Where Everybody Knows Your Name
September 17th, 2008
There’s only one place to go after a really swanky dinner….your local dive bar. And last Friday was no exception. I stepped out to a wonderful new restaurant called Olivia’s where I enjoyed delicious pan-seared scallops and a fantastic celebration with some of my most favorite people in the world. Plus, all the while I could gaze out the window and across the street at the neon glow of my beloved Horseshoe Lounge.
Needless to say we had to pop over.
So there I was sipping on Lone Stars with my elbows propped on the the padded edge of the bar, when suddenly I heard someone call out, “Fly Fish Chick!” Now I was deeply engaged in a very serious tete-a-tete at that particular moment, so at first I brushed it off as my imagination. But then I heard it again, “Fly Fish Chick!”
I glanced toward the end of the bar and sure enough there were two guys nodding at us. It took me a nanosecond but then I recognized one of them as Pete, a super nice guy I met last winter through the Guadalupe River Lease Access program. I had purchased two of his guest passes for the river. Small world!! We all had a big laugh and proceeded to share beers & fishing stories.
The conversation drifted from fishing to music because as it turns out, Pete is a badass musician. He plays the mandolin in a hard-driving bluegrass band called The Meat Purveyors. Support your fellow dive-bar-beer-drinking fisherman and check them out. In the meantime I promise I will be back with more banter just as soon as I possibly can….
CHEERS.
September 17th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Hey- look at me –I get to be the first to post a “welcome back- where the hell you been?!”
September 18th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Tough when you have to rejoin the real world isn’t it! Kind of like a really, really bad case of jet lag.
OK-enough sympathy. Back to work. We want stories, we want pictures!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Good to see your summer hasn’t changed your good taste in fine establishments and by the looks of it you’re seeing good people - especially I can tell by the support of the Rammies!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Down at the Horseshoe Lounge
Hey Buddy have you got a light
Down at the Horseshoe Lounge
One more and I’ll be alright.
September 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Yeah…you were prbably sipping a ‘57 St. Emilion in between gulps of blue points (this is a month with an “r”) in a Michelin four star, right across the street from the horse shoe lounge. After all, Texans don’t pay much creed to zoning, right?
I think it was Ed Zern that said “fishermen aren’t born liars…but they get over it.”.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
What’s a tete-a-tete?
September 18th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Launcher…
that’s the prelude to the horizontal rumble.
French for “I’m not running very fast to make sure you can catch me”
September 18th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
What up FFC? I hope you are busy making some cupcakes for these fellas. They get awfully distressed when you go away for these extended stays!
September 20th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I see.
September 24th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Love the blog and some really great fishing photos. I just added you to my blog roll and will be back to check up.
Cheers
September 25th, 2008 at 12:10 am
“Oh but I’ll be all right
as long as there’s light
from the neon moon.”
B&D
That is indeed a beckoning sign.
When the leaves are off the trees, I can see the glow from the Blue Sky Room’s sign from my dining room. To paraphrase Norman Maclean, “I am haunted by neon.”
September 29th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Yay! A woman’s fly fishing blog. I just started fishing (my husband’s teaching me) and I hardly ever see other gals on the river. Glad to have found you. You rule.
October 7th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Just popped by to let you know that I enjoy your blog. Juggling a fishing obsession and a young’un is something I know all about
If you’re ever in the UK and want to see what all the chalkstream fuss is about drop me a line
malcolm
October 7th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Ms. Hogwallop done R-U-N-N-O-F-T.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Hey! I’m moving back to Texas…right now. We’re moving to El Paso. We’ll be settled in by the first of November.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Wook-remember, she’s done this to us before.
She’s probably busy earning a living so she can pay her internet bill-after all, she did take the whole summer off!
Then again, maybe she has run off on us.
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Excuse my ignorance but I am not American, I have heard of Dive bars but have no idea waht they are? what makes them different from any other bar?