Son of Kitchen Table

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 10:41 AM

That's a lovely idea Ebbie!

We had a good friend come to one of our sessions to record some of us. * It's amazingly good for morale! Especially in the face of the sillier threads above the line. I keep checking the date, but it isn't April 1st yet! There are so many good songs out there to sing, it's a pity some folks can't just enjoy them. But it's the same in any club, hobby, organisation etc. There's always some-one....!

Kat...the cocoa and hot toast was delicious. It's snowing here (again) and so I've made a fresh batch of Leek and Potato Soup. There's homemade bread too. Tuck in!

Jerry, is it snowmageddon around your way? Want a hand with a shovel?

*That sounds wrong...some folks just didn't want to be recorded!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 04:20 PM

Just thought I'd pop my head round the door and see if anyone was at home.........

Nope!

Just a cold coffee pot and some crumbs that look suspiciously like walnut cake.

...I've left a note.........(B flat) :0)


Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 08:49 PM

Hey all:

I'm listening to the master CD for a gospel album I'll release as soon as I get a cover photo and do a label. Fifteen years ago I did a gospel album, half old southern gospel and half new (now 15 years old) Rasmussen gospel. For a variety of reasons (one of the most important was that I didn't believe there'd be enough interest in it to release) the master tape has been kicking around all these years.
I now have the resources to re-mix the tape, and I must say listening to it right now, it sounds pretty darned good for an old album. If everything goes right from this point on (which happens once every 2,000 years (or maybe 2010) I hope to have it ready for release in a couple of weeks. Then it's on the next project on my list.

The CD has my friends the Beans (Jim and Cindy Bean and Ann and Steve non-Beans) Susan Trump and an old friend I've lost track of, J Giles (not THE J Giles.) The album is strongly, strongly influenced by the Old-Time Music at Calrence Ashley's and The Watson Family albums on Folkways. I still love all that stuff.

Yeah, we got a foot of snow and I'm writing a chapter about a beautiful experience I had last night with two 11 or 12 year old boys, both named Joe who pleaded with me to hire them to shovel my driveway. It was worth it, just for the experience. I'll post it on my blog. Drop by some time at http:jerryrasmussen.blogspot.com.

http://jerryrasmussen.blogspot.com/

Cheers!

Jerry

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: maeve
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 11:33 AM

Good day, kitchen table friends. I'm listening to the cd "For all the Good People" with Caroline and Sandy Paton & friends. I also got to hear some of our good host's music last night for the first time. What a delight!

A friend called last night; wanting me to open for a wonderful musician in an upcoming benefit concert. I'd love to do so- I've not had such a fun opportunity before- yet it will mean a great deal of work to prepare something suitable I can do without having a guitar. I've started work and have a few months before I need to have my part ready; if the gig is confirmed.

Have some fresh biscuit. I've started coffee and put the kettle on for tea.

maeve

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Severn
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 02:41 PM

Compared to you, Jerry, Cecil B. DeMille worked fast? Let's hope that the Walk of Rassmussen proves better than the Run of DeMille!.....

Good luck with it, Meave!

Thanks for the coffee.....

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 10:42 AM

sitting in the corner recovering from so many nasty bugs,coffee and aspirin please!
Wendy ;-(

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 01:59 PM

My posts haven't appeared on here the last two times. I'll try again.
Sorry I haven't been in here much (and when I hve, I haven't been able to post.) I'm posting more on Facebook now and on my blog at http://jerryrasmussen.blogspot.com.

Let's see if this works.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: maeve
Date: 24 Feb 10 - 03:02 PM

You are missed here, Jerry.

maeve

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 10:13 AM

Hello Wendy,

Sorry to hear you are suffering. Try some hot blackcurrant, honey and lemon instead of the coffee. Delicious when you are feeling low!

there were some lovely pictures of your part of the world in our newspaper yesterday and I thought of you all.

