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Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

  • Count down the days until exhibition games start

    Votes: 14 35.9%

  • Watch my NHL team in the playoffs

    Votes: 18 46.2%

  • Play golf, just like my favorite players have been doing

    Votes: 10 25.6%

  • Stop thinking about hockey altogether

    Votes: 7 17.9%

  • Watch baseball for hours (and hours and hours and hours, if you're a fan of certain teams... :p )

    Votes: 13 33.3%

  • Spend time with the people that I don't see for 8 months a year

    Votes: 9 23.1%

  • Spend time reading every scouting report I can find about every incoming recruit

    Votes: 4 10.3%

  • Go to a concert or two

    Votes: 13 33.3%

  • Swim in the ponds that I played hockey on when they were frozen

    Votes: 2 5.1%

  • Waste away in Margaritaville (or Mojito-ville)

    Votes: 16 41.0%

  • Enjoy some beer/bourbon/whisk(e)y, fishing, and bbq

    Votes: 22 56.4%

  • Grill some bacon (but not light it on fire!)

    Votes: 20 51.3%

  • Take some cooking lessons (preferably from Giada)

    Votes: 16 41.0%

  • Get rid of this hacking cough that I got from Freddy Meyer

    Votes: 16 41.0%
  • Total voters
    39
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

legal_hit said:
What the heck is lefse? and lingonberries?
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Lefse: think crepes or a small flour tortilla, but made with potato flour instead. Rather delicate, slightly sweet, meant to be spread with some sort of sweet filling, and often made around holiday time in Minnesota and Norway (lefse's original home.)

Lingonberry: a Scandinavian berry similar to cranberries, but less tart and pungent, and I think they taste better. Usually made into preserves, they accompany lefse, Swedish meatballs and IKEA furniture quite well ;)
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

Beer Pong Horn said:
Lingonberry: a Scandinavian berry similar to cranberries, but less tart and pungent, and I think they taste better. Usually made into preserves, they accompany lefse, Swedish meatballs and IKEA furniture quite well ;)
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If you can't find Lingonberries, aSaaG says dingleberries make a good substitute:D
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

legal_hit said:
What the heck is lefse? and lingonberries?

I won't answer one, can't answer three, but a far as number 2, um, neither? His dad and I are divorced, and I didn't legally adopt him while we were married. But, as a practical matter he's my son. (when he talks about his mom, he means me, not his biological mother).
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Lefse is basically a potato tortilla. Made with mashed potatoes, cream, butter and flour and fried on a flat griddle. Bland by itself, wonderful with the right topping, i.e. Lingonberries and butter.

Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) are to Scandinavians what blackberries are to Americans – an abundant wild fruit free for the taking by anyone with a basket, a harvesting fork, and the patience to pick through and clean their harvest. Produced by low, evergreen shrubs throughout Scandinavia's forests, the tart red berries are much smaller and juicier than their distant cousin, the cranberry. Bursting with natural preservatives and pectin, lingonberries were invaluable to earlier generations of Scandinavians, for they could be kept for months at room temperature simply by placing them in jars of water (vattlingon) or by stirring the raw berries with a small amount of sugar to make rårörda lingon, an easy lingonberry jam (no cooking required). If looking for lingonberries or lingonberry jam in ethnic European food markets, you may also find them called red whortleberries, cowberries, fox berries, mountain cranberries, mountain bilberries, or partridgeberries.
Pronunciation: LIN-GHUN-BERRIES

Thanks, I guess the point of my nosiness was that the one you're growing now will be first one to pop out of you.;)
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

aparch said:
What a horrible Scandinavian you'd make. :p :D
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Hey, what do you expect, the Italian 1/2 of me totally overpowers the 1/8 of me that is of Norwegian descent. :o

Beer Pong Horn said:
Lefse: think crepes or a small flour tortilla, but made with potato flour instead. Rather delicate, slightly sweet, meant to be spread with some sort of sweet filling, and often made around holiday time in Minnesota and Norway (lefse's original home.)

Lingonberry: a Scandinavian berry similar to cranberries, but less tart and pungent, and I think they taste better. Usually made into preserves, they accompany lefse, Swedish meatballs and IKEA furniture quite well ;)
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Mmm... lefse sound delicious. :)

goldy_331 said:
Lefse is basically a potato tortilla. Made with mashed potatoes, cream, butter and flour and fried on a flat griddle. Bland by itself, wonderful with the right topping, i.e. Lingonberries and butter.

Thanks, I guess the point of my nosiness was that the one you're growing now will be first one to pop out of you.;)
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Your welcome. :) Yes, you are correct this will the first child I will actually give birth too.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

Well. I was hoping to duck out an hour or so early today, but the Controller left early and asked me to run all the month end reports, close the work orders and perform some roll ups. She's been super helpful to me since I started here so I'm happy to help her out. It's just that no matter how hard I try to avoid accounting stuff, it always finds me and makes me its b*tch :o
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

bigblue_dl said:
VIKINGSTAD! would be disappointed.
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Hey, it's not my fault that Norwegian great-grandmother lived on the other side of the country and didn't pass down the traditions from her side of the family. I only met her once before she died.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

Something is going on with the house today....haven't figured out if it is a good or bad thing for me yet. I have my fingers crossed that we'll hear from the bank soon that the purchase agreement was aproved.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

At the Sox game with my dad - it's his b-day today! - and guess what greets me? The BC hockey team on the field to throw out the first pitch. *sigh* Why tonight???
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

I missed a couple days, I hope you kids have been misbehaving. :)
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

Scarlet said:
At the Sox game with my dad - it's his b-day today! - and guess what greets me? The BC hockey team on the field to throw out the first pitch. *sigh* Why tonight???
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did you boo!?!?!?

er,
DID YOU BOO!!!!!!!
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

Gonzo said:
I had one removed a couple of weeks ago. Although it turned out to be a sebaceous cyst. it was close to the size of a jaw breaker. Either way I had to have it removed in order to, uh, sit more comfortably. :o
You know you've got something going on when three different doctors look at something on you and all three of them, say "interesting"
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:D

Greyeagle said:
I missed a couple days, I hope you kids have been misbehaving. :)
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We always misbehave.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #109: It's the Offseason, now what?

bigblue_dl said:
Something is going on with the house today....haven't figured out if it is a good or bad thing for me yet. I have my fingers crossed that we'll hear from the bank soon that the purchase agreement was aproved.
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Good luck!
 
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