Posted on 10/08/2016 6:40:46 AM PDT by TheMom
The 11th Annual TexasCowboy Memorial Shoot is underway! Once again we are celebrating the memory of an amazing man, and carrying on a tradition he started.
As always, it is great to visit with old friends and meet new ones.
Eventually pictures will be posted to this thread.
I meant like I drove 135 mi not I35, I picked up 20 to 635, 30 to home, what a blessing
I35 sucks, anywhoo gnight
They’re sleeping in NM or Az I would reckon, guess and calculate
2 hours, for me not 4 states.
Rockin Robinsons
Get some Zzz’s FRiends good to see you all again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHbBSx8p-pE
I never got to see the big rig motor home, Chris must have had a hella time backing that thing around at lake Whitney, go 2 feet make a turn...
I could hardly find my way around the corners in the old truck
Time was too tight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50xx1_CbJTI
Home safe & wore out; my palatial estate, priceless possessions and valued livestock are all intact.
The place we stayed was great, the range was awesome and
personally, as usual, I thought everyone there was deplorable.
Pictures? Well.. I know I got the very best ones but wound
up leaving my camera there for the Eaker folks to find and
drag home.. also a red and green bin with some kitchen things
in it.
This is not drunkenness nor carelessness.. it’s a bloody tradition.
My weekly routing has me within a few miles of the Eaker
compound on Wednesday, maybe I can pick up the camera then.
Tom & Donna.. if you feel like it, you can pull the card
out the camera and get the pix off it. Or not.
Hi, Deep! The drive home has been fine, although we stopped off and cut the trip in two, so we have a little way yet to go this morning. We wanted to do it all at once yesterday, but we stayed up too late on Saturday and couldn’t do it.
We had a great time with you all. I miss the darts already, too. :-)
Thanks for sharing that memory.
I never worked in the oil field, but lived around it my entire life.
My father’s cousin is married to a well know petroleum engineer in Midland. He is well up in his 80’s now. Is only recently not actively in the business. Health issues. But he still has interests in it. Great family.
My father’s next door neighbor ran a oilfield service company most of his life. When that company sold he worked for a while for a auto dealership. That neighbor and his closest friend from childhood worked for my father at the family farm for 12-15 years. Neither are able to do that any more.
Age is taking it’s tole but that is how life it.
Texas is still about agriculture and oil. Both are tough ways to make a living.
Your camera is safely secured in the house, the bin was left because we didn’t know who it belonged to. Zippo44 is headed back that way, maybe he can grab if for you.
Well.. I didn’t know I owned that bin until I found it in the shed last week, so I won’t miss it.
The styrofoam plates, foil, dish scrubbing pads, paper towels and plastic forks were all insured.
Radio guy said this morning it was a truck fire and one of the people was Life Flighted to the hospital. I’m just glad I had a bathroom break before we were stuck.
We’re taking a leisurely pace. New Mexico today, Arizona tomorrow, then California. May spend a night on the California desert, then home the next day. Had a great time in Texas!!! Thanks to y’all.
Stay safe! We enjoyed seeing you and your family again! It was a fun weekend for sure!
I35 does suck. Glad we didn’t have to travel that one! :)
It was great to see all of y’all again.
Drive safe and hose everything down ASAP.. I’ve just learned
that Tannerite is considered bomb-making material in California
and even the residue will get you busted as a terrorist. ;-)
I *so* enjoyed the time with everyone. Since hubby is a non-freeper and workaholic, it’s been hard to get him to go to the other TCMS events. Since y’all were in my backyard this time it made things real easy. Since supper was served where y’all were, he was happy to come right along.
We also enjoyed the new range. We have one a little closer that’s good for us. It’s run by friends of my family but has been closed off and on recently due to lawsuits from adjacent landowners. It’s a mess, the people filing suit bought their property well after the gun range was established but have hit the range with ridiculous lawsuits for the past 5-6 years trying to close the place down. We go there when we can but when they’ve had to close we need a good new place to go.
Love that one!
It was so good to see you again! :)
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