Comments on: Chicken shit bingo

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:59:16 +0000

This is the first time I’ve heard of CS Bingo. I can just imagine the fun it must make!

By: Amy Werst

Amy Werst — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:46:43 +0000

NIce! Chicken Shit Bingo was on the Bucket List in Texas Monthly. Hmmm, we thought….chickens – check, plywood – check, marker – check, party – check. What the heck. It is good for the kids and adults.

The kids are out front watching Michael clean fish from his suicide mission to the coast last night. The first one got a, “bye-bye fish”, before the electric knife kicked on.

Thanks for coming to celebrate with us and hope to see y’all at Easter!

By: treehugger

treehugger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:45:41 +0000

I spent the first 18 years of my life in Sterling City. I even worked for Jack Douthit at the SC News-Record for a while as a printer’s devil. The paper was printed old style with a linotype, flat bed type of press, and we folded papers by hand on Thursday afternoons after school. I worked my way up to 0.60 an hour before seeking greener pastures doing roofing when I was 15. We played Mertzon every year in non-conference basketball games and also some jr high football games I think. Some of those Class B HS gymnasiums of that time were sure primitive compared to today. Blackwell was the worst, but Wall’s wasn’t much better.

BTW, thanks for link to bottlecaps. I used to read his AAS blog.

By: John J. Werst

John J. Werst — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:10:24 +0000

The “email this” button is not working.
There is no “print” button.

By: Warthog

Warthog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:51:21 +0000

I think that might be a carry-over from Cow Patty Bingo. Our FFA/4-H Booster Club has been playing that on fund-raising night for as long as I can remember. Guess CS Bingo is what you play at back yard parties when you don’t have a school parking lot large enough to accommodate a thousand pound yearling primed with a half-sack of corn, oats, and molasses, and plenty of room for spectators to scramble back ten paces when the big event happens.

By: david

david — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:24:55 +0000

No problemo TH. I’m not in the corrections industry. I spent 27 years printing my mistakes for everyone to see. I would not have known about Hays the city myself if Michael and Amy did not live there. And I do have an unlimited supply of pecan wood (but cook with mesquite). It would take two of us to hug my pecan trees….not kidding! We live just outside of Mertzon on the Spring Creek. The lady who operates the nursery – Made in the Shade – is a younger lady named Tandy. Not sure if she is the same one you know. Where on the North Concho watershed? I know old editors all over the state.

By: treehugger

treehugger — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:19:29 +0000

Happily and easily corrected. Hays City it is, then. There’s plenty to learn about the small settlements of central Texas, but I’m more busy with the plants (4 year resident).The TH is more about trees than env’l policy, btw, though I’ve had my share of mesquite hugging growing up in the North Concho watershed since Dad didn’t want us messing with his pet pecan trees. At least you’re blessed with an unlimited supply of good cooking wood.

Speaking of plants, is the small nursery still there in Mertzon? I used to always try to stop in and buy her cactus plants because I knew she grew them herself. Interesting lady…grew up in Terlingua and her Dad worked for the mining company.

By: david

david — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:39:18 +0000

Always good to hear from a treehugger. Not too many mesquite tree huggers out here. Yeah, I laugh at my brother and his HOA and their restrictions. The area the nephew lives in is kinda rural for Austin area. btw, there is a Hays City….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays,_Texas

By: treehugger

treehugger — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:22:43 +0000

That would be Hays County there, RT. Its interesting how the whole Urban chicken thing has taken off. Of course the HOA nazis don’t like that or solar clothes dryers either.