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Hi everyone,<br>
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I hope you're having a great day, looking forward to a great weekend.
Looking at the weather report on TV, it looks like there's a 70% chance
of rain both Saturday and Sunday, but hey, we won't melt will we? It
might just cool things off and make everything fresh and green again.
As long as it doesn't rain on the rodeo or the parade and festivities
downtown on Saturday. The rodeo parade is Saturday at 4:00 and I
understand there will be some other things going on in town earlier
that day. A reenactment of a bank robbery, possibly. When I was a
kid, (back 100 years ago), we used to have a week long festival going
on in town every summer called the Belle Starr Western Festival, and I
couldn't stand to miss a minute of it. Of course when I got older, I
learned that a lot of the merchants thought it was a pain in the
derriere, due to traffic congestion, kids running in and out with
squirt guns, and a hundred other reasons, but I sure did miss it once
they let it die out. Every day at noon, the Belle Starr gang would
ride into town, rob the bank, hang someone (with a safety harness),
throw loot to the kids and ride out with guns blazing, (blanks of
course). It was always very exciting and I thought getting to play
Belle Starr would just be the coolest thing ever. I think the
objection that finally killed the festival off was that we were
glorifying an outlaw, and what did that teach our children? I guess
one good thing came out of the demise of the Belle Starr Festival.
People realized we did need some sort of a festival or gathering of
some sort, so it wasn't too many years, I don't think, before they
started the Fall Festival out at Robber's Cave. <br>
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<font size="+2">Our menu for today includes:<br>
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<font color="#663300">Roast beef</font><br>
<font color="#996633">Mashed potatoes and gravy</font><br>
<font color="#999900">Broccoli casserole</font><br>
<font color="#ff6600">Seasoned baby carrots</font><br>
<font color="#33cc00">Brussels sprouts</font><br>
Rolls<br>
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And our fast food is <font color="#cc6600">Chili Dogs</font> with <font
color="#ffcc66">Shredded Cheese</font>.<br>
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And for dessert I can smell yummy <font color="#663333">Brownies</font>
already, and I'll be tasting one before it's over with, too!</font><br>
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Come on over,<br>
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Rhoda <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span> <br>
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