Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: KT
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:20 PM

Ahem, Mr. Offer......That is not allowed! You actually DO have 6 commitments. If I recall, (and I do) you said, "See you next year!" as we were leaving Ramblewood. I just bought my ticket and I hope you'll buy yours today too! You HAVE to come!!

KT

By the way, if you act fast, you can get your ticket for $428.00. (or half that!!)

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Janie
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:13 PM

Well, if you have 5, you will have blow off 4 of them--and the one left standing has gotta be the GETAWAY!!! The numbers 4, 7 and 12 are sacred numbers--so you can't stop at 6 in a row--would be blasphemous, not mention unlucky. McClatchey can come to, ya know?

Janie

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: beardedbruce
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:04 PM

Amos,

I should be there with a banjo, but someone will have to show me how to play it. I am just bringing it in self-defense.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 09:49 PM

Hell, tell McClatchey to change her plans!!

Joe, I think we're gonna really needja at this one. Not only are all the wimminfolk ganging up on puir ul' Mick, but Bearded Bruce is coming and threatening to play banjo. So I dunno, man...it's too risky not to have our favorite Fed around just in case things get, how d'ya say, overheated? Yas know, this is no time to play Pontius Pilate, pal. If Sins has her way with Mick, you don't want it on your head!! LOL! Trust me.

A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Big Mick
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 08:56 PM

I ain't buyin this aul load of shite, Offer!!! There is such a thing as tradition, and you are violating it. This Getaway will set records. Amos, KT, Ebbie, Giok, Skarpi, rumanci, Micca, catsphiddle and on and on. All will be here. Of all the ones to miss, this ain't the one, Pa. You need me to call McClatchy and set her right????

You need to be here.

Mick

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 08:37 PM

5 committments?....make it 6 and I'll let you use my new Matter Transmitter (beta test model) to go back & forth.

durn Joe! Do like them Jivaro indians and plan a-head.

We WILL miss you!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Nancy King
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 08:29 PM

Joe! Say it ain't so! How COULD you? Well, I can understand how you could, but I never thought you WOULD! Anyhow, we'll sure miss you!

Nancy

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 07:51 PM

I just looked at the calendar and find that I have five commitments for that weekend, including a Debby McClatchy concert. I've been at the Getaway six years in a row, but it looks like I may have to skip it this year.
Blame it on Debby McClatchy. She's already forced me to promise to wash dishes for her at San Francisco's Camp Harmony after Christmas.
I sure will miss the good times at the Getaway, though.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 11 Aug 05 - 03:20 PM

Its just where we plan to break the journey before heading accross the border. Not really equipped to camp so using motels and spare bedrooms/floorspace where available.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: KT
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 02:55 PM

What takes you to Buffalo, Mrs. Duck?

We recently returned from a week camping at sites around Lake Ontario. If you're interested in camping, I'd be happy to share info about those sites.

KT

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 01:58 PM

After the Getaway we plan to spend a couple of days with WYSYWIG before heading up to Buffalo for a day or two and then into Canada finishing our journey at Mystic Seaport on Friday 28th/Sat 29th October before flying home on Sunday 30th. Great to meet any Mudcatters en route.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 06:52 AM

We are definitely coming too. Planning to spend the two following weeks travelling up to the Lakes and round to Toronto region so any info on places to stay would be good. Can't wait to see everyone at the Getaway.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 11:32 PM

Momnopp,

The check is in the mail tonight!


A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 10:06 PM

The latest news is that a Margo and Amiel Schotz are planning to come from Israel, which will give even the Alaskans competition for the person who comes the farthest.
I know we have people planning to come in from Iceland, England, and Alaska. Anyone from Down Under?

--Charlie Baum

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Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: GUEST,Bill D--from Madison, Wisconsin
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 09:07 PM

here I am///800 miles from home...answering questions~

workshops are notallset up yet...ideas are in the works and there are probably some real good ideas...but much is still being debated and considered....there is supposed to be a thread especially for that...I'll look

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 08:18 PM

Yeah, KT, Iz gonna be there from Friday to, ahhhh, Sunday 'er Monday... By the time we all get 'round to sayin' good-byes yer gonna have had yer fill of my hill country stomp blues... An' prolly my usual mindless stories...

Ahhhhh, Amos... I ain't deciderated if I'z stayin to Monday 'er not... Maybe, maybe not.... But I can sho nuff get yer butt-auctionable or not, up there...

Ahhhh, just between you an' me, what do you think yer butt is worth to anyone 'cept you? Couple bucks? Three fifty?

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: CET
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 07:42 PM

Are the workshops already set up, or will there be a call for suggestions like last year?

Edmund

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Dani
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 09:56 AM

I think that's why Mick moved to NJ: He was sick of us giving him a hard time for riding in exhausted in the dark of night, hitching up his pony and snoring in his drum....

Now he'll be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed like the rest of us in the morning!

Dani

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: KT
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 02:39 AM

Good on ya, Amos!! You will not be sorry!

Bobert, you ARE going to be there longer, this time, right? No more of this flying in for 24 hours business. And same goes for El Grecko, too, for that matter!

Thanks Mick! But you're coming from NJ, right? You're practically at Ramblewood already!

KT

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 11:10 PM

Dang -- hard choices!!!! I mean the beautiful and gracious Dani, or the fiery blues player but pulchritude-challeneged Bobert, for a ride down to the Getaway...dang! I am downright conflicted!! I was gonna rent a big SUV and pick up strays and ruffle feathers rolling in!! LOL. Well if I hitch, can I get back to BWI by noon on Monday? Mebbe I'll just auction my butt off for the benefit of the Cat...won't be the first time. :-D

A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 10:22 PM

Life ain't no yuk for a yak
Who carries his pack on his back...

