Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Amergin Date: 17 Jul 00 - 06:07 PM Naemanson, glad you like baths so much.... |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Sorcha Date: 17 Jul 00 - 06:19 PM Southeastern Wyoming,(state of), USA where Friday and Saturday it was 105. Sunday and Monday (today) high has been 70 (F). Right now it is POURING down rain, Blessed Be!! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Branwen23 Date: 17 Jul 00 - 06:20 PM Arlington, TX (near Dallas) USA |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Jed at Work Date: 17 Jul 00 - 06:23 PM in Dallas TX USA - where it's hot, hot, hot - today. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Mbo Date: 17 Jul 00 - 06:26 PM But as Mary Black says, I alas live not where I love. --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Little Neophyte Date: 17 Jul 00 - 06:27 PM Well Lena, I am from Toronto, Ontario Canada and one day I would like to live abour 3 hours north of here where I can see the Northern lights, listen to the loons call and try to avoid stepping into moose turds. Mind you steamy bear pooh should also be avoided too. Bonnie |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Melani Date: 17 Jul 00 - 06:39 PM Chicago originally, San Francisco Bay Area currently. No snow here. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Naemanson Date: 17 Jul 00 - 06:43 PM But Amergin, I live in a place where I can drink Bath water and know it tastes good. And, of course, it's all the clean living... Mbo, I can relate... |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lanfranc Date: 17 Jul 00 - 06:58 PM Harlow (where the H and the T are usually silent!), Essex, England, Great Britain, Europe, Earth, Sun, Milky Way. Damn that Python song. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Mrs.Duck Date: 17 Jul 00 - 07:01 PM Do you kbow there have been many mornings when this question has been raised or more often where am I? At present I am in Pontefract home of all things liquorice but am open to offers!!! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: bigchuck Date: 17 Jul 00 - 07:29 PM I'm in Rutland, Vermont , USA, about 8 mi down the road from Midchuck. I'm a native Vermonter, a rapidly extincting breed Sandy |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Morticia Date: 17 Jul 00 - 07:33 PM Mrs D. sounds like you are fed up? If you fancy a household where teenagers and cats appear to rule the roost and close harmony singing is always appreciated, come and live in our spare room....you'd be welcome :) |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: death by whisky Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:11 PM Ireland. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:21 PM Hardiman the Fiddler and I are in N Central PA BISKIT! DARLING! (Pal) Where been ya???? GOT KNICKERS???? Don't foregt to come see us next time yer within an hour of Williamsport PA or Elmira NY! We'll come see YOU!!! BOTHCHUCKS! See you next summer near time of Lake Champlain Festival! SUSAN IN CALIFORNIA! I'll be in SD in mid August, with a couple of other SD Mudcatters! Wanna meet? Oceanside singing??? Send personal message! MELANI! I will be at the SF airport in mid August on a certain day, hopefully singing during a long layover with another Catter! Wanna join us? If so send personal message! Whoo-ee! ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Dharmabum Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:37 PM I exist in New Jersey during the week. My heart lives in the mountains of Potter county Pennsylvania. I've got a nice little place up there tucked into the side of a hill. 7 acres 2 ponds,bears,deer,ducks,heron,among others,even spotted an eagle last summer. Sitting on my porch with my banjo is just about as close to heaven as anything I can imagine. Two & a half more years to go on that mortgage & I can call it home. Ron. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Dharmabum Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:45 PM Forgot to mention, not far from Praise & Hardiman. Got to meet them recently & share some tunes. Wonderful folks! Ron. