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Thank God for All the Giving, Days of Gratitude

Turkey Track Ranch, North Of Amarillo in Hutchinson County

Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless You All.  Be grateful for all the the tough, brave men and women who made this the greatest state in United States of America.

The Turkey Track Ranch was first established by R. McNulty from Colorado soon after 1878, making it one of the first five ranches in the Texas Panhandle. His brand was called the Turkey Track or Rafter I, In 1881, he sold the ranch to C.W. Word in 1881. In 1883, Mr. Word sold the Turkey Track Ranch located in Hansford and Hutchinson Counties to the English syndicate Hansford Land & Cattle run by J.M. Coburn of Scotland. Hansford also purchased Thomas S. Bugbee’s Quarter Circle T’s located near Adobe Walls for $350,000, as well as William E. Anderson’s Scissors Ranch near Adobe Walls. By 1890, Hansford Land & Cattle owned 85,000 acres and leased 350,000 and had an average head count of 30,000 head.

Be your best and do your best to make your Maker and your family proud.  Have yourselves a great Texas Thanksgiving !

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Happy Thanksgiving to all! I hope everyone has a fine and blessed day and do remember to count your blessings, most of us have many in spite of everything, I know I do. Also remember that we still live in the greatest country to ever exist in this old world.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From El Gordo; Thanksgiving 2024 – Official Camp Photo.

  3. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    So very many blessings, thank you Lord! Thank you for my loving family, for this great state in this great nation and my longtime Hambone friends. Amen Amen.

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Where’s Les Nessman when you need him ?

    In the remotest reaches of Alaska, there’s no relying on DoorDash to have Thanksgiving dinner — or any dinner — delivered. But some residents living well off the grid nevertheless have turkeys this holiday, thanks to the Alaska Turkey Bomb.

    For the third straight year, a resident named Esther Keim has been flying low and slow in a small plane over rural parts of south-central Alaska, dropping frozen turkeys to those who can’t simply run out to the grocery store.

    Alaska is mostly wilderness, with only about 20% of it accessible by road. In winter, many who live in remote areas rely on small planes or snowmobiles to travel any distance, and frozen rivers can act as makeshift roads.

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The smart people, desperate people and the frightened people are going to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring of the new king.

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago — after reportedly requesting the meeting with the president-elect to discuss “the incoming administration” Wednesday.

    “It’s an important time for the future of American Innovation. Mark was grateful for the invitation to join President Trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members of his team about the incoming Administration,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement provided to The Post.

     

    The Trump-Vance transition team did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment. 

    Stephen Miller, the incoming White House deputy chief of staff for policy, confirmed that Zuckerberg met with the president-elect during an appearance on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” 

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Breaking…

    New video out from Kamala Harris.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Ukraine may be corrupt as hell, but you can’t say the Ukrainian people are dumb.

    Le Monde writes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the help of electronic warfare, have learned to change the coordinates of enemy Shahed drones and redirect them back to Russia and Belarus.

    Thanks to “spoofing”, 43 attack drones flew into Belarus on November 24-26 alone.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Israel does that too. There are certain rockets (not all) they get redirected to Beirut.

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I, too, am grateful for my Hambone friends past and present.

    It’s been quite the journey from Chronically Biased, to Lone Star Times, to Hambone.

    Thank you Squawk, Texpat, and Tedtam for your persistence and love.

    A blessed Thanksgiving to all.

  9. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Happy Thanksgiving y’all. I am proud to call all of y’all friend.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Amen, brother.

    2. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Back at you squawka Bruddah.
      enjoy your Thanksgiving.:)

      im blessed to have made your acquaintance via this here blog.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Rush Limbaugh’s Thanksgiving Broadcast, November 27, 2019

    Scroll down past the College Fix video to get to the story.

    “The story of the Pilgrims begins in the early part of the seventeenth century (that’s the 1600s for those of you in Rio Linda, California). The Church of England under King James I was persecuting anyone and everyone who did not recognize its absolute civil and spiritual authority.”

    The first Pilgrims were Christian rebels, folks. “Those who challenged [King James’] ecclesiastical authority and those who believed strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down, imprisoned, and sometimes executed for their beliefs” in England in the 1600s.

    “A group of separatists,” Christians who didn’t want to buy into the Church of England or live under the rule of King James, “first fled to Holland and established a community” of themselves there. “After eleven years, about forty of them” having heard about this New World Christopher Columbus had discovered, decided to go. Forty of them “agreed to make a perilous journey to the New World, where [they knew] they would certainly face hardships, but” the reason they did it was so they “could live and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences” and beliefs.

    “On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims,” now known as Pilgrims, “led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established” how they would live once they got there. The contract set forth “just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs,” or political beliefs. “Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible.

