in the final stages of building Maine's first Cracker Barrel over by the Mall. Not sure if it'll be open during your visit, however. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Tinker Date: 13 Oct 10 - 03:04 PM I'd love to be there for Beltane.... but I need a little more time to get things in order here abouts... but I'm going to start hoping and planning.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: SINSULL Date: 13 Oct 10 - 03:24 PM Yum Yum Grits at the Cracker Barrel! Sorry I missed your call Micca - in the basement doing laundry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 13 Oct 10 - 03:29 PM Mary,They also had Fried Okra!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 13 Oct 10 - 03:52 PM But here in New Hampshire, okra there ain't, but Micca was a master at operating the mechanical apple peeler-corer-slicer for the apple turnovers I made for my Animaterra Women's Chorus fundraiser this weekend! We're having a grand old time, singing, eating, and playing with the puppy. I'm passing him along tomorrow, though- next stop, Nottingham! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: jacqui.c Date: 13 Oct 10 - 05:24 PM Micca - I've found a good place for lunch one day - they have fried okra and fried pickles. Went there with Claire a couple of weeks back - good food! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Tinker Date: 13 Oct 10 - 05:43 PM Jacqui, PLEASE take a picture of Micca with the fried pickles....for this I will pay... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 13 Oct 10 - 07:04 PM Jacqqui and Tink, why do I feel I am about to be introduced to another food I am going to dislike??!! Fried Pickles??? to go with the Okra, Grits and Tofu....Shudder.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: KT Date: 13 Oct 10 - 08:15 PM It could be worse Micca. take a look |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Amos Date: 13 Oct 10 - 08:27 PM Feeding Micca a Deep-Fried Twinkie would be an offense against Nature, I am sure!! :D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: SINSULL Date: 14 Oct 10 - 08:08 AM I have a yodelling pickle, Micca. Just the thing on an early morning pre-coffee. Found it in the vegetable drawer and scared the crap out of myself when it went off. Thank you, Claire. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Becca72 Date: 14 Oct 10 - 09:31 AM Yodeling pickle?? Really? (smirk) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Micca Date: 14 Oct 10 - 12:33 PM Yodelling Pickle???? The mind BOGGLES!!!! I have arrived safely in Nottingham NH (still no election posters for Sheriff (big disappointment this)) but I am enjoying the afternoon sun with Tom and catching up, Press Room tomorrow and Saturday for the Shanty Sing. Many thanks to Alison and Hunt for the Keene Leg of this trip, they are gracious hosts and the house(Tam lin) is coming on real good, I am already looking forward to my next visit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: KT Date: 14 Oct 10 - 02:07 PM Okay, Hils, Micca & Morty, when's the best time to come? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 14 Oct 10 - 03:53 PM Made the drop-off and effected an exchange: one gnome for one concertina. Not sure who came out better in the deal! Thank you as always, dear Micca, for a lovely visit. May the sun shine on you till we meet again, my friend. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: My guru always said Date: 14 Oct 10 - 05:20 PM Well, KT my darlin' girl. That depends on what you'd like to do & where you'd like to go! Lots of choices: Meeting Catters Going to Festivals Singing in Folk Clubs Tourism BTW, if you need to rest, don't let me sort an Itinerary for you. Max kept up with his really well, but his feet hardly touched the ground *grin* Really? You thinking about it?? Whooopeee!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Morticia Date: 14 Oct 10 - 05:41 PM Yeah for seriously KT, don't let Hils near your schedule......only wimps sleep when she's on the job! Come and stay in the summer if you want festivals, we're good at festivals. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: KT Date: 14 Oct 10 - 11:48 PM Well, I wasn't reeeeally thinking about it 'til I saw this thread. Now I'm thinking....why not?!! I'd LOVE to see all of you on your turf! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where's Micca 2010 & Re-tiring Congrats!! From: Richard Bridge Date: 15 Oct 10 - 03:17 AM 100100100 |
