Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29

Subject: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Mar 08 - 03:32 PM

We thought the Easter weekend might be a problem for some. So:
Saturday, March 29 at 6PM
Buffet + beverages.
Song Circle.

The local oil company has depleted my slush fund so if some of you could bring wine and beer, I would appreciate it. Who's in? Who needs a bed?
SINS

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Mar 08 - 04:31 PM

I'm available but Judy will probably be recovering from an all night legislative session on the budget.

I'll bring a 6-pack and a dish to pass.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: curmudgeon
Date: 16 Mar 08 - 04:35 PM

We'll be there with stout, edibles and some whisky; looking forward to a most delightful evening -- Tom & Linn

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 16 Mar 08 - 05:24 PM

Me, barring disasters.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 16 Mar 08 - 06:57 PM

Count me in -- I think a friend of mine is visiting that weekend so I will bring her.....I'll take food orders for the chef......

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: kendall
Date: 16 Mar 08 - 07:55 PM

Of course we will be there.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Mar 08 - 09:48 PM

One Time you will slip up , and have a circle when I am NOT the other side of the pond !!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 07:40 AM

Terry, you could just come and visit us for a change, you know.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 09:17 AM

Come over Terry and there will be a song circle just for you. Come in August and join the fun at the Maritime Museum.
The dollar is in your favor, you know.
M

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: MaineDog
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 03:10 PM

I might be able to stop in late. When is that?
MD

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 08:24 PM

MD,
There are a few overnighters so we will go until...

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 08:28 PM

I am hoping...

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 11:13 PM

No food requests yet?????

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: jacqui.c
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 09:05 AM

Chicken curry please Deb (and Tom)!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 05:56 PM

I'm planning on being there.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Catfeet
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 09:27 PM

Where is this? East Coast? West coast? Somewhere inbetween?

Catfeet, who hasn't been on the mudcat in years, but still has her t-shirt

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 09:39 PM

South Portland, Maine, Catfeet.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 10:33 PM

I'll put a request in to the chef.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Micca
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 05:03 AM

I Wish........

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 08:30 AM

If wishes were horses...
Tami, I don't remember the last time I saw you.
Should be a good evening.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 11:33 PM

Chicken curry it shall be. And I am bringing two new people along (both contra dancers and he a singer) who are very much looking forward to it and possbly one other person (actually make that possible two others....)

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: MaineDog
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 03:26 PM

ALL contradancers should be at the Downeast Country Dance Festival in Topsham, ME, that night until very late, which is why I will be very late.
MD (who is a contradancer and a singer)

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 07:31 PM

Chicken Curry sounds great. I'll be sure to bring some chutney to pass.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 07:52 PM

Charley, I think the salsa ban may include chutney.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Mar 08 - 07:54 PM

Jeri-

Nuts to that. Chutney should never be confused with salsa.

I suppose I can bring it in a brown paper bag and eat on the back porch,

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 23 Mar 08 - 02:51 PM

My friends - Mark and Marie -- will be bringing a vegetarian lasagne

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Mar 08 - 11:09 AM

Made from fresh vegetarians?
refresh

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 25 Mar 08 - 11:32 PM

Absolutely

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 06:22 AM

Wonder why people refer to us as Mainiacs?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: kendall
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 07:42 AM

Look around at one of Mary's song circles.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 08:47 AM

I tried, Kendall. I just got dizzy. See you soon, I hope!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 09:19 AM

Chutney is good food.

Well, thanks to some experiments this morning, I don't think I will have to schlep as many support pillows for sleeping this time. (Hurray!) And THAT means I've just moved a notch closer to horizontal (while sleeping) and something closer resembling normality. (I'm not getting carried away.

Linn

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 10:23 AM

Normal and Linn in the same sentence... Kind of like using normal and my name in the same sentence.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 10:59 AM

I've never used normal and my name in the same sentence.

