Spring Burger Bash in Huntsville on 3/21

[Tourmeister]

Howdy,

Here are the few shots I got during our recent Burger Bash. Thanks to all that made it out, we enjoyed having you here! Jbay, Stephanie and Matthew were the first to show a little after 11:00am. Then everyone else started rolling in. James Cain showed up with his wife on the bike and they were loaded down with pork chops and homemade deer sausage

Rachel is ready to entertain...

Jbay's dog "Sammy" gets an inspection from Daniel

Janice (James Cain's wife) holding Rachel, and Stephanie (Jbay's wife)

It was a Beemerfest. Daniel had to go out and inspect the hardware

Janice and Rachel again

Steve "Rockmantex" Anderson

James on the left.

Beth and Raul "Houstonredrider" manning the grill

Oh wait... Raul was just pestering the cook

Dave Smith, Matthew, Jbay and Stephanie

Hardy Baker, Raul, Steve, Sandy (Raul's wife) and Larry

So I have been itching to get an 18-200mm Nikon VR zoom lens for my Nikon D40. Raul and Sandy have one on their D90 and Raul let me borrow it. Most of the following shots were made with it. It is great because I don't have to swap lenses. I have an 18-55 and a 55-200, so the one lens replaces both of mine. Best of all, I can get shots of people from far away and they don't realize I am taking their picture

Hardy Baker

James Cain and Steve "Desmo" Tanner

Mike "mikecontex", Dick "BlueDevil" and Cynthia (Mike's wife)

Sammy - Jbay's cool dog

Beth still cranking out the burgers and hot dogs

The deer sausage and some regular sausage

Hardy Again...

Larry

Steve and Sandy

It is close to Daniel's nap time and all the excitement is wearing him out...

Steve relaxes after a good meal

Has to have been a "negligent discharge"... I don't recall taking this one

Phil "Pkiser" and Vernon Friday (my Dad)

Yes I know, my talent for catching people with their eyes closed is astounding

Tom "tjbrandt50"

Steve and Phil testing the fit of the 1200GS

Steve and James

Debbie "Snoopster" McMullen

Raul and Sandy's beautiful twin daughters (whose names I can never remember )

Daniel

Raul testing the seat height on my KLR

(You know you want one! )

As usual, I managed NOT to get pics of everyone There were quite a few other folks in attendance. Most folks took off around 2:30-3:00pm I think. It was such a beautiful day, they decided to get in some more riding. Pkiser hung around a bit to help with putting away tables and stuff. About 15 minutes after everyone had left, a couple shows up with apple pie! Bob and Donna something... We had a nice visit, and the apple pie was great I ate wayyyy too much.

Around 6:00pm, I got ahold of Casey "Gotdurt". He and some other members of the TORCH group were out riding in the Sam Houston National Forest. We loaded up left overs and headed out to their camping spot to see if we could off load some of the food. We brought pork chops, deer sausage, potato salad, chips and apple pie. Once they started heating up the meat, I could not take it and had to have another pork chop Beth and the kids headed back before it got too late. I hung out with the folks around the camp fire and we had a great visit. About 11:00pm, it was time to ride back home through the woods. I forgot my jacket liner and my jacket is mesh. It was damp and cool, which made for a cold ride home.

All in all, a great day. Although, I probably put a few extra pounds on from all the eating...

 

[Texas T]

Debbie "Snoopster" McMullen

Somebody got a haircut.

Raul and Sandy's beautiful twin daughters (whose names I can never remember )

That's easy. They are Future Heartbreaker I and Future Heartbreaker II

 

[Squeaky]

That's easy. They are Future Heartbreaker I and Future Heartbreaker II

Pirate on the left, Princess on the right.

 

[Texas T]

Pirate on the left, Princess on the right.

 

[Squeaky]

As toddlers, they'd pretend to be a pirate and a princess. It's how I've always remembered them (since I forget people's real names and only remember screen names, I guess I was bound to forget theirs too).

 

[Bob Dahringer]

Ah, thats what we were late for. (props to James for the deer sausage, delish. )
Bob n Donna

 

[Prothos]

looks like everyone had a good time. I wanted to attend but had some last minute change of plans from the family.

 

[TWTim]

I wish you guys weren't so far away. That looks like just my kind of scene.

 

[Outlander]

Thanks Scott and Beth for having us. We had a very good time.

My daughters names are Angels (in red) and Gisela (in Pink). Angels is more Tomboy and Gisela is all into girly girl stuff. We have both doing TaekWonDo and in order to have Gisela doing sparring we got her a set of pink sparring gear She looks kick a... cute.

Yes Scott, I want one. I was lurking at the KLX and the XR-R but afer almost droping your KLR form the kick stand, I think the KLR is the tallest I should get.

 

[Texas T]

My daughters names are Angels (in red) and Gisela (in Pink). Angels is more Tomboy and Gisela is all into girly girl stuff.

Make sure your wife keeps up her shooting practice, she may need to break out the shotgun in another ten years or so when the neighborhood boys start hanging around.

 

[Gilk51]

That's easy. They are Future Heartbreaker I and Future Heartbreaker II

Make sure your wife keeps up her shooting practice, she may need to break out the shotgun in another ten years or so when the neighborhood boys start hanging around.

Ok, I am thinking NEAR future - much sooner than 10 years.

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I would of made it down but had a V-Strom-only RTE to attend.
(It would be bad if the organizer of the RTE skipped out and went to Huntsville instead )

 

[Jbay]

Sammy enjoyed the whole east Texas thing ...