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 10:41 AM

Thanks Peter, lemon and honey worked a treat! much better today, there is a sing around in the pub in Walton to night may go along , might be nice to sit by the fire there, in stead of home, and join in some lovely singing.
Hot chocolate and cookies anyone? Hot from the oven.
Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Feb 10 - 10:43 PM

Hot chocolate and cookies sounds right fine. I am dog/house sitting and I got a little chilled this afternoon. And I still have some sand in my hair, must have been from throwing balls for one of the terriers; he is absolutely insatiable. My arm is a bit sore.

But it is great fun. I brought my dog and my cat over for the three weeks to join my friends' two dogs and one cat. All three dogs are Cairn terriers and when they are together they look like very short-legged sheep. Everybody is getting along fine.

Ah. Thanks for the hot chocolate.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 11:45 AM

Hey, Friends:

Here's the bulk of the story I posted on my blog. There's an introduction that draws upon scriptural references and songs about Jesus's love for children, but even this much may be too long for here.

I'll post more about my recording engineer adventures separately.

TWO JOES

        We'd been dodging bullets all winter. Earlier in the season the major snow storms were tracking to our north, heading across upper New England and slamming into Boston before heading out to sea. Then the upper air currents shifted due to the El Nino effect, and the storms all passed to our south, hitting the mid Atlantic states. Southern Connecticut was having a relatively snow-free winter. The storm that brought D.C. more than two feet of snow didn't produce a snow flurry around here. The forecast for yesterday sounded like we would once again escape the heavy snowfall with the center of the storm passing to our north. And then our luck ran out. What was supposed to be a light snow with an accumulation of no more than 3-4 inches dumped a foot of snow on our area. After almost twenty four hours of snowfall, the snow finally stopped and I was getting ready to head out to tackle the driveway and sidewalk. By then, it was dark out, and I was surprised to hear our doorbell ring. When I got to the door, I looked out the window on the top of the door, but couldn't see anyone. When I opened it, there were two little kids standing there looking like they were about to turn into twin pillars of ice. They looked like they were eleven or twelve years old.
        "Hey, Mister, do you want your driveway shoveled?" The smaller of the two boys asked.
"No thanks, I replied. I have a snow blower and I was just about ready to go out to do it myself."
"Aw c'mon." the other boy said, "We've been walking all over the neighborhood and we haven't been able to get a single job. All the big kids got there before us."
I knew what he was talking about. There are several teenagers in the neighborhood who go from door to door, asking to shovel driveways. When the doorbell rang, I figured it was a couple of them. I've always told them that I do it myself, so I think they've given up on ever getting any work from me.
        As the boys stood there in the dark, the wind biting through their light sweat jackets, they were jumping up and down like little jack-in-the-boxes, trying to keep warm.
"Please, mister?" the smaller boy asked. We've been out a long time and nobody will give us work."
"How much do you want, to do the sidewalk and driveway?" I asked.
"I don't know," the smaller boy said," How much can you pay us?"
I stood there looking at the two shivering little kids and I wondered if they could even handle such a heavy snow.
        "I'll give you twenty dollars," I offered.
        "O.k.", they chimed in unison. "That's good," and they waded through the snow on the lawn to get down to the driveway, shovels over their shoulders.
        After about five minutes the doorbell rang again. I knew they couldn't have finished the sidewalk and driveway that quickly. This time it was the bigger kid: bigger, not taller.
"We can't do this big driveway and your sidewalk for twenty dollars," he said. The snow's a foot deep."
They'd done a single shovel-width path down the sidewalk and hadn't gotten very far on the driveway.
        "This is really hard!" the smaller kid called up from the driveway.
I knew it was going to be a big job for them. They weren't much over four feet tall and there's a retaining wall along the sides of our driveway, so they'd have to throw the snow six feet in the air to get it up onto the lawn. With a foot of snow on the shovel, the math didn't work.
"I know the snow's heavy but I have a guy who will plow my driveway for twenty five dollars," I said. It doesn't make any sense to pay you more than twenty dollars. I was on my way out to do the job with my snow blower when you came, so I could do it myself."
"I tell you what I'll do," I said. You can leave that heavy mound of snow by the street that the snow plow pushed into the driveway. I'll give you the twenty dollars to shovel the rest of it."
I know how heavy the snow is that the plow pushes into my driveway and it's a good six feet in from the street. The snow there was over two feet deep and I knew they couldn't handle it. "
