Rockn' V Southwestern Ranch™, near Branson, MO & Ozark Mountain Country

*Shirley's Lone Star News*

Have a blessed day! ......"The Dukes", Girty, Precious, and Shirley!!!

Shirley hails from the great state of Texas! She lives there with "her kids" Miss Girty and her little black poodle who's 'bout 4½ old, "Miss Precious" (no photos YET)!

Mr. Casey is the poodle pictured in the upper left photo. He's the one who has been missin' since Sept. 21, 2006). Miss Girty is the yorkie next to him. There is lots of cousins and an abundance of "extended family".

On September 21, 2006, Shirley and one of her friends were returnin' home from the 3^rdRoy Rogers & Dale Evans Roundup in Branson, MO When they arrived back home in Texas, Shirley learned that Mr. Casey had slipped by the repairmen that was repairin' her garage door opener, just a few hours earlier that day! Casey went outside I'm sure to "go potty", and the repairmen never even knew he slipped by him at all and was stranded outside!
Casey must have started wanderin' 'round and from what Shirley learned, a woman told she saw an elderly man picked Mr.Casey up along side of a nearby road and presumingly took him home. It's been five years now, and NO SIGN of Mr. Casey!
They still have photos and flyers posted all over Sherman, TX. There is still a reward with no questions asked, if Casey is returned home to his mama and his sis, Girty, and now his adopted sis, Miss Precious!
If any of you live near Sherman, TX and have seen the flyers of Mr. Casey, you know he's quite unique! He has an distinctive over bite and is white in color with pale bits of apricot on his ears and body. He's goin' on eleven years old. His coat was trimmed real close regularly, but he may have a longer or shaggy coat. Please contact the local authorities in Sherman if you have seen a poodle with this description. His mama and sister miss still him terribly!
Mr. Casey had been in the family ever since he was a young puppy. They were a threesome who were hardly seperated.

We're keepin' our fingers crossed and keepin' ours prayers to the Lord for Casey's well bein', constantly. We pray for a safe return to his lovin' family!!

Shirley enjoys tellin' stories 'bout her favorite cowboy and cowgirl family; *The Roy Rogers Family*. She's had the pleasure of knowin' them personally through the years. She adopted the entire family, early in life as her very own (Shirley was an only child)!

In 2000, Shirley was Dale's personal dinner guest. She had Dale all to herself for a few hours. Shirley was presented a beautiful diamond and ruby belt buckle in recognition of her loyalty and contributions to the Roy Rogers Museum in California.

She's is a jokester too, so she might try some of 'em, out on ya, so don't be surprised!! She tells some mighty gooduns! Now remember folks, she's a Texas gal, so they'll be bigin's. Ha!! Ha!!

Be sure to read how Shirley first met Roy and Dale, below!

*A TEXAN'S GUIDE TO LIFE*

1. Don't squat with your spurs on.

2. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

3. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.

4. If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

5. If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

6. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him...........The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

7. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

8. There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works.

9. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

10. Never slap a man who's chewin' tobacco.

11. It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

12. Always drink upstream from the herd.

13. When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

14. When you're throwin' your weight around, be ready to have it thrown around by somebody else.

15. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.

*Ode To Texas*

The devil wanted a place on earth
Sort of a summer home
A place to spend his vacation
Whenever he wanted to roam.
So he picked out the State of Texas
A place both wretched and rough
Where the climate was to his liking
And the cowboys hardened and tough.
He dried up the streams in the canyons
And ordered no rain to fall
He dried up the lakes in the valleys
Then baked and scorched it all.
Then over this barren country
He transplanted shrubs from hell.
The cactus, thistle and prickly pear
The climate suited them well.
Now the home was much to his liking
But animal life, he had none.
So he created crawling creatures
That all mankind would shun.
First he made the rattlesnake
With it's forked poisonous tongue.
Taught it to strike and rattle
And how to swallow it's young.
Then he made scorpions and lizards
And the ugly old horned toad.
He placed spiders of every description
Under rocks by the side of the road.
Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter,
Hotter and hotter still.
Until even the cactus wilted
And the old horned lizard took ill.
'Twas summer now and
Satan lay By a prickly pear to rest.
The sweat rolled off his swarthy brow
So he took off his coat and vest.
"By Golly," he finally panted,
"I did my job too well,
I'm going back to where I came from,
Texas is hotter than *!*?*.

