Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 10:27 PM

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Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Big Mick
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 10:13 PM

GUEST, I just checked that thread and you never posted to it. If you did, would you please provide a link to it, or a date/time? I'm thinking you are just trolling, trying to disturb the peace. Know what I mean?

Mick

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Maryrrf
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 10:03 PM

Guest, that post Getaway thread was over 600 posts,maybe your post got overlooked but don't you think you're being a little bit oversensitive?   I posted too and I don't think anybody specifically answered me or commented, but I didn't read anything insulting into that.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 05:42 PM

Giok, having had leg and occasional back trouble the last year&ahaff, I'm VERY much in favor of anything you're gonna do to alleviate pain in any region. Recover fast and thoroughly. Think how limber and light-on-your-feet you'll be for next year. I'm all for praying for financial windfalls for all of us who can't get there from anywhere onakountanocash.             Tw

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 04:56 PM

I can't get there either. But I know for this year not to speak on the post-Getaway thread because when I did a year ago I was completely ignored. Just wasn't part of the experience and made to feel like that too. So not only will I miss this year's, but every year in the future.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: jimmyt
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 11:17 PM

sorry to say that I am in a musical production that I agreed to do nearly a year ago and it is now in conflict with the Getaway so I will unfortunately be bowing out as well.   Next yeat though for sure!

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Janie
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 10:10 PM

Bobert,

If you do want to put one or a few of your CDs in the silent auction pm me. You can mail them to me to take. I'm helping run the auction.

(Wish yew was a comin' with 'em)

Janie

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 12:21 PM

Find another dry-cleaner, send it in earlier, then just stay out of the rain.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 12:02 PM

Hopefully hair today and gone tomorrow Ebbie!
G.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 11:40 AM

That's what happens, Guest, when you are your hair.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 11:30 AM

Darn it. The Getaway falls on the same weekend that I was my hair. I guess that means I can't make it too.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: karen k
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 11:20 AM

Hey Bobert,
Sorry you can't come. Would you please send a few copies of your CD for the silent auction so I can get one. Thanks.

karen

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: skarpi
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 02:31 AM

Dammmmmm

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Ferrara
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 12:32 AM

Amos, believe me, Eve (also known in some circles as the P-vine) would NOT enjoy the Getaway. Not her thing at all. Lovely woman and a helluva good musician but folk music isn't her thing. Well Bobert when you put it that way.... But oh my you people will all be missed.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Barry Finn
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 12:31 AM

OK, enough of who's not going. We're or at least I am sorry that ya all ain't coming, all of ya thyat ain't coming even you that weren't planning ta come anyway & I wish you were BUT ya knot so that's that's & hopefully you'll be making it next year & we'll all sing a song for ya & drink yar health til then. This here thread seems to be getting darn right depressing to some & we don' want to get a blues thing going here, that'll be taken out of context, do we.

So who's Willbe going then? Well why not make a new thread of it.
I ain't Willsbe but I'm going

See ya all there
Love the bunch of ya

Barry

PS I know you'll be there Mick but I'll still some how miss ya.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: KT
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 12:13 AM

karen, we had plans to go, and hopes, but no tickets. I was very much looking forward to seeing you again, and finding more time with you this year! I missed seeing you at OLD SONGS! You all have a great time and sing a few for me!
KT

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: karen k
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 09:27 PM

KT and Ebbie I thought you already had you tickets. I'm so sorry you won't be there. I will miss you both as well as Giok, Skarpi, Bobert, Kendall, Kat. Dani, I better not have to miss you. We have to do the jugband thing again. Hope you come. Kendall, you too. Hope you will change your mind. Joe Offer, I'm so glad you will be there this year.

Love to you all.

karen kobela

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 09:22 PM

Hell, I don't see why Bobeert couldn't bring the P-Vine with him!! I could sing her chick songs. It'd be ok, Bobert. Try it out!


A

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 08:31 PM

too durn many folks mumblin' about "next year"....hmmmpppff...

But, we sort of understand...it's just that we get spoiled easily.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 07:46 PM

Ummmm, let my make a little more of a clarification... The P-Vine and I have been goin' balls to the wall since movin' outside Luray a little overa year ago... Yeah, I stole away for last years Getaway leavin' a lot on the P-Vine... We talked about it and agreed that this year we'd try to "get away" together somewhere's but we're still going balls to the wall and will be until the first hard killer frost, whenever that occurs...

yeah, I prolly could have made it this year but it would have 'caused a strain between me and my lady... There will come a time when things will turn around and I'll have more time...