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: rangeroger Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:52 PM Beautiful downtown Smelterville,Idaho.Where the entire town was on the wrong side of the tracks until the EPA tore the tracks up.They also made the smelters go away. I would love to be in England this summer, but from the previous posts I have apparently missed summer there.I would love to see it as an adult now that 40 years have passed since I was last there. rr |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: JenEllen Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:59 PM Yakima, Washington, USA. Not the rainy bit like Seattle, but wishing it were. Lightning strikes are causing MORE wildfires tonight. ~Elle |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: celticblues5 Date: 17 Jul 00 - 09:01 PM in mid-Iowa, hotbed of counterculture intrigue lived in the KC area for a long time (hi, Gary)- at one point, just 2 blocks away from KC's own home-town serial killer, Bob Berdella; alum of Foolkiller classes & late nights at the Grand Emporium where would I like to go? - open an atlas, close your eyes, flip the pages, & point |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Amergin Date: 17 Jul 00 - 09:06 PM Naemanson, you're lucky, you get to drink clean Bath water, I get to drink dirty bathwater....from the Columbia River no less... Miss the clean water back home....The Kootenai River looks mighty purdy this time of year.... Amergin |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Gypsy Date: 17 Jul 00 - 09:50 PM Northern CA, everywhere, back to N. CA |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: JedMarum Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:07 PM OK, y'all - so where would ya like to be? |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lepus Rex Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:16 PM Oddly, I'd LIKE to be in Kazakhstan. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Amergin Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:19 PM I'd rather be back home in Bonners Ferry, Idaho... |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: catspaw49 Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:28 PM I gotta' tell y'all how entertaining this is..........For those who say the 'Cat is going to hell and all that Shinola...........It was about a year and a half ago that we first ran a thread like this and it was very tentative. I mean like a lot of people, most in fact, only gave the general location, at best, very minimal info, often without their name attached. And now.......We gotta' be doing something right that so many newer folks feel free to give these kind of details. New or old, welcome to the "Real Mudcat" and I'm very happy you're around!!! Spaw |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Mbo Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:41 PM Where would I like to be? Southern California. --Mbo |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: GutBucketeer Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:44 PM I'm in Silver Spring Maryland. Strangely enough I found out that Fortunato lives in Silver Spring too....In the same Neighborhood....On the next street over.... Our backyards touch .... they can see into our bathroom window (and vice-versa, though we see their porch). We introduced ourselves in the real world last Friday, and I had a great time playing some music at his house with his wife and a friend of theirs. Just goes to show that Mudcat introduces people to each other anywhere from around the world to their own backyards. :-) JAB |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:44 PM GYPSY-- See CA Bound thread.... you??? ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: CamiSu Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:54 PM Fairlee, Vermont. And I like it here. I just wish I were in a house where there weren't a million things to do. But I would still like it to be this house, and this farm. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: mactheturk Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:59 PM Currently, Southern California. Originally, Peoria, Ill., then Silversprings Maryland, then back to Peoria, then Sacramento, CA, then Hayward, CA,. then Claremont, CA., then Eugene, Oregon, then Bend, Oregon, then back to Eugene Oregon, then Fullerton, CA... .... and I wish I were in Dixie, hurray, hurray, in Dixie Land. ............
