Poney Racer Port of Entry

[litl rooster]

  I can get my face smacked in 4 languages


I failed Spanish horribly in skool...What I have learned is from working with them. double l's kill me along with the j's and z's

[Texas Lawdog]

LR, The way they are leaving Mexico for the US, you will have a long time to practice.

[Leo Tanner]

It's the V suposin ta be pronounced like a very soft B that gets me.  I cant make that sound.  I give full effort ta all my words when speakin.  One a them good points that turned out wrong when I had ta take a foreign language.

She's pretty handy with a 9mm, from what OT told me.

    I took Lil ta the range that rents out guns ta try.  She's used ta revolvers an bolt or lever rifles.  There was a nice Sig 9mm in the case an I asked her if she wanted ta give it a spin.  She was pensive at first, but after I 'splained most of the recoil was absorbed by the action cockin it's self, she gave it a whirl.  Love at first shot fer her.  She run out a 50 round box and wanted more.  Have ta budget one in fer her soon, it was the happiest I ever seen her with a firearm.

    Fergot where I was fer a second.  Gotta go haggle with the locals an get this boat stocked afore liberty is over.  Think I'll start over at the munitions depot...

[Texas Lawdog]

Cannon Balls, Grapeshot, Black powder, and fuses.

[Ozark Tracker]

Just curious OT, what part of CA was Jackie from?  Sounds mighty familiar ta me.


Leo

She grew up around Hanford, as she says lots of little dirt towns around there.

we didn't have no Mexicans to talk to  (or about)  when I was growing up,  all I'm fluent in is English & Ebonics  course I ain't used the ebonics in the last 10 years, it's getting hard to understand it now.

I guess  all I need to be able to speak is Okie and Arkie,  pretty close, just the Arkie's talk more about forrests and mountains.

[Leo Tanner]

Leo prays he don need ebonics ta haggle with the natives. 
     Is there even an ebonic word fer black powder?   

[Texas Lawdog]

OT, I  always say that I'm an Okie by proxy.

[Delmonico]

Got family down in Okalahoma, Grandpa's brother moved down there in the 1930's, yep when lots of Okiies were loadin' up and movin' to Cally-fornia.

[Texas Lawdog]

 A lot of them settled around Bakersfield. They grow wheat, maize, and cotton and the irrigate a lot. It's real flat out there. It almost looks like TX or OKLA.

[Delmonico]

A lot of them settled around Bakersfield. They grow wheat, maize, and cotton and the irrigate a lot. It's real flat out there. It almost looks like TX or OKLA.

Great Uncle Ellis learned heavy equipment in the Army in WWI, there were jobs in the oilfields for equipment operators, the ones who left Oklahoma were mostly farmers who got blowed out.

[Ozark Tracker]

some of my Cole relatives went out there, a few stayed, most came back in a few years.  had one, stayed finally was able to buy some ground and raised onions around Dos Palace for the rest of his life.

all my Moore relatives stayed in Oklahoma,  

[Texas Lawdog]

My Dad was born in Texhoma and my Grandad ran an elevator there.  The "Dust Bowl" hit them hard.  My G Grandmother lived in Texhoma until her 90's, then she moved to Dumas to stay with us until she passed away. She was still livin' in Texhoma while I was at Panhandle State. I guess I still gotta lot of OKIE in me.

[Ozark Tracker]

ya know the Dust Bowl didn't hit my folks too hard,  they were up in Wagoner Co. Oklahoma,  grandpa farmed the local John Deere Dealers farm and they had several acres of good bottom ground right along the Arkansas river,  They were able to grow a few crops that made kinda early in the season.  they raised almost 400 acres of potato's during those years and Dad said they had a good crop every year. 
Grandma always talked about the dust bowl and the depression and would tell the story about them buying a new car during that time,

[Texas Lawdog]

My Dad would have been in his early teens about then.  My GGrandad ran a Livery and had teams of horses and mules. He was a big man with a booming voice. My dad told me my GGrandad would announce at the rodeos with a megaphone.

[Leo Tanner]

Leo watches the natives load up the cart with things that go bang.  A good deal been struck, but it's time ta go
     Next stop, the paper mill. 

[Texas Lawdog]

All this work has made me tired. I need a nap. Wake me up when we get back to the ship.

[Leo Tanner]

I think I got a lead on the perfect ship ta commendere aquire.

http://www.kcra.com/video/17039053/index.html

With a cart load of TP in tow from the paper mill Leo sets off ta make a deal with the local crab fishermen...

[Texas Lawdog]

They kept all 3 ships down at Corpus Christi for a few years.

[Texas Lawdog]

The ones that are at Corpus Christi have been there since 1992 .  They were built in Spain to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' sailing to the New World.  They are in dry dock at Corpus Christi and are in total disrepair.

[Delmonico]

Might be worth fixin' up though, considerin' the price of fuel, everyone knows the Spaniards could get thousands of mile to the galleon.