Re: [CH] pozilla's stomping grounds...

=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:13:13 -0400 

What's a pozilla?

At 11:46 AM 9/27/2005, JohnT wrote:
>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?)...
>
>

=Mark

    * Homer:  Lisa, honey, are you saying you are never going to eat any
            animal again?   What about bacon?
    * Lisa: No.
    * Homer: Ham?
    * Lisa: No.
    * Homer: Pork chops?
    * Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal...
    * Homer: Heh, heh, heh. Oh, suuure Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal!

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