Mac |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: dwditty Date: 17 Jul 00 - 10:59 PM JAB, what a great story. Maybe it's a sign that the mudcat is taking over the world. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:18 PM mactheturk, See CA Bound thread! You join us?? ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Susan from California Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:26 PM Mbo, Come on down!!! We have world's most comfortable couch! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: GUEST,Barry Finn Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:28 PM Southern New Hampshire for the past 15 or so years just 45 miles/minutes north of where I was born & bred, Boston. Happy just where I am, drowning in folk music, except when I get the notion to be on the ocean. Barry |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Susan from California Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:37 PM Dharmabum, I grew up near exit 148, in what the NY Post called "Town of Shame" and Bernard Lefkowitz called "the perfect suburb." It was both, and neither. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Dulci46 Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:39 PM I'm in Indiana. I only know of one other Mudcatter from here are there any others? |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Mark Cohen Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:49 PM What a thoroughly enjoyable thread! I'm still on the rainy side of the Big Island of Hawaii, where for the past week we've been reminded that this really is the rainy side. I'm glad I got my downspout fixed so some of it goes into the water tank. Then again, with my generator on the fritz I could use a little sun...such is life in the country, as I'm sure many of you all will relate. Finally finding a few people here to sing and play guitar with, which is wonderful. Anybody coming out this way, give me a shout. Oh, yes, I spent several years in the Northwest, grew up in Philly, wouldn't want to live anywhere but Hawaii, but would love to see Australia/NZ and the Mediterranean, and maybe spend a little more time sailing the San Juans and the BC coast. And let me be the first to remind 'Spaw that in his excitement he forgot to tell us all where he is at. But I agree with him completely. Aloha, Mark |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: MarkS Date: 17 Jul 00 - 11:51 PM Stroudsburg (Monroe County) Pennsylvania. It used to be the country but is now the 6th boro of New York City, tucked into the Pocono Mountains. Come for your honeymoon and bring lots of money! We still have the resorts with the heart shaped bathtubs and beds. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Terry K Date: 18 Jul 00 - 01:04 AM Interesting that most people have moved away from their origins - understandable in my case! I came from near Middlesbrough (when it was Yorkshire) went via lots of places to where I am now, 30 miles due north of London, in Hertfordshire. I want to split each year between here and Australia to get the best of both worlds - Noosa will do nicely. Cheers, Terry |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: katlaughing Date: 18 Jul 00 - 01:11 AM I have always rather'd be in Scotland....but would settle for an old farmhouse in northern New England or Nova Scotia OR, a cabin in the mountains with a stream, high up in the Colorado Rockies where my ancestors settled and I mostly grew up....with high meadows and a nice afternoon shower/thunderstorm....but my heart would still long for Scotland...maybe this is why we cannot decide where to move?**BG** Ask Spaw about Ahia. He'll tell ya all about it...Dulci, my son is not a Mudcatter, yet, but he is in Indiana, New Albany... |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Escamillo Date: 18 Jul 00 - 03:30 AM Exotic ? ME. :)) I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina, a 10 million souls city in front of the widest river of the world, the largest Italian city outside Italy and the largest Spanish city outside Spain, etc., birthplace of the Tango, of Astor Piazzolla, of Jorge Luis Borges, and maestros Daniel Barenboim and José Cura, land of singers, poets and beef eaters. Not wine & beer exporters because we always end up drinking it all. (This post patronized by the Secretary of Tourism) Un abrazo - Andrés |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lox Date: 18 Jul 00 - 04:06 AM Yo Midchuck, If you want to go to Ireland, go everywhere. You are 1000 times more likely to get run over by a car than to suffer harm at the hands of the paramilitaries. ...Calling from Babylon...over and out! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Callie Date: 18 Jul 00 - 06:57 AM I do live where I love. Sydney Australia is home. I'll be travelling through England Ireland and Europe next year, on a big adventure. I can't stand the heat and will go to great lengths to escape Australian summers (like go to Scotland!) Callie |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: GUEST,andy mööer Date: 18 Jul 00 - 07:26 AM I'm Australian,although Austria is where I seem to be living |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Skipjack K8 Date: 18 Jul 00 - 07:56 AM Like the Mary Black line, Embo, probably 'cos I don't. Heaven, for me, is where I was born and raised, on the wide expanses of the windswept Essex salt marshes. That is where my bones will lay, after I finally make my homecoming. I thought I would try and write about it, but realised a