The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[N F C]

I like all of that too but walleye is my favorite! Nothing like homemade fries and fresh fish!! He caught this last week and I sent a picture of it to him as he'd gone hunting with a friend and wasn't home to enjoy it.

I'll make this last night's catch for him though.

That looks delicious DMC!

 

[duluthralphie]

That looks great, What time is Supper?

Remember it is 2 1/2 - 3 hours to drive out there.



I will eat and fish walleye, I just ranked them in my order of preference for our native fish.


I have decided I will stay up until New Years in Sydney this year. I assume if Sydney gets into the new year the rest the world will follow.


NFC do you miss Florida at all?
We do not, some days the warmth would be nice but trading good winters for the great summers here was a good deal. Besides our kids stayed in Mn and did not follow us there as was the plan.

So we had to move back here or not see our grandkids. I would live in Antarctica if that's what it took to see our grandkids..

 

[Blooie]

Ooooh, love me big platter of beer-battered walleye! It's my very favorite fish of all! Growing up if Dad didn't get it out hunting, fish it out of a lake, or Ma didn't grow it in the garden, we didn't have it! The only exception was pig cheeks....Ma would buy them from the John Morrell meat packing plant via an uncle who worked there and we LOVED them. I was 17 years old when I tasted ham for the very first time. Yep, very first! And I was already an old married woman! Ken's mother made a big old ham when we were visiting the ranch. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!!

Taunting a traumatized Blooie with the photo of a platter full of goodness is not a nice thing to do, you know!

 

[duluthralphie]

Ooooh, love me big platter of beer-battered walleye! It's my very favorite fish of all! Growing up if Dad didn't get it out hunting, fish it out of a lake, or Ma didn't grow it in the garden, we didn't have it! The only exception was pig cheeks....Ma would buy them from the John Morrell meat packing plant via an uncle who worked there and we LOVED them. I was 17 years old when I tasted ham for the very first time. Yep, very first! And I was already an old married woman! Ken's mother made a big old ham when we were visiting the ranch. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!!

Taunting a traumatized Blooie with the photo of a platter full of goodness is not a nice thing to do, you know!

We were way ahead of you here. We had our own smoke house! It was not that far from our only functioning bathroom. the out house.

 

[N F C]

That looks great, What time is Supper?


NFC do you miss Florida at all?
We do not, some days the warmth would be nice but trading good winters for the great summers here was a good deal. Besides our kids stayed in Mn and did not follow us there as was the plan.

So we had to move back here or not see our grandkids. I would live in Antarctica if that's what it took to see our grandkids..

Sometimes I miss FL, especially the Keys where I lived when first moving to FL. That place was my idea of heaven on earth (unfortunately, DH didn't feel that way). North FL was ok, we had a great house and I loved our animals but not the location so much. DH hated the heat and humidity in FL.

Funny how we ended up in WY. Jobs were practically non-existent in north FL and DH was having to drive approximately 4-5 hours a day to work a sales territory in mid-FL. We were talking about moving closer to that part of the state when he stumbled across an opening for golf course management in WY. My family up here had been after us to move, DH got the job, our house sold in record time and boom...here we are! Guess it's true some things are meant to be.

If either of us had grandkids, that might matter where we live but the 2 of us are apparently a dying breed. DH has 1 daughter, I have 2 sons and none of them are of a mind to marry or have kids.

We do like it up here, DH's job is perfect for him (my job is seasonal, so that's great), housing is provided by the company so living is pretty cheap. Most everyone we have met here has been very nice. And I like being this close to my brother and my cousin in particular.

Life is always a mix, you know? Gotta find the place where the good outweighs the not so good and I think we have that now.

 

[FridayYet]

I absolutely live the Keys. Don't think I could handle the summers there, but we love to go for a week or two around thanksgiving. We've stayed on Cudjoe, Big Pine, Marathon and Sugarloaf. Always had such a great time.

It's gotten so expensive to fly though, and since DD1 now needs 4 tickets to get the family there, we skipped going this year. But we talked about it a lot over Christmas!! Hopefully next year.

 

[Blooie]

And Wyoming just got a whole lot better because of all of that, Debby!

 

[duluthralphie]

And Wyoming just got a whole lot  better because of all of that, Debby!

But you miss the lakes of Minnesota, right?

 

[Blooie]

Um, the ones that formed under my armpits from the humidity and heat? Nope!

 

[DigMyChicks]

That looks delicious DMC!

That looks great, What time is Supper?

Remember it is 2 1/2 - 3 hours to drive out there.



I will eat and fish walleye,  I just ranked them in my order of preference for our native fish.


I have decided I will stay up until New Years in Sydney this year. I assume if Sydney gets into the new year the rest the world will follow.


NFC  do you miss Florida at all?
We do not, some days the warmth would be nice but trading good winters for the great summers here was a good deal.  Besides our kids stayed in Mn and did not follow us there as was the plan.

So we had to move back here or not see our grandkids.   I would live in Antarctica if that's what it took to see our grandkids..

That looks delicious DMC!

Thank you, it was delicious!! Where are you at that you are 2.5 to 3 hours from me?