  11. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat hanging out at the Fort Worth Stock Yard back in the day.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    After 13 years on this site, I ran out of ideas for Thanksgiving Day and decided to do something different with a little Texas history.

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    If horror movies were shot in the South.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Now that’s funny.

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Looks a bit chilly and wet up there, Texpat.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      We’ve had as nice a fall as one could ask for, but it wasn’t going to last. Winter has moved in for the duration in the last couple of days. Tomorrow is going to be icy though.

  15. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Speaking of Chronically Biased, way back in January 2007 Mimi Schwartz did a long hit piece in Texas Monthly about then-newly-elected Sen. Dan Patrick. I found it interesting if only because it covers an important part of our political history and has some good inside-baseball stuff.

    I got lucky with the paywall. You might try accessing it directly instead of using the link above.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Mimi is an old Texas lefty, but I met her once and she’s actually a fun old gal.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Turkey is carved, side dishes made, wine is packed along with all kinds of stuff we expect the daughter to have forgotten to buy. These Yankees eat their holiday meals after sundown. It’s weird and I’ve never gotten over it. I grew up with everybody having eaten before the UT vs A&M game came on. After a snack, we’d watch the Army-Navy game.

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Poor little Peter…now the DC press corps has to go back to work instead of sleeping through virtually non-existent press conferences.

    The White House press corps is already “exhausted” at the outset of the second Trump administration.

    “Anybody who went through it the last time remembers how nonstop it was. It ends up kind of becoming all-consuming and taking over your life. It wears you down,” New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker told Vanity Fair Wednesday, adding that “you have to expect that covering a big story is, by definition, taxing because it’s important.”

    Reporters commented on how President-elect Donald Trump was already kicking off a hectic news cycle with his rapid policy and cabinet nomination announcements.

    HT: Ed Driscoll

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Josh Turner and friends do a mighty fine cover of an old Fleetwood Mac tune.

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My 6 year old grandson told his mother the other day he wants to grow up and be a paleontologist and he pronounced it correctly. I’m sure I never heard of one before I was at least 12.

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I saw the Nutcracker once. Actually enjoyed the ballet.
    But this, BUT THIS is heresy.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      There appears to be nothing Broadway can’t ruin these days.

      1. Texpat Avatar
        Texpat

        We used to take my Oregon daughter to the famous Houston Ballet production of The Nutcracker. They were invited all over the world to perform it, including Russia.

        1. Super Dave Avatar
          Super Dave

          We took daughter and part time daughter almost every year.

      2. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        Just disgusts me. I got nothing against hiphop but dang it…. is nothing sacred?

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I read all of O. Henry’s stories when I was a boy.

    Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O. Henry

    THERE IS ONE DAY THAT IS OURS. THERE IS ONE day when all Americans go back to the old home and eat a big dinner.

    Bless the day. The President gives it to us every year.

    Sometimes he talks about the people who had the first Thanksgiving.

    They were the Puritans. They were some people who landed on our Atlantic shore. We don’t really remember much about them.

    But those people ate a large bird called turkey on the first Thanks- giving Day. So we have turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, if we have enough money to buy turkey. That is a tradition.

  22. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The wheels of justice turn very slowly.

    From Paul Sperry:

    NEW: House Oversight investigators have given US Capitol Police until Dec. 4 to turn over all emails, texts +other messages from the cellphone, email account, computer +other devices used by unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt’s killer USCP Capt. Michael Byrd from 1/1/21-1/1/24

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      THis Byrd character should have been fired long before he shot Ashli Babbitt. He is the definition of a menace and a tyrant.
      Let us not forget about the unarmed Rosalynd Boyland who was bludgeoned to death by capital security in one of the tunnels below the capital.

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Headed down to the river to log a well. So…

  24. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Happy thanksgiving to all y’all, may you have a blessed day.

    11F here today and most of the weekend. Monday a Chinook blows in so next week will be 30’s and 40’s. Bring it on. We have about half a foot on snow on the ground and it is still lightly falling.

    I am thankful for this blog and all you folks. I am not around much as I don’t have much to say except, getting old sucks.

    Bonecrusher: I chuckled at your video and sent it to a couple of folks.

  25. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Trump does in one day what 40 years of Rinoholic Vampyreism couldn’t.
    Kentucky swamp turtles and Texas cornholes lament.

    the dizzy Crawford cowboy dunce was unavailable for comment.
    but ‘I’m the decider.’

    sorry fella. You ain’t the boss,
    Trump is.

    happy Thanksgiving everyone.

