First Quarter '03 FReepathon Now Underway - Thread 2

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[Mo1]

The Free Republic first quarter '03 FReepathon is now underway!

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[ValerieUSA]

I would love to visit and photograph West Virginia someday... I guess I'm gonna have to marry me a travelin' man soon. (A man who has room in the cargo hold for me)

[ValerieUSA]

*L* That's my youngest son Gabriel behind the wheel... we wouldn't have gone to that park if Algore was there.

[chnsmok]

That looks like fun!

[ValerieUSA]

We just had tuna casserole..... the kids really do love it. No leftovers!

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$20 from California
$50 from New York
$10 monthly from Wisconsin
$10 from Michigan

Thank you all very much!!

[MattAMiller]

You've got my $20. But God only knows how much I cost you by basically living here.

[Gabz]

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!

[babble-on]

(... we wouldn't have gone to that park if Algore was there)


Good instinct!

[glock rocks]

I'd like to know what she would do with a 51 ounce can of chopped clams that isn't chowder!!!!!!!!!

my primary non-rhetorical question would be.... how many cats does she own?

[Gabz]

Fritters is exactly what I did make with them - although not with crackers.

I had never eaten clam fritters - but these were the lightest tastiest fritters I have ever eaten - and we were discussing at the table tonight how next we will use this recipe.

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
2 large eggs
1/4 cup beer

the original recipe called for chopped cooked shrimp along with a chopped onion, a chopped jalepeno, 4 minced cloves of garlic and 1/2 teaspoon of thyme.

because of the little one I didn't use the jalapeno and diced up some green bell pepper along with the onion and garlic.

what's great about it was that it called for sticking it in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours. so I was able to make it early and all I had to do when it was time to cook was heat the oil and drop the babies in!!!

[Gabz]

Thank you FREEPER!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Show Me State FREEPER!!!!

Thank you Badger State FREEPER!!!!!!

[Jim Robinson]

Just in:

$20 from Arizona
$100 from New York (Eagles Up!)

Thank you Arizona and New York!!

[glock rocks]

that's a keeper recipe (yes, it's bookmarked, yes, we'll try it)- do you "deep" fry them in a regulation deep fryer thing, or do them in a pan on the stove?

[ValerieUSA]

"There is no Arizona"
by Jamie O'Neal

He promised her a new and better life
Out in Arizona
Underneath the blue never ending sky
Swore that he was gonna
get things in order
He'd send for her
When he left her behind, it never crossed his mind

There is no Arizona
No painted desert
No Sedona
If there was
A grand canyon
She could fill it up with the lies he's told her
But they don't exist
Those dreams he sold her
She'll wake up and find
There is no Arizona


She got a post card with no return address
Post marked tombstone
It said I don't know where I'm goin next
But when I do I'll let you know
May, June, July
She wonders why she's still waitin
She'll keep waiting cause


There is no Arizona
No painted desert
No Sedona
If there was
A grand canyon
She could fill it up with the lies he's told her
But they don't exist
Those dreams he sold her
She'll wake up and find
There is no Arizona


Each day the sun sets into the west
Her heart sinks lower into her chest
And friends keep asking when she's goin
Finally she tells them, don't you know


There is no Arizona
No painted desert
No Sedona
If there was
A grand canyon
She could fill it up with the lies he's told her
But they don't exist
Those dreams he sold her
She'll wake up and find
There is no Arizona


He promised her a new and better life
Out in Arizona

[justshe]

~~~my primary non-rhetorical question would be.... how many cats does she own? ~~~

Getting RATHER personal, aren't you? These non-rhetorical questions are SO hard! :-)

Actually....we owned one cat, Alexander. He died 2 weeks ago from kidney failure.

Alexander deigned to grace us with his presence for over 11 years---after showing up on our doorstep as a skinny 6 mo. old kitten. Not wanting a cat, I put a dish of milk on the deck and left for work. I came home to find him gone. HOORAH!

About an hour later there came a knock on the door. Here were 2 teenage girls, carrying this scrawny kitten. They were VERY apologetic that while taking a walk, OUR cat had followed them home so they were returning him.

The rest is history.

[glock rocks]

thank you New York - Eagles Up !

thank you Arizona

[Gabz]

I remember my mother made a tuna casserole that had potato chips in it when I was a kid. That and Tuna Helper (like hamburger helper) so turned me off of cooked canned tuna as not to even be funny. It's probably why I'm not real crazy about any kind of cooked salmon dish made from canned salmon.

I love canned tuna as long as it's not cooked - when I'm not in the mood to fix even a simple sandwich I'll just open a can of tuna and grab a fork!! But I don't like fresh tuna.

Salmon, on the other hand I prefer not out of a can. I much prefer it fresh,so to be grilled or baked or sauted, etc.......and of course there is my perenniel favorite LOX!!!!!

[Gabz]

Thank you Badger State FREEPER!!!!!!

Thank You Empire State FREEPER

Thank You Golden State FREEPER!!!

Thank you Great lakes State FReeper!!!!

[Gabz]

Thank you Grand Canyon State FREEPER!!!

Thank You Empire State FREEPER

[justshe]

Sounds MOST excellent.