Meet Nova Land!

[kittynh]

For the New England skeptics....

Nova land is coming to New England in August. We were thinking of having the dinner the last weekend in Aug or over the holiday weekend. He's getting back to me as this is his big business trip of the year. Come view the almost complete addition (that looks just like a room....wow) and the new kitchen (it looks like a kitchen but without holes in the floor). Be amazed at the invisible furniture (can we afford furniture after paying for this?).

There is also beautiful Lake Spofford a short short drive away (or a bike ride) and the every mysterious Chesterfield Gorge (easy hike but wonderful water and rock views). Also Courtney Love has moved in next door and spends most of her time walking around the yard naked.

We have lots of kayaks and some spare beds. Also various sofas and space for a sleeping bag or two. Put up a tent if you want. The raccons and fisher cats aren't nearly as rabid as they were last year. Kitten can give kayaking lessons to everyone (she has hardly lost anyone this year).

Vegan food, vegetarian food, meat eater food (I don't cook, but I sure can buy stuff from the coop) - it's all going to be here. Scott has promised a special desert too...

Bring your kids, they'll be glad they don't live in the middle of nowhere when they get back home!

Bring your dog (proof of rabies shot required).

Larry, bring your boats too! We'll have a picnic on blueberry island! (if we can get parking at the boat ramp, darn tourists).

Let the joy be unconfined!

 

[renata]

I might be in the area then. Will let you know closer to the time

 

[kittynh]

come for lunch and dinner, what ever. I think it'll just be open house all day and night!

 

[Mercutio]

I might be in the area then. Will let you know closer to the time

If you are not in that area specifically, but a bit to the east, can I tempt you with lobster?

 

[renata]

If you are not in that area specifically, but a bit to the east, can I tempt you with lobster?

Your company is sufficient temptation.

Plans are yet uncertain, I will contact locals when they are a bit more firm.

 

[kittynh]

hey Merc, you had better show up. You can bring vegan lobster...

Not that you aren't allowed to have Renata to yourself (drive her over....you know how to get to Keene State right, that's where you send your rejects).

Bring lawn chairs (I'm looking for some on sale).

People can drive the mini too (must know stick already, I'm not teaching you on my baby).

After that, it's just boredom here....(oh why do I live in this forsaken wilderness...sob sob)

 

[Mercutio]

hey Merc, you had better show up. You can bring vegan lobster...

Not that you aren't allowed to have Renata to yourself (drive her over....you know how to get to Keene State right, that's where you send your rejects).

If I knew how to get to Keene State, I'd be teaching there... (gotta pay better than this...)

I do know the best Vegan cook in New Hampshire, so I might have to bother her for some recipes...yeah, and the lobster, too....

 

[Loon]

There's even a slim possibility I'll be in the area (wedding in Maine on Sept. 11, also considering a move to Boston).

renata is stalking me!

 

[Larry Barrieau]

Sounds great Kitty. Tell Dogglefox the chickens are waiting.

Anyone who might not be able to make the drive all the way to Kitty's can stop overnight here. Some people think that I am a little strange because I run an out of the way motel with my mother and I'm into taxidermy. Ignore them. (REEEE! REEEE! REEEE!)

 

[Kitten]

If you promise to move the dining room furniture out of my bedroom, I'll come home that weekend... as long as I'm not in the middle of exams or have a hot date or anything...

Just kidding-- I'll make my best effort to attend. If not, you can all draw straws for who gets my room. Not that it's all that great-- I haven't lived at home for more than a month in the past six years, so it's full of boxes of rocks and textbooks (in addition to kitchen appliances and the dinning room furniture...) I haven't bothered to unpack.

If I do come, I'll bring kayaks for everyone and we can have a lake picnic. I've only lost a couple of my paddling students so far this year, so odds are pretty good that you won't drown.

Kitten

P.S. Scott-- this dessert involves chocolate, right?

 

[kittynh]

Larry has a very cool place. He built it himself.

Admittedly if you flush the toilet the lights go out. And turning on the shower results in the garbage disposal working.

I'll go down and visit Larry and his empire in the woods to check it out before hand.

Also, having Nova Land to dinner does not mean I'm just letting him out of the basement. Someone has to pick these apples!!!!

And when he calls himself a vegan, it really means that he has been doing research on how you can live just be eating mold you have scrapped off darkened underground walls (does that mean basement, not always...). Hey, sometimes a mushroom popps up too!

 

[Kitten]

Uh-oh, Mom...

you're not throwing this dinner party just to get more people to join your basement-dwelling cult, are you? Is there a trap door in that new dining room floor?

