Things I Loved - 1960 - 1972 (Alas - No More)

When you say yeast. I'm thinking of the stuff they make bread with. Is that the same thing? Because somehow I find it odd that a magic booze making substance could escape my "radar" so to speak.

 

being able to travel from gathering to gathering knowing Hari Krishna peeps would feed me

 

It's pretty much the same. There are many different types of yeast, however. Yeast is actually alive. what you do is add a yeast ''culture'' to your mash, and they get to work on converting your sugars into delicious delicious alcohol.

 

Well let's see,
I've got an old black and white TV in the garage. (Still works)
I've got all my Canned Heat albums and an old record player
I've got some bell bottom pants. (I really love bell bottoms)

There's an old hippie chick from New Orleans that moved in up the street from me. I think it's time to find myself a book or two on wine making and get to work. It's not polite to introduce yourself empty handed.

 

Good luck with the hippie chick. Got vinyl of Stepenwolf, Santana and on - plus a working record player!! Where is my Way-Back Machine??!!

 

Ok so it seems like it takes a while to make watermelon wine, but it's actually pretty simple. Let me know if you need help with any of the terminology.

Also, just in case you decide to throw yourself into this - EVERYTHING MUST BE STERILIZED! So you'll need to learn a bit about the basics. Feel free to throw some questions my way.

EDIT: Now I'm excited! I'm starting 5 Gallons of beer tonight, and I will be making watermelon wine real soon too.

 

Well, I was going to say I miss the paranoid delusions of conspiracy-heads who see a sinister plot behind everything, but I guess some things never go away .. haha.

 

I saw her move in just over a week ago. I saw her in a long skirt and no bra on under that simple t-shit. She was acting all nice and proper as she unloaded her truck, but you know once hippie chick, always a hippie chick. I can't say about the others, but she didn't fool me one bit.

The "word on the street" is she was trying to move away from her controling daughter. So I'm figuring she's going to be an easy sell. It don't hurt much that I don't have a lot of local competition for her loving.

I'm thinking I'm going to go over there tonight and say hello. (Even without the watermelon wine.)

Don't you worry. I'll take you up on that offer real soon.

Conspiracy and getting laid is what we old fucking hippies know best.

 

Well ? Details!

 

Her name is Summer. I went over to her house and introduced myself. We talked for a few minutes on her back porch. She's cajun as cajun comes and frimly believes in astrology. She makes and sells "earth fashions". She moved from Louisiana because her grand daughter has/had a dead beat runaway husband that left her and their baby on the streets.

Well Summer said she could have her home and she took her savings and purchased the cheapest house with some land she could find in the good old USA. She wanted a real fixer-upper and the house she purchased has been abandoned for 13 years. She orgionally thought about going to europe and doing the hippie-trail. But decided she was too old to backpack across Afghanistan again. And with the war going on, she thought it was a stupid idea anyway.

I told her that government won't let me drive anymore and I that I'm taking care of a baby bird that fell out of a tree. I have to get up every 2 hours to feed the poor thing and that I could really use a drive into town to buy some more food for it. Unfortunately none of my grandchildren will be around for another 2 weeks. Since she needs to buy supplies for her home, she agreed to drive me into town tomorrow morning. And afterwards she said we could have coffee and get to know each other better.

She also hasn't had watermelon wine in years and she's looking for a new friends. So it might be a little too early for me to tell. But I get the feeling that this will be a good summer for me. (Or Summer will be good to me)

Who needs a pick up line or facebook to meet women?
All you need is a friendly smile, a little bit of courage and politness and enough brains to know when opportunity is knocking. And the beautiful women have no problem holding your hand.

 

Fabulous! I hope you spend a lot of quality time together.

 

So awesome! Good for you.

 

I remember when there were kilos, 2.2 pounds and a kilo was $100 or less. Lids weren't 1 ounce but a division of a kilo and were over 2 ounces. Lids sole for $8 or $10.

Of course I know nothing about actually being in the illicid drug trade.
I just simply remember about things that where hear-say back and then. How about that?

 

Miss, hitch hiking up and down the California coast to and from San Francisco and actually getting rides. Adventures. Meeting folks or the road and elsewhere.

 

Women picking up men and taking then to bed.

 

Update:

Well she drove me to town and then later we had coffee. So things started off pretty good.

Then last night she came over late with a bottle of dandelion wine and we played cards until 1am or so. She's coming back over today but this time she's bringing her over-night bag so that she can stay for breakfest. (I make a really great vegan breakfest)

Freelove still exists. Even in 2011.

 

simple, free life - directed at our pace, not the media through computers

 

This is great. Good for you.

 

Tell that to a rabbit.

 

Wow, it seems as if I could go on forever. Here are a few I remember.

My memory: I can tell you everything about the sixty's but I have to keep checking back to the first page to remember what this thread is about.

Drive Inns: Remember the back seat?

Fast Cars: No not these turbo/injected shit mounted popcorn farts of today.

The British Rock Invasion: Never liked the Beatles much, but the music will never be the same.

Graduating High School: 1968 was a great year

College: enough said!!

Marijuana: Still here but everything that came along after is long gone. I don't even take aspirin.

The sexual revolution: free love, and no aids!!

Some where along the way Disco took over and I don't remember much of that shit.