Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:49 PM

Pat, so great to hear you're doing so well. We've been checking the threads first thing every morning, and thinking about you often during the day.

Hoping to "see" you back here soon.

Lin and John

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Ferrara
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 09:38 PM

Bill D has been giving me daily progress reports on Pat's recovery (wunnerful wunnerful) but today I had a few minutes to look at the 'Cat so thought I'd look at the details. Barry and Jeri, LOL about staying alive until you could kill the hospital cook, and about Jeri's song!

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Susan A-R
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 10:24 PM

Wish I could send over a plate of Pad Thai!! Take care and I'll be looking for your unmistakeable cat tracks and litter kickings. Much love.

Susan a-R

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Bert
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 11:48 PM

Aw SINSULL, and there's me offering the guy a couple of Englands greatest delicacies to speed his recovery.

Hey Spaw, we'll be looking out for you on Mudcat Radio. But if you don't gat home in time we'll just talk about you behind your back.

Luvya.

Bert.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 12:20 AM

glad to hear the old stinkbug might be going home sooon!

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: wdyat12
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:12 AM

Stinkbug? Yeah well, we miss the old stinkbug, don't we?

wdyat12

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Mudlark
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:21 AM

Homecoming....nothing finer. So glad you are improving....get better FAST!

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: InOBU
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 08:01 AM

Ok, Ok, enough of this sherking the hard work of slinging mud at the cat, Get back on line you ol' lazybones. Open heart surgury is no excuse for lieing about the house feeling bad for yerself. You have an obligation to your friends to gross us out with offencive jokes and comments! There has not been a single good fart joke since you when under the knife, old man!
Feeling better? - Larry

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: GUEST,Naemanson
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 09:35 AM

Hi,

Gee Pat, I guess I should appreciate my expensive dinners while I travel on my expense account. Last night, while you were having "supper" I enjoyed a lovely char Broiled Chicken Breast with Spanish Rice and Spiced Corn. I had a piece of Praline Cheesecake for dessert.

Not that I want to rub it in or anything. I think of it as incentive to get your butt back home.

I am happy to know you are feeling better.

Brett

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 10:59 AM

Such great news! Makes my day.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: KathWestra
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:24 AM

Thanks, Kat, for your efforts to keep us all posted. And thanks, Pat, for all you are and all you contribute to this place. We're looking forward to having you back, hale and hearty, soon -- and to MANY more healthy years of your unique brand of smartassery. Love, Kathy

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 11:34 AM

Looks like I'll miss the Great Homecoming as by this time on Thursday (c. 4.30 UK time)I hope to be on Kalymnos having my first bottle of Mythos with Yorgos and giving him a pub prop and a cassette I've made for him (what's Greek for skiffle?).
So give the old whatsit a welcome home for me when it happens and I'll catch up with the insults in a couple of weeks.
RtS (Deputy Director and Chief bedpan operative NYCFTTS)

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: mousethief
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 12:36 PM

skiphlos?

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 12:44 PM

Well RtS, this is one time I can honestly say "it's all Greeek to me." I went looking for a translation for you, came up with this:

ÁðïôåëÝóìáôá áíáæÞôçóçò ãéá 'skiffle': Äåí âñÝèçêáí ëÝîåéò.

Took that into a translation program back into English and the only words it translated were "for" and "skiffle!"

I tried!**BG**

Haven't heard anything this morning, but I was out for awhile and there was an unidentified on my caller ID, so we'll see. I'll email Connie and see what's up for today.

Last night he told me supper wasn't half bad, they served him a pork chop!

kat

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:12 PM

Pureed?

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: dwditty
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:25 PM

He must be about ready for the gravy dish (turkey, I think), that he loves so much.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:27 PM

Talking about linguitics, I have to admit I'd been a bit worried these heart specialists might have got mixed up between "infarct" and "fartin'" and gone for the wrong treatment for spaw...

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:29 PM

LOL, he said it looked, smelled, and tasted like a chop, so I don't think they pureed...he's still got a few choppers left, so.....:-)

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:37 PM

Pureed pork chop ?! Yummmmy. And I'm stuck with twenty pounds of fresh - less than twelve hours ago, from 90 feet of water in The Northumberland Straight - scallops. Bought them from the fisherman's brother, a good friend. Three bucks a pound less than the garbage they sell - on sale - in the supermarkets, and the fisherman got a heck of a lot more than he would have from the market.