O.k.," they said, and I stepped back inside.
Their spirit was willing but their flesh was short.
        Fifteen minutes later, I put on my jacket and a cap, grabbed a pair of gloves and headed down into the garage to get the snow blower. I could see the kids were really exhausted, but they were determined to finish the job. When I opened the garage door there was a strip about six feet wide that they hadn't shoveled yet, right next to the garage door, so I grabbed my snow shovel and started working on it. The retaining wall is at its highest at that end of the driveway and there was another two feet of snow already piled up on top of that. When I started shoveling, the littler kid came over and said, "We can shovel that, Mister."
        "Naw, that's alright! I'll get it. Just finish up what you've got left to do," I told him.
        "No, you're paying us to do this, so I'll help you." "Where can I put the snow?" He said.
        "You have to throw it up over the wall."
        "It'll just fall back down," he replied.
And sure enough, the first shovel full he tried to throw up onto the top of the wall came cascading back down and he almost disappeared into a cloud of snow. He wasn't deterred, though. He just reached back into his thin, shivering frame and took the next shovel full. This time he got it high enough to stay up.
"You know, I could have done this myself, but I remember what it was like when I was a kid and nobody would hire me to work," I said to the heavy set kid.
"Did you used to do this when you were a kid? He asked.
"Sure did. I got paid a dollar or a dollar and a half"
"A dollar?" he asked incredulously. I wouldn't shovel this driveway for a dollar!
"You got to realize this was a long time ago. Candy bars cost a nickel and a double scoop ice cream cone was ten cents. Now a two scoop ice cream cone costs more like two and a half bucks." "I could go to a movie, buy a big soda, a large box of popcorn and a candy bar and have change left over," I said.
He had to stop and think about that, so he just kept shoveling. When I told them I wanted more than a path shoveled on each side of our two cars, the heavier kid turned his attention to that. The little kid called over to him and said "Shovel the snow up to the tires, but don't hit the Car!" Someone had to be the foreman.
"We weren't supposed to get this much snow," the heavier kid said. The weather man really screwed up this time!
"It's tough forecasting the weather around here," I said. "I was a weather man on the   radio for seven years."
"You were on television?" he said, obviously impressed.
"No, on the radio." But I've been on television a lot of times.
"Are you famous? He asked.
"Not really." I said
He paused for a moment and then asked"Were you ever wrong?"
"Hey, if you're a weather man around here, you're wrong a lot," I said. And we both laughed.
By then, we were just finishing up the shoveling, other than the six foot wide strip out by the street. I called the kids over and gave each of them their ten dollars. They seemed happy about it.
        "I want to get your names and phone numbers," I said. "I usually do this myself but if I can't sometime, I can give you a call."
The little kid answered first. "My name is Joe O'Connor and I live on Pleasant View," and he gave me his phone number. The heavier set kid was next. "My name is Joe Myers and I live on Sentinel Hill" and he gave me his number.
        "Two Joes? I said. "That'll make it easy to remember."
Pleasant View and Sentinel Hill aren't right around the corner. No wonder they looked half frozen when they first showed up at our door. They'd been out trying to get someone to hire them for a long time.
"You kids better get on home, you look like you're freezing to death," I said. "Go home and get some rest."
"I'm going home and have a nice cup of hot chocolate," little Joe said.
Big Joe was busy trying to put his ten dollars into a small side pocket half way down the leg of his pants. I watched them as they walked down the street and under the street light. They were talking very animatedly. They'd had a good night. For once the big kids didn't get all the jobs.
        An hour later I went out to attack the snow plowed drift at the end of my driveway. I have an electric snow blower and if it could talk it would have said, "Hey Mister, I can't do all of this, this snow's too heavy." Snow blowers have feelings too, so I worked on the heavy drifts a little at a time, stopping to clean out the snow blower and give it a rest every couple of minutes. It ended up taking me more than a half hour. The two Joes would have collapsed in a heap long before they could move all that snow.
        Just as I was finishing up, I heard the sound of a snow blower. Sure enough, there was one of the teenage boys from the neighborhood coming down the street with a large gas-powered snow blower. He looked over at me and could see that I was just finishing up so he turned the corner and headed down a side street. By then I figured that little Joe was on his second cup of hot chocolate. Chalk one up for the two Joes.
        Suffer the little children.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 12:21 PM

Here's a link to a song on Youtube: Spare a Little Change. When the page opens, scroll down to the video and play.

