The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

My other side of the family settled in Brenham, Texas in the early 1800's. Had a huge cotton plantation, cotton gin and warehouse, and had a hardware store to boot. After the War, they move to Ballinger, Texas. Dadgum carpet baggers and Federal troops made sure he didn't continue on as before the war.
Became a well known carpenter in the area. Built a rock house as everyone use to like to call it....it was dug out of the high side of the Colorado River! :lau use to visit them when I was really young, loved going fishing on that river just below the house. Had a huge overhang, they called "flat rock". You could drive a car out on it, it was huge. Was my first experince at catching a gar, thought I had a prehistoric fish! :gig
Yea, them gars 0p]pare pretty good fighters. I latched onto one once in Pecan Plantation. Can't call the name of that river running thru there, too near bed time. But that fish went up and down the river a couple of times without ever topping the water where I could see what it was before I finally got him close enough where I reached down to grab the line and pull out whatever it was. I'm telling you a gar what looked like as long as my leg shot up out of that water snapping at me like he meant business. I just about did some business in my britches .
 

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