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Thursday, January 3. 2008

Vista Verde Ranch

Friends just returned home from 10 days at Vista Verde Ranch.

Their reviews of the place were so enthusiastic that I thought I ought to share the link. It sure beats Florida, in my book.

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 12:30 | Comments (22) | Trackbacks (0)

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Beautiful dude ranch. I was thinking about opening a dud ranch. Just some cabins with great big TV sets.
#1 buddy larsen on 2008-01-03 15:35 (Reply)
Buddy dude,

It takes a real cowboy to let others pretend to enjoy the western experience. Cynicism is sooo eastern--
#2 Anonymous on 2008-01-03 17:15 (Reply)
i wuz making fun of meself, tho. That's what I'd be doing at the dude ranch -- watching the Iowa caucuses on TV -- yippi ti yay !
:-D
#2.1 buddy larsen on 2008-01-03 17:32 (Reply)
OK. what are the ioway carcasses?? sounds gruesome
#2.1.1 Anonymous on 2008-01-03 17:37 (Reply)
Christ amighty, it IS gruesome!
#2.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2008-01-03 17:40 (Reply)
I love you. But I curse "almighty" in my church. Try not to attend Sunday services, natch.
#2.1.1.1.1 Anonymous on 2008-01-03 17:52 (Reply)
Gruesome results; Bammbam and huckleberry, Katey says.
#2.1.1.1.2 Leag on 2008-01-03 22:06 (Reply)
I'm for John Edwards. He's so "real".
#3 buddy larsen on 2008-01-03 18:07 (Reply)
I luv John Edwards, too. Lost parishioners vote, too. Scary but democratic.
#3.1 Anonymous on 2008-01-03 18:14 (Reply)
Yeh -- he gonna bring down the "special interests" -- AKA, the organizations that write everybody in the country's paychecks.
#3.1.1 buddy larsen on 2008-01-03 18:21 (Reply)
Nice.

Christmas For Cowboys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-aI3fNNDwM
#4 Patina on 2008-01-03 18:25 (Reply)
Remington and Russell chronicled the dignity of original inhabitants and gritty, natural character of the unspoiled West and white invading people, newly belonging to the American West and resourceful; Bierstadt stroked western grandeur and godliness onto canvas, interpreting a manifest goodness and golden-lit destiny of the unsettled continent from before. Both good, contradictory, in conflict, and true.

How to teach history?
#4.1 Anonymous on 2008-01-03 18:53 (Reply)
Ok, Good. Now, let's be sure to build 100 or 800 townhomes on this site and see how nice it feels and looks.
#5 apple pie on 2008-01-03 18:50 (Reply)
With regard to the subject of ski towns, click on this site and scroll down.

http://www.headwatersnews.org/
#6 apple pie on 2008-01-03 19:01 (Reply)
Thank goodness for teddy roosevelt -- what he did in preserving so much of the American West is just too fine a thing for words to express.
#7 buddy larsen on 2008-01-03 19:02 (Reply)
I think everybody hates to see fine natural areas turn into population centers. But--and it's happening here in my range too--who's to say who gets to live amongst natural beauty and who doesn't ? There's folks around here, newbies from Houston & Dallas, who just go purple over the hill country development. As if they themselves aren't part of it. It just ain't fittin' to complain, really. Folks gotta live, and they oughtta be able to live where they want, if they can. But it is a shame it ain't 1898 again. Lordy what a trip thru the West must've been then.
#8 buddy larsen on 2008-01-03 19:28 (Reply)
Yep. Tacky, aggressive development vs. NIMBY for the newly arrived. Doesn't stop me from coveting a few unspoiled acres, tho',

just like the bratty others :(
#8.1 (nice) (rampacious) Houstonian on 2008-01-03 20:20 (Reply)
well eyesores are always bad, regardless.
#8.1.1 buddy larsen on 2008-01-03 20:35 (Reply)
Doesnt bother me one bit if people in a town or county vote for aggressive zoning, or for open space, or even to protect grazing or agricultural space.

It's up to people to protect it. If you live in a place, you get to decide what happens to it.
#8.1.1.1 BD on 2008-01-03 20:52 (Reply)
damn well said, BD.
#8.1.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2008-01-03 21:00 (Reply)
Superficials count, depending on how and whose supers and ficials, of course. Gimmee a couple hundert a-kers, please, and they will remain unschooled.

Priss-tine, N-o-cent, virgil-null.

God and Crockett couldn;t have it no better
#9 Anonymous on 2008-01-03 20:51 (Reply)
Where the "heck" is Habu when you need him?
#10 apple pie on 2008-01-05 02:55 (Reply)

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