For Those Who Don't Believe I'm Real

[Guest]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1874455' date='May 24 2009, 05:16 PM']A little of both actually. His friends are of the "over 40 and still living at home type."[/quote]

haha So cool. I want to hang.

[Innocent]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1876280' date='May 27 2009, 10:31 AM']All I wanted to be is a frumpy housewife. It's that man I married. He is a magnet for publicity.[/quote]

It can't be totally blamed on him, I think. You're quite accomplished yourself, you know. You seem to have done so much in life you could have been the author of the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook!

[fides quarens intellectum]

yay!! thanks for posting this!

[quote]100 or so men who met her rigid requirements for a potential suitor,[/quote]

[CatherineM]

[quote name='Innocent' post='1876456' date='May 27 2009, 02:31 AM']It can't be totally blamed on him, I think. You're quite accomplished yourself, you know. You seem to have done so much in life you could have been the author of the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook![/quote]

I was a Camp Fire Girl for well over a decade. Besides selling a lot of candy, which truthfully was mostly sold by my dad to the truck drivers that came through the garage where he worked, I learned to be competent in all the outdoor skills. I even learned how to cook a whole pig underground.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='fides quarens intellectum' post='1876570' date='May 27 2009, 09:44 AM']yay!! thanks for posting this![/quote]

My rigid requirements included being a catholic free to marry in the church, over the age of 40, who didn't smoke. That brought up over 800 guys. I had to narrow it down significantly, and Ave Maria allows you to select out people who answered the questions a certain way. They ask stuff like do you follow the Pope on X, Y, Z, stuff on abortion, child discipline, and contraception. When I eliminated everyone who didn't follow the church's teaching on any question, it got down to a hundred. That's actually kind of sad in a way.

[CoffeeCatholic]

beautiful article. Beautiful marriage.

[Angel*Star]

The article is very inspirational! Thanks for sharing it. You are a beautiful person and your experiences of life enrich my life. It is a great picture, as well!

[Innocent]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1876613' date='May 27 2009, 11:47 PM']I even learned how to cook a whole pig underground.[/quote]

Oh, like in[url="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/sfrbn10.txt"] [i]Swiss Family Robinson[/i][/url], you mean?

[quote]From CHAPTER 12:

This unexpected business of course detained us in the place for some
time. On the second day, when the smoking-shed was ready, the boys were
anxious to cook the smallest porker in the Otaheitean fashion. For this
purpose they dug a hole, in which they burnt a quantity of dry grass,
sticks and weeds, heating stones, which were placed round the sides of
the pit.

While the younger boys made ready the oven, Fritz singed and washed his
peccary, stuffing it with potatoes, onions and herbs, and a good
sprinkling of salt and pepper.

He then sewed up the opening, and enveloped the pig in large leaves to
guard it from the ashes and dust of its cooking-place.

The fire no longer blazed, but the embers and stones were glowing hot;
the pig was carefully placed in the hole, covered over with hot ashes,
and the whole with earth, so that it looked like a big mole heap.

Dinner was looked forward to with curiosity, as well as appetite; my
wife, as usual, distrusting our experiments, was not sanguine of
success, and made ready some plain food as a pis aller*.

* Last resort, backup, poor substitute.

She was well pleased with the curing-hut, which was roomy enough to
hang all our hams and bacon. On a wide hearth in the middle we kindled
a large fire, which was kept constantly smouldering by heaping it with
damp grass and green wood. The hut being closed in above, the smoke
filled it, and penetrated the meat thoroughly: this process it had to
undergo for several days.

In a few hours Fritz gave notice that he was going to open his oven.
Great excitement prevailed as he removed the earth, turf, and stones,
and a delicious appetizing odour arose from the opening. It was the
smell of roast pork, certainly, but with a flavor of spices which
surprised me, until I thought of the leaves in which the food had been
wrapped up.

The peccary was carefully raised, and when a few cinders were picked
off, it looked a remarkably well-cooked dish. Fritz was highly
complimented on his success, even by his mother.[/quote]

I've never seen anyone do that in real life, though.




But how did you get the pig? Did your troop have to learn to trap a wild pig as well?

Edited May 28, 2009 by Innocent

[Jaime]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1876613' date='May 27 2009, 01:17 PM']I was a Camp Fire Girl for well over a decade. Besides selling a lot of candy, which truthfully was mostly sold by my dad to the truck drivers that came through the garage where he worked, I learned to be competent in all the outdoor skills. I even learned how to cook a whole pig underground.[/quote]

Why did you have to be underground?



(I'm covering for Winchester)

[musturde]

photoshopped.

[T-Bone _]

iawtc

[CatherineM]

[quote name='Innocent' post='1877207' date='May 28 2009, 10:43 AM']But how did you get the pig? Did your troop have to learn to trap a wild pig as well?[/quote]

We did not trap the pig. I have no idea where it came from. As a typical city kid who did not grow up on a farm, I believed that meat came from the grocery store just like bread did. The idea that real animals were injured for our meals did not become real for me until my brother went to work at a chicken place in the back and came home in aprons covered in goo. When he stopped being able to eat my mother's fried chicken, it somehow all came together for me.

We cooked it in the ground because it was part of a luau. It's a great way of cooking something that will take 8 hours without having to station someone to sit there and watch the fire for 8 hours for fear it will burn the forest down. Saw it once done in Mexico with a goat for a Quinceanera party. They kind of put the goat's head in a big bowl, covered it and the rest of the carcass in big banana leaves and buried it. I had to have a bunch of pulque before I was able to eat any of it.

[jkaands]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1874556' date='May 24 2009, 08:18 PM']Neither do I really, to be perfectly honest.......... but she's the current actress that everyone references as being really 'hot'. [/quote]


--her name popped up in a crossword recently, a true sign of fame!

[Lounge Daddy]

This is a really neat article. Thanks you for sharing this