Like I said above, I had allready been going thru some soul searchin' and then a bunch of folks who I really enjoy being with pulled out... This ain't no danged slam book here but I've made no secret how I feel 'bout some folks and, hey, yeah, had I decided to come it would be mostly to see them... This ain't about nobody else 'cause I Loves everyone here and, sniff, eyah... I'm gonna miss seein Jacqui and Rita and CarolC and Amos an', an'....

Next year will be different...

Sniff...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 05:17 PM

They have a nice, but smaller Getaway-type retreat in that area....the "SunnyCamp" threads will tell you when & where..

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 04:59 PM

I suppose if FSGW was a Washington STATE folk organization instead of a Washington DC and environs group, Seattle would make a lot of sense;-)

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: skarpi
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 04:21 PM

Well folks , I would love to be there at the Getaway becouse last
year was something I will never forget , and I would never (imagine)
that I coult go and play all by my self out there in the BIG
world and meet all this great souls.

Giok I am sorry you are fighting the Airline ( something I can do )??

I am drowning in work and I am also trying to sell my house and get anotherone and I am going also to work somewhere in Eroupe
this autumn or in January in some Ikea store so this is
I realy need more hours :>))

I hope next year will be better for me also does is matter
if we can drink or not ?? Seattle for a Getaway why not ??
There is a straight flight from Iceland to Seattle .

well slanté all glúggglúggglúgg ahhhhhhh good beer

god be with you all
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 04:09 PM

With your lovely voice, and those eyes? Of course it counts Mary!
G.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Maryrrf
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 02:52 PM

What Big Mick said.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 02:44 PM

Folks, please make every attempt to go to this Getaway. It is our first year in a new location, has heat and comfy beds, and promises to be a very good time. Getaway is, quite simply, Shangra La for folkies and especially Mudcatters. We have some notable absences, but as you can plainly see, they are very regretful not to be there. This is a must do event, if you can make it.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 02:38 PM

I hate this, seeing all the names of people I missed meeting last year, and now they're not coming this year. Serves me right for missing it last year, I guess.
But I DO get to meet Anglo. My last chance to meet him was at the Festival of the Sea in San Francisco. I was driving there, but turned around when I hit a huge rainstorm and couldn't see to drive - and yet the storm missed San Francisco.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: kendall
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 01:40 PM

The Getaway is a great experience, and my not attending this year has nothing to do with the Getaway itself. Great music, great people and an outstanding weekend all around.
If you can manage it at all GO!

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: KT
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 12:25 PM

Maryrrf, my reasons for not attending this year have absoltuely NOTHING to do with boycott or beverage. The GETAWAY is a phenomenal experience and to anyone who hasn't been and is considering it, I say, GO!!! You will have a wonderful time with wonderful people, (which is why I said somewhere back there, I will look forward to all of the wild and wonderful post-Getaway tales.   From what I read above, it's those who have enjoyed themselves immensely at GETAWAYS past, who are writing to say, sadly, that they will miss this one.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Maryrrf
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 10:47 AM

I will be going Giok but I will be sad that you aren't there. Does that count?

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 10:35 AM

Let me just say here and now, that I would love to be able to go, and not to be fighting the airline [Icelandair] for the refund of the money I paid for the fares.
I had this cunning plan consisting of hikers/cyclists aluminium bottles to get round the drink problem, so no sweat there, separating a Scotsman like myself from his drink is a man's job, not a church mouse's!
I would hate to feel that I played any part in discouraging anybody else from going by inserting a note of negativity.
I would also like to think that a lovely lady like KT wasn't going because without me she'd be sad.
Neither are true folks, so go to the Getaway and enjoy yourselves, and raise a 'non see through' glass to.
"Absent friends"
One of them at least will be in Scotland wishing he could be there!
Giok

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 10:25 AM

Rita,

I agree. I wonder if this thread might be combined with the Getaway thread, or closed and people directed to that thread? Joe?

I think we need to remember the Getaway is an FSGW event with a long and wonderful history. Because of some overlap in membership, we 'Catter's have been priviledged to be invited to join in the weekend over the past several years, and those of us who have been fortunate to be able to attend have found our lives and our music much richer for the experience.

