Y'all doing OK.??ÿ Y'all are making the news here in FL.?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ
Y'all are making the news here in FL.?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ
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Cow and Paden !??? ?ÿ
Just thinking, to make the editorial cut in Florida a story usually has to include, but not limited to;
- Washed up bales of Marijuana
- Stolen SS checks
- a stripper
- sinkholes
- an Alligator or two
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Was it the Miami Herald ?
Y'all are making the news here in FL.?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ
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Cow and Paden !??? ?ÿ
Just thinking, to make the editorial cut in Florida a story usually has to include, but not limited to;
- Washed up bales of Marijuana
- Stolen SS checks
- a stripper
- sinkholes
- an Alligator or two
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Was it the Miami Herald ?
You are correct in your perceptive observations concerning ??Florida World?. You forgot about car jacking??s, abductions, drug busts, murder, rape, and python snakes eating their way north from the Everglades.?ÿ ??ÿ
My concern was after our 6:00 news showed clips of Oklahoma City and Norman. Unc lives close and cow was in the affected area as well.
What did not fall in Okieland is falling over Texas the next 5+ days
Beeyouteafull day in this neighborhood. ?ÿI am so repulsive even bad weather goes out of its way to avoid me.
Thank you all for the concern but I was in the high country all week and missed the melee down here.?ÿ Other than a few duck ponds in the back yard everything is copasetic here in Norman.?ÿ I made it home yesterday evening just in time to watch the OU-Army game here in town.
Holden and I spent the week in Colorado between Gunnison, Lake City, Leadville and Buena Vista.?ÿ We then dropped down into Northern New Mexico for some great food in Santa Fe and then doddled back east on I-40 to Okie-Homie.?ÿ Fun was had by all.
A lot has changed up?ÿ there and a lot has stayed the same.?ÿ The most notable is?ÿan interesting habit Coloradoans have of placing?ÿgreen neon cross signs?ÿ(similar to the copyrighted "Red Cross") everywhere on any hole-in-the-wall building that has a functional roof.?ÿ It must be some sort of new religion.?ÿ We went?ÿover passes like Monarch, Slumgullion, Independence and Wolf Creek; the road to Cottonwood Pass was closed from the east side so we didn't get to eat at "Frenchy's By the Lake" at Tin Cup.?ÿ The passed?ÿhave been drastically improved over the last 50 years...all for the better.?ÿ I remember when Independence Pass was one lane gravel and?ÿthe wooden sign at the summit was?ÿplaced by locals.?ÿ?ÿ
In years past the passes were clogged with flatlanders trying to?ÿdrag there 60,000 lb. RV's over the passes.?ÿ While there were still a few sitting in the turnouts with their hoods up, they seem to?ÿhave been?ÿreplaced by?ÿdroves of "RUB"s....(Rich Urban Bikers).?ÿ The aspens are changing now.?ÿ We got out of there before the heavy next two weekends.?ÿ
Real estate in the high country has changed the population in a lot of our old haunts.?ÿ If I were a millionaire I could afford a place in the mountains.?ÿ And there is plenty of work for millionaires up there......mowing lawns for the billionaires. ??ÿ
It's good to be home.
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Cool pictures. I had a very enjoyable lunch at the Silver Dollar Saloon a few years back while vacationing with friends.
B-you-nuh Vista not B-Wayne-uh Vista. Not far from the headwaters of the Arr-Kansas River.
Must have been settled by typical folks who enjoyed being ?ÿ"different".
Going over the pass to Gunnison is not for the faint of heart.
Sipping a drink in the same bar that Doc Holliday sipped in 136 years ago is something that is?ÿprobably hard to do on this planet.
The food was good.?ÿ I doubt Doc Holliday had the Reuben back then. ?
B-you-nuh Vista not B-Wayne-uh Vista. Not far from the headwaters of the Arr-Kansas River.
Must have been settled by typical folks who enjoyed being ?ÿ"different".
Going over the pass to Gunnison is not for the faint of heart.
The old courthouse in "Byoonie" is now a museum.?ÿ One room is dedicated to the local?ÿschool.?ÿ There are senior class pics from every year from about 1960 thru the nineties.?ÿ It's weird to see pictures of old classmates hanging on a wall in a museum.?ÿ The Pearl Theater is still there.?ÿ Matinees use to be dime and evening shows were a quarter.?ÿ I bet they've gone up since then. The Congress Liquor Store is now a law office...
The two guys running the museum had only been in town since they retired about ten years ago.?ÿ Holden and I took on the responsibility of setting them straight on a few historic details that needed rectifying. ??ÿ
And Holden drives like a little old lady.?ÿ Made me nuts.?ÿ I had to drive over the passes to keep us from getting killed.
