Robert, it’s been awhile since I have heard anyone mention mumbly peg, let alone even know what it is. Guess we grew up about the same time. Also, FYI (and you may already know this), the part in the movie Lonesome Dove where Gus gets wounded while pinned down by Indians and eventually dies & is carried back to Texas by Woodrow, is based on a true story. Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight (the Loving/Goodnight trail - one of many cattle trails from Texas to northern markets & Montana and one of a few that Charles Goodnight blazed himself) were on a cattle drive together when Loving decided to ride ahead and meet with their prospective buyers. Even though Goodnight advises against it, Loving goes anyway, is attacked by Indians, pinned down, wounded, eventually dies and is taken back to Texas by Goodnight. In their younger days, both were Texas Rangers. Goodnight went on to become a large well known rancher, had a huge ranch in Palo Duro Canyon, near Canyon, TX (near Amarillo, TX) was instrumental in saving the bison from complete extinction, and started his own bison herd. The Official Texas State Bison Herd is made up of direct descendents from his herd. The town of Goodnight, TX is named after him, although he lived in Clarendon, TX nearby. Just a piece of Texas history for those who don’t know.

john1470, I grew up in Missouri eating scrapple that my Mom and grandmother made from the hog’s head when we butchered. I left there in 1960 and have never heard or found anyone who even knew what scrapple was let alone have eatin it. I have never seen it served anywhere. My wife tried to make it once with just pork meat, but it wasn’t the same. Boy we would fry that up with some eggs
or even put syrup on it with pancakes.

Grits is also a common side dish with breakfast with a big ole chunk of butter and salt and pepper. Some folks eat them with sugar & milk. Like a lot of southern foods, grits is (was) po folks food. It’s made from hominy. I believe the phrase “kiss my grits” came from the TV show “ALICE” and was a nice way of sayin kiss my a—. If ya know what I mean.

Well sir, sounds to me like you may need to make a trip to Texas
(SE Texas) and let us show you some real Cajun food. Make you wanna slap yo mama

Now man you talkin my language. Don’t get no better than shrimp n’
grits. In fact I had some last nite. How many of y’all ever had shrimp gravy. Oh my lord, think you died and went to heaven.
Shrimp gumbo, shrimp tacos, steak n’ shrimp, grilled shrimp, shrimp stir fry. Y’all hungry yet

That is definitely a 57 Chevy. One of the most distinctive (and desirable) cars ever made. Worth many times more today than when they came out. In 1957 I was a sophomore in HS and a senior boy got one just like that for graduation. WOW!!! He was top dog on campus. Everyone was extremely envious. At that time and where we lived, people didn’t even DREAM of driving a car like that. A short time later, I bought my first car - a 1950 Chevrolet 4-door coupe for $150. That was all my dad would let ME spend. To dress it up and make it look”cool” I put “moon” hubcaps on it. Parents buying a kids car back then in rural Missouri was almost unheard of. Y’all have a great Memorial (Decoration) Day and
let’s not forget what we are remembering on that day. To all our vets, past and present - we salute you and are proud of and thank you for your service; and in many, many cases for your sacrifice.

Copy that. You fish much around your area? Have always wanted to, but never have

If I could figure out how to do it I would post a pix on here. We were fishing East bay for specks when I hooked into this gar. I had a god knows how old med. wt. hand-me-down rod and an ole spinning reel with 30 lb. braid & 18 lb. leader. But I got him up to the boat and then we had to lasso it to get it into the boat

Took that big feller to a Cajun friend. They make “gar balls” out of them. We were promised some, but I reckon they were so good that they ate em all, cause we never got any.

Caught a five foot gar in Galveston east bay a few years back. Half the fun was gettin that sucker in the boat. Talk about a rodeo. Yee haw!!!

Thx for that brief bit of history. I new Joe fairly well and he indeed have a successful business. My youngest son who was the rigger got valuable training there and today is a major player at Texas Marine in Clear Lake. Thx for sharing

Thx for that brief bit of history. I new Joe fairly well and he indeed have a successful business. My youngest son who was the rigger got valuable training there and today is a major player at Texas Marine in Clear Lake. Thx for sharing

Robert, I mentioned once before that until I retired 3 years ago, we had a ranch near Gainesville, TX for 20 years. My 2 youngest sons worked for Joe Wallace at North Texas Marine for a number of years. One was service manager and the other a rigger & engine tech. Your partner must have been Dick Wallace. My son has an original bomber bait in the original package. Small world.

Regarding puttin’ “file” in gumbo. Maybe it ain’t available in California, but we sure nuf got file in SE Texas. To quote Mr. Samples, “just sayin’”.

The Mississippi is born where it flows out of Lake Itasca in Lake Itasca State Park in Minnesota. At that point it is a small stream that one can easily wade across being only a couple yards wide.