Louetta's Lore

[IIC]

When you say "The Roadhouse," I think of Logan's Roadhouse, but I see that there aren't any in Massachusetts. There are seven of them in California but only one in Southern California, and that one is in Fontana, more than half the distance to Big Bear Lake from where you live. I like Logan's Roadhouse. They're owned by the CBRL Group out of Lebanon, Tennessee. (Ticker CBRL) They also own the chain of restaurants called "Cracker Barrel." I see California has none of those yet. Both of those restaurants appear to be very successful. Well, they're very popular around here anyway; they're always packed. The chart right now is on the right side of a huge cup with no handle.

Here's the place: http://www.roadhousecafe.com/

I never heard of Logan's...You can probably imagine that I never go to Fontana. I'm very familiar w/ CBRL though...I owned it a few years back...Doug

[Tatnic]

I swear to you that the day she died was as painful to me as losing any close family member.

amen to that Brother...I mourned for quite awhile after losing my setter...she died on the day my daughter was suppose to be born, so it was quite a mixture of emotions (my daughter was a week late and she's been late ever since). I didn't feel like hunting anything for quite a while after my dog died.

[Tatnic]

Never seen those signs before...I mentioned a few others I'd never seen too a couple of days ago...Doug

The one I like is when you come into Manhattan....it says, You're now entering New York, talk faster!

Actually, that doesn't exist but it should.

[skiracer]

amen to that Brother...I mourned for quite awhile after losing my setter...she died on the day my daughter was suppose to be born, so it was quite a mixture of emotions (my daughter was a week late and she's been late ever since). I didn't feel like hunting anything for quite a while after my dog died.

My last two were a pair of labs. DAK was a gold colored male and TARA was jet black female. They were brother and sisters and I had them from the time they were 6 wks. old. TARA was the smartest dog I ever owned and I swear I could talk to her and she would look at me with that face and I knew she was understanding what I was saying. DAK loved me more that TARA and was just about pleasing and love. He could hunt but he took TARA's lead and they were real good bird dogs. They loved the water no matter what the temperature but I never hunted them over water for retrieving. My wife was as much attached to them as she was to her cats. It was like losing family. I buried them in the back yard and it's been several years since they passed on and I still go back there and stand on them and talk to them.

[Rob]

I've never been a hunter. I have an uncle who is an avid gun fanatic/hunter, and he took me out target shooting but not hunting. I've never killed anything bigger than a fish. I'm not anti-hunting though, it's just one of those things I never really tried, but it looks like fun. As far as dogs, I've only owned a couple in my life. One died young, and the other we had to give to friends when we moved from Minnesota to L.A. in 1975. The first one, Ginger, we had in about 1962 when we lived in Riverside, New Jersey. She died of distemper I think. The second one was a collie named Bogart. He was a cool dog but not all that bright in my opinion—and a barker. Well, maybe he was smarter than I give him credit for, because he never had any real training. I've never developed an attachment to a dog that was so strong I would equate it to anything close to family attachments. I sometimes wonder if that makes me an unloving, insensitive person. To me any pets I've had have just been domestic beasts that I sort of like, but beasts nonetheless.

[Tatnic]

My last two were a pair of labs. DAK was a gold colored male and TARA was jet black female. They were brother and sisters and I had them from the time they were 6 wks. old. TARA was the smartest dog I ever owned and I swear I could talk to her and she would look at me with that face and I knew she was understanding what I was saying. DAK loved me more that TARA and was just about pleasing and love. He could hunt but he took TARA's lead and they were real good bird dogs. They loved the water no matter what the temperature but I never hunted them over water for retrieving. My wife was as much attached to them as she was to her cats. It was like losing family. I buried them in the back yard and it's been several years since they passed on and I still go back there and stand on them and talk to them.

Its been said that you should never trust anyone who doesn't like dogs, I don't go that far but I have much more in common with folks who love dogs...and I read in Forbes or some other business mag that you should never hire anyone who isn't married or doesn't have a dog...ie something/someone to take care of or care for more importantly. Dogs would make great employees, their loyal, always happy and they let you know before they take a shit on the floor so you can let 'em out.

