RED RIVER CHAPTER-GOC 1st ANNUAL RIDE FOR THE RAINBOW HOUSE 6-18-2011

Saturday, 6-18-2011 was the 1st ANNUAL RIDE FOR THE RAINBOW HOUSE here in Wichita Falls Texas. As my foot is still casted, I caught a ride with Bud, a member of the Blue Knights TX XX, who was driving his truck to Windthorst Texas and was working the 2nd stop on the ride. Kyle, the Vice President of the Blue Knights TX XX was also working stop 2. I was going to work the stop as a Blue Knight TX XX member, but I got a call Thursday night from White Buffalo, Road Captain pf the Guardians of the Children, Red River Chapter and he said we (RED RIVER CHAPTER-GOC) where riding as a Chapter in the ride. So, I went as a GOC-Red River Chapter member and worked the stop with the Blue Knights TX XX. Scroll down and check out this brief post, and REMEMBER: IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PICTURE BIGGER, JUST CLICK ON THE PICTURE.

Me (Snapshot) and Bud, member of the Blue Knights TX XX, out front of the Rainbow House in Wichita Falls Texas, just prior to the ride.

 Me and Kyle, Vice President of the Blue Knights TX XX, at stop #2 in Windthorst Texas

 Thor arrives and downs some cold water. (Thor is the Red River Chapter-GOC Road Guard).

 Here is Gunner in a "blink moment" If I had brought my other camera, it has blink protection on it and tells ya if someone blinked. I didn't have that camera so.... (Gunner is the Red River Chapter-GOC Vice President.) Behind him is Tatu, the Red River Chapter-GOC National Rep.

 Here are Redman (by the coke machine) and  Pointman taking a break in Windthorst Texas. (Redman is a Red River Chapter-GOC Road Guard and Pointman is our Sgt At Arms.)

 Their time up for Stop #2 in Windthorst Texas, The Red River Chapter-GOC members head to their bikes get ready to ride to stop #3 in Bowie Texas.

The group photo of the Red River Chapter-GOC members participating in the ride today are, left to right: GUNNER, WHITE BUFFALO (ROAD CAPTAIN), POINTMAN, SNAPSHOT, THOR, TATU & REDMAN

 LEFT TO RIGHT: GUNNER, WHITE BUFFALO, POINTMAN, SNAPSHOT, THOR, TATU & REDMAN

 Kyle getting ready to head back to Wichita Falls Texas. Here is a pic of his colors. I am past President of the BLUE KNIGHTS TX XX for 3 1/2 years and he was my V.P during that period. I resigned my position when I became a patched member in the Red River Chapter-GOC...

Kyle on his Harley in Windthorst Texas..

This will conclude this post. I enjoyed getting out today and seeing my brothers from the Guardians and from the Blue Knights TX XX.

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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

GUARDIANS OF THE CHILDREN-RED RIVER CHAPTER MONTHLY MEETING (JUNE 2011) 6-4-2011

On Saturday, June 4, 2011, the Red River Chapter of the Guardians Of The Children, held it's monthly meeting for June 2011 at Perkins Park in Duncan Oklahoma. Photos were taken and used with the   permission of Spitfire, the Red River Chapter Treasurer. Members attending: BANDIT, GUNNER, SPITFIRE, WHITE BUFFALO, SMILING EYES, TATU, POINTMAN, REDMAN, KATZE, PAPA BEAR and MAMA BEAR. Those absent: STITCH (work), COOKIE (work) and SNAPSHOT (temp. disabled).  Scroll down and join the Chapter for the meeting. REMEMBER: IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PICTURES BIGGER, JUST CLICK ON THE PICTURE.

 Red River Chapter members in Perkins Park, Duncan Oklahoma are from left to right: BANDIT (President-squatting down), WHITE BUFFALO (Road Captain), MAMA BEAR (red top), THOR (road guard), PAPA BEAR (public relations), TATU (National Rep), KATZE, POINTMAN (Sgt at Arms) and GUNNER (V.P.)

 left to right: BANDIT, WHITE BUFFALO, PAPA BEAR, TATU, KATZE, POINTMAN, REDMAN (road guard) and GUNNER.

 The weather was clear and hot. GUNNER told me he got a pretty good sun burn. Members relaxing on the ground and in the shade are left to right: REDMAN, WHITE BUFFALO, THOR, MAMA BEAR, PAPA BEAR and one of their kids.

As the meeting gets under way members look at POINTMAN as he reports in. Left to right: POINTMAN (at table), TATU, BANDIT and REDMAN.

