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The Weekly Newsletter for May 26, 2014
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We are closed MONDAY - Happy Memorial Day!!
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On Monday, May 26, we are hanging out at the neighbor's, roasting corn or toasting burger buns, splashing in the kiddie pools - in short, the staff and crew and cooks and office folks are staying out of doors and out of your hair on MONDAY May 26.
See you **Tuesday!**
- from Heather Masterton
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Thank you to everyone who organized, everyone who attended, everyone who RODE the roads for the Second Annual JOY!Ride, in honor of Laurey and raising funds for the LiveSTRONG program at the YMCA.
So many many hardworking people! I can thank the official committee led by my personal ROCK STAR Rachel Dudasik: These folks who gathered at Laurey's for meetings and worked long hours behind-the-scenes: Rachel Dudasik, Palma Cohen, Chanelle Dawkins, Lydia Bysantz, Tina Weaver, Vally Sharpe, Rebekah Lowe, Dustin Paulson, Marilynne Herbert, Matt Coomes, Diane Saccone, Claudia Nix, Rob Decker, Charlie Owen (and Eleanor! Out on the roads chalking her fingers to the bone marking the arrows over and over!) Joel Fine, Misty Guinn, Rick Lutovsky, Jane Anne Tager ...and more!
Special thanks to our STAR Lauren Tamayo, star of road and screen, who joined us in the early morning for the live WLOS broadcast in the wet grass at Carrier Park!
My dear husband Fred Lemmons, who helps and soothes me all the way, and our own team of STARS at the Registration booth: Cappy Tosetti, Marlisa Mills, Michelle Marshall, Annie Gustely, Linda Patterson and Libby Cornett!
We were the BOMB!
Here we are doing the Laurey "AARRGH" pose in front of Printville's iconic sign on the day.
Thank you all for participating!
**Drawing for the wonderful TREK bike pending - final results in next newsletter! **
- from Heather Masterton
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Dinners to go for the week
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Here are dinners to go for this week. This, if you do not know, is a fabulous way to have dinner. It's easy - just call us by noon and your dinner will be ready for you to pick up by 3 that very day.
You can stop by to pick yours up until we close at 8.
Add salad (3.25) or bread (1.25) if you like.
Monday, May 26
*Closed for Memorial Day*
 Tuesday, May 27Spanakopita with Zucchini Cakes 8.50
Wednesday, May 28
Cumin Spiced Chicken with Cilantro Lime Rice 8.95 *GF*
Thursday, May 29
Fig, Apricot and Blue Cheese Stuffed Pork Tenderloin $9.25
Friday, May 30
Salmon with Brown Sugar Mustard Glaze and Couscous 10.95
....and here is the entire May menu!
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Casserole and Lasagnas to go !
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Casserole of the Week
May 28: Charleston Chicken Country Captain Whole $46/Half $23 *GF*
Lasagna of the Week
May 23: Chicken and Basil Nicoise Whole $48/Half $24
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Laurey's notes (from a lifetime of writing)
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[So much has been written about Laurey and her life projects, but of course the best spokesman is Laurey herself. In this column we present archival reprints of her messages. This is an early newsletter from her online records.]
July 3, 2004
Happy almost 4th of July, my friends. Things are bustling here, getting ready for the picnic dinners that many of you are coming to get in a few hours. I'll probably wander over to City/County Plaza a bit later on to hear some music and visit with friends. Tomorrow is fireworks day. Fireworks are legal here in North Carolina, which still amazes me. We managed to get our hands on some little firecrackers and "Lady Fingers" and cherry bombs when I was little, but they were against the law in Vermont so I always felt bad playing with them - even though it WAS fun to blow up my model cars that had been collecting dust on the shelves of my bedroom.
It gets a little bit quiet around here at this time of year as all the mountain people go to the beach. Of course, there are a fair number of beach people coming to the mountains too. The transfer occurs every year. Makes me laugh. No one stays put even though they both live where so many others want to visit.
One year I spent the summer on the elbow of Cape Cod in the town of Chatham. I tried to be a fisherman but quickly found out that my body and a rocking boat do not get along well. Stuck on land, I pored over the food pages of the Sunday New York Times, trying recipes and learning about the foods of that region of the world. My friend Tut took it upon himself to educate me.
