RED RIVER CHAPTER-GOC MEETING BYERS, TEXAS 3-19-2011

 The Guardians Of The Children-Red River Chapter held its monthly meeting (March 2011) in Byers Texas at the Byers Cafe, today, Saturday 3-19-2011 at 1:00 p.m. Scroll down and join us today and REMEMBER: IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PICTURE BIGGER, JUST CLICK ON THE PICTURE.

 Here are some of the members' bikes out in front of the Byers Cafe.

 Some of the members out by the bikes turn and show me our back ptch. From left to right are:  REDMAN (no vest), TATU, SMILING EYES (Chapter Secretary), and WHITE BUFFALO (Chapter Road Captain)

The black Harley belongs to GUNNER (Chapter Vice President), the black/orange Harley belongs to SPITFIRE (Chapter Treasurer), the maroon/silver Road Star belongs to WHITE BUFFALO and the bike behind his belongs to POINTMAN (Chapter Sgt. At Arms)

 Another look at the bikes.

 This is WHITE BUFFALO'S bike. The blue Harly next to it belongs to BANDIT (Chapter President)

 This is BANDIT'S bike

 This Harley belongs to THOR (Chapter Road Guard)

 This bike belongs to POINTMAN

 The members talking by TATU'S bike are from left to right: SMILING EYES, WHITE BUFFALO, TATU and REDMAN.

 This is my  (SNAPSHOT) Harley.

 This is SMILING EYES and WHITE BUFFALO talking.

 This is REDMAN. He had to drive his truck today because his bike is down and in the shop. That really sucks because today is a beautiful day to ride. The weather is 82 degrees, parly cloudy with a breeze coming from out of the South.

 We go back inside and from the left corner around to the wall and then back again are; Eddie, BANDIT, POINTMAN talking to THOR, SMILING EYES, WHITE BUFFALO, TATU, KATZE, REDMAN, SPITFIRE (red do-rag0 and GUNNER between SPITFIRE and Eddie.Eddie is a guest of BANDIT.

 Left to right are:  GUNNER, SPITFIRE, REDMAN, KATZE  and that is POINTMAN'S head that I am taking pictures behind.

 Starting at the wall far left and going right are; WHITE BUFFALO, SMILING EYES, THOR, POINTMAN, BANDIT, Eddie, GUNNER, SPTFIRE, REDMAN, KATZE and TATU

 Here are Eddie, GUNNER and SPITFIRE.

Left to right are: REDMAN, KATZE, TATU, WHITE BUFFALO. KATZE was a little camera shy, so I went easy on her....this time.

 This is SMILING EYES (taking notes as we were into the meeting at this time) and THOR

 Following the meeting we all head outside to talk before heading off in different directions for home. Here is REDMAN and his truck

 POINTMAN on his bike and his bike has a great paint job on it.

 Another view of POINTMAN on his bike.

 This is SMILING EYES, REDMAN (behind her), KATZE and BANDIT sitting on his bike.

 Tracy, owner of the Byers Cafe, came out and took this group photo of the RED RIVER CHAPTER-GOC. Left to right are: SPITFIRE, GUNNER, POINTMAN, SNAPSHOT (kneeling), THOR, WHITE BUFFALO, SMILING EYES, REDMAN, KATZE, BANDIT (sitting on the bike and obscured by TATU'S windshield.

Another group shot: SPITFIRE, GUNNER, POINTMAN, SNAPSHOT (kneeling), THOR, WHITE BUFFALO, SMILING EYES, REDMAN, KATZE, BANDIT and TATU

 Me (SNAPSHOT)  and Tracy, owner of the byers cafe. She kept the restaurant open until our meeting was over. Thank you Tracy!! We appreciate it.

 Here  is Tracy sitting on my bike out in the parking lot of the Byers Cafe.

 Here are GUNNER and SPITFIRE on their Harley's

 Here are GUNNER and SPITFIRE on their Harley's

 Yet another picture of GUNNER and SPITFIRE on their bikes.