If I can attend, Sinsull, I'll bring something for the food table. I have no idea what, though we have lots of apples on hand. Any suggestions?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 11:34 AM

Apple pie. Apple crisp is nice, too. Apple tart, perhaps?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 12:01 PM

I don't think Kendall wants any apple pie, do you?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 12:05 PM

Oh, no, not at all.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 12:20 PM

Apple pie!?
I'll bring some suitably aged and deviant (like a few of us) Cheddar cheese.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 12:22 PM

I'm going to do roasted vegetables this time.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 12:25 PM

Apple Pie. Cheddar.
That works for me.
Mary

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: kendall
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 12:49 PM

drool

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 01:34 PM

Wear your lobstah bib then, Kendall. I can't disappoint Ranger 1 and Jeri!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 02:42 PM

Actually, I think a nice blue cheese goes even better than cheddar with apple pie.

I could probably bring some -- I might eat it all, though. (I love blue cheese of any kind.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Micca
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 03:31 PM

I wonder if I could fly into Boston on Friday evening? at the prospect of one of maeves apple pies, it could be worth it!!!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 05:18 PM

Blue cheese? Eeewwww!!!!!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: kendall
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 07:42 PM

Ever wonder why it's blue?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 07:46 PM

Am I blueeeee?
Now it's a music thread.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: stallion
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 07:54 PM

Talk of all this food, wish we were with you guys!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 07:54 PM

Because blue is pretty. Pink is pretty too, but pink cheese would just look silly and orange or red would look like somebody had an accident. I've seen green mold in cheese, but blue is WAY prettier. They could maybe do a Grateful Dead cheese and do blue, green and some purple, and if it lit up when you shone a black light on it it would be really, REALLY cool! They could do the purple part like port wine cheese only use really purple grapes, and then somebody could sell black crackers and we'd be all ready for the munchies to get us!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 08:11 PM

Oh gawd.......

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 08:39 PM

Just biding time waiting for Kendall to tell us why bleu cheese is blue. I figured it started as off milk, then a lot of bad things happened to it. Poor bleu cheese has a hard life... and then we eat it.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Micca
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 09:09 PM

Jeri, Take a look here scroll down to Windsor red and the Sage Derby has Green veins in it !!!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 09:20 PM

Yep, we get Sage Derby here. They all look and sound lovely, and I doubt we can get most of them here. I'm also hungry now. Thank you very much. Come visit Mary and bring cheese (as long as it's legal).

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 26 Mar 08 - 11:39 PM

Sorry but blue (bleu) cheese does NOT go with apple pie. Cheddar, strong sharp cheddar or French vanilla icecream, or double cream or custard go with apple pie - but not blue (bleu) cheese!!!!!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Micca
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 04:52 AM

Truebrit, some nice Wensleydale or Cheshire? or Cornish Yarg, ( I know,, a bit "mild" but would be lovely with the apple pie maeve brought last November), but a Robust Mature Farmhouse Chedder!!! just the job and some Recioto de Valpoicella

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 07:25 AM

Okay, okay, you're forcing me into it.

I will take it upon myself to save you all from the dreaded blue cheese -- I'll eat it all myself!!!

(Well, somebody's got to do it.)

BTW, I started out eating a nice aged Cheddar with apple pie, then discovered that blue REALLY brings out the flavors.

Linn

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 08:01 AM

Sorry guys but I like my apple pie and my bourbon straight.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 08:04 AM

Wish I could eat apple pie..............

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 08:21 AM

All of this learned discourse resulting from an innocent question. You're all a mess of Mainiacs, for certain sure. Match your pie with whatever you prefer, just leave Kendall's pieces alone, please. Jacqui, I've sent you a PM.

Love,

maeve

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: jacqui.c
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 08:29 AM

Being from 'away' it's nice to be included as a Mainiac. Biggest compliment going, in my book.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 08:52 AM

And so it is, Jacqui. 'Course, I'm "From Away" as well. See what the Captain has to say on the subject.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 10:54 AM

I'm also from "away" (the Mid-Waste, I mean, Midwest) -- but Tom says I was born a Yankee. I take that as a compliment, too.

