4th Annual Texas Cowboy Memorial Shoot: October 17th, 2009 ~ Seagoville, TX

Feb 15, 2009 | mylife, laurenmarlowe, NYTexan

[mylife]

It was a hoot!

[El Gato]

It wasn't as muddy as San Antonio, but there was mud.

Opinions differ.

Your car wasn't rim deep in the stuff.

But he whose car was really appreciates your help in getting it out.

The mud that was in the wheel wells is just now washing off my driveway. :)

[El Gato]

Looks like a Runza. That's a Germans from Russia thing, popular in Nebraska,Kansas Colorado and one of the Inter-mountain west areas. Basically bread wrapped around ground beef and cabbage. AKA Bierocks or Kraut Baruski, although I never heard them called the former, even Kraut Baruski was rare.

My wife's are not authentic, she uses whole wheat flour...or are they?. But they are great. Usually I get to make the filling, she makes the bread dough, fills 'em up and bakes 'em.

Many of the Germans from Russia were Mennonites, aka Volga Germans, cast out from Germany and into Russia, where they were again cast out near the end of the 1800s.

The Runza is also sometimes called a Kraut Baruski.

But Nebraska has oodles of Czechs too. (Prague and Crete are two Czech towns, but Wilber is the "official Czech Capital" of Nebraska.)

[El Gato]

pretty hardware!

It was indeed. It did not belong to any of the FReepers though. It belonged to a guy who was contracted to make a commercial. Still we get to see it in action. Used and misused you might say. (He had a hard time hitting a quart bottle at 100 yards with the .50 "sniper rifle". Musta tried 6 times, and finally switched to something lighter and more nearly sighted in for 100 yards instead of 1000. :)

But even that proved entertaining in a snarky kind of way.

[waterhill]

353....mmm, mmm, mmm.......

[El Gato]

Y'all realize that TC came through on the weather.. again. It dried out just in time last week to allow enough drying time for the shoot to be "doable", but last night and today, the deluge resumed.

If that ain't evidence that TC is standing post and looking after his friends, I don't know what is.

First shoot, rain in the morning but stopped "just in time". Second Shoot, muddy but dried up "just in time". Third shoot.. well I expect TC really likes the coastal area and knew many would be driving a goodly distance, and so gave us a better window. Except for the fog early on, and again at night, the weather was great. This one, again dried out "just in time" and then the rains began again.

[El Gato]

I dread going beyond what I'm on now. I don't visit the Doc any more unless it's absolutely vital. Maybe not the best thing to do, but I really hate having to take any meds.

You go to the doc to find out what is *probably* wrong, and for his advice. You don't have to take it. Knowledge is never wasted though.

We'd hate to lose you to something easily fixed just cause you were too pig headed to go get it checked out.

Really should have lost my Dad because of that sort of thing. When he finally went in, and they finally figured out what was wrong, they took out 7 inches of his colon, and put him on chemo for a few months. Course being a tough old bird (known regionally as THE Chicken Man) he lived another dozen or so years, and it was the Alzheimers (and pnemonia) that finally got him.

[Envisioning]

Interesting....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368352/posts

Everyone seen this?

http://oathkeepers.org/oath/

[mylife]

Yes we were very lucky with the weather.

The ground is saturated again.

[mylife]

When I took the oath I meant it.

[Envisioning]

When I took the oath I meant it.

I am quite sure you did sir.

This is the first time I have heard of the group. Seems to me it is more of a "statement" to the political elite than a declaration of war. If the governing elite don't have the backing of the military and LE, it's going to be a short revolution.

I never served in the armed forces, but I would die to protect the constitution and this great country oath or no oath.

A majority of the current politicians need to be run out of town on a rail or worse....

[mylife]

Seems to me it is more of a "statement" to the political elite than a declaration of war. If the governing elite don't have the backing of the military and LE, it's going to be a short revolution.

I agree.

[philman_36]

Elroy was one of my first buddies when I joined FR
He was the very first FReeper I met in person.

[philman_36]

Opinions differ.
Very true.
Your car wasn't rim deep in the stuff.
Guinea pig! {;^)

The mud that was in the wheel wells is just now washing off my driveway. :)
My method would've been a few days of driving in the rain. It works very well, but it's not for everybody.

[philman_36]

We'd hate to lose you to something easily fixed just cause you were too pig headed to go get it checked out.
Mumble, mumble, rumble.../curmudgeon
You've got me pegged.

[El Gato]

When I took the oath I meant it.

What he said.

Me too.

[El Gato]

My method would've been a few days of driving in the rain. It works very well, but it's not for everybody.

Well, I did run it through a car wash, after knocking off some of the dried stuff from the wheel wells. But driving in the rain is what finally got the sidewalls looking OK, as well as the inside of the rims. And probably the back of the undercarriage as well. Just before the Rains Returned, I was still shedding stuff from back there. Going over the cattle guard at 30 mph, or a bit above, helped. I go over it every day on my way into the office, it's where the speed limit changes from 40 to 30.

The rain did wash the stuff off the driveway, but not before I ran over some of it and dragged just a little of the soppy muck into the garage. All that's left on driveway are the small rocks that were embedded in the mud.

[mylife]

My truck is pretty clean again now.

[mylife]

Where’s them pictures?

[luvie]

That’s my question! I did post mine! :D