Perception of Getaway? An absolutely magical, musical, restorative weekend Getaway! It has truly become the most looked-forward to event in my year. Singing, sharing, listening, learning, musically empowering, fellowship, fellowship, fellowship! And I am actually an introvert and more than a little socially awkward.

Janie

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Maryrrf
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 10:21 AM

I agree with Ferrara - last year's Getaway was so marvelous, and this year it's almost like there's some kind of Getaway boycott underway.   Why? I don't know if it has to do with the fact that the camp is alcohol free this year. That will not deter me, I come for the music and the companionship and am not bothered about having alcohol or not. I wouldn't have thought it was that much of a factor in the equation. The cameraderie at last year's Getaway was phenomenal, and I don't think it was entirely or even mostly due to the fact that alcohol was available. I feel very bad for the folks at FSGW who have worked hard to find a place to accomodate everyone, even those who have trouble getting around, which has comfortable accomodations, and is still affordable, and on top of that they are offering scholarships to people who can't manage on their own.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 10:11 AM

Perception is everything. How do people perceive the Getaway?

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Ferrara
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 09:57 AM

For the people whose main obstacle is financial: Thanks in large part to the efforts of many Mudcatters, the Getaway scholarship fund is in great shape. Help with the cost of the Getaway might make a difference for some of the folks who feel they can't come, especially if you would have massive travel expenses on top of the Getaway cost.

We need you! And we'll miss you if you miss the Getaway!

PM me, Charlie, Nancy King or Carly if you think a full or partial scholarship could make the difference. They are given based on need, but also on the contribution the applicant will make to the Getaway. Travel expenses are a legitimate factor in determining need! We have a tentative list of local people who may need a full or partial scholarship so we have some idea of the demand on the fund. We can give you an approximate answer fairly early.

I'm personally rather worried, especially after reading Bobert's post. There has never before been a thread of "I don't plan to go to the Getaway" announcements. People may not come, but they just state it somewhere in the main Getaway threads, where you can also see who is coming and look forward to the fun. This is a discouraging thread! Both to people who are debating whether to come, and to the Getaway volunteers who are working hard to keep the Getaway a living program and a going concern.

Rita

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Amos
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 09:01 AM

IF you can get to Seattle, KT, you can make it the rest of the way.

A

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: KT
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 07:51 AM

giggle.....you all are so wonderful! Can't we have the Getaway in SEATTLE sometime?

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 07:38 AM

Bobert - don't you even think about not coming and that goes for Dani, KT and Ebbie as well!

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 10:09 PM

Janie,

OK, tell Annie she **HAS** to come now! 'Cuz there's a certain other engineer who lurks around the Getaway that's curious about these environmental evaluations of the "Pumkin Chunkin" contest! 8-)

I actually recently read a book that was mostly about the Burning Man festival but also mentioned the "Pumkin Chunkin" too.

-- Gary

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 08:45 PM

Ummmmm, I had been thinkin' a lot recently 'bout the Getaway 'casue me and the P-Vine deserve a few days of quiet 'n peace an then I got a PM from Ebbie tellin' me that she wasn't goina make it and then I read here that KT and the Capt'n hisself ain't gonna make it so I figurated that maybe this is a year that I jus' should take the P-Vine off to some out-o-season beach cottage that weekend and get that quiet 'n peace that we both need so...

.... at least fir now, I'm leanin' heavily toward doin' just that.... Yeah, me and the P-Vine for 3 'er 4 days with no TV, no noise, no telephone, no electricity...

(No electricity, Bobert??? What, are you nuts???)

Okay, electrcity...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Ferrara
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 07:18 PM

Mick - well said. Everybody else -- OUCH!!!!! It amazing how attached one gets to one's fellow Getaway attendees. It's downright painful to hear that any one of you folks isn't going to be able to come. I will keep hoping that things will improve for some folks.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Big Mick
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 05:02 PM

I'm gettin' jus a little sick and tired of this friggin' thread. Lay off this old load of shite, willya? Dani, you git yer royal backside on up to this Getaway. KT, Ebbie, don't make me call someone. I ain't worried about the skipper cuz Mary m'love, and the formidable jacqui will take care of his wrinkled old arse.

Giok gets a bye due to the operation, skarpi too, given the house, but that is it. The rest of y'all get about the business of making the necessary arrangements.

Don't make me stop this car!!!!!!!

Mick

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 04:56 PM

He he he - are you listening to Bill, Kendall?

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 04:47 PM

all those who don't attend take note....we WILL sit up late at night and tell stories about you! True ones? *shrug*...who knows?