 The Red River Chapter-GOC talking in the parking lot are, from left to right; GUNNER, SPITFIRE, POINTMAN,  THOR, TATU, WHITE BUFFALO and REDMAN

 Members visiting in the parking lot of the Byers Cafe are, from left to right: POINTMAN, THOR, TATU, WHITE BUFFALO, REDMAN, KATZE and BANDIT with back to the camera, sitting on his bike.

Left to right: WHITE BUFFALO, THOR, TATU, KATZE, BANDIT ( sitting on his bike) and REDMAN.

Here are: WHITE BUFFALO, THOR (next to WHITE BUFFALO and blocked from view), POINTMAN and TATU                                                                                                                                                

Talking to BANDIT are REDMAN and KATZE

BANDIT talking to REDMAN and KATZE

Left to right are; SMILING EYES, GUNNER, SPITFIRE, WHITE BUFFALO and POINTMAN.

That is POINTMAN talking to TATU, BANDIT on his bike and SPITFIRE on the cell phone.

POINTMAN talking to TATU as BANDIT secures his saddlebag.

Tracy out in front of the BYERS CAFE. A short time later, I gave Tracy a ride up into Oklahoma and back. It was about  12-14 miles round trip. She appeared to enjoy the ride,,

Tracy standing by the Byers Cafe sign which is located out in front of the business, by the shoulder of Texas HWY79

Last picture of the day is of GUNNER  saying goodby to POINTMAN, and SMILING EYES  and TATU are still talking to BANDIT. 

I enjoyed today and it was good to see my brothers & sisters again and it was good to meet REDMAN & KATZE. I look forward to riding with them in the near future.  

Scroll down for more of  the Red River Chapter-GOC blog. be sure to click on the " OLDER POSTS" link at the bottom of EACH page for more posts of theRed River Chapter-GOC or underneath the last post on the page for more of the same.

                                   Continue to pray for ALL of our troops, both in and out of Harms Way; especially for Che Whitaker, Chris Drage and Fred Hughes, as all three are serving in the Afghanistan  Theatre Of Operations. Also for Pattie Jackson who is serving in Qatar

Until next post, ya'll be careful out there, keep the rubber on the road, keep your head on a swivel, ride safe and most important of all;...

DON'T LET YOUR SILENCE DROWN OUT THEIR CRIES

SNAPSHOT                                  

                                                                 

                                                                                                                    

RIDE TO BANDIT'S HOUSE 3-7-2011

Monday, 3-7-2011, I was going to ride up to Ryan Oklahoma and see Bandit, the President of the Red        River Chapter-Guardians Of The Children and get my road name tag for my vest. I had asked Tatu, a Red  River Chapter member and a good friend, if he wanted to ride up to Bandit's with me. He agreed, so , scroll down and join us on this ride and REMEMBER: IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PICTURE BIGGER JUST CLICK ON THE PICTURE.                                                                                                                     

As I headed up to Byers Texas to get Tatu, I took US82, the Kell Freeway. I would take the Ft. Worth exand head down to the Waurika Oklahoma exit.                                                                                         

The Ft. Worth exit would take me up on the new overpass and it would drop me down to southbound US287                                                                                                                                               

Getting on TX79, which would take me to Byers Texas, I saw that Wichita County Sheriff  Deputy's were out doing their thing.                                                                                                                                 

I pull into Tatu's driveway and see he has his bike out and ready to go and his wife has her bike out behind his.                                                                                                                                                          

We pull out from Tatu's house and go to the gas station so he could gas up his bike. The only problem was that the gas station was out of gas. Tatu now had to ride up to Waurika Oklahoma for gas                                                      

                                

Here is Tatu as we head up TX79 enroute to Waurika Oklahoma                                                                 

Another view of Tatu heading North up TX 79                                                                                          

I was curious to see if I could get a picture of Tatu's rear fender at 75 mph. I did. I like the paint job on his Harley.                                                                                                                                                     

Here is Tatu as we head over the Red River Bridge into Oklahoma.

