Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GwenOnBass]

My most recent personal descent beyond the uncharted seas of culinary decadence took place as I innocently strolled up to a sidewalk menu advertising a fried oyster BLT.

In another (more innocent?) age there is a vice-president of a newspaper group who is an unabashed gourmand. The essential setup is I'll buy dinner if you buy the wine (but you don't select the wine, I do). His dinner table game of what is the best meal you ever had? is unwinnable unless

unless you play the ace in the hole

a tin of sardines, some stinky cheese, a fresh, warm loaf of crusty bread, and quality beer.

 

[Fat Freddy]

Talking sardines.....

We were in Turkey sitting on a harbor wall at 5am, with a a huge loaf of crusty bread and a couple of liters of local rutgut Raki when the Sardine boats started coming in.....

It went like this....We waved Raki in their direction generale....After 10 minutes they were our new bff's and were grilling Sardines and Calamari over charcoal on the harbor bbq with a wondrous spicy tomato sauce.....

We supplied the bread too......

We ate with them every morning until we moved on......

Can taste and smell it now.......sigh.....

 

[GwenOnBass]

Three deer just appeared beyond my office window, all within 20 meters, wait now I see four
no fat man in red though
all those reindeer names in the poem sound like street names for meth

 

[lowplaces]

all those reindeer names in the poem sound like street names for meth

 

[Jeff Scott]

The bass player, Bart, is the musical director. He put the band together and oversees all musical aspects. The financial backing behind the band is their drummer.

This is all as it should be, too.

Ahhhhhhh!!
It’s TwentyFreakin’Four degrees outside my door!!!

In addition!!!
There’s a dusting of this strange sugar-looking stuff on the ground!!

Watta we gonna DO?!?!?!

Spend 4 1/2 hours shoveling out of it, like I did today?

I do miss the snow though, seriously.

Uh huh.

There's snow, and then there's shoveling deep snow in predawn light, in jammies, so the dog has somewhere to go (a friend told me)

See two comments, above.....but, with no dog in the picture. Nor, any pre-dawn light (I'm not that crazy).

Oh, and you meant pre-dawn darkness, right?

 

[bobyoung53]

Ah ha!

Checked the larder to find two tins of sardines in olive oil, one tin of calamari, and one tin of smoked oysters.

A girl after my own heart! I'm a gor-met

 

[bobyoung53]

It doesn’t matter where you eat them.

I loves 'em no matter where I am.

 

[beans-on-toast]

From a very good Christmas album.

 

[notJaco]

Ah ha!

Checked the larder to find two tins of sardines in olive oil, one tin of calamari, and one tin of smoked oysters. Better than Yukon Cornelius' peppermint mine, and I don't have to lick a pickax!

Larder...I've never heard that term before.

 

[beans-on-toast]

This is all as it should be, too.
Spend 4 1/2 hours shoveling out of it, like I did today?

The people that want snow for Christmas should have to do the shovelling. I see that NE Ohio took quite a hit.

 

[Jeff Scott]

The people that want snow for Christmas should have to do the shovelling.

Totally!

I see that NE Ohio took quite a hit.

Yes, we did. And most of that 4 1/2 hours was with using a heavy 2-stage snow blower.

 

[Fat Freddy]

Three deer just appeared beyond my office window, all within 20 meters, wait now I see four
no fat man in red though
all those reindeer names in the poem sound like street names for meth

 

[GwenOnBass]

Made good today on the promise of a new bass for completing all 40 weeks of Ari Cap's Music Theory for the Bass Player cohort. It's an Acinonyx in Lake Placid Blue with a parchment pickguard. Expected to ship around the end of January.

 

[SoulReflection]

Made good today on the promise of a new bass for completing all 40 weeks of Ari Cap's Music Theory for the Bass Player cohort. It's an Acinonyx in Lake Placid Blue with a parchment pickguard. Expected to ship around the end of January.

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Congrats to both accomplishments! Although I don't have a clue about that bass.

 

[Jeff Scott]

...names for meth

...Acinonyx...

 

[Jeff Scott]

Three deer just appeared beyond my office window, all within 20 meters, wait now I see four
no fat man in red though

So, what he actually wearing?

 

[ahc]

Please don't say "Just his beard." Season's greetings to all and here's hoping for a better '21!

 

[beans-on-toast]

Made good today on the promise of a new bass for completing all 40 weeks of Ari Cap's Music Theory for the Bass Player cohort. It's an Acinonyx in Lake Placid Blue with a parchment pickguard. Expected to ship around the end of January.

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Congratulations, well deserved. Did you choose a string option?

Acinonyx is in the cat family. I like the colour but I’ve been to Lake Placid and it wasn’t quite what I expected. Maybe it wasn’t sunny enough.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Took the standard string option just to see what the wee beastie is all about before I start in with any decisions to spay or neuter.

 

[the harp unstrung]

Made good today on the promise of a new bass for completing all 40 weeks of Ari Cap's Music Theory for the Bass Player cohort. It's an Acinonyx in Lake Placid Blue with a parchment pickguard. Expected to ship around the end of January.

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Congratulations on your course work, your discipline, and your work ethic!

That bass is gorgeous!
You earned it! ✌