BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited

Subject: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisted
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 01:11 AM

This is a mellow tavern. One of soft lights, cool, smooth drinks, and no televisions or radios, so it is completely devoid of any outside news. It is a place to come away from your cares and concerns. To tune up and tune in with friends in a mellow blend of voices and instruments. The only rules are no political/war debates and no brawling.

Back in ought three that's the way the whole thing started...now, we're putting some dusty roses in the vases, polishing up the mirrors and old, smooth-worn bar to offer another side of Mudcat...the one we've all been to before; the one that seems to get lost in the detritus of a ravaged world. Kinda like forgettin' to go to watch the sunset over the ocean or sit by a quiet running brook in the glade of a forest, or well, you know, darlin'...mellow-yellow, smoooooooth mooves, tender mercies strumming in a slow and haunting melody, THAT part of Mudcat! Nothing from the 3D world coming in 'cept fellow travellers ready for some Peace, Love, and Rest, yeah?!

So here's to a smooth and tasty amaretto sour, a fresh, cool breeze, and the faint strains of soft, tender guitar strummin' fading up...aaaahhhh....won't you join me?

(Same rules apply!)

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisted
From: Alba
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 08:22 AM

Oh the relief. Hello there Kat ma darlin. You have done a lovely job with this place as usual. You are the Host of all Hosts.
To escape from the World of whatever and whatever (won't even say those the banned subjects words...sick of it all, need to get away from the repeating, drone)
Ah yes. The Sun is coming in through the open window accompanied by a gentle Breeze. maybe it's time to get the Mandolin out and join the Guitar player. Have to move the sleeping cat though from the Sofa..just a bit over there ma dear as I like you to sit beside me still. There now...sigh...Bliss!
This is one of my favorite places on the Mudcat. A respite indeed.
The long months of friction melt away under the Roof of the Tavern.
Ill sit a while in the hope that some Old Friends who haven't been around and who I miss so, pop in to say hello and maybe share some Music, laughter and Smoothies (Allan is the Smoothie King in my Book).
The Clematis has grown so high and the it's Flowers are peeking in through the Back window.
The Annuals in the Window Boxes are attracting the Humming Bird. Oh I needed this.
..... I know this tune. Margaret's Waltz. Now we're cooking:>)
Talking about cooking...any quick snacks on the go perchance!!

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisted
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 08:46 AM

As always I am a bit apprehensive wandering into a new session for the first time , so I find a seat in a corner and start unloading the
various Calton cases (All white Fibre glass - WHAT a Poseur) then quietly get 'em all into Concert pitch . Margarets Waltz ? NIIICCE -
A Bit of whistle I think , and THEN I will see what the beer is like in here .

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisted
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 09:18 AM

Quietly. Budget hearings, service level reports, OBE, family problems, house stuff, traffic snarls, personnel issues, building repairs, bodily aches and faults, all flow away and out the drains installed to dispose of such things.


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....



A small single malt, please. Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 02:38 PM

Here ya go, Rapaire..one single malt and another charge to Bert's credit card. Wonder how he is these days...hope he stops by, it's been ages.

That's a lovely tune, Albadarlin'...c'mon Leadfingers, a bit of a whistle and who cares wotcher made of, eh? **bg**

Thanks to you, m'dears, my mind is free and relaxed..floating down the old mill stream, on a lazy, not-so-hazy summer day with my summer love...oh well, better stop with the titled cliches, eh?LOL

Love that amaretto sour, anyone else like something or have a tune for us?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: GUEST, Passing Cloud
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 02:44 PM

Not stopping ... just wanted to warn you the Rolling Stones just pulled up outside with an entourage of bikers. Bye.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Alba
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 03:18 PM

Way Hey. Thanks for the head's up there Passing Cloud. Best go outside so the Bikes don't park on the soft lawn. Nothing for the Stands to go into! Ill direct them round the Back to the Tarmac. See Good Things come to Good People in Good Places!. As a Biker myself they must have got my message that the Tavern was open again..such a neat ride out to here. The Cliffs on one side and nothing but Fields on the other. Looking forward to a few old tunes with the Lads. Maybe later we can take Folks that feel the need for a breeze for a blast along the Coast Road?. Plenty Bikes and Riders by the sounds of it.
Shame you can't stay for a while PC. The Tavern is never a place where the outside world can spoil...only enhance.
The Stones coming in!!! Damn Keith Richards really does look like that way......Guess it must be nice for those Guys to go somewhere and be able to relax.
Youve come to the right place!

Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 03:25 PM

What do you do with all the vomit?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 03:52 PM

They get non members to clean it up of course! You must be new not to know that.
Dettol, Rubber Gloves, Bucket and Scraper, Cloth, Mop and a big Black Binbag. You get to keep the Rubber Gloves when your done.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 03:55 PM

So you need to be a member?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 04:29 PM

The bartender slides Guest 03:52 PM a nice glass of hard cider, with a Mickey Finn, gratis. Guest, anxiously looking around at the unusual mix of people and the preponderance of doors, throws the drink back quickly, looks a little sheepish, lays his head on the bar, and starts to snore. A couple of the regulars gather him up and move him off of the bar. He'll sleep it off and wake up much mellower, and no one will vomit on him over in that corner where the tree usually stands. Just nudge the cat off of the window seat, someone, please, while we move this fellow over out of harms way. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: GUEST, not 03:52 PM
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 04:37 PM

Wow -- I thought THAT guest was a woman. You been in here a while, hey SRS?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 04:55 PM

I visit regularly, and usually bring smoked salmon. There's not enough if all of those bikers come in--but it looks like they're having second thoughts. Too much clematis climbing on the building, a little too folksie, wayyyy to mellow? (They obviously haven't heard about christmas two years ago!) If MMario comes by he'll have to throw a couple of aurochs on the rotisserie.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: JenEllen
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 05:34 PM

Whew! Beautimous Barkeep-ette, put the kettle on, wouldja? Herding them Go-Go Hamsters is a thirsty business.

They are oh-so proud of their new show "Go-Going Gone: A Rodent Retrospective" that they can't wait to shake a tail-nub for y'all. I realize there wasn't any mention of it at the Tonys this year (although I heard a rumor that Hugh Jackman was entertaining the crowd during commercial breaks by singing songs from it) but the hamsters are happy all the same.

While they work the kinks out, I'm gonna take myself a sit-down over here in the bench by the bay window. I can peek through the clematis at the bikers this way!

I don't think I have the strength to hold up my end of the bargain at the kissing booth this go-round, so when I get rested, I'll get a marker and change the sign to a "You Show Me Yours, I'll Show You Mine" surgery scar viewing booth. Vasectomies pay double, lobotomies ride for free. We can at least raise a few bucks to put on Bert's tab, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: MAG
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 09:35 PM

Well, this is what I had been missing. No evening off since sometime last week. thursday open mike is not optional. I managed to beg off being a church board officer but I still have managed to accept committment to a group with 7 different interpretations of spiritual growth.

Maybe there are a few friendly shades here? Ah, I'll go get THAT one to show me why I can't find all the chords to "Sing a Rainbow."

Barkeep, here is a bottle of cognac, one of Tia Maria, and a quart of heavy cream. Please pour in equal parts over crushed ice and keep 'em coming. I used to pull down   pitchers to earn my way through senior year. er, 35 years ago. Do the taps still work the same?

Plant swap out that side door on the patio -- the one with the vine-covered wooden thingie -- lessee, I've got artemisia, hostas, rooted cuttings from a pink rambler rose, LOTSA blackberry suckers if you wanna start a patch, here's a peony sucker (red), a couple lilac suckers ... who else has garden stuff to swap?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Susan A-R
Date: 11 Jun 04 - 10:56 PM

On my way to the cabin for the weekend, seems like a good place to stop for a quick pint of the black, vile stuff, and to warm up the fiddle.

Hmm, wonder how the cat and the hamsters are managing? Any tune requests from the furry guys?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: GUEST,the cat chorus
Date: 12 Jun 04 - 03:12 AM

"The Cat Came Back, please" mew the kitties in unison. . .

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Jun 04 - 04:30 AM

The cat indeed came back!!

