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A true Texas fact

Many years ago, my young son and I tent camped at a brand-new state park, South Llano State Park near Junction. In the middle of the night a Park Ranger hailed us sleeping in the tent and informed us that we had about 45 minutes to leave the park or be prepared to stay for a few days. You see the entrance to the park crosses the river with a low water bridge. Earlier that day we were riding the water through the culvert that goes under the road at that bridge. Great fun albeit somewhat dangerous. At least the first time through. I elected to pack up the tent and get an early start home. By the time we left, the water was slightly over the bridge but Rangers directing traffic urged us across. We parked on the other side and as daylight approached, witnessed our first Hill Country flash flood. Grant it, it wasn't anywhere the magnitude of this recent disaster but still impressive. Watched it go from being a beautiful fun clear river to a muddy torrential current in a matter of 15 minutes. It rose 5' in that time. They said it was back to normal flow by midday.

They've since changed it to a high-water bridge
 
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Wildthings said:
Many years ago, my young son and I tent camped at a brand-new state park, South Llano State Park near Junction. In the middle of the night a Park Ranger hailed us sleeping in the tent and informed us that we had about 45 minutes to leave the park or be prepared to stay for a few days. You see the entrance to the park crosses the river with a low water bridge. Earlier that day we were riding the water through the culvert that goes under the road at that bridge. Great fun albeit somewhat dangerous. At least the first time through. I elected to pack up the tent and get an early start home. By the time we left, the water was slightly over the bridge but Rangers directing traffic urged us across. We parked on the other side and as daylight approached, witnessed our first Hill Country flash flood. Grant it, it wasn't anywhere the magnitude of this recent disaster but still impressive. Watched it go from being a beautiful fun clear river to a muddy torrential current in a matter of 15 minutes. It rose 5' in that time. They said it was back to normal flow by midday.

They've since changed it to a high-water bridge
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I played golf this morning with a guy who was saying the same thing about the Llanos River.
 
Mike Hill said:
There is a "church camp" on the Frio at Leakey that we used to go to every year for our church retreat when we lived in San Antonio. It was owned by a foundation of HEB. HEB is a large regional grocery store chain started by Henry E. Butt sr, - sort of. Actually his Mom started a small store in Kerrville, but son Henry Sr. grew it into a chain. Quite a philanthropic family.

One of the unique things about the camp was that there were two entries to the camp. One you drive through a gate, the other you drove in the river quite some distance to finally turn into the camp. It was a thrill from years past for Lil Mikey that probably is not allowed now. We were there at the camp and witnessed one minor flood one year. But it happened somewhat frequently - all you had to do was look up into the trees at the debris. Nowhere for rain to go - lots of rock - but into the river and down. I guess it is the same as NC mountains. On our side of the Smokies - there are lots and lots of small streams that are nothing but water flowing over rock. ,
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I went to that same camp for many years when I was in 4H. Great times Mikey!
 
Tony said:
I went to that same camp for many years when I was in 4H. Great times Mikey!
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Did y'all drive in the river? There was a deeper channel you had to avoid, but the water was so clear there was no problem seeing it. Our San Antonio church had their retreats there. There were a couple of bends in the deeper channel that the church would float watermelons in the water to cool down. Worked well! I thought that was pretty cool, but even then, I didn't like watermelon! I know, I know, I know - I'm a depraved, degenerate, reprobate for not liking watermelon! No comment is needed from NC. :sofa:
 
SENC said:
:scare3:

I knew we couldn't trust your tastebuds!
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Its taken me years, but I've finely tuned them to be discriminating and tendentious toward smoked brisket, pesto, shrimp, pizza, and chocolate sheet cake!

Oh, and Blue Bell Ice Cream!
 
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Mike Hill said:
Its taken me years, but I've finely tuned them to be discriminating and tendentious toward smoked brisket, pesto, shrimp, pizza, and chocolate sheet cake!

Oh, and Blue Bell Ice Cream!
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OH, but you have to try HEB's 1905 vanilla!! Lawdy Lawdy!
 
Tony said:
I love me some Blue Bell but y'all need to try Tillamook Ice Cream. Best I've had since Promised Land went away.
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We've had great Tillamook and so-so Tillamook ice cream. The stuff you get at the Tillamook factory on the coast is the best (of course). If you have Fred Meyer's around, try their signature premium or whatever they call it. One of the creamiest we've ever had, especially for larger food store chain.
 
DLJeffs said:
We've had great Tillamook and so-so Tillamook ice cream. The stuff you get at the Tillamook factory on the coast is the best (of course). If you have Fred Meyer's around, try their signature premium or whatever they call it. One of the creamiest we've ever had, especially for larger food store chain.
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We were in Seattle last year and drove to the factory, great stuff. Wal Mart carries it down here.
 
Supposed to give Texicans a bad time here. But watching some of the videos of people helping, talking about what happened and their actions under fire, makes me think I might have to be nicer to yall. A lot of tear jerker stories. Damn strong and good people. Thanks for showing the rest of us the way...
 
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Supposed to give Texicans a bad time here. But watching some of the videos of people helping, talking about what happened and their actions under fire, makes me think I might have to be nicer to yall. A lot of tear jerker stories. Damn strong and good people. Thanks for showing the rest of the way...
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It's a truly unfathomable sad thing.
 
Some of the Tillamook cheeses are great as well. I've had great & not so great ice cream. The wife lived in Portland for a couple of decades prior to moving to Texas and loves anything with that brand on it.
 
Thought Tillamook was good, but I'll drive past the grocery store with Tillamook another few miles to get to the one with Blue Bell, even with traffic. I did notice Tillamook gets stocked on low freezer shelves, so wondering if that has anything to do with Tony's preference. I'll have to try the HEB 1905 vanilla this Fall.
 
Mike Hill said:
Did y'all drive in the river? There was a deeper channel you had to avoid, but the water was so clear there was no problem seeing it. Our San Antonio church had their retreats there. There were a couple of bends in the deeper channel that the church would float watermelons in the water to cool down. Worked well! I thought that was pretty cool, but even then, I didn't like watermelon! I know, I know, I know - I'm a depraved, degenerate, reprobate for not liking watermelon! No comment is needed from NC. :sofa:
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i'm with you, never liked watermelon
 
I'm truly surprised - never even heard of anyone not liking watermelon.

Watermelon is one of my absolute favorite summer foods. A good watermelon and a little salt is a complete meal when it's hot outside.
 
Mike Hill said:
My favorite was a pair of Tony Lama Bull Hide. The ones that fit the best were a couple of pair of customs. My Mom bought them at a garage sale for little of nothing. They had been custom made for my High School head coach - but fit me perfectly. Wide but with a pointed toe - they kinda looked weird. Only thing wrong was the shaft - it was short and kept irritating my calf. About half the time at A&M I wore the bull hide, the other half wore the customs. Got a lot of ribbing about the customs from one roommate of mine. He was from Odessa and wore the tall shaft boots with built-in holes in lieu of the pull strap. He wore them with his jeans tucked in a lot of the time. Let's say that we didn't agree on a lot of things.
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I lusted after a pair of those for so long and never could bring myself to buy them. Finally moved to Justin’s after it got so hard to find Tony Lamas.
 
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