[at-l] PA RUCK-you all are gonna eat if ya want

[ATrailHiker at adelphia.net (Marsha)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marsha" <ATrailHiker@adelphia.net>
To: "Jim and/or Ginny Owen" <spiriteagle99@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:54 PM
Subject: PA RUCK-you all are gonna eat if ya want


> You men are so funny-but cute. Cooking for a lot of people is my
> specialty-nope, don't hold any credentials, just love to feed people. I
> basically know what POG did last year (I was impressed). I have the time,
> patience, know-how. I have the food list and head count from last year-I'm
6
> hours from Pine Grove, I have a mini-van.
>
> I love the way everyone helped last year. I posted many pics of people in
> the kitchen.  That was real nice. Everyone just complimented each other
too.
> I can't do any freezing weather hiking due to asthma, so stayin in and
> around the hostel would suit me fine.
>
> I'm for doing this if you are. I did ask one other person on the list to
> assist, I won't mention who-I haven't heard from her yet, but then I just
> emailed her a couple of hours ago.
>
> Let me know-I'm also taking non-smoking, non-complaining hikers along if
> anyone needs a ride-I pull out early that Friday morning. Early.
>
> Marsha-
> Cleveland
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim and/or Ginny Owen" <spiriteagle99@hotmail.com>
> To: <GRoberts@npr.org>; <at-l@backcountry.net>
> Cc: <KarenS62@aol.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:14 AM
> Subject: [at-l] The 2004 Ruck - do you want to eat?
>
>
> > Gary Roberts wrote:
> > >AARRRGGHHHH!!!!!!  NO POG, that is just totally unacceptable.......what
> are
> > >we to do???  How will we eat??  We'll starve to death.
> > >Are you reeeaaaaallly not coming???
> > >
> > >For Pog - we'll really, really miss you.  <G>
> >
> >
> > That's one of several reasons I didn't want to be organizing this one.
> And
> > it brings up something that needs to be said --- if this is gonna
happen,
> > and everyone's gonna get fed, watered, pampered, powdered, entertained,
> etc,
> >   then it's gonna be because some of you step up and take a piece of the
> > action.
> >
> > I won't (WILL NOT) be organizing the kitchen.  I'd rather starve.  So
> we're
> > gonna need some help there.  How much?  Well -
> >
> > Friday night has traditionally been a spaghetti dinner that Ginny and I
> miss
> > because we don't get there until late.   Self-cooking spaghetti hasn't
> been
> > invented yet.
> >
> > Saturday morning y'all are likely on your own unless someone steps up
and
> > decides to feed everyone.  That's happened once or twice, but unless you
> > hear otherwise, God bless the child that's got their own.
> >
> > Saturday lunch has often been soup and bread - for a price.  The
proceeds
> > have generally gone to a worthy cause.  And you REALLY don't want to
have
> me
> > making the soup.  Several kinds of soupl are actually a good idea - as
> well
> > as several kinds of bread, so this one takes several different people to
> put
> > together.
> >
> > Saturday dinner is potluck.  Bring your favorite dish to share - or
> bread -
> > or dessert - or whatever.   This is the "main" meal and it'll require
> > someone to take charge of the kitchen and keep it organized.  We can
draft
> a
> > few trail apes for traffic control, but making everything happen in the
> > kitchen requires someone with talent, so we're looking for a volunteer.
> > And for a few "junior assistant deputy associate chefs"  with enough
> smarts
> > to not fall in the soup pot.  I don't generally qualify.
> >
> > Sunday breakfast is another "you're on your own" meal - unless Gary or
> Toey
> > or someone shows up with lead pancakes again.  <G>
> >
> > Hmm - or did that happen on Saturday?   Whatever.  Only Pog knows.
> >
> > NOBODY should be volunteering for more than one meal.  This IS a fun
> weekend
> > - and has never demanded all that much of anyone (except maybe Pog <G>).
> > We'd like to keep it that way.
> >
> > After Sunday breakfast is "clean the hostel" time.  We used it - we
clean
> > it.  Pick a chore, do it and then we'll open the cage and y'all can go
> home
> > and stuff yourselves at the Stupor Bowl parties.  <G>
> >
> > In spite of my grousing about being in the same place too long, we'd
like
> to
> > be welcome to go back to Ironmasters again sometime.  So keep your cool
> and
> > don't make (or leave) messes.  You know - LNT - Pack it in, pack it
out -
> > etc.
> >
> > One year, nobody cleaned anything before leaviing.  And one year it just
> got
> > a lick and a pormise because  everyone bolted when they thought they
were
> > gonna get snowed in.  Not acceptable.  If you're gonna dance to the
tune,
> > then you get to pay the fiddler.
> >
> > We have a new hostel keeper this year.  I talked to Brad last night,
I'll
> be
> > talking to him again later - and we want to keep him happy.  So one of
the
> > things we do is to leave food behind.  Last year we left pies - lots of
> pies
> > - along with enough food to keep a small army fed for a month.  They
like
> > that - and donations to the hostel are good, too.
> >
> > Anything I forgot, Pog?  Other than telling them how much work is
> involved?
> > And how much fun?
> >
> > Enough for now - we'll talk about other things later............... or
> maybe
> > the same things again.  Who knows?
> > Walk softly,
> > Jim
> >
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