After an horrendous week of calling the animal hospital (when I wasn't in the human one myself), and making the decision to let the Amber cat go - quality of life and all that..... I'd broken the news to Limpit and we'd already picked out a replacement kitten.... Amber cat decided that she wasn't ready to go.

She's back home, putting on weight, sleeping, eating, sleeping, washing, napping and doing all those things she used to do, with a new sparkle in her eye. Finally after 4 months and about £500 in vet bills, we've cracked this infection thing. No relapse after a week and she's looking more like her old self.

Respite indeed.

And last night, I was out shopping at a craft store when I bumped into a very dear friend who was at a loose end and we ended up having dinner and going for a very long walk around some lakes. It was a glorious evening, still, fresh and bright. We walked for a couple of miles (something I couldn't do 2 weeks ago!) along overgrown paths, never farther than 8ft from a lake or canal. We saw many heron, geese and goslings, swans and cygnets, 2 pairs of crested grebe, a jay, a pair of terns, bright blue dragonflies, reed warblers, robin, blue and coal tits, and a long tailed tit. But best of all was a flash of electric blue streaking across the lake, that was gone in a split second - only the second time I've ever seen a kingfisher - and all this within 20 mins driving of London!

All it needed was a cool pint of beer in a pub garden to complete the evening. Unfortunately, I had to get home so I've come in here for the cool beer. I am soooo chilled out and relaxed that even the London Underground failing didn't annoy me.

Having my Amber cat at home and happy, and that little flash of blue kingfisher is better than any antidepressant I've taken.

Slide that cool beer down the counter and I'll prop my feet up on this unconscious GUEST.... All I want is a pussycat in my lap and some good listnin' and sippin' music..... Play on, McDuff!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jun 04 - 02:24 PM

SINSULL here in the corner. My computer died as did my furnace. The Notebook is out of commission thanks to SPRINT. And I turned my ankle. But life is good. With the Captain out of town, I have the use of his computer and even better his dog Seamus. So Seamus will have a Guinness. (Just don't tell Kendall) and I will have a nicely chilled Pinot Grigio. How about some some soothing music to help pass the time?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Amos
Date: 12 Jun 04 - 02:27 PM

Oh, great, Sins -- you haven't turned blonde on us have ya? I mean here you have the big secret from the Skipper, and you document on the Cat? Hmmmm? LOL!!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Tinker
Date: 12 Jun 04 - 04:13 PM

Oh a room without boxes... I'm just going to stretch out my legs and forget about the guy who hasn't shown up yet to put down my kitchen floor. So what if my cabinets are in the garage. I've got plants to add to the swap and there's no pesky boarder folks to worry about pests and other such nonsense. No self respecting pest makes it through the tavern doors.
I've got some sorbet peonies and a shell pink to share. oh and if anyone wants Tansy I've got lots to spare. Hosta, Shasta Daisy, Mallow, Iris. And I just put a big bunch of mint behind the bar for drinks. MAG I think I'll take some of the rose clippings for the godess garden.

Now let me tune this guitar and find someone to follow....

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jun 04 - 04:24 PM

You're going to have to sing over the noise of the cats purring in the windowseat. Quite a cat-cophony. Those Shasta daisys look very nice--mine got so wet last week the flowers gave up. I have extra coreopsis if you'd like to step out and take a look at the pots in the back of the pickup. They're right beside the ice chest full of cold Negra Modelo beer. The bartender was out last time I asked, so I brought my own.

Is MMario still knitting? Is he planning to come cook? I couldn't lift something like that auroch by myself even if I wanted, so he'll have to take care of the big stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Jun 04 - 02:44 AM

It's morning here now, in the Yook, but it's a glorious one... one that makes you want to spring out of bed and go and do something energetic... fresh, clean, blue and green.... shift that cat over and let me sit down with a cranberry juice, that desire to do something energetic will go away soon I hope!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: MAG
Date: 13 Jun 04 - 09:18 AM

6:00 in the am here in the u.s. pacific time -- what a beautiful morning, after a week of thunderstorms, which pretty much did in the cherry crop and damaged the wheat.

I recite my mantra: You Have Plenty Of Time. yeah, if I play busy-every-second.