 Left to right: BANDIT, REDMAN, WHITE BUFFALO (closest to camera), THOR and MAMA BEAR.

 At the table: the ladies: SMILING EYES (Chapter Secretary-blue shirt), KATZE, GUNNER and POINTMAN.

President  BANDIT passing on information to the members present.

As the meeting closed, BANDIT gets the squeeze from GUNNER.

This will conclude this short post. Thanks again to SPITFIRE for taking the pics and to GUNNER for emailing them to me.

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

GOC-RED RIVER CHAPTER MEETING (MAY) 5-14-2001

The Guardians of the Children-Red River Chapter, had it's monthly chapter meeting at the Byers Cafe in Byers Texas on May 14, 2011 at 1:00 p,m.. Those present form the meeting were: BANDIT, GUNNER, POINTMAN, SMILING EYES, BUGGA, WHITE BUFFALO, TATU, REDMAN, STITCH, KATZE, COOKIE, SNAPSHOT (me) and MY wife Janice, was a guest.  Scroll down and join us at the Byers Cafe and REMEMBER: IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE PICTURES BIGGER, JUST CLICK ON THE PICTURE!!

The sign out front of the Byers Cafe, in Byers Texas. If you are in the area, stop by for some GREAT home cooked meals and famous desserts as seen featured on THE FOOD CHANNEL-CANADA last month.

Once inside, after checking in with everyone, I ordered a Coke and Chili. The chili at the Byers Cafe is outstanding.

This is POINTMAN. He is our Sgt. at Arms.                                                                                      

                                     
At the table from left to right are: TATU-our National Rep, BANDIT -our President and GUNNER- our Vice President.

From left to right: BUGGA, SMILING EYES-our SECRETARY, TATU & BANDIT                       

LEFT TO RIGHT: KATZE, REDMAN- our Road Guard and WHITE BUFFAO-our Road Captain

This is Janice  and on the end is STITCH- our Merchandise person.                                                       

Janice took this picture of me (SNAPSHOT). Believe it or not, this is not a booger shot.  She was taking a picture of my lip to show me because she thought there was something on it. That's her story and she's sticking with it.

This is Janice's dinner. She loves the home cooked taste of the Byers Cafe's Cheese Burgers                       

The meeting called to order and in progress. Left to right:  SMILING EYES, TATU, BANDIT &                 GUNNER

COOKIE got patched in today. Our group photo, left to right: REDMAN,KATZE,TATU,BUGGA,WHITE BUFFALO, SMILING EYES holding the 5x shirt that COOKIE will display in the cafe., COOKIE holding her patches, POINTMAN, GUNNER, BANDIT STITCH and SNAPSHOT (ME) ON CRUTCHES

Another of the group shot. Thank you Janice for taking the group photos for us.Left to Right: REDMAN,KATZE,TATU, BUGGA,WHITE BUFFALO,SMILING EYES holding the big t-shirt, COOKIE holding her patches, POINTMAN, GUNNER, BANDIT, STITCH AND SNAPSHOT.

CONGRATULATIONS COOKIE ON BEING A PATCHED MEMBER,.

The meeting over, we head out. here are WHITE BUFFALO and REDMAN taking it easy.

TATU is in a good mood and he has to go to work here in a little while.

BANDIT was trying to hide from the camera, but I just waited and got his picture anyway as he came around the side of TATU..

STITCH took this picture of me and Janice.                                                                                       

Left to right, members talking by the door: COOKIE, STITCH, GUNNER and POINTMAN is closest to the door.

Here is GUNNER.  His wife, SPITFIRE our Treasurer, had to work today and had to miss the meeting

Outside, left to right: Janice, REDMAN, COOKIE and KATZE.

Here are REDMAN and KATZE.

This bike belongs to POINTMAN..                                                                                                        

This picture was taken last month at GUNNER'S house. The RED RIVER CHAPTER met there on April 9th to go to the Apache Oklahoma Rattlesnake Hunt. GUNNER said when they left his house, there were 7 members. (photo courtesy of GUNNER)

These pictures were taken in Lindsey Oklahome at TRONS MEXICAN RESTAURANT. The picture is of REDMAN & KATZE holding their patches after being patched in. (photo courtesy of GUNNER)

Another picture of REDMAN & KATZE receiving their patches from BANDIT.  LEFT TO RIGHT: GUNNER BANDIT, REDMAN & KATZE.  CONGRATULATIONS ON BECOMING PATCHED MEMBERS! (photo courtesy of GUNNER)

This will conclude this post. It was good seeing everyone again today and congratulations to COOKIE on being patched in today.

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

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