Let's see, I love greens (collards with "country" ham), black eyed peas, sugar cured ham (some others aren't bad if they are farm cured) , fresh biscuits, REAL honey, green beans, corn, butter from the churn (before someone puts salt and coloring in it), and just about any good southern food there is.
I've got my Gran'momma's recipe cards for making sweet pickles, know the best biscuits are made from red durham wheat flour, know to put sulphur around my waist and sock lines to keep off the chiggers, prefer my biscuits with sweet butter/honey and a sliver of REAL ham
I also know that if you catch a 25lb snapping turtle in the neighbor's pond that you give that delicacy to the pond owner but are allowed to keep the big bass without guilt because all he wants is recognition for having that bass there. On Sundays, any visitors are rarely invited but always welcome and they can't leave until their trunk is filled with food.
I know that every man is addressed as sir and lady as mam, country music is the only acceptable music to be played on the radio and sunfish are called brim which are caught in the branch versus a stream. You never do anything to insult a man's prize bull, yearling or hog and chicken fighting is not appreciated by the Baptist Church just as cards or dancing is disdained.
The part I never could get right was not catching more bass than my uncles or Gran'dad which was forgiven on the outside but festered something underneath I don't quite know to this day.
Of course, my dad never shot 3 doves with one .22 bullet off the barn roof but he did nail two cockbird pheasants with one #6 high brass 12 guage shell from 30 yards. The southern family was always kind to dad but didn't take to him as he was a Yankee and not a devoted hunter or fisherman. Dad was shot down from a B-17 Flying Fortress in WWII on mission 13 and spent 18 months marching and starving. Oh, he never explained this until recent years but my friends asked him the right questions as I was becoming a man and behind them as he told them stories.
Yes, dad took me fishing and hunting but wasn't very good at it as his 17 year old brother was killed in a hunting accident and it never really excited him afterwards. He was an Eagle scout and scoutmaster and continues at 84 to be my best friend and confidant. He taught me to hunt and fish for me, not himself, and I'll never forget.
From: Anthony Spezio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [VFB] SOW BUG NAMETAGS
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We will see if we can find real food while you are
here. LOL
Tony
--- Niclas Runarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Tony,
>
> <"We never know what next year will bring, We are
> thrilled you will be here
> this year.">
>
> Be sure my friend... I am too.
>
> <"Come back next year, I am sure you will consider
> it after you have been
> here.">
>
> Be sure my friend... I can consider it already,
> without having been there
> yet. But it's a trip that digs deep in an unemployed
> man's wallet. I will
> have to eat wallpaper and dust balls for two months
> after this one, so
> Teresa can get the real food. If I had lived closer,
> I would have been there
> next year too... no question about it.
>
> /Nick
>
>
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För
> Anthony Spezio
> Skickat: den 22 februari 2006 21:01
> Till: [email protected]
> Ämne: RE: [VFB] SOW BUG NAMETAGS
>
>
> Come back next year, I am sure you will consider it
> after you have been here.
> Thanks for coming.
> Tony
>
> --- Niclas Runarsson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > That was nice one to know. I fight to make it this
> > year...and it turns out
> > that NEXT year is the one I should have chosen.
> >
> > /Nick
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Anthony
> Spezio
> > Skickat: den 22 februari 2006 20:32
> > Till: [email protected]
> > Ämne: Re: [VFB] SOW BUG NAMETAGS
> >
> >
> > Make it next year, it will be special as it will
> be
> > our 10 th Sowbug. We can have you as a "Featured"
> > tyer.
> > Tony
> > Rene,
> > --- Rene Zillmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Seeing this roster of outstanding tyers, I
> really
> > > regret for not making
> > > it this year.
> > > Sometimes I'm happy that at least I can watch
> and
> > > listen what's going on
> > > with the sowbug, sometimes I'm simply jealous.
> > > Best to all of you sowbugger
> > > Rene
> > >
> > >
> > > Jimmy D. Moore wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just a reminder. I'm making VFB nametags for
> > all
> > > VFB'ers attending
> > > > Sow Bug. Below is the list that I have. If
> > > you're not on it and plan
> > > > to attend and want a colorful VFB nametag,
> > please
> > > contact me OFF LIST
> > > > with your name, nickname, city and
> > state/country.
> > > >
> > > > JD
> > > >
> > > > Sowbug 2006 roster
> > > >
> > > > Jeff Frye (Ramada)
> > > > Charlie Bonner
> > > > Joe Fusco (Wildcat)
> > > > Tony Spiezio (with Dot)
> > > > Jimmy D Moore (Ramada)
> > > > Denny Conrad (Wildcat)
> > > > Rodney Barilleaux (Bull Shoals Campground) ??
> > > > Niclas Runarsson (Wildcat)
> > > > Allan Fish (Ramada)
> > > > Buck Hall (Ramada)
> > > > Rick Zieger (Ramada)
> > > > Jack Lehman (Ramada)
> > > > Bruce Whittle (Ramada)
> > > > Brandon Whittle (Ramada)
> > > > David Murphy (Ramada)
> > > > Larry Carli (Ramada)
> > > > Kevin Slater
> > > > Larry Johnson (Ramada)
> > > > Tom Davenport
> > > > Don Ordes - Ramada?
> > > > Allen Crise - Ramada
> > > > Ken Bohannon - ???
> > > >
> > > >--
> > >
> >
>
>*******************************************************************
> > > >Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.), TOWA,
> > TF&G
> > > Contributor, GRTU Past VP. Past Pres. McGregor
> > > Rotary. Freelance Outdoor writer, humorist,
> > > half-assed Texan and collector of classic bamboo
> > fly
> > > rods and classic golf clubs
> > > >
> > > >Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting
> > > Club", ©
> > > >
> > > >JIMMY D's Fly Fishing Website:
> > >
> >
>
>http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index
> > >.html
> > >
> >
>
>********************************************************************
> > > >"Being able to read trout streams is just as
> > > valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to
> read
> > a
> > > defense is to an NFL Quarterback."
> > > >
> > > >Jimmy D. Moore - © [2004]
> > >
> >
>
>*******************************************************************
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> >
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