Houston meeting- AGAIN!

[Rocketman]

Only this time, bigger, better, uncut!
So, we moved our meeting this month so that Dag could make it, and then a volcano very thoughtfully moved Dag's flight so that he could make our regular meeting time.  What to do?  Have two dinner meetings!  This time, better than the first.  Hotglue and FlamingoBabe have offered to do a GOTF-redux, this time BYOM (Bring Your Own Meat).  So, this Wednesday (tomorrow, April 21), come by Hotglue's, carrying whatever you want to put on the grill.  They're providing potatoes and desserts.  He's thinking in terms of folks showing up at 7PM.  However, if you want to show up early and shoot the breeze, kick tires, or replace U-joints, that'd be fine.  If you can't make it at 7, come on anyway, he'll keep the fire going.

See ya'll tomorrow.

[Dag]

I can assure you that the dessert will be good!
Hotglue and I were out picking Dewberries today.

[RainMaker]

That looks a lot like a blackberry to me.

[Mr.BubblesVRCCDS0008]

That looks like Dewberries to me. Use to pick them things by the five gallon bucket when I was a mere boy.Put a little sugar and some cream milk on them and you got something that is a pleasure to eat. Might be able to make it after work  I'll have to check with Red.

[Thalas'shaya]

last i heard, dewberry = texan for blackberry

also, i find myself unexpectedly without dinner plans for wednesday.  better yet, i'm working this week in houston AND i'm on the bike.  i shall attempt to procure tasty meat-food and pop up at the GOTF-redux.

any chance that those dewberries will become a PIE?  (or PIE's almost-identical cousin COBBLER?) 

[Rocketman]

last i heard, dewberry = texan for blackberry

also, i find myself unexpectedly without dinner plans for wednesday.  better yet, i'm working this week in houston AND i'm on the bike.  i shall attempt to procure tasty meat-food and pop up at the GOTF-redux.

any chance that those dewberries will become a PIE?  (or PIE's almost-identical cousin COBBLER?) 

I thought that you might make it on over.  Glad to hear you can. 
As for PIE/COBBLER:  I have heard rumors that there might be some cobbler available.  Come out and see for yourself.
Oh, and that's Texan with a capital "T"!

[hotglue #43]

A special treat with the dewberries!!!! a buddy is coming over tro cook cobbler in a dutch oven in the fire!!!!

[Thalas'shaya]

also, because i'm a complete dork, i looked up dewberries and blackberries.  they are different species of the same genus and subgenus.  blackberries are more widespread and have more varieties but i think unless you're a botanist a fruit fly could starve on the difference.  here's a snippet from a houston chronicle article on the topic:

Is a dewberry a wild blackberry? I looked at books and talked to growers. Dewberries are smaller (about the size of a thumbnail), I learned, sweeter and blue-gray. They ripen in April and grow on sprawling vines in the wild. People say they are indescribably delicious — and maybe, after they've braved snakes, stickers, heat and bugs for their bucketfuls, they really are.

Blackberries are bigger and blacker; they ripen in May and June and grow on upright canes. Gardeners and farmers cultivate them, but they grow wild, too. To make picking more agreeable, scientists have engineered varieties without those cursed thorns.

Just when things were becoming clear, however, an acquaintance threw a monkey wrench into the discussion. The difference between blackberries and dewberries, she insisted, was purely semantic: Yankees say blackberries; Southerners, or at least Texans, say dewberries.

I put the matter to Chronicle gardening editor Kathy Huber, who threw up her hands in despair. Last time she weighed in, she said, "It was a can of worms!" However much people hold fast to their ideas about color, size and taste, she said, "Sorting them out botanically is thorny."

[Super Santa]

I won't be there.

Taking off early the next morning for Vidalia, Georgia and leaving the wife at home.  Going to take her out to dinner.  (Tried talking her into coming out there but she does not feel a part of the group.)  All they talk about is motorcycles.

So we will do something else.  Miss all of you and would love to bring a nice steak out to enjoy, and just the thought of cobbler makes me drool.

Just know I will miss you.

I will be gone 5 days, back one, then I take off for Cheaha on the Valk for about a week, again without her, so trying to keep her pacified.

[roboto65]

Well sad to say I will not be there but on the boat.  You all have fun see you next time and I will be going to the darkside when I get off the boat check other thread!!!!!

[Mr.BubblesVRCCDS0008]

Well sorry to say I missed it. Was planning on being there but about 2.30 yesterday afternoon one of our boilers decided to drop off line and put us all to work. Loosing 240 thousand lbs. of super heated steam can sure upset a process. I didn't get out of here until about 9pm. Hope to be at the ride for kids Sunday in Humble see some of ya soon.