USO Canteen Freeper Style...Saturday 04-06-02

Written by Snow Bunny....Graphics and Layout by Billie

[Billie]

Yes, but I also mentioned never having had calf fries on the table! I didn't know if you weren't telling me "they" were ground up hominy! :)

[COB1]

"Whatchathinktheyare?!!! Just ground up hominy corn!"

HUH??
I thought they came off a certain place on a calf.......oh, you're talking about grits!!
Whew!
I was thinking the ones I saw were the biggest darn corn kernels I'd ever seen!!

[Billie]

LOL! But not for sprinkler systems, you're right!

[COB1]

HiJinx, I had to see that full blown!!
That is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!
Our God is an awesome God!!

[LadyX]

Hate to tell you, but Florida is a big cattle state, too - all around where I grew up.

I have been present when the cow fries were 'created' - had my own quarterhorse, too!
Been around all the brandin' and other stuff..:)))

[LadyX]

We had 1,000 acres of land ourselves, and allowed use of nearly all of it to our good friends who were cattle ranchers.
They had literally thousands of acres (yes, Florida) and sold large tracts of it to create Port Malabar and environs.

[Billie]

Hi, Dave - hope you're enjoying your family reunion picnic. Don't bring the ants back with you, ok?

(gosh, I wish I could find that Billie ant that Sam posted not long ago) :)

[LadyX]

How absolutely beautiful, HiJinx!
Thank you for sharing that - - what a wonderful country America is!!

[Snow Bunny]

Hi and Bye Arne, I am glad you got to stop by the Canteen.

I hope yur day gets better. I am so sorry about what you told us about, that is very cruel of them.

(( hug ))

[ArneFufkin]

Bunny, it's only getting better. I'm heading off to watch my college alumni hockey team ... the Minnesota Gophers play the NCAA Hockey Championship Final tonight in St. Paul. For the first title in 22 years. Woo hoo!

[Billie]

I'm off your *ping* list?

sniff sniff

I called and called and you never came. That kind of rejection is hard to take. :)

I'll give you one more chance. :)

But only because I like your cap :)

[COB1]

"Hate to tell you, but Florida is a big cattle state, too "

Yeah, I heard tell of a few cattle that drifted off our ranches here in Texas and made it across Louisiana and Mississippi without the alligators eating them.
Since there were only fifty thousand or so of them, the cowboys didn't think they were worth the time to round up.

[LadyX]

So now yer playin' Roy Rogers - 'quick on the Trigger' - LOL

Well, cowboy, hunker down and set a spell, 'cause my horse, Grasshopper,
was a 'champeen' in his day.

I honestly used to ride him 3 miles to get the mail in the summer, before there were enough persons living out our way to justify the mail car to come by the house!

[SAMWolf]

These?

[COB1]

Well, rather than cut a horse out of that thousand head remuda, I'd always walk those five miles to school.
In the wintertime I'd tie barb wire around my bare feet to keep from slipping on the ice.

[SassyMom]

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

--Daniel Webster

This quote was on the Presidential Prayer Team email today. I thought it was worth posting.

[SAMWolf]

Oh to have men like Webster, Adams, Washington and Jefferson again!

[SassyMom]

Ok, I'm gonna ask a DUMB question and I'm sure I will be embarassed. But, are calf fries the same as what we called rocky mountain oysters?????? If they are, I have one thing to say....... YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LadyX]

"In the wintertime I'd tie barb wire around my bare feet to keep from slipping on the ice."

I do have to admit that was more comfortable than the sandspurs in my feet trekking the 12 miles to school...:)))

(But the riding the horse 3 miles for the mail was a TRUE story...)

[COB1]

Seriously, when I was at the Boy's Ranch at Tankersly, I had a chestnut gelding named Grasshopper!
That sucker was about fourteen hands tall!
'Course I was only ten so my hands weren't all that big!