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oh boy an annoying Santa

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Good stuff. 🎅

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m certain that Bo Diddley never imagined such a cover…
    /sizzle

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Good stuff right there

  28. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    I thought getting stuck trying to get logged back in was annoying… I suppose that a Santa with a big red nose is nothing to get my knickers in a twist over… Wishing all ya’ll a blessed Thanksgiving Day and a peaceful holiday season leading up to Christmas Day… but I am not at all sure Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky would approve of Hip Hop Nutcracker

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Alberta checks in! Happy Thanksgiving.

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Watching some guy name Shaboozie doing the halftime show. Black guy. Dang he sounds more country than the flat belly white guys that call themselves country. Not bad at.all.

  31. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Turned off Christmas stuff till there are more people for me to annoy.

  32. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Texpat hanging out at the Fort Worth Stock Yard back in the day.

    nowadays he probably stands on the streets of Hoboken posing as a street preacher while sneaking looks at Monica Belluci look alikes as they pass by.

    Bet he still owns that checkerboard shirt:p:)

  33. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I woke up this morning and started making breakfast since Handsome Son and his wife were due at ten before they headed out to her folks. She flies back to Florida this evening; I believe she’s been in town a few days and I’m sure they spent as much time as possible together. It’s been a long time apart. Just a few more months and she’s scheduled to come home for good, and I’m sure they’re both ready for that.

    I made the quiche and sweet potatoes for breakfast, trying to keep some kind of Thanksgiving theme going but not making anything too much or too heavy so they can enjoy their dinner later. We spent quite a bit of time talking about my Byrna, and I gave Hubby his Christmas gift early. I played a few videos about it.

    While I was in the kitchen this morning, I started shredding some cheese. I had some blocks of real Parmesan and Parmagiana Reggiano. I got my Kitchen Aid set up with the shredding attachments and went at it while stuff was cooking. When they said “hard cheese” they meant it. It took quite a while to get through them, but now I have some nice, real Parmesan that I can put into the freezer for future use. After breakfast, I switched out the shredding barrel for the slicer and processed the big 5 pound block of Colby Jack that I’ve been putting off processing for some time.

    I sliced the soft cheese and put it into trays for freeze drying, but I sprinkled some seasoning on the chips first. I have found that I really enjoy these as snacks, and I can vacuum it all into glass jars later.

    I have prayed my rosary today, but not made one. Now that I’ve had a bit of a lay down, I can wash this morning’s dishes, prep for dinner, and face my beads.

    I am grateful that I have these tasks to do, because it means that I have a home, dishes to eat from, clean water to drink and wash with, food to eat and to share, and family and friends to share it with. My home is comfortable, with a/c and heat, television and books for entertainment and education, and I want for very little. I am reminded that there are many in this world who are lacking in so many of these areas.

    We are truly blessed.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Nice and chilly out. A bit breezy.
    It’s summer in Australia where it belongs.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I took some time to do some reading. I have gotten out of the habit, but recently picked up a Tom Clancy book and one by “Nurse Hadley” Vlahas. She’s a delightful young hospice nurse that I’ve been following over yonder. Her story is a bit of an inspiration, and I encourage everyone to find her. Her book, “The In-Between,” shares things that she’s learned from her life experiences and her care for the dying.

    Her desire is to create a “Hadley House,” a home where the dying and their caregivers can come during their last days. The caregivers will have support instead of being constantly worn out from the strain, and the dying can be provided for in a caring environment. It’s a laudable goal, so I bought her book in order to support her. I am enjoying the book.

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Texpat’s daughter is a hospice nurse. I wonder if she is aware of it.

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Happy Thanksgiving to all, and may the weather hold off rain.

    Spouse and I had our Thanksgiving dinner yesterday and brought home the leftovers for today to avoid going out today for dinner with everybody and kinfolk also there and all the tables filled all day. Such arrangements seem to end up as a zoo before the day is done….

    The staff agreed that things can end up as a zoo more often than not no matter how carefully the plans are made.

    Fall finally sems to have arrived at last. Very windy this morning and a gazillion more leaves on the ground and more trees getting mostly bare now. But one tree’s leaves are now definitely golden yellow out in the pasture.

  37. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The secret sex lives of turkeys.

    Watch what you eat.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My “girlfriend” has been away in Onalaska for the better part of the last 9 days helping with her oldest daughter’s rehab from cervical spine surgery last week. Cooking, laundering, watching over a 9 year old grandson – not to mention the patient herself.
    She’s looking forward to sleeping in her own bed tomorrow night.

    I sent her this extraordinary cover of this old Bill Withers song.

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tedtam 3:30pm

    ”In a nation where the average reading comprehension level hovers around that of a sixth grader,”

    That sounds more than a bit optimistic to me. Sorry, not sorry.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I remember it was a hot summer.
    But it was pretty comfortable upstairs at my grandmother’s house in Bellville.
    I’m not sure of my age (8?), but that particular day I discovered in a closet my aunt’s collection of 78rpm platters. And a record player.

