We are at TylerState Park for the December Dogwood Dutch Oven Geathering (DOG) The Web Cam is runing click the link on the right. We have six R.V. s here and it's only Thursday.I will take more pictures and post them Sunday. It was 29* this morning, the weather man said it was going to be colder in the morning. He never is right about the weather so we will wait and see.
We had a great time at the first Dangerfield Dutch Oven Geathering ( DOG ) the weather was great and the people were ready to eat. Click on album link on right to view more pictures.
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Ruth is waiting for me to start cooking, I got two calls this afternoon so we are going to Tyler State Park Friday after lunch and spend the weekend cooking with some other Dogwood members. I copyed this from internet page (Summer is rapidly coming to an end, but there’s still time to get your (grilling) (Dutch Ovens Fired Up.) What better time to do that than this Labor Day weekend! Invite your friends and family over for a sizzling summer/pre-fall shindig at the PARK. Come Join Us.The WEBCAM Will be on it has a new address click on the link on the right.
John took these BIG fish into captivity, after many days of fishing. We all had a grate time in Chama. The weather was 50* in the morning and about 80*-84* in the afternoon then in rained and cooled it down. We had 30 coaches for the rally, there was about 12 coaches there for a month.The pictures are in the albums on the right click them and enjoy. I am going to try to get the LIVE WEB CAM working next week. We will dutch oven cooking Sept. 4-5-6 at Tyler State Park will have cam up and running. We were gone for 7 weeks had a great time drove 3000 miles
We have a new JEEP it's at home with the front bumper off waiting on toe bar brackets Dexter told me he would guard it untill we got back home I think he is sleeping on the job. They sent parts and they did not fit and right parts would be at least two weeks before they would have them so we are towing the pickup truck. We are in Crawfordsville Indiana, we will leave here Sunday and go toChama NM for South Central Busnut rally. We will be there untill end of month then go to Silverton CO.
Ruth got a new swing for Mothers Day. Send her a email tell her you like her new swing.
We had a great time at the Dogwood (DOG) dutch oven gathering.We went to Tyler State Park Thursday afternoon. when we got there were 5 or 6 RV already there. So we cooked Thursday evening, Friday morning breakfast, and evening. Then we got started again Saturday,breakfast then started getting ready for the 12:30 (DOG) we had lots of people show up to eat all the black pots were empty. The pot in the picture was full of swiss stake, they ate all of it. I took pictures of the different kinds of cooking tables the pictures are in the albums link on the right side of this page. If you were not at the (DOG) you missed a grate time so make plans to join us in June The first Saturday we cook first and eat at 12:30 see you at the park. 
The Picture above is all you need to start Dutch Oven cooking. We will be there Thursday afternoon join us and we or someone in the group will help you if you are new at Dutch Over cooking. We will have the ovens on the tables Saturday at 12:30 ready to eat come cook with us or come to eat. If you are new we can help you get started let's start with a Peach Dump Cake. All you will need is in the picture above, and 2 cans of peaches (29/30 oz) 1 cake mix (white / yellow) can cinnamon, 1/3 stick butter / margaine. That's it come on. 
I didnot pet any of these fellows and I would not let Ruth pet any. Look in the albums on the right to see if you want to pet any of them, Album South Central Busnuts
On Thursday we cooked swiss stake, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn,texas toast.pineapple upside down cake, peach,cherry.cobbler, for all 60 people. Know one went away hungry. We had a hamburger cookout by the river on Friday, check out the pictures in the album on the right.Going hungry is not one of the thing we do at these rallys so Friday evening we had leftovers from Thursdays swiss stake and Fridays hamburger cookout. Saturday it was all catered so we all ate again. We all had a great time. Saturday we went to Lometa and petted the snakes.
This is the cooks and helpers that made this a great (DOG) we had 79 black pots on the tables at 2:00. There was 150/175 people lined up ready to eat and we did not run out of food. The live web cam worked we had about 500 hits on the web page the counter at the bottom of page as 1140 when we got there wednesday when we left sunday it was over 1600. All of the pictures are in the link on the right, Look for (Dogwood March 2008) If you were not you missed a great DOG. 
This is a picture from the February Dutch Oven Geathering (DOG). Joe Roach, Park Ranger at Tyler State Park is showing all of the visitors at the park how to cook in a Dutch Oven useing charcoal as a heat source. Joe was bakeing a Peach Cobbler after it was cooked they all had a sample of it. We had 51 Dutch Ovens on the dinner tables at 12:30 and everyone in the park that showed up ate with us. We cook the first Saturday of every month and pots are on the tables at 12:30 come eat with us. The pictures from the February (DOG) are in the album on the right side of the web page.
