2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's

Subject: 2nd Annual Lobster Sing at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 03:32 PM

Saturday, August 12

4PM Pot Luck/ Beer/ Wine/ Whatever followed by music!
NO MUSSELS and don't bring any!

Lobsters or steaks/hot dogs/ hamburgers.

If you having lobster, please plan on leaving $10 per bug consumed.

Beds available.

For those of you coming from out of town, why not arrive Friday, see Jed Marum on Friday and Seamus Kennedy on Sunday too?

Who is in?

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: kendall
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 04:16 PM

Jacqui and I are in for the whole ride.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Rasener
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 04:52 PM

Those poor bloody lobsters :-)

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 05:17 PM

What's an annual lobster?
G

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Midchuck
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 10:27 PM

I would love to...we're flying back in from Montana on Wednesday the ninth, and have a Real Gig in Ludlow, VT, on Sunday evening the 13th, so it's probably not realistic to think about...

Scheme....

Peter

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Severn
Date: 11 Jul 06 - 10:40 PM

Just how DO you safely lance a lobster boil?

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: JudyB
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 10:36 AM

Vermont's only one little state away from Maine....

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 10:40 AM

Hey, Judy! Watch what you're callin' a "little state"! ;-)

(New Hampshuh, my adopted home -- but has it adopted ME?!?)

Linn

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 11:00 AM

New Hampshire has the same Tragic Flaw as Vermont and Maine: No east-west roads worth the powder to blow 'em to hell.

Gig in North Woodstock, NH, Saturday night. I'm looking forward to the gig but dreading the drive.

Peter.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Jul 06 - 09:46 PM

Maybe New Year's Eve, Woodchucks...

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 01:54 PM

Need a head count for this one. Tami has once again managed to find a lobsterman willing to give us a break on the price but I need to know how many to order.
Who's in?
Who wants lobsters ($10/each) and how many?
SINS

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 05:42 PM

I am for definite. I might have let Kendall out of the cellar by then.......

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: curmudgeon
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 05:49 PM

Linn and I will most assuredly be there for the lobster boil and staying over for the Seamus show. One large lobster will do for me, but herself will probably want two. Do I need to bring a spare cook pot? Anything else?

See you in a couple weeks or so -- Tom

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:10 PM

Geez, he doesn't even know enough to capitalize Herself!

(It's not easy being a goddess.)

Two, please, Sinsull.

Anybody making lobstuh icecream for dessert?

(No mussels is a wonderful idea -- considering how allergic I am to them and to the water they're cooked in!)

Linn

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Jul 06 - 07:52 PM

JudyB and I should probably bow out of this one. Judy is shipping out the next morning to a meeting in Nashville related to her job. We do plan to attend the house concert the night before but two nights running may be excessive, and three nights running is totally out of the question.

Still, it is tempting...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 07:14 AM

Damn! Someday, someday I am going to get to one of your events, Mary! I will be in Seattle that weekend, visiting my Dad who I've just found out has Alzheimer's. I WILL get to your place some time!!

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 10:24 AM

No pots needed, Tom. I have stocked up (heh heh, a pun) via yard sales.

Alison - some day! Maybe after the Getaway when Micca and Khatt are here.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 01:35 PM

"NO MUSSELS and don't bring any!"... let's me out, what with my trim and virile figure. (Well, it's in there somewhere!)

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 01:56 PM

I will make an exception for you. beloved gnu. How you doin' with that banjo?
SINS

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 03:37 PM

Banjo? Did I get drunk and buy another instrument, again? Where is this banjo? I looked around and I didn't see one. I'm not saying there isn't one, on accounta I didn't look under the beds or the couches or anything, but, I doubt if there is. What banjo?

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: bigchuck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 04:01 PM

Maybe, since we will be in town that day. I'll poll the gang and let you know.

Sandy

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: MaineDog
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 12:45 PM

Sounds like a good time, but I am committed to another event that weekend. News: we just bought a condo in Sanford Me, to help us get to events in Portland or Concord NH. Maybe the music schedule will get revved up this fall!
MD

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: adventure
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 09:42 PM

A plague from the south and west will fall upon South Portland.
It will start with a voice from afar seeking food and refuge for the horsemen of the pox of lips.
The voice will alter into a beckoning call...Mary, Mary, Mary....
"Who the hell is this will be the cry" .....OH , MY !!!!!
Food will be offered to quell the beasts upon arrival.
Within a week, clouds of darkness and doom will overshadow your dwelling,
With a fair maiden holding the reigns of the the beasts
All will be well and well done will be all.
Thanks and see you all on Saturday.
Doryman and his mate, etc....you know the rest.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 09:51 PM

jUST GET RID OF THAT STINKING BIRD around your neck before you get here.
Damn CAPSLOCK!

19 Definites. Speak now or forever hold you piece (I know I should not have said that to this crew but...)

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Sorcha
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 11:02 PM

She said it! SHE SAID it.....let the games begin...

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: adventure
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:22 AM

She said it to me first and on the telephone......
I have witnesses!
Doryman


By the way....What is a "you piece"????
Was there one misspelling or a grammatical issue?
The meaning could be a critical one!

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 07:25 AM

Peter - remember those dinner rolls.... I think that's what Mary's talking about.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 10:13 AM

Deep, sexy voice: "Is this Mary, Mary Sullivan?" Seeing banjos in my future, I sigh "Yes?" Then I find out it's Peter. The rest of the tale I will not repeat to protect the innocent. Imagine! John Roberts innocent!"
See you all Saturday.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:02 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:56 AM

All systems go. About 20 definites. Party!