I have that book around here somewhere.

Hey Mick,
Have Ebbie and KT search your car for my ring. I know it's in there somewhere.
SINS

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Dani
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 10:05 PM

Traditionally, Janie and I are heading that way (North on 95) about that time as well. Count on me/us for at least one airport pickup if needed: I'll check the edited thread as time goes on.

Amos, I'm so glad you're coming!

Dani

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 10:02 PM

Yep, yer too late, ole buddy. I am picking them up.

Mick

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 09:55 PM

Hows ya gettin' up the the Getaway, Amos.... Seems I'll be passin by Baltimore 'bout the same time....

I was hopin' to pick up Ebbie and maybe KT but they riding wid Mick 'er somethin'...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 09:55 PM

A warm welcome will await you on the Friday night.

He he he he......

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 08 Aug 05 - 08:42 PM

I expect plenty of yuks, but no yaks.

I am coming into BWI at 4:10 Friday. Hope I can get to Darlington before the bears come out.

Tickets are booked and the form will be in the mail with check tonight.

One six-string and a slightly worn baritone on its way.

Volunteers for the Braille instruction please form a line on the right.

A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 11:08 PM

Getaway information (registration, logistics, and mechanics) has been posted to a new edited thread (click here).

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Naemanson
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 08:33 PM

Yaks? Yuk!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 06:38 PM

Blankets, sleeping bag, winter woolies, several extra pairs of socks, an enough yaks to form a circle around the cabin.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Naemanson
Date: 10 Jul 05 - 12:34 AM

CET! I remember very well. And a six pack or two of India Pale Ale would go down very nicely. Nice to hear from you.

I am not making any definite plans on what to bring or how to get there until I am in Maine. I will probably be taking the train or flying down there.

After the Getaway I will be in the Washington area for a few days. My nephew and his fiancee are there and we will visit them and go see the sights.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bobert
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 09:37 PM

Ahhhh, I am still coming up from the south and will be more than happy tom pick someone up in Wsahington, D.C. or Baltimore.... Ebbie and KT preferred but they have arrangements... But I am still available for transportation duty...

.... as well a doing one of the blues workshops...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Ferrara
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 04:07 PM

Gary, you wrote: we've got the same extra sleeping bag, comforters and blankets we had last time around. Since different people were arranging it last time & no records were kept anyway, and no one would be silly enough to rely on my memory, you'll need to let us know later how much stuff you actually have managed to locate and unpack!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 02:34 PM

My sympathies and condolences Charlie.

When the supplies thread gets started, we've got the same extra sleeping bag, comforters and blankets we had last time around. Although, whether they'll be unpacked by October (after we move to a townhouse mid-August) will remain to be seen...

-- Gary

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 11:24 AM

Which is not earnest?


A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 08:31 AM

I don't want to be earnest - I like being ME!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Jul 05 - 03:34 AM

Yes, but it's important to be earnest Jacqui!
G..

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 11:15 PM

No Amos - the Getaway is in Camp Ramblewood!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 07:44 PM

Charlie:

My condolences as well. It is a milestone you never quite return all the way from, if you know what I mean.

I look forward to your thread as I am beginning to plan for the Getaway in earnest.

Regards,

Amos

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 07:31 PM

Actually, my mother died on June 24th (not July)--which explains my absence from Old Songs.

Rita Ferrara and I plan to get together on Sunday, July 10th, and engineer a new thread containing registration form linkages and other important information, which will be edited and kept to actual news and logistics. We're going to make it cross-listed to this thread, which is where the banter can remain, and we'll be editing the other thread to keep the banter here and not there.

Given the html coding involved in cross-referencing the two threads, I want her editorial skills to make sure I've got everything right.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 07:21 PM

My condolences to Charlie. It's never easy, is it.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 06:55 PM

remember, Leadfingers...you will be within grasp in Oct!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 06:54 PM

600!!!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 06:53 PM

As They Say - Its Got To Be Done !!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Ferrara
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 03:52 PM

Charlie Baum is planning to start a new edited thread for the Getaway when he posts the registration forms. There has been a sad delay due to Charlie's mom becoming very ill. She died on July 24 I'm sorry to say, that's why Charlie wasn't at Old Songs. I hesitated to post about it until I asked Charlie's permission.

Once we have the permathread for registration info, etc, I think we might start a second permathread just for logistics: how many people need to have pillows & blankets/sleeping bags supplied by local people, who can provide what, who is arriving when at what airport, etc. On the other hand that may just be too much organizing ... we'll see.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 01:39 PM

We'll be bringing extra blankets as well as my goosedown quilt - lovely and warm!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 01:39 PM

Sins - you don't need to bring the capslock. You can leave that at home and save the space.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 01:34 PM

I will have an assortment of quilts, blankets, etc., maybe even a spare pillow or two. Some towels if they are needed too. hVAE TO GET SOME OF THOSE sPACE bAGS FOR PACKING. dAMN cAPSLCOCK!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 01:27 PM

LF - I'm sure we can match the luggage impaired up with sleeping bags - but this should probably wait until a later time. As I said, I'll be bringing a stock of spare blankets and whatever other bedding I can cram in the car pack.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 01:21 PM

Those of us crossing the pond for the getaway will have to be careful how much luggage we carry ! I am cutting my instrumentation down to the minimum , but do not for a moment think I can swing a sleeping bag and such like ! I hope these will be available at the Getaway !!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: CET
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 01:07 PM

Brett:

I guess it's been about four years since we ran into each other (at Bat Goddess' party, wasn't it). In honour of your return to North America I will bring down some Canadian beer for your cooler. Do you like India Pale Ale? There's a new brewery a bit further up the Ottawa Valley from us!

Edmund