Sonny Disposition
Well-Known Member
For those of you who couldn't make it, sorry you couldn't be there. Since I know you were all there is spirit I'm just reporting back to let you know what a great CCA event it was, and to thank Pat and Tracy for their hard work and planning in making it happen.
First off, there was the drive. Since I only live about ten minutes away from the CCA meeting place, the drive up there made me appreciate the trip that the hard-working Kellies make every month (before stopping off to pick up the chicken wings!)
Anyway, Frank Cowherd and I drove up there, with the aid of his GPS. The place was easy enough to find though--a house on a hill, with a big CCA banner from the upper windows.
It was a very nice house, and all of Pat's hard work in rebuilding was to good effort, because the place looked great to me. Lots of member foods--ham and turkey from the Kellies, as well as stuff that people brought. I was really partial to the mashed potato salad. Whoever made that, please post the recipe to the Just Kickin it Lounge. It was great--mashed potatoes and chopped green onions, I think. I liked the macaroni and cheese, too.
Pat's fishroom and aquarium set ups were great. A nice 150 gallon planted discus tank with lots of bogwood and plants and a peacock show tank in the other corner of the room. Then there was Pat's fishroom:
I'd guesstimate there were about 50 of so tanks, all meticulously clean and kept up. Everything was neatly and efficiently arranged, with breeding groups of peacocks, a few mbunas, compressiseps, as well as a breeding tank of Lebistes reticulatus (I think the common name is guppy cichlids.) I'm neither neat nor efficent, but I can recognize neatness and efficiency when I see it.
After spending a lot of time in the fishroom looking at everything and taking lots of bad pictures, I came upstairs to find Tracy hard at work in the kitchen.
Thanks again Kellies for the effort you put in on our behalf and for continuing in the line of great Holiday parties in the tradition of Ron Nielson and Francine Bethea.
First off, there was the drive. Since I only live about ten minutes away from the CCA meeting place, the drive up there made me appreciate the trip that the hard-working Kellies make every month (before stopping off to pick up the chicken wings!)
Anyway, Frank Cowherd and I drove up there, with the aid of his GPS. The place was easy enough to find though--a house on a hill, with a big CCA banner from the upper windows.
It was a very nice house, and all of Pat's hard work in rebuilding was to good effort, because the place looked great to me. Lots of member foods--ham and turkey from the Kellies, as well as stuff that people brought. I was really partial to the mashed potato salad. Whoever made that, please post the recipe to the Just Kickin it Lounge. It was great--mashed potatoes and chopped green onions, I think. I liked the macaroni and cheese, too.
Pat's fishroom and aquarium set ups were great. A nice 150 gallon planted discus tank with lots of bogwood and plants and a peacock show tank in the other corner of the room. Then there was Pat's fishroom:
I'd guesstimate there were about 50 of so tanks, all meticulously clean and kept up. Everything was neatly and efficiently arranged, with breeding groups of peacocks, a few mbunas, compressiseps, as well as a breeding tank of Lebistes reticulatus (I think the common name is guppy cichlids.) I'm neither neat nor efficent, but I can recognize neatness and efficiency when I see it.
After spending a lot of time in the fishroom looking at everything and taking lots of bad pictures, I came upstairs to find Tracy hard at work in the kitchen.
Thanks again Kellies for the effort you put in on our behalf and for continuing in the line of great Holiday parties in the tradition of Ron Nielson and Francine Bethea.