[Lyehopper]

I've never been a hunter. I have an uncle who is an avid gun fanatic/hunter, and he took me out target shooting but not hunting. I've never killed anything bigger than a fish. I'm not anti-hunting though, it's just one of those things I never really tried, but it looks like fun. As far as dogs, I've only owned a couple in my life. One died young, and the other we had to give to friends when we moved from Minnesota to L.A. in 1975. The first one, Ginger, we had in about 1962 when we lived in Riverside, New Jersey. She died of distemper I think. The second one was a collie named Bogart. He was a cool dog but not all that bright in my opinion—and a barker. Well, maybe he was smarter than I give him credit for, because he never had any real training. I've never developed an attachment to a dog that was so strong I would equate it to anything close to family attachments. I sometimes wonder if that makes me an unloving, insensitive person. To me any pets I've had have just been domestic beasts that I sort of like, but beasts nonetheless.

I don't think it has to do with senitivity or being an anamal lover for me. I have taken the life of hundreds of God's creatures, many for food and sport and some because they just piss me off (like countless groundhogs and a few coyotes.lol).... it does not bother me in the least to kill an animal. But a good dog is just different, you get attached to their loyality and friendship. I like my dog better than I do most people I know. I can't imagine not having at least one good dog.

[skiracer]

I don't think it has to do with senitivity or being an anamal lover for me. I have taken the life of hundreds of God's creatures, many for food and sport and some because they just piss me off (like countless groundhogs and a few coyotes.lol).... it does not bother me in the least to kill an animal. But a good dog is just different, you get attached to their loyality and friendship. I like my dog better than I do most people I know. I can't imagine not having at least one good dog.

Growing up in a very rural town where hunting, fishing, and trapping was what most of the guys did with their spare time. Baseball, football and those things were all part of it but being in the woods was the big thing. There was some unwritten code about being judged in part by your hunting dogs. Not so much the kind of dog but how good they were at whatever type of hunting they were
being used for. The three main types were water fowl, mainly goose and ducks in Lakehurst lake, upland bird, which were pheasant, bobwhite quail, grouse, and woodchuck, and rabbit.

The really bigger of the three for my town was for rabbit and beagles were the dog of choice. Everyone had them and raised them and was always talking about their beagle. The kind of tragic thing about it was that as much as they talked up their beagles no one really cared or loved them if they couldn't run rabbit. You could buy a good beagle somewhere for big money and out of a well known rabbit hunter known for his great dogs but you didn't really know how that dog was going to run rabbits until he was at least a good year old, two probably more like it. I've seen friends be hunting with a group of us, all with our dogs so there is maybe 10 dogs running a poor rabbit. We evolved into holding 5 or 6 dogs in the truck pens because it would get so hectic with 10 of them barking that sometimes a beagle or two would end up getting shot up alittle because a bunch of them would get up close to the rabbit but you couldn't win because the dogs in the pens would be barking so loud in response to the ones running the rabbit that you couldn't stand it. So sometimes someone would put alot of money and times into training one of these beagles and then they would have the dog out with a group of other dogs and the dog wouldn't or didn't have what it took to do it, and plenty of times a guy would get fed up and shoot the dog on the spot and no one would say anything because they understood that the dog was for hunting and nothing else. It it couldn't hunt no one was going to feed and take care of it. We would walk away from that dog and leave him right there, no burial, and continue on hunting rabbit. Those beagles had a great life if they could hunt and would live and hunt rabbit for a long time and sleep in deep strawhay but only as long as they could hunt and run rabbit.
It sounds like a barbaric way of thinking and acting but alot of these kids I grew up with lived off of game they killed or money they made from trapping. They took enjoyment out of the hunt and everything related to it but it was important to them as was the time and effort they put into it.

Strangest thing was that it wasn't like that at all with the birddogs. The retrievers and pointers were considered more of pets/hunters and received more consideration on that count.

[peanuts]

It sounds like a barbaric way of thinking and acting but alot of these kids I grew up with lived off of game they killed or money they made from trapping. They took enjoyment out of the hunt and everything related to it but it was important to them as was the time and effort they put into it.

It is a great thing to be the #1 predator on Earth.

[Tatnic]

It is a great thing to be the #1 predator on Earth.

I think bacteria get that award, they kill and consume more living things than humans ever have or could. OK, maybe they're not predators by definition but they're much more deadly.