wordsmith with powers far greater than mine had already done so, over a hundred years ago, in the opening lines of his hymn to the marshes, Mehalah. Apologies for clogging up the thread, but I love these words so much. Mehalah - Sabine Baring Gould - Chapter One - The Ray "Between the mouths of the Blackwater and the Colne, on the east coast of Essex, lies an extensive marshy tract veined and freckled in every part with water. At high tide the appearance is that of a vast surface of Sargasso weed floating on the sea, with rents and patches of shining water traversing and dappling it in all directions. The creeks, some of considerable length and breadth, extend many miles inland, and are arteries whence branches out a fibrous tissue of smaller channels, flushed with water twice in the twenty four hours. At noontide, and especially at the equinoxes, the sea asserts its royalty over this vast region, and overflows the whole, leaving standing out of the flood only the long island of Mersea, and the lesser islet, called the Ray. This latter is a hill of gravel rising from the heart of the marshes, crowned with ancient thorntrees, and possessing, what is denied the mainland, an unfailing spring of purest water. At ebb, the Ray can only be reached from the old Roman causeway, called the Strood, over which runs the road from Colchester to Mersea Isle, connecting formerly the city of the Trinobantes with the station of the count of the Saxon shore. But even at ebb, the Ray is not approachable by land unless the sun or east wind has parched the ooze into brick; and then the way is long, tedious and tortuous, among bitter pools and over shining creeks. It was perhaps because this ridge of high ground was so inaccessible, so well protected by nature, that the ancient inhabitants had erected on it a rath, or fortified camp of wooden logs, which left its name to the place long after the timber defences had rotted away. A more desolate region can scarce be conceived, and yet it is not without beauty. In summer, the thrift mantles the marshes with shot satin, passing through all gradations of tint from maiden's blush to lily white. Thereafter a purple glow steals over the waste, as the sea lavender bursts into flower, and simultaneously every creek and pool is royally fringed with sea aster. A little later the glass-wort, that shot up green and transparent as emerald glass in the early spring, turns to every tinge of carmine. When all vegetation ceases to live, and goes to sleep, the marshes are alive and wakeful with countless wild fowl. At all times they are haunted with sea mews and roysten crows. In winter they teem with wild duck and grey geese. The stately heron loves to wade in the pools, occasionally the whooper swan sounds his loud trumpet, and flashes a white reflection in the still blue waters of the fleets. The plaintive pipe of the curlew is familiar to those who frequent these marshes, and the barking of the Brent geese as they return from their northern breeding places is heard in November." It's a good read, but it'll have you blubbing. It's on the net at http://www.author.co.uk/mehalah.htm Skipjack |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Lena Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:18 AM Thanks everybody for your stories. I was afraid to be hassled for launching a non-strictly-serious topic.Sorry about that. I ferociously ate up dinner in front of the screen reading all postings.A most enjoyable meal. Looks like I'm abosluty in the majority by being far from where I was born.This thread actually came during an attach of homesickness.I'm actually realizing there's a place I should call home.I'd like it to be here-where the wind is generous,the colours astound you etc-but looks like a certain olive grove on some italian hill is singing me home. And you're lucky you can take folk music with you! Central Italy folk music was strangled by Opera singers so long ago(I hate Opera....)and if yoiu're a homesick italian there's nothing you can sing about. Happy staying and happy travelling. Lena P.S.Callie,where in Sydney are you?! I'm in Darlinghurst ,if you may. I thought Sydney to be a very un-folkie place(but a great one)...
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Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Dulci46 Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:27 AM Kat, So if your son is in New Albany, and you come to visit, you have to come to my house to. |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Nicole Leonard Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:32 AM I'm in Auckland, New Zealand. I've lived in New Zealand all my life and haven't done much travelling (been to Australia). I'd love to visit Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Cornwall. I'd love to visit all sorts of places, but New Zealand is miles from anywhere (except Australia). |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: katlaughing Date: 18 Jul 00 - 09:15 AM Yep, Dulci, you and Spaw and MaryinKy, too! We'll have a party!! |
Subject: RE: Where are you?! From: Fortunato Date: 18 Jul 00 - 10:08 AM Darn JAB. I wanted to tell that story. so He comes to my door in a thunderstorm with a washtub and a long stick. Fortunately he had a banjo case as well, making his motives clear! All around the world and in my own back yard. Ain't it amazin'? And he plays good, too. I'd like to be at a world gathering with all of you anywhere at all. Ah, communion. Fortunato |
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