It's the same tired song and dance every year. I have noticed a trend of the complainers being the people who are the least involved. Every friggin' year. I like Paradise Canyon but I go to TCR to see and visit with Cavers.
Sheryl Rieck [email protected] "You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime, you just might find you get what you need" Rolling Stones > On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Don Arburn via Texascavers > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Feb 8, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Charles Loving via Texascavers >> <[email protected]> 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 >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Paradise Canyon >>> October 12-15, 2017 > > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > [email protected] | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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