"C'mon!" he'd yell from the seat of his almost completely fallen-apart truck, "the King Mackerel are running!"
We'd hop in his truck and bounce along to the shore where he'd have a skiff waiting to row out to the fish weirs. Small fish, too small to sell, went into the bucket for us. Four inch long mackerel, slathered with garlic, lemon and butter, became lunch.
"Let's go crabbing!" he yelled one day. "Come on!"
He drove, that day, to a marshy area where, yes, a skiff waited. I, sprawled out in the bow, learned how to dive the net in front of a fat blue fellow, anticipating which way the escape route would go. Snag! Into the bucket! Blue crabs for dinner - hooray!
One day, July 4th that year, the Times' feature was Craig Claiborne's recipe for Baked Stuffed Clams.
"Whyn't you make 'em for the party tonight?" my friend Carolyn invited, when she heard me reading the recipe. "Wolfie'll bring you the clams and I still have my Dad's opener."
We set up in the yard, she opening the bag full of fat beauties. I ground, spiced, tucked, and arranged the clam shells. Friends arrived, bringing beer, lobsters, mussels, corn, chicken, potato salad, watermelon, blueberry pie. I lined up the trays of clams, broiling them, bringing them out into the yard. We had enough food for a small town. There were, perhaps, twenty of us. What a day! We ate, hid from the tourists (everyone but me lived there all year long), and had the grandest 4th I could imagine. At night, when it got dark, we set off some Lady Fingers, some little Roman Candles, and a few Cherry Bombs. We ate all the food. Drank all the beer. And, in short, had a terrific day.
[source: Laurey's Cafe and Catering newsletter, July 3, 2004]
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Hey kids,
Just a quick update!
We want you to know that Laurey's darling pup Tye is doing GREAT! (She is so busy we haven't been able to catch up to her for a family photo!)
Here's her news: Tye is settled happily happily happily ever after with the wide-flung family of Whitney Montgomery, leader of the North Carolina Outward Bound School. Tye has known Whitney and his kids and his dog Barnum for years, and greeted them with cries of joyful recognition when they came to Martha's home many months ago.
Fred and I happened to catch her at Jubilee a couple of Sundays ago...she looked marvelous, at once self-possessed and appropriately wriggly amid the tumult of the gathering Jubilants.
Whitney and two of his daughters escorted Tye to church, where she received yelps and whoops of greeting from her old friends in the congregation. She seemed perfectly content, and allowed herself to be crowed over, petted and thumped with aplomb.
Laurey began with the Outward Bound School (instructor on the ropes course!) back in the early days of her introduction to Asheville, and has maintained a strong outdoor connection ever since. She would be thrilled to know that Tye gets to go to the Outward Bound office with Whitney every day! It seems that pups are welcomed, and roam about with their owners and each other all day. What a life!
At Jubilee, Tye stretched out at Whitney's feet, and frankly, ignored most of the rest of the goings-on. When Whitney stirred, she sprang up, tail lightly a-wag, her eyes never leaving his face.
Tye has slipped into the open arms of her new family with a sigh of relief. There just couldn't be a better match! Truly a happy, found-her-forever-family puppy dog.
When we had our session with the Animal Communicator, Tye let us know that she was continuing to give Laurey support and uninterrupted love. But, she admitted, these last years of treatment had been a stressful time, as we all know it can be for any caregiver.
Through the AC, Tye said that she could be a good therapy dog again in the future, but that after her pet-therapy visits, she would like a bit of relief, get to run and play outside and smell the flowers.
"Laurey likes to be outside with the grass and the flowers", she declared.
Okay, so here's the kicker: Tye now has lots of dogs and loads of kids to play with, as much as she likes.
AS A RESULT - she no longer needed her collection of special toys; her favorite old friends sat untouched in their basket.
 SOOO - Deb's doggie, Buddy, inherited them all!
Here is our friend Buddy clamping down on Fishy and Bunny - so many of Laurey's precious treasures have gone on to new and happy homes, it seems perfectly fitting for Buddy to inherit Tye's treasures, too!
Everybody has a better place, a well-deserved rest.
Hugs,
Heather
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