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:34 AM

I'm hoping what I'm dealing with is allergies and fatigue and not a dreaded cold. Whatever, I'm taking steps to head it off at the pass!

Linn

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 12:29 PM

LOBSTER!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: adventure
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:44 PM

With a dead bird hanging around his neck,
The eve of travel day is upon him.
The windows of the transport vehicle will be open wide
To reduce the odor from the inside.
Hark, what is this, the bird it did wink an eye.
Awk, the fowl shrieked out a noise and looked me in the eye.
What is that wretched smell, I thought it was I.
Nevermore.
Tomorrow is the day.
See you soon.
Doryman

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: gnu
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:52 PM

I shall be there in spirit. Hope youse find time to post a few comments, updates, whatever so that those of us less unfortunate may live (party) vicariously through same. ENJOY!!!

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: kendall
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:52 PM

Lynn, if it's a cold please don't share it!

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: adventure
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:54 PM

Sins,
When you cook your lobsters do you throw them into the boiling pot or do you place them in cool water and warm them gently to a boil. They actually go to sleep in a relaxed state by the latter method. Seriously. I used to work for the USDI and a pamphlet was written about this subject. It was called "A case of tense lobsters" or something like that...almost 40 years ago. Works well....less volatility in the pot, too.
Doryman

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Barry Finn
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 10:54 PM

This lobster was having trouble getting sleep, it was a bit too uptight, so it went to see a Lobster Quack,
Loster Quack asks, "What's wrong, why can't you sleep"?
Lobster replies, "It's about my girlfriend. Well first I lobster in a Tee Pee, then I flounder in a Wig Wam
Dr Lobster says "For the Halibut, I think you're two tents, let me lance her boil".

Barry

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 01:24 AM

New system this year. I have found a styrofoam microwave lobster cooker. Tuck its tail under, cross the claws and nuke!

It will be great fun to watch Kendall simmer.

See you all tomorrow about 4PM.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: gnu
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 05:37 AM

Nuke?! Blasphemy!!! It's a lobster BOIL!!!

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 07:29 AM

Wait until the first one explodes.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: karen k
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 09:13 AM

Wish I could be there. Have a great time. But nuked lobster! I don't know about that!

karen

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 09:56 AM

It's not a cold, thank gawd! Just allergies combined with lack of sleep. I love old buildings !

See y'all later!

Linn

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:16 AM

I'm glad to report that we have 30 lobsters sitting in our fridge waiting impatiently for the festivities to begin.

Alright - it's me that's impatient - I don't think the little darlings really understand the important part they will be playing in the event.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: kendall
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:48 AM

There are many humane ways to do them in.I usually hypnotize them. Onother way is to submerse them in fresh water for a few hours, another is to put them in cold water and bring them to a boil, but my favorite is to put them into a pot and cover them with booze. It doesn't have to be good stuff, even American beer will do.
Turn the heat up, and by the time the booze is hot they couldn't care less.

Then there's "Lazy man's lobster". Put them into a frypan along with half a dozen eggs, turn the heat up and the lobsters scramble the eggs.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Becca72
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 12:21 PM

DAD!!

I cannot be in the same room when they're sent to their tiny little horrid deaths. I'm all over them afterward with a bowl of butter...but I can't witness the act.

And I'm sorry but styrofoam in the microwave is just too much. How many chemicals seep into the little buggers?

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: kendall
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 02:35 PM

They have no central nervous system, so, they don't feel pain as we do. They do have the instinct to try to get away from danger.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: gnu
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:06 PM

If the weather here is any indication of the weather across the border, Bente got her wish for cooler weather. I ran some errands an hour ago. When I got in my truck, I turned the air conditioning (which has been in the on position for two months) off. A minute later, I turned on the heat. It's 14 and windy and raining. At 4PM! Jaysus... it hasn't even been 14 at night for two months!

I hope youse all are having a boil!

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: gnu
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:08 AM

HI EVERYBODY!!!! HOW ARE YOU ALL FEELING THIS MORNING? WHAT? OH, JUST AFTER SIX.... WHY? AIN'T YOU FELLERS UP YET?

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: kendall
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 06:09 AM

I've been up since 4:30.

Them Lobsters were some good! Hard to believe they are related to spiders.

Subject: RE: 2nd Annual Lobster Boil at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 09:08 AM

Speaking of "Jaysus" we've had a miracle of sorts take place. Perhaps it's the result of too much lobster -- or not enough coffee. Anyway, Kendall missed it all.

An apparition, perhaps.

We're still deciding whether to call the police or the Vatican...the Portland Press Herald or the National Inquirer.

Maybe it's the result of the occasional "tasteful" gift that Sinsull has placed in guests' cars hoping the gift wouldn't be discovered until the recipient was halfway home.

Anyway, Sinsull's backyard is now decorated with an interesting piece of sculpture. And I'm sure it will look even better with little white Christmas tree lights wrapped about it -- or the lobster lights decorating the fence. It fits right in with the suit of Spanish armor and the rest of Sinsull's decor. Perhaps it just spontaneously appeared.

Oh, by the way, it was a great lobster boil and an even better singaround. Eventually we even got Bente to sing and she's got a lovely voice and I hope she raises it in song a lot more often!

Linn