Linn

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 11:26 AM

Kendal says something like: "just because a cat has kittens in the oven doesn't make them biscuits." Or something like that.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: kendall
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 11:34 AM

We are all accidents of birth, so how can native Mainers dump on people from away?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 27 Mar 08 - 03:32 PM

No issues at all with blue cheese, Bat Goddess dearest -- I love the stuff. It is just the pairing I am objecting too -- now I think I shall have to try it....

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 08:23 AM

We are expecting 2-4" or 4-6" or 6-8" of snow depending on which weatherman you watch. Hope this doesn't keep people away. It will clear late this afternoon so...

Meantime, I am making a huge salad with assorted dressings on the side. There will be crusty bread to accompany the lasagna, salad and blue cheese.
Why do I have the scary feeling that the salsa invasion is about to be outdone by a barrage of smelly cheeses?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 08:30 AM

To be clear, we're not expecting any snow on Saturday.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 08:48 AM

Should be cleaned out by tomorrow, and I'll stay out of ditches today.

I gotta feel for Garnet - he got snowed out LAST time! (Come to think of it, this is probably his fault.)

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 12:23 PM

I think I made the complementary taste discovery by accident at a party either at our place or another of our circle in the early 1980s -- had blue cheese and an apple pie on the plate at the same time and they evidently ended up on the same forkfull. And history was made.

Actually, it shouldn't be too surprising -- blue cheese is served with pears all the time, why not apples?

Linn

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 04:28 PM

Will the mood turn ugly if the pie and I don't manage to get down there tomorrow night?

We have the all day scion swap tomorrow in Unity. I may have turned into a grafting scion before I can make that long drive from Unity to home to South Portland. Plan on having a second food option to accompany all that good cheese just in case I can't get there, please.

I'll do my best to join you.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: kendall
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 08:05 PM

No problem, Maeve, we all have priorities...snif

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 08:41 PM

Sniff...

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 28 Mar 08 - 08:54 PM

Would love to see you...hope you can swing it.

I'd still eat all the blue cheese myself (unless TruBrit helps).

Linn

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 12:54 AM

I'll help but it will taste better if Maeve is there...

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 06:28 AM

Awwwwwww!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 08:38 AM

What they all said Maeve. Sniff.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 11:29 AM

heh heh
No - I won't forgive you! Either you show, apple pie and all, or you go!
Anybody buying this?

We'll miss you Maeve.
Next time
sniff...snivel...and so on.
Mary

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 11:42 AM

Real aged 'rat trap' cheddar, whacked off a wheel right in front of me. Think about it. Poor cheese. Poor sad, lonely cheese. The cheese should NOT stand alone.

And Maeve, I haven't seen you for ages! If you already have one of those funny looking cars, why do you need to swap for a different one? Please don't make your friends sad!

(Mary, this ought to work way better than threats, although they're worth a shot.)

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 02:51 PM

Hey... she is doin the swap SO that those pies will taste even better!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 03:02 PM

I have the cheese, and it's good. The had 4 year old Cheddar, but I actually like the rat trap stuff better. It's creamier. Man, I am HUNGRY!

I was reading the hot sauce labels and giggling: Hemorrhoid Helper, John McCain (that's it - boring!) Hillary, 'Life's a Bitch, so Why...", Queers Sauce for the Straight Guy, Dumb and Dumber (guess who's on the label) Red Sox, Sir Fartalot, and more. Couldn't memorize them all. I could be a collector.

They had chutney too.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 03:04 PM

Gnu's correct. We got some wonderful apple and pear scions today (which bodes well for the future pies but are not any use for driving), along with other good plant stuff!

Will you kind folks mind terribly if I join you tonight after all? I'm sitting here chopping juicy apples. I'll try get there in time for supper! I won't need a bed, for I'm singing at church early Sunday morning and will need to get home tonight.

Love,

maeve, feeling very welcome

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 03:06 PM

STOP TORTURING US!!!

