When you walk out of the restaurant and see this:
All pickups and one little Honda SUV . . ours! When we walked out, Vince looked around and said “Don’t say it!” I didn’t know what he was talking about til I saw all the pickups. I keep fussing about not having a full size pickup. I said “Let’s get up in the morning and go buy a truck . . first thing . . before breakfast!” Vince said “We can’t . . Steve is coming over to help build the second chicken coop.”
Dang it . . if he’d just give me the checkbook, I’d go buy the truck because I’m not working on the chicken coop. You can bet he won’t turn me loose to buy a vehicle . . ever. I’d come home with a 1967 Mustang and he knows it. I might do that some day anyway.
While at the restaurant, we had the cutest waiter. He was a high school kid. It was a little restaurant in a town about 25 miles south of us . . population in the 2000 census was 350 and this restaurant is known for having great fried catfish. Our waiter was telling us a rattlesnake story and that story led to another story. His cousin survived a rattlesnake bite. He demonstrated how he shakes a stick through the weeds and how the rattlesnake sounds and how it crawls. I was trying not to laugh . . heck, rattlesnakes aren’t funny but he was hilarious. The rattlesnake story started because last night they had a rattlesnake at the front door of the restaurant and customers had to step over it til they could get it moved and he had to demonstrate how they did that . . without a shovel or a hoe. Honestly . . this is Texas. You know someone had a pistol . . probably every one in that restaurant was carrying a pistol but I guess shooting a rattlesnake right there at the front door would probably not have been a good idea.
It looks like we could get a bit of rain tonight. Send good thoughts our way please . . we so desperately need rain. This summer looks like it’s going to be just like last summer with the drought. It’s so hard to see everything dying and the tanks (ponds for you non-Texans) drying up.
After a long nap this afternoon, I’m going to sew til I see lightning, then I’ll go to the house and knit. So many options! 🙂
Peggy says
Yeah right, I am going to step over,around, under, sideways of a snake!!!!!! Let alone a RATTLESNAKE!!!!! I will dream about this tonight. Nothing and I mean nothing freaks me out as much as a snake! Last year we didn’t mow part of our lawn because a neighbor saw a snake, a copperhead in the gutter of our A-Frame in that small confinded area between the house and the green house. Thanks Judy!
Missy says
I’m from TX, but there is no way I would step over a rattlesnake! I would rather go hungry!
Chris Miller at the Resort says
Love the truck part!! Gotta have a big truck. A 4-wheel-drive truck! I’ll come help you pick one out. I know my trucks!! And I love ’em!
Carol Campbell says
Where is that place? On the way to Brady? I asked my husband and he didn’t know about it. He says there is a new good hamburger place in Melvin so he frequents that place when he is at our farm working.
Trina says
I am like Peggy, there is no way I would walk over the snake. Any kind of snake gives me the shivers.Ewww. By the way, have you ever watched “Chopped” on the Food Channel? Part of the ingredients the contentants had to use in preparing a meal was rattlesnake. Double ewwww!!!! LOL.
Trina
Karla says
Having killed a rattler by the dog pen and thinking I did a good deed I never expected to wake up and find that rattler by my bed!!! I guess one of the dogs was bringing me my trophy.
Myra says
Judy, please share where that restaurant is!!! I lo-o-ve fried catfish! Do they have it every day or only once certain day? I looked and looked at the picture, but I don’t recognize the building. Hopefully, there will be no rattlesnakes! I once rode over a rattler. We were visiting my father-in-law on the ranch were he was foreman in the Gila Wilderness area of NM. We had all saddled up and had just left the headquarters. My horse sort of shied (luckily I stayed seated!!) which caused every one to look around. My father-in-law took out his pistol and shot that snake right in the mouth!! Good shot!!
Liz says
You also know you’re in Texas when driving 25 miles for good catfish is no big deal. We’ll know you are truly a Texan when you to one place for their catfish and someplace else, just for the chicken fried steak and still another place for their mexican dishes!
Linda says
I think you are wrong in wanting a ’67 Mustang. I’d buy a ’66! 😉
Linda S says
LOL – when the postlady calls and you go to get the box, just tell Vince you’re going to buy a truck!
I heard on the news last night that the La Niña has ended and the drought should be over in Texas this year. Let’s hope that’s true!
Liz says
Judy my husband just bought a new Ford F-150 4×4 last weekend. Once you get Vince to test drive one he will want one. I drove it this weekend and that thing just floats on the interstate, no road noises. (The sticker price will be a shock though)
Linda in NE says
I just read a rattlesnake recipe in Nebraska Life magazine. (1) Kill snake. (2) Cut of the head a couple inches from back of skull & bury it (3) skin & gut the snake(4) Rinse (5) cut into 1-1 1/2 in. chunks (6) fry in bacon grease until just barely done. (7) be careful of the fine bones.
Yeah, didn’t really appeal to me either. 🙂
Annie K says
I got a giggle out of your truck story (and I’m SO with you on that ’67 Mustang…candy apple red with white leather upholstery!). I’m in Texas, too… now, imagine your photo with a sunny yellow PT Cruiser sitting amid all the tough trucks. Hubby humored me when I fell in love with it, and says he doesn’t mind parking it next to the tough guys, because his manhood is secure and he has a pretty wife getting out of the passenger side. LOL! Bet your hubby feels the same way when you step out, too!