Re: [CH] pozilla's stomping grounds...
JohnT (Love2Troll@kc.rr.com)
Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:46:05 -0500
Home again... an 8 hour 510 mile drive home compared to a
13 hour 630 mile drive to get there. (don't ask)
A most excellent visit even though was too tired & hot Saturday to
do any
cooking and got rained out Sunday. There was sooo much to choose
from on Saturday & I got absolutely stuffed to the point of pain.
Next year I hope to get there on Thursday so will be rested up by
Saturday's festivities. Really disappointed that didn't cook any
burritos at O.F., but some of the pre-cooked meatball ones were
shared at Jim's house late Sunday afternoon.
Took several video clips that I will try to edit and put on a CD
soon. Most need lighting adjustment etc, but here is one of them
anyways and hopefully one of the formats will work on your computer:
http://www.fototime.com/DBD37970A93679B/conv.wmv
http://www.fototime.com/DBD37970A93679B/orig.mov
Many thanks to Jim and Abby for their hospitality. I don't travel
much and O.F. is the highlight of my year. Too bad that none of my
C. pubescens were ripe, but wasn't unexpected. Darn things can be
such a 1st year disappointment. Learned some new info on growing
them from MikeB & maybe he will share here?
jt
----- Original Message -----
From: knoxbill@comcast.net
To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com
Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 9:50 PM
Subject: [CH] pozilla's stomping grounds...
(or, stompin' in the rain, stompin' in the rain, what a glorious
feeling...)
just got in from open fields 2005...eight hours for a 350 mile trip,
thx to rain and road construction (and a 30 miinute wait while they
cleared a fender-bender in louisville)...
just a quick note to thank everyone for the food, chiles, powders,
and potions, stories, photos, memories and rememories...and of
course thanks to our hosts, the inimitable james and the invisible
(but still very much there) abby campbell and the adrian family,
without whom this would just be a bunch of crazy people standing in
a mud puddle...
i had a spiritial revelation while sitting by the campfire (actually
a separate but equal campfire hosted by my nephew and his kids, who
furnished a whole 'nother set of memories and a couple s'mores --
sorry, gavin, but you've got competition, and a rough competition it
is: a 4 and a 6 year old brother and sister team whose idea of
making s'mores consists more of pyrotecnic displays of burning sugar
than creating tasty treats, particularly when your little brother is
discovered to have eaten all the chocolate bars)...but i digress...
i had a spiritial revelation, wherein i realized that i was
completely content...for the first time in many years, i realized
that the universe was in balance for me...my belly was full, my mind
was at rest, my body so stressed from standing and bending that it
was ready to accept total relaxation...i was content with the
universe, and the universe changed its rating of me to 'not too
shabby'...
yeah, it rained, and yeah the fields weren't what jim wanted them to
be, and yeah, i missed the lamb kebabs and yeah, john t didn't get
to unveil his secret weapon breakfast burritos, and yeah, after
PROMISING ted that i would sample his cassolet and not doing it,
even with all of that it was the best (for me) open fields yet...
hope everyone (or at least most everyone) else agrees...
cya in the fields in 2006...
no pain, no pain (moderate motto?)...