I've been to every TCR for the 8 years I have been caving and the food has been
good. Thanks to all that have cooked! Yes there will always be some dish
someone does not like. And we have moved around but paradise is the best we
have had in that time. I think yall are missing the point of TCR, IT DOES NOT
MATTER WHERE IT IS HELD. It is about getting the community together so we can
catch up on what's has been going on over the past year. We can do that in the
middle of a cow patty. But at least Don has done a mighty fine job making sure
we have water to swim in, showers, bathrooms or porta-johns, nice camp sites,
ect. I'm personally tierd of everyone picking on each other. We are sopposed to
be a FAMILY! If you have a problem with someone or something, talk to that
person privately. It only makes you look like a ASSHOLE to publicly blast that
person.That's just my two sense.
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Original message
From: via Texascavers
Date: 2/8/17 6:49 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] 39th Annual Texas Cavers Reunion
Well said, Diana ! OMW gets his hackles up every now and again but it's not
meant to be overly critical I don't think. Picks on poor Locklear too much,
though.
Jerry.
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On Feb 8, 2017, at 5:35 PM, Diana Tomchick via Texascavers
wrote:
Actually, Charlie spent some time in the DFW Grotto camping area at last year’s
TCR talking to Bill Steele and I.
Sometimes you have to let the grumpy old men have their say and be nice about
it. As a woman, I’ve had to live by that mantra for a very long, long time.
Diana
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On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:31 PM, TSA Cavers wrote:
On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Charles Loving via Texascavers
wrote:
Why are we stuck at Paradise Canyon?
Charles, get over it. Paradise Canyon agreed to a good price if we kept TCR
there for the next 5 years. If no one hasn't noticed things are getting more
expensive these days. If you can find a better price than what we are currently
paying with
as many amenities, showers, river, electricity, bathrooms, ice, picnic tables,
porto-potties, nice green manicured camping, Lodges with baths and A/C. What
are you griping about, we haven’t seen you there in some time anyway. Besides
weren’t you happy there
was LODGING with A/C there? I distinctly remember you asking about it.
The OTR used to be fun when it moved around.
Well, this isn’t OTR.
Now it is in a rut. Paradise Canyon is OK but to me it is incredibly boring
after the tenth time. I recall the first one where I and a few other cooked at
Luckenbach. Then a lot of places all over Central Texas. Now it is stuck, dead
in the water.
Dead? Are you volunteering to honcho it up? I’d be happy to turn it over to
you. Just say the word and it’s all yours.
OK I was chief cook for 20 years and has a myriad of volunteer people who
were involved in cooking. We had a rule for our volunteer cooks and there were
about 35 or 40 of them. The rule was cook what you want but cook, but enough.
Enough was
a nebulous figure. We had tons of corn on the cob from the valley. Fish from
Galveston, A roast pig, brisket, beef clod, chicken, turkey, hot links from
Fredericksburg, bean salad, fruit salad, salad salad, black beans, refried
beans, tortillas, pie, cake,
cookies, a million brownies, chicken, Hatch chilis, gazpacho. all manner of
stuff, we once had quail, and the people gobbled it up.
Great! Since we lost our cook last year, it sounds like you would be the
perfect head cook. Are you volunteering? That menu sounds awesome, go ahead and
purchase the stuff and get me a reciept and I’ll put you down as head cook. HEY
EVERBODY! IGOR IS OUR NEW
HEAD COOK! WOOO!!
All prepared by THE CAVER COOKS for the fun of cooking it. That tradition has
died it would seem. Maybe caver don't cook anymore? Not sure why but the old
cooks never got any new cooks to volunteer to take the reins.
Well, seeing you haven't come to a -TCR- (Texas Cavers Reunion, been named that
for only the last THIRTY EIGHT YEARS) you have totally missed out on some fine
cooking by the experts we have that ACTUALLY STEPPED UP and VOLUNTEERED. Stefan
and
Vico and the rest of the COOKS have done an awesome and thankless job for
everybody. But of course your stepping up will easily surpass their cooking,
no? We look forward to it!
Maybe there was a great loss in cooking ability. I hate to say this but I
haven't eaten the meal at OTR is four years. I am not sure why because I pay
for it, but th