We were at the Waurika Quick Stop gassing up Tatu's bike, when Bandit pulled up. Seems Ryan Oklahoma gas stations were out of gas too and he had to drive up to Waurika to get gas. Tatu put  3.7 gallons into his 4.1 gas tank                                                                                                                                            

Tatu and I were talking and he thought he had been turning gray. So, I took this picture of him and told him it only made him look like a bad ass..                                                                                                              

So far, every time Tatu and I have ridden together, I have taken a picture of him in front of a quick stop or something similar and today would be no different.                                                                                  

We get to Bandit's and here is a 1973 Harley Sportster chopper he's rebuilding. The Sportsters back in 73 were 1000cc and AMF Harleys. I know because I screwed up and bought a 1974 AMF Harley Sportster new back in 74 and let's just say, thank God Harley got them back...                                                          

This is Bandit's Harley. It's a 1999 Heritage Softail Classic and runs great                                                  

This is our President Bandit and his son, Gabriel. I really like Bandit. He is "good people"

We stay for awhile and I get my road name patch and we head back outside. Around the corner is a 1983 Honda Aspencade that they are rebuilding also. Maybe one of you can tell me because I wanted to ask Bandit but I forgot. Were  the Aspencades the fore runners of the Goldwings or SilverWings?                                                                                                        

On the way back to Texas, I wanted to try to get a picture of Tatu like the one I got of Thor coming back from Marlow a couple weeks ago.  So I pulled out in front of Tatu when we got established on US81 and starting taking pictures over my shoulder.                                                                                                 

This one was pretty darn close and I signaled Tatu to pull up closer.                                                             

When Tatu pulled in close, I got a shot that was pretty close to Thor's and I was happy with it as I am sure Tatu will be when he sees it.                                                                                                                     

The picture being taken, I pull over to the right and Tatu takes back his lead position.                                 

Here is Tatu as we go back across the Red River bridge and into Texas                                               

And here is the Welcome to Texas sign on TX79                                                                                    

Tatu turned off in Byers Texas and I continued home. When I got on Barnett Rd, this yellow Harley comes screaming up behind me. On it is my friend and Bass player for Broken Chains Freedom Church in Wichita Falls Texas, Dylan, aka The Kid. He had a purple Road King for sale and he must have sold it because he was on that new bright yellow Harley. I'll have to find out what the deal on it was and let ya'll know. He       turned off at the stadium and I went on in to the housing edition and home                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

When I got home, I took out the name tag and looked at it. It looked great.  Bandit, ya did good!! Now, all I have to do is wait until my vest comes in and I will get all the patches sewn on and start wearing it proudly every time I ride the bike . And this will conclude this post.                                                                         

                                                                         

I enjoyed riding up to Ryan Oklahoma with Tatu today. I enjoyed seeing Bandit again and meeting his son, Gabriel. And I want to thank Bandit for the roadname patch.. THANKS BANDIT, YOU DA MAN!!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              meeting.                                                                                                                              

Scroll down for more posts pertaining to the Red River Chapter-Guardians Of The Children and don't forget to click on the "OLDER POSTS" link at the bottom of EACH page or directly under the last post on the page.                                                                                                                                                        

                                                                            

                                             

Continue to pray for ALL of our troops both in and out of Harms Way; especially for Che Whitaker, Chris Drage and Fred Hughes, all of whom are serving in the Afghanistan Theatre of Operations and  for Pattie Jackson who has been deployed to Qatar..                                                                                             

 Until next post, ya'll be careful out there, keep the rubber on the road, keep your head on a swivel, ride safe and most importantly of all............."DON'T LET YOUR SILENCE DROWN OUT THEIR               CRIES!"      ................................................................SNAPSHOT