Jerry

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bradley+walker+bluegrass&search_type=&aq=0&oq=Bradley+Walker

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 12:27 PM

Scroll all the way down to the end of the first row to Need A Little Change. It's the video, which is very moving. The image you'll see that starts the video is of Bradley Walker in a car. The first version is a cell phone video, and the sound is lousy.

Jerry


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bradley+walker+bluegrass&search_type=&aq=0&oq=Bradley+Walker

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Tinker
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 02:15 PM

I've been at the computer all morning simply looking at the snow outside. It's very wet and heavy... So I found an unfinished project to get back to work on...

I'm putting together some video clips of different parts of the Sunday service so kids can learn the Gloria -S280 and the Doxology

Does anyone have a suggetion for an instumental to put behind the Our Father ??? I'd love an mp3 file from someone that would last long enough for kids to read out loud as it plays..... any ideas???

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 03:19 PM

I had to laugh.....the adverts beside this thread were three for Jerry Rasmussen tracks (howzah!), one for a snow blower and one for a 20" shovel....(anyone for a spot of gandy dancing?)

See what your last story has created, Jerry?

It was a good story too. Much enjoyed.

Tinker....how about a drone or legato fingerstyle guitar?

...nice hot chocolate...just what was needed. Thanks!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Tinker
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 03:27 PM

Hadn't thought of a drone....hmmmm I'll have to see how I could do that... My fingerstyle would need massive improvement to back up the photos
Just spent the last hour shoveling the driveway, like Jerry we have a small retaining wall to the side of the driveway so the snow pile soon gets pretty tall for my 5foot and a bit height. We don't often get past the couple inches stage in this part of Jersey, but it's a bout 18 inches of packed wet snow. The stuff at the end of the driveway has to be chopped and then moved in small amounts. But first I'll catch my breath. At least the car and the top of the driveway are passable.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 26 Feb 10 - 03:49 PM

Let me know what you finally decide, Tinker.

You know I'd help with the snow if I could, but I guess by the time I got there it would have melted! :0)

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 08:22 AM

I loved the story about the two Joes Jerry,bet they will be coming around to offer help again, you could have used them when you were taking out the swimming pool!
Lovely sunny day here but very noisy, men at work outside digging up the pavement( sidewalk!)

Hot coffee and ear muffs needed!
Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 10:04 AM

Thanks, Wendy: We had another, muchy lighter snow since the night the two Joes shoveled my driveway. They didn't show up, and I wouldn't have hired them anyway, but it would have been fun to see them. I think they were still exhausted from shoveling that heavy snow.

We're still getting light snow briefly on most days here in Southern Connecticut, but it ain't scaring anyone. It doesn't last long. It's about as terrifying as the rose in The Little Prince who bragged that she could tear a tiger to shreds with her thorns. :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Severn
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 10:16 AM

A Bob Dylan question for you all:

If the true answer to All Questions is "Blowing In The Wind" (having replaced "Love" and narrowly beating out "E-none of the above" in recent polls), shouldn't he have written, "You don't need an answering machine to know which way the wind blows..."?

Too many syllables, I guess, though that never stopped him before...


I'll have the usual two sugar-free Razz-Muffins and and a cup of coffee with just cream and rest a spell, thank you....

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 12:01 PM

What is the answer to "why?" My kids used to drive me nuts responding to every answer I could think of with another question, "why." The best answer I could finally come up with was "Because I'm your father and I say so!"

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: maeve
Date: 04 Mar 10 - 12:13 PM

Woody Guthrie asked, "Why Oh Why? too!

m

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 05:46 AM

The response I used to get from my Mum was, "Why? Why? 'coz pig's can't fly!"

