Leo, I saw most of the debate.

The commentators afterwards mentioned how each of them spoke well and how they considered it to be a successful debate. Like you all I saw was a whole lot of bickering.

I'm not liking how this election is shaping up and I still haven't made a decision on what I'll do come votin day. I ride the fence on most issues, I am not a republican or a dem.

Oh well. Lets take another sip of that margarita!

Well I just got back from a short visit a local *****hole we call Dubbs bar to see my stepsister who is in town for a few nights. I don't know how many times I need to remind myself that I don't belong in places like that..but I wanted to be nice and sit and say hi for a bit. Those places just depress the crap out of me. Watch the single mom spend all of her money on booze when you know there is a kid at home who needs food, watch the pregnant woman smoke a cigarette, and watch the guy in the corner with no teeth take a sip of what is probably his 50th drink that day.

Oh well, I'm back in FTE land, where people are normal, hard-working, honest and respectable and mostly sober.

 

I don't follow party lines......I am a self confessed conservative....many make the mistake of calling all republicans conservative and all democrats liberal, however, conservatism and liberalism transcend party lines, they are ideologies. RE: Bdrummonds definition of conservatism from earlier in the thread...I am not gonna look back for it......

 

Got the first 4 out of 5, ehhh this is a survery right?... Occifer?

 

Oh yeah Lisa, I stole that one from you!

 

Day one of the Elk hunt over......we chased a big bull this morning, got some decent footage of it. But he never got close enough. This thread got BIG.....no time or energy to catch up. G'night

 

Hey every one I am saying Hello and Good night!

 

hello!................. Good night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Good Morning guys and Gals! I am out to Myrtle beach til Wed sadly not driving the truck . Hope everyone has a great week and weekend I'll have to spend the rest of my vacation catchin up.

 

You sure picked a sorry weekend for it, or just bad luck I guess. Pouring down rain and has been for about 36 hours and ain't gonna quit for about another 48.

 

They are franchises, Fractured Prune (nothing to do with prunes, its a long story, just donuts mostly) is family owned and they started franchising a few years back. Maggie Moos ice cream, thats going into the store in Fl along with the donuts, they are owned by a mangment compay.



I saw some Elk up in Wyoming once, didnt get to close to them but you could still tell they were some big @$$ animals, good luck on your hunt.

 

You should visit Rocky Mountain National Park here in Colorado sometime during the rut...when all of the elk are active and bugling. They are impressive animals, and I know why Travis is so excited.

One of the coolest moments in my life was a few years ago muzzleloading when my brother and I called in a huge bull, was probably a royal. We had spent hours hiking up sheer vertical hillsides before we found "the spot". Before it all went down, we had been "talking" to this bull for about 20 minutes, as we were walking along the very top of a ridge and he had been running along the base of the ridge trying to wind us. Russ had the bugle, I had the cow call. Russ would bugle, I'd call a few times, the elk would bugle back. We get to the other end of the ridge and at that point he was so close we could feel the ground shake when he ran.

Russ set up for the shot, and I continued to call him in. Through the brush I could see only the tips of antlers waving around and catching the bottoms of a huge grove of aspen. He crested the hilltop in such a magnificent fashion and bugled, and I made one last call and he came charging towards us. The ground was shaking and he stopped about 20 yards from us and waved his rack around, so close we could see the steam coming out of his nostrils. He stood broadside and groaned a bit, I was in shock this was THE biggest bull I had ever seen. He was massive. His rack was wide, and very long, the long tines in the back reaching back past his rear end.

Russ took the shot, and missed, and the bull took off. I chased him down the side of the mountain for about a mile but I could never set up anything except a butt shot.

We went back and assessed the crime scene. When Russ shot, and the elk turned and ran, he nicked one of the trees with one of his tines. That gash in the tree was probably 8 foot high, and his footprints looked like a horse had been there.

Had i not been there with Russ I'm not sure anyone would have believed his story about the one that got away.

If you've never seen an elk up close, like I said go to the national park here and you'll find them, its definitely something to see.

 

Good morning, everyone. Thought I would post up a couple of pics from this morning.

Had to take Dallas to the vet as she has an infection in one of her paws. She's milking it good too:





The freeway sign, southbound 45 in Conroe:

 

I swear that Dallas is winking and laughing in the 2nd picture Scott. Good luck I hope that it is'nt anything serious.

 

I think you're right, Jim. She wouldn't jump into or out of the truck. She waited to be picked up and carried....she is milking it good. It's nothing too serious. She has an infection in one of her nail beds. They aren't sure what caused it but they say she will be fine. She has antibiotics and an anti inflammatory that we have to give her.

 

Don't for get lots of TLC and a chunk of what ever your grilling up today!!!