I can't resist the Mudcat Tavern, tho

chill, M.A.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: MMario
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 08:31 AM

LOBSTER! got Lobsters going - and a big pit full of steamers. They should be done any second now...

Just let me get the coffee IV hooked up (I'm thinking of having a permanent shunt installed)

I have yellow water iris, Sedum Acre and Chinese PaperBark Maples to add to the plant swap.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Janie
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 01:16 PM

Where do you want me put the peacock fern? I left it out in the car until I know. Got something tall and cold with no alcohol in it that I could sip on over here in the corner while I listen to that soft guitar?

Ummmmmm. Lobster.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 01:59 PM

I saw some green tea in the fridge back there that would be marvelous over ice.

I've been swapping seeds with neighbors and last night learned that one guy has a nice little pot of vitex started from a handful of seeds I gave him last fall. I'd love to have enough shade one of these days to plant some ferns. Is that what yours needs, Janie?

Mmmmm, lobster!

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 02:46 PM

I have some old fashioned bleeding hearts, volunteer violas, and some in-your-face-red roses if anyone's interested.

Another single malt, please. I have a Board meeing in three hours or so and need to be a mellow as possible.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 02:50 PM

the bleeding hearts that are sortof a lavender colour - longer then wide, with a nice cut-leaf foliage?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 03:00 PM

Sort of a lavender red, leaves with deep, rounded indentations, dripping from a row on the stem. Not fringed bleeding hearts, but the sort I remember from my Grandmother's house fifty years back.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 03:02 PM

okay - that was me above. the ones I'd like to find - because they are the ones I remember from my gramm'a garden are I believe the "fringed"

like this

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 03:11 PM

I grew those in Indiana. Got them as sets one Spring, as I remember. I'd like to find them again so I could mix them in with the ones I have.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 03:27 PM

Formosa dicentra and here, with a golf ball for scale. :)

I have some rhubarb I'm planning to plant in the yard, for the same reason you like bleeding hearts--they were always out in my mom's yard somewhere, though I don't remember our ever eating any of it.

Did any of the folks from the Mudcat Recovery Ward ever stagger over here? I hope none of their IVs got tangled in the coats on the way through that closet. Great way to disguise the passage, by the way.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 04:58 PM

Hey barkeep! Is there a comfy chair free these days? I'll have a cool trappist beer if you have one.
Who has got lobsters? - I know a pharmacy where you can get a cream which cures them in hours flat!
Mind you! I had trouble getting in here tonight - couldn't get down the corridor for people dangling from IV drips...
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 06:19 PM

Well, now the drip has been untangled, I'd like some of that Trappist too please!

My bleedin' hearts have vanished but the bloody cranesbill
has flowered and the bastard service tree is plumping up with berries quite nicely.

I managed to fix the solar 'fountain' in the pond so now, when the sun shines, I have a vomiting frog.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: JenEllen
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 06:57 PM

Hey....Who you callin' a drip??

I dunno about flower swapping, but I've got more peas and anasazi beans than I know what to do with. I hear they go great with auroch.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 08:19 PM

Oh, it's just TOO sublime! I found another golf ball illustration of a flower (your bloody geranium sanguinium)! [sigh]

I'll have one of whatever Liz is having, but in a glass, please. I don't like needles.

JenEllen, I've heard those Anasazi beans of yours are supposed to be very good for you. Did you bring any cooked with you so we can try them long side the lobster?

I hear music out in the parking lot--sounds like Mick and the boys never left. . . or is that Mmario howling as he pulls the lobster from the pot with his bare hands? Someone get the man a pair of tongs!

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: MMario
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 08:23 AM

no problem! The trick it to apply anough anesthetic (internally) before reaching into the pot for the lobster...

LtS - why a bastard service tree? couldn't you afford a legitimate one?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 08:30 AM

just pour.........anything... beer,gin, meths, I don't care.....and keep pouring.And when I pass out, plug in an IV with more.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 10:34 AM

Planting rhubarb? I waxed poetic about my patch last year. This year, I ripped it up by the roots, dug some more out and rototilled. Take that, you gangly mass of seedy stalks!

