Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014

[jfink]

Thanks Scott and everyone involved for organizing and providing free eats. Everything was great, including seeing old friends (you know who you are!) and meeting new ones.

The Clear Lake contingency.

 

[cdc]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Thanks Scott and Beth for the hospitality!


From mobile

 

[jhansen]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Thanks again Beth and Scott.


Jeff

 

[RockmanTex]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Thanks Beth & Scott. First class as always.

Steve

 

[Tourmeister]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Anyone happen to pick up a strap about 1" wide and 3" long with a black handled key on it? I think I set it on the kitchen counter and now can't find it anywhere. It goes to our riding mower, which is REAL hard to push back into the garage...

 

[4jranch]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Yes, as all have said, thanks for the food and great time. Very nice to be invited to your home and be served so well...

 

[Tourmeister]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Oh... And thanks to everyone for coming!! I'll post pics later.

 

[euromedic]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Much obliged to the Fridays for a nice day of food and fellowship. Have a good weekend.

 

[wilke]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Thanks Beth and Scott for your hospitality,had a great time.

 

[Dragwn]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Another hearty Thanks from myself, was what the Doctor didn't know to order. Got into some rain coming home but the biggest worry was the heavily lightning so I stopped in Corsicana.

Did anyone know there is a Tesla charging station at the Fruitcake place? And it actually gets used, and got to talk to a Tesla owner at length while I let the light show pass.

 

[Dragwn]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Oh and looking forward to seeing if you happened to get the elusive picture of me smiling at some point, people don't believe they are ever taken and its nice to prove otherwise. I do think you have one with me stuffing my face with a burger tho. *laugh*

 

[Texas T]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Oh... And thanks to everyone for coming!! I'll post pics later.

Oh. That was today?

Guess I should have made my plane reservations sooner.

 

[JacknTexas]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Tina and I really enjoyed the chance to visit with old friends and make a couple of new ones as well.

Thanks to the Fridays for opening up their home for everyone.

ps- Was the "burger bash" also an undercover BMW owners rally? Lots of Beemers in the driveway today.

 

[slaterock]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Thanks for the burgers and a great time! I really enjoyed it.

 

[mtnbikeboy]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Thanks to Scott and Beth for all their hospitality. It was great to meet everyone. We made it home without encountering any rain. It started at about 10:30 in Longview.


Scott, CR4020 worked out well. It was dry & hard & a good diversion from 19 even for only 14 miles.

 

[Dragwn]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

You got lucky with the rain then, glad it stayed away.

Distress signal from the Nostromo.

 

[Tourmeister]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

And now for some pics...

Where the magic happens

Some of the "fixins" that go with the burgers

I set out some stuff that needed to find a new home, and I managed to get ride of quite a bit, but somehow a few "extras" found their way from someone else's garage to mine

Camillo "cdc" and James Cain

Lynn and Jeff "4Jranch"

We had 19 kids running all over the place - no fights, no injuries, and no one got in trouble for anything... ALL DAY

and the hot dogs were a big hit with them

Dusty and Jennifer Jones, friends from Church

Zachary... a TOTALLY full of little boy enthusiasm and energy!!

Camillo "cdc", Steve "desmo", Hardy Baker, Dave "Cagiva549" and Jeff(?)

Dave Smith - Friend from Church and local BMW rider that has attended numerous Pie Runs and Burger Bashes

James Cain and Steve "RockmanTX"

Jack "JacknTexas" and Tina Cope

Beth's Dad and Paula Conway (friend from Church and Zachary's Grandmother)

Erma Dowden, friend from Beth's old banking job in her life before kids

Keith "Dragwn"... NOT smiling

Jeff "Jhansen" and his wife Kelly

Christi (local friend) and my Dad

Our fleet of bikes (includes an XR 50 hidden behind Snoopster's BMW on the end)

Lilly knows a good burger when she tastes one!!

Most folks started heading out sometime around 2:00ish... but we had more coming in later. This is Mtnbikeboy and his wife on their Transalp

A better shot of them. She wound up with one of James Cain's give away jackets and a pair of gloves from Snoopster. I tried to give them as much stuff as I could but they were running out of room on the bike

Posers... Rylan and Christian Winston (live in the house behind them) and Daniel (lives in my house... )

As usual, there were a lot of other folks in attendance whose pictures I did not take. I was having to juggle cooking duties with taking pictures, visiting with folks and keeping an eye on all the kids. We had quite a few folks from our neighborhood come over as well. The weather turned out to be perfect. We never got any rain and the temp was in the mid 60's with no humidity. It was really nice getting to see everyone.

I hope to do another Burger Bash in the fall, usually Sept or Oct. But if all goes according to plan, I hope to be studying for the Professional Engineering exam which is in October, so I might have to schedule a Burger Bash a little later than normal.

 

[Tourmeister]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Scott, CR4020 worked out well. It was dry & hard & a good diversion from 19 even for only 14 miles.

The road I am familiar with is just East of that, CR 4025. It is a fun road, but it has a LOT of sand, quite deep in some places. I think that is the one I had in mind when you were asking me about 4020 but I could not recall the numbers. I am glad you did not end up on 4025 and your bike with a passenger on those tires would have been quite the adventure!

 

[Zippy]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

We want to add our great big THANK YOU TO SCOTT AND BETH too! We had a really nice time visiting with everyone at the Burger Bash and the food was GREAT!! We were wondering too if it was a BMW get together?? Of course we were on an RT, so we were right at home.

On the way home we stopped at Able's gun store and looked around and watched the Professional Clays Shooters blast some clays out of the sky. This was certainly a "man's day" for Zippy!!! ;

Thanks again Scott and Beth for your hospitality!!

Lee and Zippy (Walter)

 

[jhansen]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Jeff "Jhansen" and his wife Kelly. I better get that fixed now !


Jeff

 

[jhansen]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

http://www.twtex.com/linkfiles/040514-BurgerBash/SVF_6596.JPG


Jeff

 

[Tourmeister]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

I am horrible with names and I could not remember if Kelly was right, so I did not want to post it and find out it was something else. You know... she might read this and ask you, "So... who's this Kelly he's talking about...?"

 

[jhansen]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

LOL! By the way on the way out on 980 south from your house about a half mile if that we saw a Bald Eagle ! Left hand side of the road being harassed by several smaller birds.


Jeff

 

[Desmo]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

Thanks for the burgers and a great time! I really enjoyed it.

Sean, it was good talking with you. You need to come do some rides with us. That white 990 is WAY TOO CLEAN.

A big thanks to the Fridays and every one elso who helped put this together. The weather forecasts for Saturday were rainy and I bet that kept a few at home. But it turned out perfect.

Steve

 

[Tourmeister]

Re: Spring Burger Bash - Huntsville, Tx., Saturday 04/05/2014 - 10:00am-5:00pm

LOL! By the way on the way out on 980 south from your house about a half mile if that we saw a Bald Eagle ! Left hand side of the road being harassed by several smaller birds.


Jeff

Now that is interesting! Beth saw one not long ago in a big field on the side of I-45 near the Holiday Unit (North side of town before the truck stops). It was sitting in the very top of the ONLY tree in several hundred acres of grazing fields. She said it was huge and the white head was VERY obvious. A few months ago, I was heading South on FM 1791 and as I dropped down into the San Jacinto river lowlands, there was a bald eagle sitting in the top of a tree near the road. I tried to get pics of him but he was watching me and kept flying just a little too far away for me to get a good shot. I would move, start to set up for the pic, and he'd do it again. Finally he just took off and flew out over the wetlands area that was created in that area not long ago. I looked them up recently and they are known to live this far South. We've never seen one so close to our place though.