Lovely sunny day here, but cold!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 06:22 AM

Sunny here too peter but doom and gloom, bills company closing sales dept so he will be redundant end of april!positive thoughts needed doing cv this morning. Strong coffee please.                                  Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: GUEST,b illybob
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 06:25 AM

Oops that was me on my. New phone. Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 06:40 AM

Positive thoughts winging their way, Wendy. With all your experience, I'm sure you'll find a niche somewhere.

Nil desperado carborundum!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 07:17 AM

Thanks peter.I am sure bill will get somehing if not I Can train him. To do massage in the salon!what would the. Ladies of frinton think!!   Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 10:31 AM

Hey, Wendy: Sorry to hear about Bill. Who ever thought that being retired was the best protection against losing your job? The GM plant in my hometown closed last summer, and the town is really suffering. I keep in touch with people there, but there's not much good news. There was an article on the news about a man who took a job at another GM plant 1,000 miles away. He's married and has kids and he's just four years from retirement, so he's chosen to live with another man from my home town, sharing an apartment and getting home for the weekend, driving back and forth.

Maybe the job market that has the greatest potential for growth is processing unemployment claims.

We send you all good wishes and prayers.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 11:01 AM

Whew! The air out there is crisp and cold, and on the ground this morning is a thin blanket of crunchy snow, the first we have had in a month or more. Any hot chocolate left? I brought a pan of my nutty cinnamon rolls. Help yourselves,

I've thought about your Two Joes, Jerry. A decade from now that day will be one of the stories they tell their kids. :)

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 12:38 PM

Nutty cinnamin rolls? I knew something would motivate me to stop leaning around the door here, and sit down at the table. A cup of java, with a little cream, please? Actually I made about 4 attempts to drop a word in here last evening, but nobody would listen to me. (never found it so impossible to get a post to enter). I do keep hanging around here, though. Life's been fine for me lately, but nothing has amounted to "news" beyond "I have another shift at the gallery this afternoon".
Just now I have to be shopping for a car. I didn't expect to do that for a couple of years, until my wife pulled out of our subdivision Monday morning with an oncoming car traveling much faster than she anticipated. No one hurt at all, but scratch a nice '04 Camry and a Buick a few years older. So I have to balance that with sorting out reservations and itinerary for a little journey to Las Vegas and Death Valley next month.
                   Dean

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 12:41 PM

You know, Dean, it's odd but I've never been in Death Valley. I have roamed around in the Mojave desert and found it most interesting. This was in February one year- wouldn't have tried in July or August. On that same trip, my favorite town was Needles, California. Except for its water.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 12:58 PM

I'm crossing fingers that, even in early April, the temp doesn't spike real high; the averages aren't too bad, but the highs and lows on record are pretty high and pretty low.
Gotta take the Camry title into our insurance office, and a few other odds and ends, before I let myself mess around here for too much of the afternoon.
                        Dean

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Mar 10 - 01:29 PM

Kind of the luck of the draw, I imagine. April, just about anywhere, can be volatile. I remember one year when I was living at the Oregon coast when MARCH, of all things, was so warm that the sand stung bare feet.

(Take lots of water along.)

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 May 10 - 06:48 PM

Now we're into May and I'm sitting under a passing thunderstorm. Not a hovering wet mass like in KY, TN, MS. Just enough to water the newly dug and planted garden.

I've been planting according to what I want to eat, but also according to what I want to give away. Any other gardeners who work this way? It seems so easy, there's a spot where you can stick something so you might as well. I'm going to grow okra this year, and my next door neighbor, who hasn't had good luck growing it, will show me how to cook it (not boiled!) in exchange for probably eating most of what grows. Seems they get pretty tall down here.

SRS

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 May 10 - 07:02 PM

Gray, cloudy, and likely to snow overnight.

This is May??? This folk, like Chaucer wrote, "longeth to go on pilgrimages" -- to someplace warm and sunny.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 04 May 10 - 08:46 AM

Oh good, I haven't been able to access the old thread for about 6 months now I guess and I rarely go "below the line", so I've only just tripped over this thread.

