Porkchops, Halloween and hot showers

Flier for this rally.

DATELINE PORKCHOPS ICEHOUSE BAR, GRILL & CAMPGROUND, POINTBLANK, TEXAS --- What a property here! Rolling grassy hills, beautiful huge Lake Livingston and a massive roadhouse that is very well-appointed with bandstand, outdoor seating areas, food, pool tables and lots of giant doors leading outside. This rally is in its first year but the bar has held a Halloween party for several years. So far, the weather is hot and very humid but the watchers say anticipated rain may skirt around us.

Two large pieces of news to report. Our shower is back in working order with hot water. This may ultimately save our sanity for the next few weeks. Secondly, we have purchased the coolest Halloween item around - a giant ceramic pumpkin fireplace. Don was adament this was a weird buy and we didn't have room but has now come full circle and thinks this little slice of seasonal crap (yeah, i wanted it anyway) is fun. We learned a trick in Paris, Texas, at the O'Donnell estate - toast a rice crispy treat inside the chimi-ha-ha vessel and then coat in Hershey syrup - yum-friggin-o. It also helped that since we've landed at Porkchops, a half-dozen people have asked Don where we got it because they think its cool and funky. His apology and acknowledgement were humble and swift! Pictures of "Jack" forthcoming.

We are set up and ready to go. We have a pinstriper adjacent and a nice leather dealing couple across the way. The first of the food vendors has arrived. We await the arrival of Deb - Harley Ridin Woman from Old Farts on Pieces of Shit. She will come down from the Arkadelphia area and sew patches on our site.

Spread the word on this event. It should be really fun.

Cheers from the front line.

Hol, Ding, Thumper and Bob

Texas sunset