Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[SoulReflection]

Excuse me for asking but that snow looks pretty yellow. I know that there are a lot of huskies in Sitka.

Does yellow snow on the spruce branches serve to attract the herring?

Oh no, not that kind of yellow snow....

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Oh no, not that kind of yellow snow....

OK, I'll bite. And since it's Sunday, let's go with DETYS followed by St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast.

 

[gtmalone]

Rode the scooter for a couple of hours. A little bit of wind, but pretty nice day with sun and about 70. Rolled over .125 million miles today. I keep a spreadsheet with riding statistics. It's based on some of the completely silly spreadsheets I had to deal with when I was employed.

 

[beans-on-toast]

In high school, I was a gas jockey at a service station. People used to ride up and ask us if they could park their horses there while they went into the K-Mart. Not a Harley type horse but the real thing. With all the development since then, there are no farms left in that area. You’d never know that they were once there. I never would have believed that an area would change so much in less than a lifetime.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Rapid depopulations have the same net effect on communities. Disease, war, famine — often those three together — plus natural disasters all contribute to new personal landscapes. Some don't take to change well, especially when you're playing a part in it

 

[GonePlaid]

In high school, I was a gas jockey at a service station. People used to ride up and ask us if they could park their horses there while they went into the K-Mart. Not a Harley type horse but the real thing. With all the development since then, there are no farms left in that area. You’d never know that they were once there. I never would have believed that an area would change so much in less than a lifetime.

In Davie, FL,(far west Ft. Lauderdale)most of the businesses had hitching posts/rails for a long time. Haven't been down there in forever, but it's most likely all developed now.
Did the "Google Earth" thing. Yup, all developed. Ranches/pastures gone. There was a bombing range out thataway during WWII. Wonder if they found any UXB's during construction?

 

[spiritbass]

Hi GOF's. Well Sitka is at Low Alert. No new cases for a couple weeks. Alaska's vaccine numbers are going up and cases dropping. We are now able to be in buildings without masks except still 6 foot distancing. It's a gorgeous day today. Carey and I are going for a drive today. The whales and seals are beginning their Spring return. Next month is Herring Fishing. We Natives love the herring eggs on branches. Natives drop spruce branches in the water for a week and they become covered with herring eggs. Then we boil them for a minute and eat them with rice and either butter or soy sauce on the eggs.

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I don't have a taste for fish eggs, but my brother in-law likes to fry fish egg sacs and eat them with scrambled chicken eggs. He's one of the eggmen, I reckon (as are you).

 

[the harp unstrung]

OK, I'll bite. And since it's Sunday, let's go with DETYS followed by St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast.

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Ain’t. Enough. Likes!

 

[ahc]

He's one of the eggmen, I reckon (as are you).

He is an eggman. They are the eggmen. Is he a walrus? Ooo goo cachoo.

*Sorry... the time change has screwed me up.

 

[ahc]

Aaand, why not...

 

[beans-on-toast]

Ask Eric Burdon why John Lennon called him the eggman.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Even at 15 years, I am not too young to imagine 200 Motels is fiction.

 

[alaskaleftybass]

Actually herring eggs don't taste like eggs. They have a very mild seafood briny flavor. If you had caviar you've had rotten fish eggs. A lot of non-Natives come to Sitka and fall in love with the taste of the eggs.

 

[Jeff Scott]

OK, I'll bite. And since it's Sunday, let's go with DETYS followed by St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast.

When I saw Zappa in '73 they performed that whole album.

 

[notJaco]

Even at 15 years, I am not too young to imagine 200 Motels is fiction.

I remember that I saw that movie in a very altered state of mind.
All that I can remember is "Centerville, a really nice place to raise your children", or something like that.

 

[GwenOnBass]

At 15 I'm old enough to hold an altered state of mind, but not on a regular basis

 

[beans-on-toast]

The wife and I flew down to Florida Friday for a nice week of R&R. The sunny and mid-to-high 70s weather is perfect but deceiving. I know what the summer is like down here.

It is so wonderful to catch live music. It has been so long. I love Florida. I originally was going to make a comment about our (socialist dictator) governor in Michigan, but I won't. I will just say it is nice to feel normal again.

Sitting outside in beautiful weather Madeira Beach, sipping on a drink of your choice, and listening to some good live music. A great vacation.

The only negative is that I am having withdrawals from not being able to play my bass(es), but it will give me something to look forward to when I have to leave and go back home.

Sounds nice.

Is the area populated with the spring break throngs yet?

 

[SoulReflection]

Sounds nice.

Is the area populated with the spring break throngs yet?

Did you mean "spring break thongs"?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Did you mean "spring break thongs"?

Not in public please. People take it too far.

 

[beans-on-toast]

At 15 I was playing in bands, trying to look older so that we could gig in bars. My yearbook revealed a bad haircut and a big zit in the middle of my forehead that magically appeared on the day of the photo. Just what you’d expect at that age.