It's nice to be back in passing, I'll pop in later after work.

Deirdre

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 04 May 10 - 10:18 AM

We forget, don't we....ne'er cast a clout 'til May is out!

A rare mix of weather here. Warm sunshine, followed by rain, strong winds and hail, more warm sunshine and an overnight frost!

Growing okra sounds fun....

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 05 May 10 - 06:30 AM

We've had the same further north Pete - except the "warm" sunshine! It's still a tad cool up here. In fact this week I've got a fleece and the fan heater on in my office and I'd not used either for about a month prior to that and certainly not both at once.

Pah!

Roll on summer :-)

Deirdre

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Nathan Moore
Date: 23 May 10 - 09:34 PM

Hey Jerry and the rest of the folks at the kitchen table:

It's been awhile...Life's been busy with gigs, practices, a baby, a job and all the rest of the stuff that keeps one running around and around in circles. I thought I'd just stop in here this evening for a peaceful moment or two.

Hope everyone's enjoying the spring.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 May 10 - 01:48 PM

My son will graduate from high school next week, so we're busy finishing all of the bits of things for high school, and getting all of his paperwork in place for college (University of Arizona, full scholarship). Beginning to suggest (ardently) that he contact last summer's employer and express an interest in work. Otherwise, I have a lot of chores around here, and I don't pay. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 12:16 PM

Just came in, this kitchen needed a good sweep round did some dusting and put the coffee on there is a cake on the table and iced tea for those who want to cool down!
Good news Billy is in his new job and really enjoying it, my father was in hospital for a month in April but is home again and getting stronger day by day, not bad for 90!
My son played the lead in South Pacific and got standing ovations.
there is my news, going to sit in the corner and see who comes in!
Wendy

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 02:08 PM

I can count coups this time: I was at an estate sale in the neighborhood last week, and spotted a table covered with old playbills from local theaters. I bought the lot (about 100 pounds, in four boxes) for $35. I work at a university library and will donate them to the Special Collections, after I've sorted them and done a general appraisal (via eBay search on some of them, then generalizing). Though no cash will exchange hands, I'll take a tax deduction for the donation on my itemized taxes. And the library will have a really first rate collection of playbills (the widow kept them because they thought they were important: her husband had been a founding member of one of these theaters. I'll donate this in their names, I found her obituary and spoke with her son, so who knows, there may be more papers to join these.) Somehow the family just couldn't deal with all of this paper so it was sold by the estate sale folks. The family kept a lot of other stuff, but they're thrilled that these things are going to a Special Collection in the area.

This is important and interesting local history. I love it!

SRS

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 02:27 PM

YAY Maggie! so glad that peeps are not letting things like those playbills find their way to landfills.

Wendy... sorry I missed all your news in the spring. glad bill is back in work and liking it.

nice snow Joe story, Jerry.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 04:40 PM

Thanks for the cake Wendy...just what was needed. Good to hear everyone's news. Indeed, Jerry's story was good...but has anyone seen him lately?

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 09 Jul 10 - 04:43 PM

if you click on his name Pete you can see what he's posted to most recently.

4th July 2010 was his last post so he has not vanished.

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 10 Jul 10 - 12:50 PM

No indeed...thanks for the tip....but I thought he would have been in to try some of the cake....it's very good!

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 07:39 AM

Just got back into the kitchen after a long time away, place was full of cobwebs so I have had a good spring clean, lit the fire and put some homemade soup on the stove. Hot coffee brewing so I will sit here in my favourite armchair and see who comes in.Sure that the smell of the coffee will lure you in! Need a good old gossip to catch up as I had a really difficalt few months before Christmas but feeling much better now!

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 07:47 AM

Hello there! Yes, your coffee smells good billybob. Glad you're feeling better now, hope 2011 will be a good year for you. May I try some of your soup please? (I adore soup!)

Subject: RE: Son of Kitchen Table
From: billybob
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 08:38 AM

help yourself my dear there is enough for all!