Old Fart's and Pouffes Bar, Grill, and Hogewey Infirmary

I belive the studs are embedded in the leather straps hanging from the business end of her scepter

I hate it when you guys view and "like" her Facebook pages.

i didn't view them but I'd probably like them if I knew how to get on facebook

We call them 'toasted' sandwiches, here.


So I'll raise my glass to the poor, hard-done-by heros here who actually make them!

Long may you continue!

Chase said:

… here's a photo of the grilled PB&J sammiches Kay makes me fix for her lunches.

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Hmmm, never thought of grilling PB&J's - Might give it a try.

grilled Limburger and peas makes a great toasted sammich

Peas don't.

sweet

Leave it to Porter the sailor man to mention . . .


Swee'pea

adrift again ....

Chase said:

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Oh Lord, dieter porn! I get enough of that on Facebook.

Sagml John said:

Oh Lord, dieter porn! I get enough of that on Facebook.

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, John. I tried FB eons ago to try promoting my book. It didn't, and I ended up having to change my personal e-mail address, but I admire those who can keep it from taking over. My lady does 'cause she eavesdrops on scattered family instead of involving herself in drama, "liking," or even "giving a rat's behind."

When I lived in Montana, visited Colorado more--Ft. Collins, Windsor, even as far south as Denver. Nice country.

Love Montana (in a pure sense ... other than that it's loving cows)

lost a couple of very distant relatives at Greasy Grass and another wound up cleaning up Fetterman's folly at Ft Phil Kearny down in Wyoming

Welcome aboard ...

Don't think I'll wind up on Facebook again even if I finish procrastinating and try to get my book published or the other one edited or the others completed so my editor (who won't listen to me anyway) can do his magic.

We've got a lady here in OkieCity called 'Sassy Mama'... she made a gourmet grilled cheese the other day. Ol' Boy HAD to have one... and I did, too... so we went out and got the goods and made 'em. OMG, people. Fat Daddy Grilled Cheese linky... you're welcome.

DANG! - Never thought to use "Garlic-seasoned, Pre-buttered Texas Toast" - But you better bet the next time I make homemade soup, I'm gonna grill up a coupla those bad boys to go with.

Thanks, OFG

Ol' Fashioned Girl said:

grilled cheese ... you're welcome.

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Mmmm, ! Doc won't let me snack on my own PB&Js, but I can munch on a grilled ("toasted" so Gail will understand ) cheese sammish or two.

PorterStarrByrd said:

Love Montana (in a pure sense ... other than that it's loving cows).

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Don't forget sheep. Go, Herders!

The old sheepherder took to drink after a Victrola played, "There'll Never Be other Ewe."

How times have changed - here in west Texas I've seen cattle and sheep in the same pasture. Cattleman and sheepmen used to be mortal enemies way back. Or at least it was that way in the movies. I've also seen cattle in high fence ranching mixed in with the foreign antelopes (which seems strange to me).

My grandparents go back to cowboy days in Wyoming and ran cattle and sheep together. They continued after moving to Montana along the Yellowstone in the '30s. By the time I came along, our little farm, pastures, and hay for winter supported 40 beeves (Granddad's word) mixed with 1000 woolies (half a band).

Since most places around Big Timber pretty much raised both, I often wondered about the animosity in movies, too. When I got old enough to see Hollywood knew diddly about other stuff like guns and Montana tribes, I figured facts didn't matter much in some films.

Yeah, real life never has been as simple as the movies have often made it. Can't tell the good guys from the bad guys by the color of their hats anymore.

True.

Being another son of Texas like McMurtry, I'm sure you know his fiction chronicles a real late-1800s link between Texas and Montana.

Besides still noting longhorns around when I was a kid, some Texas drawl, y'all, and mannerisms survived way up north from Texas cowboys staying in Montana after driving herds here (I mean there. You can take the boy out of Montana, but . . . ).

Yeah, the Goodnight-Loving trail and all. Two of my favorite books are "The Mustangs" and "The Longhorns" by J. Frank Dobie. McMurtry is famous (or infamous as the case may be) of trashing Dobie, but I still like reading him, as he at least lived the real west and interviewed a lot of old cowpokes and ranchers. I've written several "cowboy" poems, but haven't found a place to send them yet. I'm not a cowboy, but I've known a few (including an uncle and a bull rider that had a hole in his throat courtesy of a Brahma bull). Grew up watching westerns and Saturday afternoon serials watching Gene Autry fight bad guys.

Gene Autry is another Texas-Montana connection. He ran rodeo stock outside my hometown at the Cremer Ranch and often appeared on Champion ("the wonder horse") at the annual Big Timber Rodeos while I was growing up.

Nothing against Roy whom I liked a lot, but Gene was always my favorite western singer and drugstore cowboy. I recall my dad (another WWII hero) telling how at the peak of Gene's career, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps after Pearl Harbor and ultimately piloted transports over the infamous Burma Hump in the latter years of the war.

One thing on my bucket list is to follow the trail of Lewis & Clark - at least as close as I can. Hadn't made it yet but I'm still breathing. Yeah, also Johnny Mack Brown, Wild Bill Elliot, Randolph Scott, and a bunch of others.

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One thing on my bucket list is to follow the trail of Lewis & Clark - at least as close as I can.

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Good aspiration. Big Timber was named from info in one of the journals of "the Corps of Discovery," describing the huge oaks cut down nearby to make dugout canoes for the trip down the Yellowstone to the Missouri and on home in 1806.

Lots of Columbia River tours here in Oregon following the expedition to near Astoria and back. Kay and I took a sternwheeler ride part of the way a few years ago.