Jim, That sounds like an awful lot of bacon. I can remember going to the smoke house with my granny to get meat. In those days you either smoked, salted or canned. Both sides of my family were hog raisers. We always had pork. A beef on the place meant milk cow not steak. The calf, especially if it was a bull calf was sold for money to buy coffee, sugar, flour and the other staples they needed. My dad was a meat and potato man and to him cold cuts/lunch meat was an absolute no no. and also pancakes. He always said you can eat 10 of those pancakes and be hungry 30 minutes later. That man loved to fish and he spent every minute he could sitting on a bank or rolling in poison ivy and would come out of it with no poison ivy but would have a stringer of fish. If it could swim, he would figure out some way to catch it. He made enough doughball with cotton seed meal mixed in it to go around the world several times. Catfish was his first target and he could out smart those suckers. Ah, for the good old days when living was not hurry hurry hurry. Shirley in OK. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Giddens" <jimgidd@suddenlink.net> To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] rambling, not genealogy. > 40 lbs. > > BTW, It is basically a front picture of the hog, laying in a trailer of > some sort. > The hog is in tack, but all you can see is the head. I will send the > picture to you Mike and anyone else that cares to see it. I have done so > for one other request so far. I had done a little internet surfing on > this hog business. > Seems some domestic hog have been grown to over 1000 lbs, I did not > know > that. Also a Wild Hog (Ferreal) (spelling) is only a domestic hog that > ran away. All have tusk but the domestic ones have there tusk removed > by > the owners when small. 440 lbs is my no means a record weight for a > hog, > wild or domestic, so I read. > Jim G > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Gibson" <mikegibsonathome@msn.com> > To: <jimgidd@suddenlink.net>; <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:13 PM > Subject: RE: [TXREDRIV] rambling, not genealogy. > > >> How much did the picture of the head weigh? >> >> Mike Gibson >> Mesquite, Texas >> >> >>>From: "Jim Giddens" <jimgidd@suddenlink.net> >>>Reply-To: Jim Giddens <jimgidd@suddenlink.net>, txredriv@rootsweb.com >>>To: "Red River Co Tx Rootsweb" <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> >>>Subject: [TXREDRIV] rambling, not genealogy. >>>Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:31:26 -0500 >>> >>>The George Washington program at the last Genealogy Society was really >>>great I thought. >>> If I am not mistaken, it was Jun 14th the last time I got a message >>> from the RR list. That must be a record. Not any RR Co news at this >>> time, too busy with getting grandchildren married. It was not near >>> this complicated when Sue and I got married almost 47 years ago. I >>> have got my digital camera pictures loaded into my computer. I have >>> not figured out yet how to select only certain pictures (say 20) out of >>> 190 >>>to email. The string of pictures to select from are too small for me to >>>make out clearly due to maybe 5 or 6 of them in a row maybe be almost >>>the same pose and the number assigned to them does not show. I guess I >>>have to read my instructions some more. >>> I will have to learn how to avoid some many of my picture being too >>> blurred, either me moving or the subject. When I lean against a post >>> it did help. I do have two tripods that may come into use. >>> Showing the pictures on our TV is real cool. >>> Look forward to taking a lot of cemetery and back road pictures again, >>> but it may be Sept before things are back close to normal for that. >>> Maybe I can sneak some in during the month of July. >>>Jim Giddens >>>Paris, Tx >>>p.s. Did I tell you guys about the 440 lb wild hog my brother-in-law >>>killed in Red River County. I have a picture of the head. >>> >>>------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message