Come, bring pie. I have cheese, but I bought a pie too. We shall feast!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: gnu
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 03:47 PM

Come, bring pie.....hmmmmmmmmm..... hehehehehe. Pick up some lobster too, eh?

I wonder what apple and lobster pie.... sorry.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 03:58 PM

I just realized I was writing in monosyllables. Oh well, there will be curry too, and that has TWO syllables!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 04:09 PM

Torturing has more than one syllable, too, Jeri.

Mmm...pie!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 04:18 PM

And YOU think you're so smart just because you can count! HA!

I am starving. The day went on, I drank coffee, sampled cheese and forgot to eat anything else.

I just wonder if I can actually remember any songs.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 04:44 PM

I'm about to take the pie out of the oven and head along to the Place of the Blue Cheese...

I don't drive crazy, I don't drive fast. I shall arrive and sneak in quietly whenever I get there.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: kendall
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 04:45 PM

Can I swap my snif for a woopie?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Megan L
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 05:12 PM

Mave has been dispatched with pie and instructions to disperse skelps and hugs as appropriate have a grand night lads an lassies.

AWRA best
frae Dauvitt and his Meg

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 05:15 PM

Wish I could be with y'all. Hope you have a great night.
Regards to all.

Giok

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 05:46 PM

The roasted vegetables are close to being cooked and we'll be on our way.

Seamus is there already.............

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Mar 08 - 11:33 PM

Maeve did come after all with the apple pie, which went wonderfully well with Jeri's rat cheese; she only lives about 20 minutes north of me so I invited her to a benefit concert we're doing in Richmond (Maine) April 20 with Roll & Go, and Kat Logan & Jim Loney.

There was also a new couple who seemed very interested in the singing, who have just moved into town from Rhode Island. What were their names? Their lasagna was fine.

Tom's curry was also a delight, and people seemed to enjoy the homemade blueberry chutney that I brought to go with it.

There was also a great salad, roasted veggies, fruit, and lots of beer and wine, and a bottle of expensive looking scotch.

I got to sing some of my old Great Lakes songs: "Keewenaw County" and "Fresh-Water Whaling (aka "Superior Sperm") and I got Linn to sing "Lovely Agnes." Other songs I led included "Mid-Watches," "Poor Little Ellen," and "The Body in the Bag."

Everyone seemed to be in good spirits, maybe just a little tired from extended winter!

Thanks, Sinsull, for hosting another fine song party.

Of course, most everyone is still there singing but they don't have an hour to drive.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 01:00 AM

The new couple were Mark and Marie......I think they might become regulars.

Charlie - The body in the Bag is one of my all time favorites -- thanks for singing it. A lovely evening all round

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 01:10 AM

Bed time. We had fun.
SINS

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: kendall
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 07:59 AM

My hangover from Friday evening finally got the best of me.
I should know better than to allow myself to be over served, but who can turn down Glenfiddich?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 08:29 AM

Who indeed

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 08:37 AM

Thanks to Deb and Tom for taking me home rather later than Kendall. MANY thanks to Tom for the curry - it was wonderful.

Another great night, even though we were literally in the dark for an hour between eight and nine, with only candle light. That meant making sure we knew the words to any songs we brought out! Luckily I had my light up crochet hook so could continue work whilst the lights were off.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: MaineDog
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 10:09 AM

Sorry! by the time it got late, I was much to tired.
Another time, (I can make good curry too).
MD

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 10:20 AM

It took four of us but Charlie and Jeri managed most of the lyrics to Anderson's Coast.

Can't imagine that South Portland saved muchmoney on power - my house was the only dark one on the street. Luckily there was a sufficient amount of cheese to go with the whine,,,

This night really came together. Lots of good music, stories, food and drink and friends. I think we were all up for an evening.

Now who belongs to the pecan pie? It was untouched - blame Holly and her apple pie for that.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Megan L
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 10:32 AM

You never told me there was going to be PECAN PIE damb I could have done with a couple of days break too.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 11:46 AM

Thank you for another lovely evening.

