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Posted on 01/27/2005 9:59:05 AM PST by ecurbh
They sell smoked chubs locally (I think they are from the Great Lakes?). We get them sometimes to have for breakfast, they are good. No perch around here though.
That da#$% arrow is still in the palm tree. It's at waist level, but even with my foot against the tree and a gripper I can't get it loose. Have to get some more, I guess :-)
Jen couldn't afford it anyway.
However the chicken salad I just whipped up is superb. Eating it on romaine lettuce, just what Dr. Atkins ordered. I threw some bacon in ;-)
That was Hemingway. Differn't guy.
But nicely done, nonetheless. :-)
I've gone smelting. Yes, I have.
Remember, the old man tasted copper in his mouth when he was lying down at the end of the book?
aka Spencer Tracy in the The Old Man and the Sea?
Well, the arrow is still there, you might try another shot and see if you can 'Robin Hood' it. :-)
And that's the freep; now the sleep. Would it were day...
Can't say as I have. Have gone on a snipe hunt or two. :-)
googling...
"floating kidney" is a catch all diagnosis popular during the 1800s that might not even be a real illness.
"chronic catarrh" is inflamation of sinus membranes causing massive nasal secretions where the body is trying to get rid of toxicity that other organs (kidneys or appendix, etc) for some reason are not getting rid of. Not exactly a common cause of death and usually is a symptom of something else.
appendicitis, well, we know what that is, and it can cause death.
As for the metallic taste...
could be caused by chronic catarrh or I think possibly also by appendicitis. Some of the things listed were lead poisoning, and post nasal drip.
You gotta love a Pope that snow skis. I remember some of the early pics of him... hittin' the slopes in Switzerland. Though, of course at the time he was just wearing a wool watchcap. The big tall hat would not have been practical for the occasion. :-)
Rose says the series was part serious/part tongue-in-cheek. I never actually saw it, since it was a little before my time, as well as running on a network that we didn't get on our antenna at the time...
Ack... no... did not remember that. What's that mean? Severe exhaustion could lead to some organ shut down I suppose...
Very popular in northern Wisconsin/Upper Michigan. I've never done it, but most of my relatives have....
I went smelt fishing with my grandpa many years ago. Smelt look something like herring. I never did really get it, inasmuch as we still bought herring by the dozen to use as bait to catch salmon.
Soo... are we catching bait? or food?
Blood in his mouth, maybe. Blood is supposed to be coppery tasting.
Yah... though I remember we got big buckets full of smelt... I don't recall that we had a big smelt-feed afterward. I honestly don't remember what he ever did with it.
But I guess twenty pounds of fish is twenty pounds of fish, whether it comes one at a time, or a thousand at a time. :-)
Blood is more salty, IIRC.
I used to watch Man From Uncle on black and white TV, I think I was a teenager then. We liked it. Lord knows if it was any good. Probably not.
In fact... my grandpa's old smelt net is still down in the boathouse. Big long-handled extendable job.
We used a similar net to net herring for bait. Net a herring-ball and you'd get literally a thousand dozen herring in one net half full. I remember weekends spent packaging herring for bait purposes. We had a whole freezer in the garage filled with little else but herring packages.
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