Thursday, July 03, 2008
Pot Pie is down the well! Now it's Lighthouse Landing (why??) and they ditched the pot pie. My crab cake was still good though. But Dean had to get a salad.
Posted at 5:41:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Posted at 1:54:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Okay, so here are my Cat statistics from our Nantucket hounding on Saturday: Distance - 14.78 miles, Average Speed - 9.4 mph, Max Speed - 22.3 mph, Total Time - 1:33'44. We went on new trail! Well, it was mostly the old fav trail (Madaket), but instead of going to the end we went on a spur trail that led to Dionis Beach. It was a lot shorter than normal, but it was cool because we actually snake-locked up the hounds and went for a walk on the beach, and it was a pretty nice beach as Nantucket beaches go. I.e., it wasn't all huge and sandy and duney and glarey. Well, the fact that it was really foggy on Saturday probably helped. While we were there, the sun started getting all weirdly obscured (it looked like the moon), and people farther down the beach began disappearing. Also there were tons of clammy and scallopy shells on the beach, and weird alien seed pods (no idea what they were, but they were cool).
Anyway, the neatest thing about the trip was that after I waited in line at The Juice Bar for ten thousand years (downtown Nan is busy now!) to get our waffle cone and watermelon juice, I emerged to a world of fog. While I was in there, the town had completely misted over, and we pedalled back to the airport with our bike lights on in the twilight, riding in a cloud, able to see only about ten feet ahead. It was just like flying in IMC conditions, or when we drove through the cloud forest in Hawaii. Very peaceful, mysterious, and otherworldly. By the time we reached the airport, my hair was wet. Taxiiing was a little hard because we could barely see the taxiways (fortunately there's a big bold yellow stripe down the middle to follow) but the runway lights were nice and bright and Tango just went run run run run run and we flew away up into the soup (Dean had filed an IFR flight plan, of course).
The latest Fish of the New England Coast is supposed to be an Acadian Redfish. Well, it's close.
!!! Guess who played the mentally retarded little brother on tonight's episode of The Incredible Hulk? Mickey Jones. Yes, Bob's Mickey Jones. He did a good job, too.
Posted at 12:27:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
Anyway, big, BIG news! It's native blueberry time at Draghi Farm!!! I bought two containers to bring to the Gingers for the Fourth of July, since they are always crying about how pathetic North Carolina blueberries are compared to Connecticut ones. I don't know if they're Rusczyk blueberries or not (no little paper enclosure indicating so) but they're local, at least! I immediately sent Susie a public service announcement using my Palma, since it's such exciting news. :-) I don't think I've ever sent anyone other than myself a Palma e-mail before.
It's really fun driving on the Arrigoni Bridge to get to South Glastonbury. Come On Over!
I called the Gs on the phone tonight to discuss plans for the Fourth of July, and they told me about a nearby North Carolina restaurant that serves "streakolean." Which, apparently, is fatback with just one streak o' lean. Um, no, I am not planning to visit that restaurant, nor will I be adding streakolean to my "Weird Foods I Especially Want To Try" list, even if there is a Chowhound topic about it.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Posted at 11:10:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Oh yeah, and we got a new grill. It's scary. But pretty.
This is a wolffish. (Anarhichas lupus.) They are marketed as "Scotch Halibut" and "Scarborough Woof," or simply "Woof," and are a popular ingredient in fish and chips. You know what happens when you wolf your food.
I went to The Blue Lobster on the Berlin Turnpike for lunch again, and this time I got the actual lobster roll (not the sandwich)! I forgot to bring my camera, so I took a picture of my lobster roll using my Palma instead, but the lighting was bad and it's pretty worthless. Oh well. My notes were as follows: "Just hot buttered lob on warm soft Martin's potato hot dog roll. Roll goes better with hot lob than with lobster salad. Lob was a little tough. Good for completism but I wouldn't get it again." Poor Blue Lobster! Their new non-skeevy location is so cute, but I can't lie and say I'll be back now that I've tried both the hot and cold versions.
Posted at 7:56:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
I've been so slacky, not updating since Tuesday. I do have a post to make about Saturday (we went hounding on Nantucket) but there wasn't much to report other than that, and other than my neck hurting all week. It's mostly better now.
Oh yeah, and I've got to stop reading the The Incredible Hulk television series discussion board!! Dean keeps having to ask me what I'm *choke*ing and laughing my head off about.
Me: "Oh nothing..." (*laughs still more*) Dean: "What is so funny??" "Um.... nothing." Meanwhile, there are topics like "Great McGee Comments" with offerings such as "Hard to believe this kind of damage could be caused by a man dressed like an artichoke..." I am helpless about Jack McGee. Helpless. If this were a true Anti-Linear Brain, I'd be posting about things like this:
Laura, to Dean, at Rocky: "Wouldn't it be great if David Banner hulked out at Starbucks??! The barista would throw a blender full of Green Tea Frappuccino at the Hulk, and it would be all running down his chest, but it would blend in since it's green."
Dean: "That would be silly."
Laura: "He'd probably hulk out because every time he ordered a tall dry cappuccino they gave him a too-hot latte with about a quarter inch of pond-scum foam on top. It would be great--he could throw the "comfy chair" through the big plate-glass front window!! All the customers would be screaming and running and spilling their drinks. And he'd pick up the rotating CD rack and fling the whole thing, and CDs would be raining down everywhere! Wouldn't that be great??! ...I read on Starbucks Gossip that Starbucks is getting rid of their rotating CD racks."
Dean: "Really? Why's that?"
Um. Yeah. See why I haven't been posting?
(Oh, and no, I didn't go to see the new Hulk movie. I am only obsessed with the 70s TV show, and it's a long unfulfilled fixation that started about 10 years ago when I watched a few episodes on the Sci-Fi channel and then they suddenly stopped showing it and I never got to see "Prometheus, Part Two"! You know how those long unfulfilled things are. Well, maybe you don't, but believe me, they make it all even better. Especially when McGee is involved.)