Let's see, Thai vegetable stir fry ? Sheesh kabobbies on the BBQ ? Cracker crumb and fresh chives batter and slow grill on the BBQ ? Decisions, decisions. I wish I knew how the hospital staff prepares them for Spaw. Pureed ?

If they don't send ya home soon, we're gonna have to mount one of them rescue missions... sould you decide to accept this mission... this tape will self destruct... Mission ImSpawssible.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: MMario
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:40 PM

I don't believe it. (I used to work in a hospital dietary dept) - If they gave 'Spaw something that he thought looked, smelled and tasted like a chop - he is either hallucinating from drugs or he has gone irretrievably around the bend.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 02:17 PM

Well, just got a phone call. They didn't listen to him, 'cause he knows egg-xactly how much of coumadin he needs to get the levels up where they will be happy, so, they are now going to dose him proper, today, read the levels tomorrow and MAYBE let him go tomorrow.

He said everything is fine otherwise, in fact he is ready to go home and clean the garage! Karen said he has not looked this healthy in 5 years, since just before the open-heart surgery. His colour is just much, much better and they are really kind of excited. Ain't it just grand! I couldn't be happier!

So, sorry to say, another day or two, he said he absolutely cannot do another Wednesday, or was it Thursday(?) in there and face another one of THOSE omelets, so I am pretty sure he'll convince them to let him out tomorrow, for their own good.**BG**

I was thinking this should be a surprise, but really don't want anyone to miss it, so be sure to listen carefully to Mudcat Radio tonight. That's all I'm gonna say.:-)

Thanks ya'll,

kat

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 03:49 PM

Hot DAMN !!! Wish I could listen but I'm so scared of trying with my old computer. Wouldn't know the first thing about connecting. Gotta get some new technology, someday,

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: GUEST,Naemanson
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 04:03 PM

I'll be listening from the studio! I'll be there in a couple of hours!

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 04:23 PM

Just went against policy and downloaded the free Real Audio Player. What time ? Hope I don't screw it up. That's all I need, right ? Just hit the icon ? Geez, this is like Christmas !!

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 04:51 PM

7pm Mudcat time, gnu. If Little Neophyte could do it with her old pewter, you can too! See ya there. If you have ICQ and join the Folk Chat group, you could also join us in chat during the show.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 04:59 PM

7pm Mudcat - that's midnight for England I think.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 05:15 PM

ICQ... oh oh. I've got an IQ. I've got an IOU or two. I know what a PDQ is. But I guess I'm going to have to read up on ICQ's. I remember something from a permathread. I'm going to go have a Quick perUse. Thank YoUse.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 05:18 PM

ALL RIGHT!! We finally have THREAD DRIFT in one these Spaw puppies!! **BG**

Holler if you need any help, gnu.

luvyaSpaw...

kat

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: gnu
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 05:20 PM

Sorry, he said, shuffling his feet and wondering why all the cool kids were laughing at him.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Justa Picker
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 05:21 PM

Any chance of Max having a live phone call with him on Mudcat Radio?

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 06:50 PM

Spaw, thought you might like to hear the following. I posted it on the Old Songs thread, but thought you might not see it there.

George Ward, MC at the Fri night concert sang John Hartford's "Old Time Riverman" as a tribute to John. He told me he sang it as a direct result of Catspaw telling him about it on a thread here. He said somebody ought to let folks at Mudcat know he did it, and why he did it. On behalf of George, thanks for the song, Spaw.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: georgeward
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 02:27 AM

Slight correction to Jeri's above. Pat, you posted OTR a few weeks ago on the Hartford thread. That's where I saw it, and that's where I got it...and that's how come WE sang it Friday night (cause you can line it out, and I did, and folks - bless 'em - went along with me... what a group of people!). Thanks, friend. Now stop hallucinating porkchops, and go home! - George ::-.--O

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 12:54 PM

Yep, George, WE did. And I was already singing along because I knew the words from Rick Fielding's recording. I love that song.

Spaw, imagine, if you will, a whole festival audience singing a song because you gave it to someone. I'm afraid if I knew where George had gotten the song at the time, there would have been even more tears.

On behalf of me, thanks for the song to both Spaw and George.

Subject: RE: Not Home Quite Yet - CATSPAW
From: Marion
Date: 27 Jun 01 - 10:17 PM

Keep getting well, Spaw, I miss you.

Marion