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MalibuSheriff

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  1. Wife is out of town with my daughter, son is at Grand Lake with friends, and the dogs and I are holding down the homestead. Cheese enchiladas were calling for me but I didn’t want to cook a batch by myself. Y Mas is seven hour drive, praying that Chili Parlor stays in business, and the golden memory of Dart Bowl is fleeting. It’s been a while since I hit El Rancho Grande on 11th Street in Tulsa (open since 1953) as last time was a little off. With that said, they were on point tonight with the finest plate of old school Texas Mex cheese enchiladas I’ve had since eating in a bowling alley on Grover Ave. Ladies and gentlemen, the Night Hawk plate (I inquired if name had anything to do with Nighthawk in Austin and waiter had no idea). Onions were inside the tortillas but next time I’m requesting more on top.
  2. I’m up in Colorado picking up my youngest, a teenager, from camp. The camp director of the Colorado camp broke down in tears at the closing ceremony today and they had a long moment of silence for all the kids and staff lost. This has absolutely gut punched me as it seems like a blink of an eye we were taking our daughter out to camps in the Hill Country when she was the age of these precious little girls. I’m sure we know someone affected as we lived in Austin for fourteen years and thirty in Texas overall but haven’t heard anything yet. Saying that, I’ve never had anything affect me the way this event has…physically ill with sadness.
  3. Good news. The dumb SOB pulled his bill:
  4. Rabbit Ear Mountain. Love that country out there…Rabbit Ear from the top of Black Mesa a couple of years ago (about a 100 yards from Mountain Time too).
  5. Just came across this interview:
  6. RIP Zoob. I was there last month and it was the same as ever. Hope it stays the same.
  7. I’m thankful (and surprised) this was not in Oklahoma.
  8. I had to have driven by that at least a thousand times and never noticed it.
  9. I thought you burnt orange aficionados would like this photo (taken by some storm chaser) from the backside of the storm last night near Grit, TX:
  10. I was just talking with my buddy who has a place out there early today. He was worried about his tanks running dry if this storm didn’t come through. Very happy for all the folks about in the Hill Country.
  11. Hope all my Hill Country homies are watching this storm. This one is wicked. South of Mason, looks like it will track north of Fredericksburg.
  12. I had no idea my wife had a sister…
  13. Lake Murray south of town is nice. Dornick Hills CC is a great track if you get a chance to play golf there. A buddy of mine lives not too far from Ardmore and says Cafe Alley has excellent food. Aforementioned Turner Falls north of town is cool. Other than that, I’ve got nothing. I’ve driven by there several hundred times but rarely stopped.
  14. The kid and I got out a couple of times in April to some lakes and streams about an hour east of Tulsa. Early in the month, we hit one of my old haunts that pours into Fort Gibson Lake looking for some sandbass with none were running. However, we were surprised by smallmouth in a stream that I had previously only caught spotted bass and LMB: The prior Sunday, we tried again looking for hybrids and sandbass. There were a few small male sandbass but no larger females and no hybrids. We tried a nearby lake and caught a drum on a fly. First one for me in freshwater. We’ve had a shitload of rain this month and all the streams were running. Lake Hudson about 8’ high:
  15. That is a blast from the past. We had a Monterrey House in Tulsa around 18th and Sheridan we’d eat at least once a week.
  16. Bills Jumbo Burgers, east of downtown Tulsa. Cash only. Greasy brown paper bag for free.
  17. Our very best family vacations were various rentals between Leucadia and Del Mar, CA. Always feels like home whenever I’m out there.
  18. Finally made a close facsimile of one of my favorite dishes at Madam Mam’s - Guay Teaw Nuer Sub, or F12 on the menu at Bee Caves. Damn it was good to nail it after several misfires (Tulsa Thai scene is virtually non-existent).
  19. My daughter and I were back in Austin last weekend and she requested one of her favorite restaurants from her childhood - Tuk Tuk on south Manchaca. Unfortunately, since Covid they are only take-out but allowed us to eat at one of the front waiting tables. Still very, very good. Tulsa’s Thai food scene sucks, so thoroughly appreciate the abundance of great Thai choices.
  20. Just seeing this thread, Brisket. I’m very sorry to hear of your loss. Your dad sounds like a wonderful man who I would have loved to have met…and of course, go on a fishing trip with. I lost my dad (who adopted me when I was fifteen) in 2020. They were of similar age and those guys of that vintage had to persevere through a lot in life - not many like them anymore. I’m immensely grateful that my dad chose my mom and me. I have no idea where I’d be in my life if he had arrived just at the right time. I hope you get out to the Llano soon and have a full weekend of wading around, fishing, eating a Big Chop, listening to classic country, and thinking of memories. The tears will subside in time and will be replaced with laughs and joy. Trust me. We will see them again, no doubt in my mind. 1 John 4:8 Psalms 126 Revelations 21:3-5
  21. Just finished Annals of the Former World, John McPhee’s Pulitzer Prize winning collection of five books on the geology of North America. While sounding dry as toast, it is very readable. Simply amazing history of our world, along with biographies of impactful geologists who contributed greatly to knowledge of North America’s Deep Time. The middle book, Rising from the Plains, about Wyoming geology and Dr. David Love were my personal favorite. David Love, and especially his parents, led lives that few of us can even imagine.
  22. 100% agree with the above. It could be 70F in that part of the world in March or it could be a blizzard. Good weather - no problem. If you were traveling in summer, I could give you dozens of places to camp that are awesome. Spring with kids, weather is too unpredictable.
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