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Post by Bromhead24 on Nov 22, 2007 22:22:43 GMT -5
When you get a thousand sailors together and free beer thats usually an invitation to disaster but my ships crew behaved like gentlemen the whole time...  |
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Post by Greg C. on Nov 23, 2007 16:14:40 GMT -5
When you get a thousand sailors together and free beer thats usually an invitation to disaster but my ships crew behaved like gentlemen the whole time... lol |
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Post by neferetus on Nov 23, 2007 23:52:16 GMT -5
My brother, his wife and I spent the day in San Antonio. The weather was around 42 degrees and overcast. Commenced the visit on Alamo Plaza where they were setting up for the Festival 0f Lights Parade on the Riverwalk. Scads of people and News crews, loud speakers and even louder music, all sort of took away from the atmosphere of the place. Visited the Alamo, but it was just too darn crowded, so did not stay long. One nice aspect of the visit though was seeing the Alamo Plaza Christmas tree up close.
Ate breakfast at the GM Steakhouse, then took the Alamo Trolley Tour to Missions San Jose and Concepcion, followed by stops at El Mercado for a little lunch from the street vendors:gorditas and soft tacos.
Last stop was La Villita where we took the stairs down to the Riverwalk, via the Arenson River Theater. The theater was all set up for a Christmas concert that would coincide with the Festival of Lights Parade of brightly decorated river barges. Later this evening, the Christmas Lights on the Riverwalk would be lit for the very first time.
The downside to all this was that the River Rangers were hurrying all persons off the Riverwalk who did not have purchased tickets for the event. So we made our way down the Riverwalk and back to Alamo Plaza through a maze of numbered folding chairs that lined the Riverwalk two deep. Back on Alamo Plaza, it was no less hectic, so we opted to duck off to the IMAX theater in The Rivercentre for a double billed showing of Dionsaurs 3D and Alamo: The Price Of Freedom. This had to have been the shortest version of POF I've ever seen, clocking in at around 32 minutes. (Has anyone else seen this abreviated version?)
Finally, it was back to the car, via Alamo Plaza and then, to home, where a turkey dinner awaited us.
TOMORROW: DAY II in San Antonio!
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Post by neferetus on Nov 24, 2007 22:41:58 GMT -5
All the to-do last night on Alamo Plaza concerned the official Alamo Christmas tree lighting.
Today, as it was raining and cold, we hung around New Braunfels, taking in the downtown shops and antique malls. Stopped by this park along the Guadalupe River to pick some pecans. (Must've stuffed about a pounds worth into my pockets.) Later, we had dinner at this nice German restaurant, checked out the downtown Christmas lights, then headed on back home to watch Christmas movies.
NOTES ON NEW BRAUNFELS: My brother and his wife, who have been to downtown Gettysburg, remarked how similar New Braunfels is to it. Any thing to say about that, RebAl?
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Post by neferetus on Nov 25, 2007 23:57:57 GMT -5
It being 42 degrees and drizzly, we opted to travel to Austin today. Had breakfast at this Mexican restaurant in the historic district, then toured the State Capitol building and the Bob Bullock Museum. Both were well worth the effort.
Tomorrow promises to be sunshiny and 66 degrees, so it'll be off to San Antonio, once more for us!
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Post by neferetus on Dec 4, 2007 16:05:15 GMT -5
Strange. For the past few hours, I've been hearing the sound of sporadic gunfire in the distance. I know that it's the sound of sporadic gunfire in the distance, as I used to live near a shooting range, back in Glendora, California. I am not aware if there is a shooting range in New Braunfels, though. And, if there is one, then why haven't I been hearing the gunfire up until now? You don't suppose that there's some sort of reenactment going on do you?
Wait, I've solved my own riddle; it's deer hunting season!
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 4, 2007 16:46:46 GMT -5
Wait, I've solved my own riddle; it's deer hunting season! Don't go out of your house unless you put on your body armor. It's crazy here with the city slickers shooting at everything that moves and there have been a few houses and cars hit in town by a stray idiots high power rifle....  |
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Post by seguin on Dec 5, 2007 1:11:15 GMT -5
There´s nothing like going hunting with an assault rifle...  |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 5, 2007 16:33:02 GMT -5
Here in Nebraska, You can hunt deer with any caliber rifle or handgun except for a .22. I can hunt with a .222, 223, 243, .308 and up. As for semi autos, as long as the rifle has a permenant block so no more than 5 rounds can be loaded in the mag. So SKS carbines or AR15's can be used just as long as they meet the five round requirement. Now, if you get caught with a rifle that holds more than five rounds.......Good bye rifle, vehicle and a large fine and possibly jail time. For handguns single shot or revolvers, i don't think you can use semi autos The smallest caliber for a revolver is 45LC and for the single "Handy" .222 No FMJ rounds also only soft nose or hollow point FYI  |
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Post by seguin on Dec 6, 2007 2:25:38 GMT -5
I don´t know what an FMJ round is, but hollow point is that more or less the same effect as dum-dum bullets? I saw some hollow points once when I was a member of a shooting club. They were nasty looking...
