The Lubis Family Adventures: September 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Me Catch Me Cut Me Cook

It's been this way ever since I caught my first fish here in Indiana: what I catch, I will clean and cut. Sometimes, I get to cook them, too. Yesterday, since Pah was busy with her Math class and Sunday School prep, I got to fry the fish outside on the grill's stove.

The steak

The eggs..

Well-done...

More where it came from....

Yep.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Keystone Carps

It's 8:30 am on a Saturday morning. Luqman and I were ready for the trip to the fish place, Keystone Lake off Rt 210, some 20 miles from Indiana PA...

Holy smokes, what happened to the water!!

So we went through the lake bed. Bad idea, I got bogged down in quicksand! I was quicker than the bog, though, so went through with my shoes intact but muddy...

Cool breeze and a really nice view of the lowered water level..

Luqman adopted this crawdad for an hour or so..

Hani was looking at the lake thinking maybe, no fish today. However, at 11:00, the first one, a heavy 26 and a half incher, sprung my line into a jay...

Hani, back to life, was happy. He wanted pics to send to his mama back home in Jordan..

This is how you unhook a monster..

I was telling Hani how, years ago, I'd have a friend who said that when I catch a fish to put the line back and say that this next one's for him...

It worked, yet again! Ten minutes later, at 11:10, we got the second fish! He said this was his fish! That means it's time to leave, already...

since Hani is now a fisherman...

For good measure...

Luqman lost, but got back his left shoe when he tried to outsmart the bog on the way back...

Now this is a sight to see, just as we were ready to leave the lake!

"Ayah and me, and the fishies", sez Luqman. He was the cameraman all throughout this little adventure...

We got home at abt 12:30 after letting Hani off at his apartment. Thanks to Luqman who took really fab pics, I was able to recount this tale without using too many words..
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GOIN' FISHING TODAY!

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Monday, September 20, 2010

Lunch at Falls Church, VA

My lunch today was in Falls Church, Virginia!

My mango drink, the lamb and chicken kaboob combo.. nyum! Lebanese fare, waited by Eka, a sweet Indonesian cashier. Once she knew I was Malaysian, she'd speak malay right away. I got some 'free' baklava and water after that! It pays to cakap melayu!

No one else around. Late, or too early?? It's 2:00 pm..

When you eat alone, you look outside the glass window..

It was actually to send Talal to Dulles Airport for his flight home.

Got home at 7:40 pm...
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My Photographer's Self-Portrait!

Luqman and his antics!

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Milestone Affairs

What did I do on the day I turned the halfcentury? Well, Pah and I went out to a few places; groceries, Sears (to redeem a $10.00 birthday coupon), the pepper garden at the masjid, the little birthday party later on, ordered a book from Amazon, rotiserried a chicken, and actually made my "special" fried rice for dinner!

Here's me, tending to the pepper plants..

Posing with my smartbiru...

And with another, even smaller, smartbiru!

Bought an upside down cake LoL

and ate it, too!

At 50, life can still be pretty fast... :)

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

50

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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Green Acres is the Place for Me!

Just fine-looking roma tomatoes...

Ten cents a piece, all to go to the new masjid fund...

This Pinky Floyd farmer doesn't rock anymore..

Our peaches, soo sweet. drippy and juicy, melt in your mouth

Tokey peach. Peace, ok?

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Dr. Pepper II

Pah made this batch of hot, hot sambal belacan. The peppers were all from our garden. Belacan is the femes Tanjung Dawai product, and the tamarind is also from back home.