    My life changed when I played this song for the first time.

    For some folks, Elvis was their first. For me, it was Little Richard.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      It was the late summer after our Aunt Carolyn went off to school at UT in Austin. I was probably about 8 and you were 5.

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtams 3:30 PM.

    This crap infuriates me. All this happened 12 years ago and their competitors drag it out every damned year. It’s defamation. I bet you can’t hiccup around Butterball facilities without it being recorded. For the first time in my life I bought a private label bird instead of Butterball and it is horrible. Never again.

  42. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    There is no way this kid is even 15 yet. . .. .

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My 5:37 pm

    If you hung around for the entire video, the second song features the guy who taught Texpat how to dance.
    No lie. I’ve watched him for years.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Lol, pal.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Alright, friends. Your favorite Thanksgiving DJ is headed off to his next gig.

    But I just have to play my favorite song of all time.

    And my favorite performance of it.

    Have a great weekend.

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    What? No comments on the Christmas decorations and snow?

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Oh. I thought the long awaited LSD flashbacks had finally showed up.

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon

        Either way, they’re pretty cool, Dude.

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      IF the goal is to be distracting and in the way, you have succeeded wildly.

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, I managed to make carnivore mashed potatoes and gravy for the first time. It involves toasting gelatin until golden brown, melting in a stick of butter, then adding 32 oz of egg whites and some other stuff, and then cooking the heck out of it until all liquid is gone. If that’s done properly, it won’t taste eggy and will result in a potato flavor, but it takes about a half hour to get it to that point. It should end up being dry and crumbly egg whites. Those are then mixed in a blender with some cream and water until the right consistency is reached. The blender part was more difficult that I thought it would be, because of the thickness of the product and because I was pretty doggone tired by then, too.

    So there were still tiny crumbs of egg, but for the most part it was a success. I haven’t had taters ‘n gravy in years.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The Joe Rogan interview with Oliver Anthony just months ago.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    An actual West Virginia man gives a head nod to John Denver.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Johnny Cash.
    They do it better than we do.
    Heh.

  50. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We had a fine Thanksgiving, my sister, BIL and wife showed up for Thanksgiving. Sister brought homemade pecan and pumpkin pies and pear salad. SIL brought her dressing and I fixed the rest of the meal. Everyone left with leftovers so we’ll not be eating turkey until Christmas but the pies are gone. I think there’s only a couple of slices left.
    Life is Good and yes we’re truly blessed.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Alert!!!
    It’s a rare Thursday Night Musical Brunette Comment.
    /Sigh

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Holy smokes, man. Men have started wars over women less beautiful than her.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Meanwhile, Ms. Adee is comfortably settled in her favorite chair or couch, with early signs of a grin, as her beloved Packers hold a seemingly commanding lead over the Florida Fish.

  53. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    An executive decision has been made tonight: I’m never doing another turkey. Screw tradition, it ain’t worth it.

    I tried to debone the smoked turkey, but unlike a traditionally oven roasted bird, this one didn’t just fall apart. The joints were fully intact and stubborn. I deboned what I could, and the rest is being made into stock.

    I have a big crock pot and I’m not afraid to use it.

  54. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I see that the Meat Puppet & Co. have been handed another immigration loss.

    Texas can put up all the razor wire it wants, and the feds can’t touch it.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Textam

    Mister Shannon On Turkey

    A whole Smoked Turkey is an entirely different challenge for the carver. Not to mention the fact that I’ve always found them to be prohibitively lacking when it comes to ROI (return on your investment). The remaining moisture content in the meat is radically reduced. What does remain tastes like weakly smoked ham from New Hampshire or some similarly northern clime.

    And since you asked, fried turkey is also highly overrated. I think the exciting drama of the frying process overwhelms the fact of less than spectacular results.

    Yep, I am a traditionalist. For Pete’s sake, Mom wasn’t the best cook anyone ever met, but she could manage to bake a decent Turkey.

    So, shoot me.

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Laurah Louisa has broken a few hearts already, I’m sure. Love the voice.

  57. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    RE: Tedtam’s 3:30 PM comment

    For the first time in my life, my turkey did not turn out well. I let Her Highness convince me to buy an off brand turkey for $55 instead of the Butterball for $70. What a mistake and I don’t care about those fools who bring up a 12 year old incident about Butterball just to try and hurt their sales. I’ll never buy anything but a Butterball turkey again.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    What in the world is a $70 turkey?
    Much less a $55 one.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      24.5 lbs. X $2.90/lb = $71.05

  59. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Rachel can’t find her way home.

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Daniela Andrade Live. I’m gonna stop posting after this one.

  61. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Only the you know who can afford 70 dollar turkeys.

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