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Post by neferetus on Dec 6, 2007 12:03:09 GMT -5
My neighbor's son is a hunter and I am promised some venison.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 6, 2007 14:39:44 GMT -5
I don´t know what an FMJ round is, but hollow point is that more or less the same effect as dum-dum bullets? I saw some hollow points once when I was a member of a shooting club. They were nasty looking... The FMJ stands for "Full Metal Jacket" it's a military round and they aren't legal for hunting. They where designed to go right thru it's intended target and keep on going. The Hollow point is the same as a dum dum along with the soft nose bullets, They can't be fired thru modern military weapons and are designed for hunting, when the bullet hits the deer, it expands for a quick kill (unless the shooter is a city slicker) and the bullet rarely comes out the opposite side. Hope that helps |
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 6, 2007 18:41:09 GMT -5
Deer meat......okay.....
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Post by neferetus on Dec 6, 2007 19:51:05 GMT -5
My neighbor grinds it up and then freezes it in pound bags. I tried it in spahghetti and it's very good. I have yet to try a venison burger, though. Hey Mike, do they serve buffalo burgers in Nebraska? |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 6, 2007 19:56:50 GMT -5
Hey Mike, do they serve buffalo burgers in Nebraska? Yes they do......YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY ;D |
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 6, 2007 19:59:12 GMT -5
Hey Mike, do they serve buffalo burgers in Nebraska? Yes they do......YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY ;D uh.... |
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Post by neferetus on Dec 6, 2007 19:59:17 GMT -5
You see, Greg. you just have to experiment.
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 6, 2007 19:59:43 GMT -5
I guess us New Yawkers are only used to pigs and cows, im sure buffalo and venison is pretty good...
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Post by seguin on Dec 6, 2007 23:54:19 GMT -5
I would love to try buffalo meat one day. Btw, what´s the name of the meat when they cross-breed buffalo with normal cow? I´ve heard that should be great meat too...
Bromy: It helped a lot! Thanks..
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Post by neferetus on Jan 29, 2008 12:57:05 GMT -5
Ted found this very interesting article in the Herald-Zeitung, New Braunfels own local newspaper. Seems that there's a Davy Crockett descendent living in my town! Thanks, Ted, good find.
Family legacy
By Betty Taylor
Contributor
Published January 27, 2008
Layne Page of New Braunfels knew all of her life that she came from royalty. She had heard the stories from her grandmother about how she was related to a king. Page isn’t related to just your run-of-the-mill, crown-and-throne king, though. She was related to the king of the wild frontier — David “Davy” Crockett.
“I spent the summers with my grandmother, Lila Flowers, in Gainesville,” Page said. “And she was really big into genealogy.”
In fact, Page continues to attend Crockett reunions, held every two years either in Texas or Tennessee. Some participants attend the reunions in costume and visitors have included actor Fess Parker, who portrayed the frontier hero in a Walt Disney movie, and musicians and storytellers.
“A lot of people come. Some dress like Davy Crockett. Some of them are more into it (the history) than the family even,” said Page, a sixth-generation descendant of Crockett.
“Davy Crockett married his first wife Polly Finley on Aug. 16, 1806,” she said. “They had a daughter, Margaret, who married Wylie Flowers. They had a son, John W. Flowers. He married Delilah Woods McNeely. Then, they had a son, John Flowers, who married Halley Clark. They had Lila Flowers — my grandmother,” she said.
Although Lila knew about her heritage, she did not begin fully researching it until she was older.
“When I was small, people would not believe me — that I was a descendant of Davy Crockett,” she said. “I only have a few papers documenting it.”
But with time, Lila developed an affinity for researching her family history and gathered more documents and even old Bibles, reading glasses and other pieces of history along the way.
This past year, Page joined the Ferdinand Lindheimer Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. She has attended Remembrance Day at the Alamo to remember the fallen heroes. She took her two young sons — Colter, 6, and Taylor, 4, — to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum where they discovered information not only from the Crockett side of the family, but also from her husband’s side of the family. And she traveled to the state capitol to attend the revealing of a vest Crockett had worn. Whenever she can, she picks up more books about Davy Crockett.
“I buy books all the time, and I’m studying maps,” she said. “I’m still learning.”
Page remembers the Davy Crockett she learned about in school, but it has been fascinating to her to learn more about her distant relative.
“I was surprised to learn that he did as much as he did, not just at the Alamo,” she said. “It was interesting to see who he was as a congressman.”
Two of the books Page recommends include “David Crockett ó Hero of the Common Man” by William Groneman III and “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett” by Himself.
“I really like the style of the Groneman book,” she said. “And the narrative is really just Crockett’s journal put into book form.”
The narrative includes Crockett’s accounts of his life as an Indian fighter and bear hunter.
Page said she learned that Crockett lived on his own a lot.
“He ran away when he was a kid. He didn’t want to go to school. And he went to work off his father’s debt,” she said.
Page said she wanted to join DRT because preservation of heritage was important to her.
“I think it is so important that young people get involved in DRT,” said Jeanette Felger, a DRT member.
Page’s grandmother, a past president of the Peters Colony of the DRT, agreed.
“I think it is marvelous because she is interested,” she said. “All of our organizations need them (young people), or they will die out.”
To become a member of DRT, one must be a direct descendant of someone who came to Texas or who born on or before Feb. 19, 1846. The Ferdinand Lindheimer Chapter of the DRT has more than 150 members, said Delitha Guenzel, registrar.
“And Layne is our first Davy Crockett descendant,” she added.
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