*Texas Trivia*

There are many reasons to love Texas. I have found that people who come to Texas either love this state or hate it. There are no in between feelings about the State of Texas.

Some interesting facts about "the great state" of Texas:

Texas is the only State that flies it's flag at the same height as the Stars and Stripes
Texas has more coast line than California.
Texas is the only State that can secede from the Union by popular vote of it's citizens.

NICKNAME: The Lone Star State

MOTTO: Friendship

SONG: "Texas Our Texas"

ENTERED THE UNION: December 29, 1845, 28th State.

STATE CAPITOL: Austin

STATE GEMSTONE: Topaz

STATE BIRD: Mocking Bird

STATE FLOWER: Bluebonnet

STATE TREE: Pecan

STATE INSECT: Monarch Butterfly

SIZE: 267,338 square miles

Second Most Populated State In the Union.

Second Largest State in the Union.

*ABC's Of Agin'*

A. is for arthritis.

B. is for bad back.

C. is for the chest pains. Corned beef? Cardiac?

D. is for dental decay and decline.

E. is for eyesight. I can't read that top line.

F. is for fissures and fluid retention.

G. is for gas (which I'd rather not mention and not to forget other gastrointestinal glitches).

H. is high blood pressure.

I. is for itches, and lots of incisions.

J. is for joints, that now fail to flex.

L. is for libido. What happened to sex? Wait! I forgot about K!

K. is for my knees that crack all the time.

M. (Forgive me, I get a few lapses in my M-memory from time to time).

N. is for nerve (pinched) and neck (stiff) and neurosis.

O. is for osteo-for all the bones that crack.

P. is for prescriptions, that cost a small fortune.

Q. is for queasiness. Fatal or just the flu? Give me another pill and I'll be good as new!.....

R. is for reflux--one meal turns into two.

S. is for sleepless nights, counting my fears on how to pay my increasing medical bills!

T. is for tinnitus--I hear bells in my ears and the word "terminal" also rings too near.

U. is for urinary and the difficulties that flow (or not).

V. is for vertigo, as life spins by.

W.. is worry, for pains yet found.

X. is for X ray--and what one might find.

Y. is for year (another one I'm still alive) so,

Z. is for zest.... For surviving the symptoms my body's deployed, And keeping twenty-six doctors gainfully employed.

I have LOVED *Roy Rogers & Dale Evans*, all of my Life!! I adopted the entire *Rogers Family*, as my second family before I was 6 years old.
I met Roy * Dale in Houston, Texas at the Houston Rodeo, March 1964. The Lord, he made it all possible for my family! The rodeo tickets were given to us after numerous prayers! After the rodeo, I asked the Lord to please lead me to their dressing room, as the ushers kept stopping me, but I finally made it! Dale came out first, dressed in a full length mink coat and her Apple Valley, California suit. She signed everything and anything, people handed her. A little boy had a broken leg and Dale said; "My goodness!! What happened to you," all the while she was getting down on her knee and signin' his cast.
Dale came up to me and asked if their was something she could do for me. Dale signed all of my books, and we talked about Robin, Debbie and Sandy. I told Dale, I didn't understand why they had so much sorrow and heartaches; that they were always giving so much of themselves to others. Dale said, "Shirley, don't you ever question the Lord!! He wouldn't place any more burden on us than we could bare." Dale was talking and pointing with that index finger of hers. "I got the message and never forgot it either!" She quoted the verse, from the Bible. I remembered hearin' and reading it. I told her I remember reading that, and "I will never say those words again!" I never have! Dale was the most "gracious lady!" She would say,"I am what I am and that's all, ..... just a gal from Texas."

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Thanks for droppin'in! Adios, & Many Happy Trails,
~Buffalo Gal~

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