My new computer is up and running. But the garbage disposal died last night. I just can't catch a break.

Another chilled wine. Meantime, I will melt s few pounds of butter for the lobsters and MMario's hands.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: MAG
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 11:12 AM

hard to crochet with boiled hands, MMario.

a little look-see before I dash off to another ridiculous long day and into the night.

remember I am a youth librarian and summer programs are in full swing.

I leave for conference in one week where I cimmitted to two presentations. One I haven't started.

anybody in the Orlando area?

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: MMario
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 11:23 AM

Mark Clark was complaining over on the "Capital of the FolK Music Worl" thread that you can't get a dink on the Mudcat. Obviously he's never been in here OR the Recovery ward!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: MMario
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 11:25 AM

I found an Aurochs haunch in the freezer - do people want it roasted or shall I cut it into steaks and throw them on the coals?

(The velociraptor looked a bit off - I threw it out)

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 02:49 PM

Hey - make sure your prehistoric beasts are dead, not just cryogenically frozen, before you throw them out - you recall what happened to Dickie Atenborough!
And I'll have a bucket of Geuze when you have a minute...
Quack!

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 08:52 PM

you can't get a dink on the Mudcat

I beg to differ--I'm sure you CAN get a dink at the Mudcat if you try hard enough. . .

I saw something dragging that velociraptor out of the dumpster, MMario. Looked like a dingo. Maybe came in from the south? I realize it was just a little velociraptor, but I sure hope it WAS dead and not just preserved cryogenically. I think I'll keep my flashlight and ice axe handy when I have to go out to the parking lot, just on general principles.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 09:00 PM

MMario in the kitchen with a hungry, angry, garbage covered raptor on the loose. Just like that scene in Jurassic Park. This will be a fun evening.

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 09:37 PM

tap. . . tap. . . tap . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: MAG
Date: 17 Jun 04 - 12:04 AM

Thank you, SRS. The thread creeper was getting out of hand, there.

I got this Eliza Gilkyson CD which is just wonderful. Am I behind the times in discovering her? The title is

"Land of Milk and Honey," spoke more in sorrow than in sarcasm, about our good old us of a.

ahem! yes maam. any slow reels on the jukebox here? and is this a tempurpedic couch over here?

I DID try to buy one, Amos, really. Way back when there was a thread about it. It is a long unmellow story, involving their jobbing out of delivery and billing. Delivery may be in three weeks. maybe. meanwhile ...

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Jun 04 - 12:22 AM

WAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

The doc put me on beta blockers so no more IV gin!!!

Pour us an ice cold cranberry juice and sling another raptor bum on the grill.....

Hopefully it's only a temporary measure until I get another operation like the last one (then it was jump leads, this time it'll be the soldering iron), which will either kill or cure! Well, not in so many words...... but you get the picture.

Now just put that chill out music away and slip in some Mozart..... bliss.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Respite Tavern - Revisited
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 17 Jun 04 - 08:41 PM

... duck listens to the tapping noise, strolls to the window and fastens the catch. The tapping discontinues immediately. Strange how your preconceptions colour your interpretation of the world!
As he watches from the wndow, a small velociraptor slowly climbs out of the garbage skip, shakes itself and pauses for a moment to absorb the full rays of the sunlight. It looks around with darting eyes and takes in a vision of wide open spaces. The velociraptor gathers it's vitalty, the muscles on its shoulders bunch together as it prepares to venture forth into the wide blue yonder...
It points it's snout in the direction laid out by the dark grey highway...
It takes a step forward onto the dark tarmac. It leaps into the middle of the road and...
SPLAT -the wheels of one hundred and fifty motorcycles flatten the unsuspecting dinosaur... (get your motor running...head out on the highway..etc...)
Meanwhile back inside the tavern...
Hey - MMario...
Are those Auroch Burgers done yet?
I've finished my bucket of Belgian beeerrr and need something to mop it up with!
I could handle a small velociraptor as long as it stays on the plate. I'm not into "fast food" - you understand! I like mine "well done".
And Liz - I've never tried Gin-Five. sounds like an interesting one...
Quack!
GtD.