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Tumbleweeds and Monster Steaks

Two images from the long Saturday drive from Colorado to Texas. The first: two of the many tumbleweeds crossing the road near Dalhart in the Texas Panhandle. When I was growing up in the dusty West Texas desert, we played with tumbleweeds, tossing around for sport. We herded them, too, made collections, burned 'em... they were versatile. Marsha and I noticed one surly leather-jacketed biker-looking guy who pulled his SUV over and captured a choice weed for his girlfriend - evidently a crafts project in mind. The second image: I've been wanting to enter the 72oz steak contest since I first saw that billboard in Amarillo. Checking the web site, I see that I can web-order the monster steak for a mere dollar an ounce. Eat it there and it's free, though, and the site says that 4800 people have succeeded so far (no word of any deaths – the rules say the contest ends if you get sick, so presumably it ends if you have a coronary and drop dead on the spot). Note – we passed on the steak, as usual, but one of these days....

jon posted this at 8:21 AM
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