Re: Grey laundry water for garden watering?

On Sun, 04 May 2008 17:42:04 -0400, Bill <b2forewagner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>In article <vs8s14lv5ukvek168gnc1n2hrai31bt7ge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Charlie wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 03 May 2008 10:13:05 -0500, Omelet <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>> >In article <481c25c2$0$30464$afc38c87@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> > Jonno <somewhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >
>> >> >>>> Food grade poly drums are available from canneries. They buy
their 
>> >> >>>> vinegar in them.
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>    Jan
>> >> >>> Also beware of mosquitos.
>> >> >> That is likely to happen.
>> >> >> Use BT dunks.
>> >> > 
>> >> > That will keep mosquitos out of standing water?
>> >> Put in some goldfish. Theyre organic eat mossies, and you can always
eat 
>> >> them when they grow big enough.
>> >
>> >But carp are so bony! ;-)
>> >
>> >I'd personally vote for bass or crappie minnows!
>> >-- 
>> 
>> Oh dear me......carp is our absolutlyist favoritist fish for plate!!
>> 
>> Bony yes, *but* skinned and properly scored and lightly dusted and
>> scores lightly packed with flour/cornmeal and deep fried.....oh my.
>> 
>> The scoring of the flesh is *the* key to proper carp.  Scoring, for
>> those who aren't familiar, is running your *very* sharp knife from
>> backbone down perpendiculary to the bellyside, cutting thru all the
>> tiny bones, but not the ribs, or cutting clear thru the fish.  From
>> head to tail. You score as closely as possible, no more than 1/8 in
>> apart.  You can feel all the little hairbones being cut.  Deep frying
>> then reduces the tiny bones to nothing, though one still must exercise
>> the usual caution when eating fish.
>> 
>> Oh lordy, Charlie and Mrs. Charlie are looking forward to fresh carp,
>> coleslaw and fried taters and cornbread....just your mention of carp
>> has me salivating like Pavlov's pup......
>> 
>> Charlie
>
> Once again my dad would have me out on the swamp ice.  Break a hole and 
>shoot carp that came for air.  1955
>
> Bill

I really think I would like to spend some time with you and your dad.
Next time you break bread with him, tell him Charlie says "Hey".  You
grew up, it sounds, similarly to how folks grew up here in the midwest.
How you think a couple almost oldtimers like us would do on a frog hunt
now.  **** man, sounds like a blast!

Heh heh, did your dad ever have you out handfi****n' carp when they were
running in early summer, trying to get up an outflow?  Last time I did
this, five of us dressed and froze carp from 6pm til 3am, but by about
2am, we were kinda outta shape to be using knives and really tired of
skinning and scoring fish. Twenty-three gunney sacks *full* of carp,
filled the horsetank.

But....the question remains....how did you fix your carp and did/do you
like them?

Folks in our area used to can lots of carp.  THe pressuring took care
of the bones and the flavor was reminiscent of tuna.  Pretty damned
good eatin' it was.

Gotta ask ya' this one....you and your dad ever noodle for catfish?
That always gave me the willys, you just *knew* what was comin', but I
never got comfortable doing it.  I knew some guys what near got
drownded using this technique.  Brushpiles were dangerous. Sure as hell
got skinned up fierce once in a while. Never happened to me, but
sometimes bank holes held things other than cats.

Charlie, feelin' kind of ........elderly...and missin' the old fun! ;-)