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Posted: Jan/26/2006 2:20 PM PST
CC I have heard of the word and am fascinated..what IS IT?..By the way, JAck and I used to drive thru a little town called Toadsuck..(Thats right)..what do you suppose their event is?....... |
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Posted: Jan/26/2006 2:34 PM PST
You know you live in a small town when the airport is terraced. |
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Posted: Jan/26/2006 8:48 PM PST
I have never heard of burgoo--what is it?? gooseburgers? 
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Posted: Jan/27/2006 2:40 AM PST
I LOVE BURGOO! I'll keep the mystery alive and not tell what it is  Pennygale |
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Posted: Jan/27/2006 2:48 AM PST
Okay, I'll tell. It's a vegetable soup with shredded barbecued/hickory-smoked mutton in it. Oh, it's so yummy! Pennygale |
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Posted: Jan/27/2006 3:13 AM PST
Our town is really just a little community a bit more than a mile from city limits, even though it was 7 miles from town when I was a kid. Most of the businesses on the way from town are oil and tool companies with the airport being a mile from my house. We have a methodist church, a post office, a bar, a Fina service station/convenience store that does hamburgers, hot dogs, and frito pies for lunch (all to go orders) a transmission shop and a body shop. There were 8 houses here when we first moved here in 1942 and after the war, one man bought some of the old barracks from the army base, which is now the air port, and made rent houses out of them. The old two room school house where I went to school for the first 6 years and closed down the year after I started town school in the 7th grade, is right next door to my property, long unused and decrepit. Shameful the way vandals have broken windows out and the man that bought it from the county stores junk in it and gave up long ago trying to keep it up. The last time it was used was when our volunteer fire dept. leased it until shortly after my dad passed away. He did most of the upkeep on it while he was alive and that's when kids started really doing damage to the building:o( When the government opened the base again during the Korean war, a few more nice houses sprung up. The church is just finishing building a brand new brick building and it's nice. There is a main street through town (blacktopped) with one street running on one side of town and 3 streets running parallel with the main road on my side of town. It's about 7 blocks long and the rest of the residences are more rural. Lots of cotton farms, ranching, corn, and oil and gas wells. Most of the old rent houses are pretty run down by now but in the last few years, a few folks have really been fixing up so it's looking better. Really is small town living but not like the country living it was when I was a youngster. Our old farm was on 5 blocks and mom sold all except the 1/2 block that I now have. We lived on all the food we grew here, had enough animals to provide the meat to support 9 people and daddy grew a great deal of the feed for the livestock in the back field. It's home to me. |
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Posted: Jan/27/2006 11:41 AM PST
The actual town here consists of a general store with gas pump, 2 churches, 2 taverns, post office and volunteer fire/emt dept. When there is a fire, the truck has to stop on the way to fill up with water. |
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Posted: Jan/30/2006 1:31 AM PST
Our town was so small that we didn't have a town drunk. Instead, the grownups took turns. |
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Posted: Feb/03/2010 11:18 AM PST
Our town is so small. There's nothing to do but sit on the curb and watch the chrome on the cars rust! |
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Posted: Feb/03/2010 11:20 AM PST
I think I know what Burgoo is.It's squirrel brains,right? |
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