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 ************************************************** Diana R. Tomchick Professor Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Rm. ND10.214A Dallas, TX 75390-8816 diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu<mailto:diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu> (214) 645-6383 (phone) (214) 645-6353 (fax) On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:31 PM, TSA Cavers <texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com>> wrote: On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Charles Loving via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com>> 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 the last one just didn't meet my expectations. I apologize to those who worked so hard and long but what is, is and I am a dyed in the wool food Nazi. We didn't need a food trailer to cook in we just built fires and got after it. Well that's just awesome, good for you. Sorry you’ll be disappointed for the next five years. Maybe you should just keep staying home. On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Don Arburn via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:texascavers@texascavers.com>> wrote: Paradise Canyon October 12-15, 2017 _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com<mailto:Texascavers@texascavers.com> | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers ________________________________ UT Southwestern Medical Center The future of medicine, today.
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