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Tinker
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 02:05 PM

I can finally say I will be there. I was another of those fiscally shakey folks for awhile. The no show list is getting unacceptably long. Dani, we both missed the summer ramble.... Janie give us some clues on how to get the girl north....

Giok, I'd love to see a highland Getaway one year.... hint hint hint

Maybe we're going to need a missing persons workshop



Tinker

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 12:23 PM

I plan to be there--and will do my best to convince Dani there IS no life without the Getaway. Unfortunately, she is both stubborn and responsible.

(Perhaps I can at least convince her that she really doesn't want to be responsible for loosing me on the Getaway unsupervised:>)

Sister Annie is planning on coming also, but has got to find another engineer to go evaluate the envirnmental impact of the "Pumkin Chunkin'" in Delaware first.

Janie

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 11:43 AM

Jacqui has locked Kendall in the basement. We will get him to Getaway - alive I can't guarantee.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 Sep 06 - 10:57 AM

No Dani? Totally unacceptable! What do we need to do to get you there?

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 08:09 PM

This is a trick, right, Dani? I mean, if I come, you and Kendall and KT and Ebbie and Jock are all gonna leap out and yell, "Surpriiiiise", right?? Tell me I yam right, please?



A

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 07:23 PM

Are you calling me a FLY?! I've dropped like a lot of things, but I always thought I dropped more gracefully than a swatted insect!!

I am, reluctantly, signing in as mostly-likely-not-to-be-there this year.

There is a slim chance, but work and life realities are interfering. If I do come, it'll be a last minute squeaker.

That said, I have a FABULOUS idea for a concert set-piece and some of you should expect to hear from me about it ; )

Dani

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 06:03 PM

We all missed YOU last year Joe!
G.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Maryrrf
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 05:24 PM

It'll be great to see you and Micca, Khatt! Looking forward to some more of Micca's funny songs.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 03:56 PM

Micca and I will be there again this year.

KT and Ebbie.....what Joe Offer said.....

Love Khatt x

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 05:21 AM

KT and Ebbie, please change your minds. I'll really miss you.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Anglo
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 02:04 AM

Well, I'm planning on coming for the first time in twenty-odd years, so I'm looking forward to it despite the absence of the ephemeral UK contingent. I'll probably drive down with George Ward.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 01:34 AM

Alaska!! RETHINK!!!!


A

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 01:02 AM

What KT said. I'm looking forward mightily to next year... Has anyone else reached the age where you realize how very short one year is?

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: KT
Date: 06 Sep 06 - 12:15 AM

sniff.....It's looking like it's not in the stars for me this year, either......I will miss you all, and will look forward to hearing all of the wild and wonderful tales - post-Getaway!

KT

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: curmudgeon
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 07:04 PM

Two more no-shows checking in. It's been a wonderful year of too much fun and Linn and I need a break, not to mention I'm schedulled for a heavy work load this fall and Linn will be taking time off to visit relatives in Milwaukee and there just isn't time to fit this wonderful experience in AND be able to enjoy our annual visit from our British "family."


Lopking forward to getting together with the Getaway leftovers who'll be coming up to NH/Maine -- Tom

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 05:40 PM

We will cope without you Giok, but we will miss you and we hope it all goes well...perhaps we should all shout "hip, hip...hooray"?




(you mean Micca is NOT a regular issue Brit?....why, I never would have guessed!)

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Crane Driver
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 05:27 PM

More bad news - I'm afraid we WILL be there.

Assuming planes are still flying the Atlantic by then.

Looks like ourselves, Micca and CatsP will be the token UKers this year.

We are NOT representative.

Andrew & Carole

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:57 PM

I shall be there, with or without the Cap'n.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:54 PM

The UK-ers Can't Getaway sounds like a great idea!!

I can't be there either, but that's for a whole other reason!

LTS

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:34 PM

"(spoken)
Maria . . .
(sings)
The most beautiful sound I ever heard:
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . .
All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word . .
Maria, Maria, Maria, Maria . . .
Maria!
I've just met a girl named Maria,
And suddenly that name
Will never be the same
To me.
Maria!
I've just kissed a girl named Maria,
And suddenly I've found
How wonderful a sound
Can be!
Maria!
Say it loud and there's music playing,
Say it soft and it's almost like praying.

Maria,
I'll never stop saying Maria!

The most beautiful sound I ever heard.
Maria.

Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
© 1956, 1957 Amberson Holdings LLC and Stephen Sondheim. Copyright renewed.
Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, Publisher. "

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Maryrrf
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 04:28 PM

So WHO IS coming to the Getaway? I'm coming, along with my friend Maria.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 03:49 PM

Well, I guess I should plan to take a lot less chocolate to the getaway- I would hate to be bringing it back home...

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Charmion
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 03:34 PM

I won't make it either, unless I can rack up a fair amount of overtime in September. Whether I'm there or not, Edmund is coming.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 12:56 PM

KENDALLL!!!!!! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!! Mooooooommmmmm.....




A

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Midchuck
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 12:44 PM

Them as are in New England or NY and can't go that far, keep NOMAD in mind as an alternative.

It's considerably more urban, but you can get to it.

The fact that we're playing there has nothing to do with my plugging it.

Peter

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 12:38 PM

Every year about this time financial, medical and personal realities set in and they start dropping like flies. SIGH

I'll be there with or without the Captain. Now I have to go break this to the poor demented little lamb in my dining room. Another heart broken, Giok.

But better you get yourself healthy for next year.

SINS

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 11:50 AM

My gawd, they're dropping like flies.

Jock, what is this crap? It's not as though you weren't hip enough already, man. Just back off on the experimental positions and you'll be foine! Besides, the reason we come to the Getaway is to get AWAY from the artifices of Western civ...except for the good ones like cigars and good "fruit juice"...

Charlie, we'll miss ya. Give 'em hell. Kat, just get busy and sell what needs to be sold, ya know what I mean. I am sure you'll be able to save up enough between now and then... :D

Love youse guys,



A

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: kendall
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 11:49 AM

At this point, it looks like I won't be there either.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 10:54 AM

I have to add myself to this year's list of deserters. I had a lot of fun last year, especially with the sea music workshops. However, I do have to spend some time reinforcing a couple of legislative campaigns in my area, and Election Day is the following Tuesday. The Legislature is almost evenly divided this year and our district is always a battleground.

Next year for sure!

So don't trash the place completely!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 10:29 AM

What a shame! And possibly no Kat either? Those of us who are left are going to have to work hard to make up for all the 'deserters'!

I hope it all goes well Giok. Keep us informed please.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 10:26 AM

We going back there again next year?
G.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 10:12 AM

That's a great idea, Susan!

Best wishes for your outfitting as the New Bionic Man, Giok! I didn't know Skarpi and others have also had to bow out for this year. I probably will not make it, as previously thought,too, unless we make a certain sale in time. I figure that's alright, though. Those who go this year can suss out all the *wrinkles* at the new camp and have them all ironed out in time for us at next year's!

kat

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Maryrrf
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 10:04 AM

Yes Giok. When are you going to host a Getaway up in the Highlands??? I need an excuse to get back to Scotland.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:58 AM

The solution is obvious-- Giok can host the UKers-Can't-Getaway and Leadfingers can be the first to sign up!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:38 AM

Well, crap! Jason and I were looking forward to taking you to the Boru again. Heal quickly and make sure you come next year.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST,maryrrf
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:27 AM

And no George or Skarpi either!

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: GUEST,maryrrf
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:08 AM

Oh No! We'll miss you! No Giok, no Leadfingers - that is so disappointing!

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:07 AM

Damn, Giok. First Skarpi and now you. I will miss you, and wish you well in your operation. Decent whiskey is a great aid in healing. Oh ..... wait ..... you drink that stuff from the other side of the water ..... never mind. Should I send you some of John Jamesons very finest? .......

I'll get the aul cap and wellies...........

Love ya, bro, heal well.

Mick

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 09:03 AM

I remember the pain and discomfort well, John, on those plastic bedsheets and Rocky Mountain mattresses at the Getaway. Very wise move, sir, and best of luck with the op. May join you next year if I can swing another lard expo in the States.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: Tinker
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 08:12 AM

Arrrrgh !!!! I'll post more when I wake up enough to be conherent.

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 07:59 AM

Oh John! Damn!

Subject: RE: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 07:28 AM

Well, darn........

Subject: Can't make Getaway this year now ;-(
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Sep 06 - 07:26 AM

Well folks I'm sorry to say I have to go in for my other new hip in November, and I can't do the Getaway and that too.
As it gives me a great deal of pain and discomfort I must get it done as soon as possible.
Sorry to miss all you guys, but hopefully next year.
Giok