I was permitted to enter once the assembly saw I carried the required password-in-a-pan, and greeted graciously. Sinsull forgave me for throwing a plate on the floor. The food was delicious and varied.

The music was also delicious and varied, and I enjoyed both music and company sufficiently for my church friends to remark on how happy I was as I sang in our service this morning.

Kendall- I warned you about the proper use of Glenfiddich. It goes down the drain. No wonder you didn't feel good. Pay attention and follow directions next time. Have Abelour instead.

I missed saying goodnight to some of the lovely folks as I left- I couldn't see anyone in the dark!

Thank you all, especially our generous hostess, for such a welcome springtime gathering.

maeve

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Megan L
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 11:55 AM

Whit a bunch o heathens Aberlour! Glenfiddich!! jings dae ye no ken there is only wan malt an thats the great Highland Park

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 03:53 PM

No Laphroaig at all! There was Tom's excellent curry and Charlie's blueberry chutney, roasted veggies, veggie lasagna, and Maeve's beautiful apple pie. It was a wonderful night. A little short on music, but the conversation was great and it was nice to see Maeve, with or without pie.

I'm recovering. Didn't sleep much in Mary's comfy guest room air bed - had one of those headache-free migraines and froze, with various body parts cramping much of the night. Maybe the cheese set it off... or the scotch... or the wine... or staying up too late. It might have been the invasion of the dog-hair bunnies, or laughing at the dog hair bunnies, or laughing at Alice the cat. Who knows. I just know I had a great time, aside from the sleeping part.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 04:34 PM

Linn and Tom were in great form as well. They did lovely renditions of "Darcy Riley" and "Martin Said to His Man."

Jacqui did Utah Philip's coal mining song about morphine and "Phoebe Snow."

Got to run! Someone else needs to confess what songs they led.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 04:36 PM

Seamus refused to leave when Jacqui came to get him. He is snoozing in the arm chair in my sunroom. A very happy puppy. I am fighting the urge to take a nap. I want to slep tonight.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last night's festivities. It was wonderful.
Mary

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 05:14 PM

Mine's easy to remember. I sang MeganL's "From the Bridge" to the tune "Invershin".

Sinsull sang a lovely Gypsy Davy variation. And while some of you had heard Jeri's song, it was new to me and quite lovely too. What was it, Jeri?

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: ranger1
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 07:41 AM

Maeve, I think the song you're referring to was "When I Go" by Dave Carter. Jeri does a beautiful job with it.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: maeve
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 07:48 AM

That's the one! Yes, she does.

I did not, however, get to hear Ranger 1 sing this time.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: kendall
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 08:33 AM

Ranger 1 doesn't often sing, she just hangs around looking young, the little twit.

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Jeri
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 09:04 AM

Tami was helping me with 'When I Go' (Dave Carter). Thanks for saying the nice things!

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 10:08 AM

Hey, Charlie --

I sang neither "Dicy Reilly" nor "Darcy Farrell" and neither did Tom...what song are you thinking of?

I DID sing "Doffing Mistress", "Factory Girl", "The Bedmaking" and, of course, your request of Sally Rogers' "Lovely Agnes" which I, of course, sing because of my Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin and Lake Michigan antecedents.

Lovely evening.

Linn

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 04:29 PM

Linn-

It was the "Doffing Mistress" of course.

And very well done!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 08:58 AM

Just remembered that I also sang "Me Husband Has No Courage In Him" -- but that may have been after you left, Charlie.

Linn

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 08:58 AM

Hee hee

Subject: RE: Song Circle at SINSULL's 3/29
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 11:55 AM

Hee hee, my......foot. ;-)

Remember that in the song (Me Husband Has No Courage In Him) the singer is the OBSERVER and overhearer of the young woman with the problem (which she solves by the end of the song).

Then again, maybe he's just full of JOHN Courage...

Linn (chortle)