POT LUCK PARTY IN THE BREAKERS BAR AND GRILL

[tanglefoot]

Yummmmm

[JeanieB]

Looks like a lot of leap frogging, like always early in the race. No use to really be checking the GPS now, but we won't let that stop us. So if you get up early in the morning to see who is doing what, I'll leave some pancakes and maple syrup just boiled down from our trees. Oh, and some honey butter, too. Enjoy! I'm leaving an extra batch for Frozen to reward that awesome live visit to the start!

[Heidi]

I brought some Texas barbecue and peach cobbler....help yourselves! Vanilla ice cream's in the fridge!

I've noticed the spiders are out in full force...what's with that? I didn't notice them previously. So which of you brought them? I'm scurrying around trying to kill as many as I can before Moose sees 'em! Yikes, one just dropped down from the ceiling right in the middle of my plate of pancakes!!!

[fladogfan]

Heidi shh!
Moose will never be able to come in here if she knows they can get inside!
Tangles is going to be upset you are stomping his spiders.

[Moose]

Eeeeeek! They dropping from the ceiling. . .and landing in the food? This place is off limits to spiders or it's off limits to Moose! Moose don't mix with no spiders.

[Heidi]

Ok fdf, I'll stop killing 'em, but Moose is on her own now.

Btw, have you ever seen what a brown recluse spider bite looks like? Google it - unless you're eating something right now.

[flowerpower]

I'm mostly happy to share my space with the arachnids, but not the brown recluse. I've found a couple-dead, thank goodness-out at the lake house. That was when I decided I needed pest control out there. Even though most of what seems to turn up dead are millipedes. I must have vacuumed up a thousand of them by now. Anyway, I haven't had time to do much cooking, but I am going to leave some nice soothing chamomile tea steeping here by the stove. Moose, have a cuppa, and calm those nerves. These little spiders are the great great great great grandkids of Charlotte, who resettled to Texas and warmer climates a few years back. I've had a chat with them and they agree that Texas sounds like a great place for a spider, so I'm bundling them up and bringing them home. It's all safe now!

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[tanglefoot]

awww all the babies have up and left for texas, good place for the young uns.

only the trail hardened Alaskan winter spiders are left here now as usual moosie. these guys are all old fat and lazy and spend their days arguing over who was better mackey or butcher, who was faster swingley or smyth and the run rest scheduals. They have their ears ( do spider have ears????) to the ground when it comes to the race and that spider thread is like a telephone wire. they have direct contact to all the check points other spiders, all apart from Iditarod where there are no longer any spiders anymore. The last ones up and left after the race no longer went through for a few years and moved to Huslia.

[Moose]

Okay, friends. Thanks for the tea, Flower. I will have a cup. But no more spider talk. You're creepin' me out. I'll just say, Mattie, that your imagination is positively stellar, your stories superb. Always make me smile.

So, I've left some bakery cinnamon raisin bread, thickly sliced, and honey butter. Drop a slice or two into the toaster and eat it warm. You'll find a nice crunch to the crust, soft in the middle. (I'm assuming we have a toaster in here somewhere. Do we?)

[sc-race-fan]

Yes Moosie, of course we have a toaster, over on the shelf! It's a camp model that sits on top of the stove burner, and you have be very watchful, as there is not a "pop up when done" feature! If you sit down during toasting, you will miss the sweet toasting spot and the fire alarm will go off, so no sitting during the process! Takes all thickness's of bread or other toastable items, so enjoy those English Muffins (delivered by Tangles), or some New York Bagels, but my personal favorite is a thick slice of Beer Bread.