Don't forget about the dinosaurs. They ruled the earth for 150 million years or so and then poof, gone. We've only been around a infinitesimal part of that time and we're already screwing things up royally...Oh, well, 150~200 million years from now we'll be looking pretty strange too I'm sure. And don't forget that we are not alone in the universe....there must be millions of other planets we cannot see that have intelligent life, ie understand physics and mathematics.

Boy, this thread is about as far from the stock market as you can get.

[skiracer]

I think bacteria get that award, they kill and consume more living things than humans ever have or could. OK, maybe they're not predators by definition but they're much more deadly.

Don't forget about the dinosaurs. They ruled the earth for 150 million years or so and then poof, gone. We've only been around a infinitesimal part of that time and we're already screwing things up royally...Oh, well, 150~200 million years from now we'll be looking pretty strange too I'm sure. And don't forget that we are not alone in the universe....there must be millions of other planets we cannot see that have intelligent life, ie understand physics and mathematics.

Boy, this thread is about as far from the stock market as you can get.

And it doesn't belong to any of us.

[Louetta]

And it doesn't belong to any of us.

Everyone is welcome.

[IIC]

Wrapped up my vacation today...Was gonna do some stuff in Boston tomorrow but since it is supposed to rain hard I'll just take it easy...Have a 6:20pm flt.

Went to Plymouth today...Saw the rock...but you've seen one rock you've seen 'em all...The Pilgrim Hall Museum was interesting...I learned that they teach you the myths in elementary school rather than the straight story...Actually I learned that long ago...but after we left the museum I asked my wife if she thought George Washington was ever really President?

Went to see some other historic buildings...The Sparrow House which is supposedly the oldest house in town...circa 1640...I sorta couldn't find it so I just pointed to an older looking house and told my wife..."There it is"...What the heck, all the houses with their white cedar shingles look the same anyway.

Oop's, then we drove by the real Sparrow House and my wife says..."There it is"...Yikes, busted again.

Wanted to go to the Plimoth Plantation...However, the AAA Guide says give it at least 2 1/2 hrs and the Plantation site says at least 2 hrs...But it was gonna close in 45 mins...Maybe next time???

Well, Cape Cod is a pretty nice place...very quiet and quaint...But it will be good to get back to the hustle and bustle of LA...Doug(IIC)

[Louetta]

Wrapped up my vacation today...Was gonna do some stuff in Boston tomorrow but since it is supposed to rain hard I'll just take it easy...Have a 6:20pm flt.

Went to Plymouth today...Saw the rock...but you've seen one rock you've seen 'em all...The Pilgrim Hall Museum was interesting...I learned that they teach you the myths in elementary school rather than the straight story...Actually I learned that long ago...but after we left the museum I asked my wife if she thought George Washington was ever really President?

Went to see some other historic buildings...The Sparrow House which is supposedly the oldest house in town...circa 1640...I sorta couldn't find it so I just pointed to an older looking house and told my wife..."There it is"...What the heck, all the houses with their white cedar shingles look the same anyway.

Oop's, then we drove by the real Sparrow House and my wife says..."There it is"...Yikes, busted again.

Wanted to go to the Plimoth Plantation...However, the AAA Guide says give it at least 2 1/2 hrs and the Plantation site says at least 2 hrs...But it was gonna close in 45 mins...Maybe next time???

Well, Cape Cod is a pretty nice place...very quiet and quaint...But it will be good to get back to the hustle and bustle of LA...Doug(IIC)

If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air, quaint little villages here and there,
you're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod. If you like the taste of a lobster stew served by a window with an ocean view you're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod. Winding roads that seem to beckon you, miles of green beneath a sky of blue, church bells chimin' on a Sunday morn remind you of the town where you were born. If you spend an evening you'll want to stay, watching the moonlight on Cape Cod Bay. You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod.

[IIC]

If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air, quaint little villages here and there,
you're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod. If you like the taste of a lobster stew served by a window with an ocean view you're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod. Winding roads that seem to beckon you, miles of green beneath a sky of blue, church bells chimin' on a Sunday morn remind you of the town where you were born. If you spend an evening you'll want to stay, watching the moonlight on Cape Cod Bay. You're sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod.

That was nice...Doug