On another note, Larry's place is REALLY cool. He's built it all himself. He has a house, workshop, outdoor gym, etc. There's all sorts of cool artwork around such as the stained glass windows he's made himself and even a flying pig weathervane!
There's an extensive library in the house with all sorts of great books on skeptical and scientific topics. Not such a bad place to spend the night, and only a half hour or so (maybe a little further?) from the Kitty residence.

Larry has a very cool place. He built it himself.

Admittedly if you flush the toilet the lights go out. And turning on the shower results in the garbage disposal working.

I'll go down and visit Larry and his empire in the woods to check it out before hand.

Also, having Nova Land to dinner does not mean I'm just letting him out of the basement. Someone has to pick these apples!!!!

And when he calls himself a vegan, it really means that he has been doing research on how you can live just be eating mold you have scrapped off darkened underground walls (does that mean basement, not always...). Hey, sometimes a mushroom popps up too!

 

[kittynh]

Nova, picking apples is probably more important than what most of us do. Plus, the man knows his apples.

 

[Mercutio]

Nova, picking apples is probably more important than what most of us do. Plus, the man knows his apples.

Last year, on three different occasions, I baked apple pies using recipes gleaned here--although it was only me eating them, none of these three pies lasted 24 hours. (um, I made more than just 3 pies last year...but most lasted longer). Apple-picking, to me, is at least as important as any other job in NH. More important than, say, Governor.

 

[Kitten]

Last year, on three different occasions, I baked apple pies using recipes gleaned here--although it was only me eating them, none of these three pies lasted 24 hours. (um, I made more than just 3 pies last year...but most lasted longer). Apple-picking, to me, is at least as important as any other job in NH. More important than, say, Governor.

Mercutio,

I fully agree with you on the importance of apple picking and ESPECIALLY on the importance of making apple pies!

That said, one of your pies will find its way over to Spofford at some point? Yes?

Or you can always ship one up to me at school in NH... it'll be good for you. Have I mentioned that you're looking a little chubby recently? Send all apple pies to me so that you won't be tempted to eat them

Kitten

 

[Mercutio]

Mercutio,

I fully agree with you on the importance of apple picking and ESPECIALLY on the importance of making apple pies!

That said, one of your pies will find its way over to Spofford at some point? Yes?

After that sweet note you added to your mum's article, I cannot deny you a pie. You will have to wait for Northern Spie season, though--nothing else would be good enough.

Or you can always ship one up to me at school in NH... it'll be good for you. Have I mentioned that you're looking a little chubby recently? Send all apple pies to me so that you won't be tempted to eat them

Kitten

Chubby? Have you been talking to Mrs. Merc? Nah, I already have a plan for that...when pies season starts, that's all I eat. If I must cut back somewhere, it will not be the pies. But...as soon as one lasts longer than 24 hours...

 

[kittynh]

Merc, Nova Land said next to Renata, he really wants to meet you!

I mean, second to Renata isn't too bad!

 

[Nova Land]

You will have to wait for Northern Spie season, though--nothing else would be good enough.

Yes, Spys do make good pies. I won't be able to bring any of those so early in season, but am hoping to bring some fresh Ginger Golds and Paula Reds to the get-together.

Ginger Golds also make a very good pie, especially if one makes a few small adjustments to the basic pie recipe. Here's a

Simple Recipe for Ginger Gold Pie

(1) Select a suitably attractive Ginger Gold.
(2) Wash and dry.
(3) Omit the part about peeling and slicing.
(4) Omit the part about making a crust.
(5) Omit the part about baking.
(6) Hold in hands, admire, then eat.

The great thing about this recipe is that it is extremely easy, takes only seconds to prepare, does not heat up the kitchen, and is virtually foolproof.

 

[Kitten]

After that sweet note you added to your mum's article, I cannot deny you a pie. You will have to wait for Northern Spie season, though--nothing else would be good enough.
Chubby? Have you been talking to Mrs. Merc? Nah, I already have a plan for that...when pies season starts, that's all I eat. If I must cut back somewhere, it will not be the pies. But...as soon as one lasts longer than 24 hours... [/B]

Merc!!! A new diet revolution. This is better than Atkins and that weird Hollywood Juice Diet! You should market this right away!

ONLY eat desserts. Think how HAPPY people will be and how many excess calories will be cut out in the form of carbohydrates, dairy products, meats and fruits and veggies.

The APPLE PIE diet is perfect... fruit and sugar. What else do you need in life?

If there's an afterlife, Ed, I want to subsist on apple pie and chocolate-covered strawberries

 

[Nova Land]

The APPLE PIE diet is perfect... fruit and sugar. What else do you need in life?

Oil and salt (in generous quantities each).

And, of course, chocolate (as you mentioned a moment later).

Do potatoes count as a fruit? If not, then we'll need to add one more item to the list. Fried salt is okay in a pinch, but fried potato to go with the salt is better.