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Tomorrow, 12/7/19 is the "1st Saturday" East Texas breakfast, 800 AM, Country Pride restaurant, off I-20's Wilson Road exit, in Terrell.

strogg and I will definitely be there. We'd like to see some East Texas folks. We will be OC'ing. I will have my Santa hat on.

SIA

It's time to think about another "1st Saturday East Texas breakfast". It will be 11 days from now on December 7, 2019.

strogg and I are going to go. Lena is the next obvious person to go. Anyone else who is planning to go, please reply via this thread.

As listed on the opening entry on this thread, the site is the Country Pride Restaurant, inside the truck stop, off the Wilson Road exit of I-20, Terrell, Texas, 800 AM until whenever we get tired of talking guns and everything else.

We look forward to meeting some East Texas LTC folks.

SIA.

Lena: This past Saturday, 11/2/19, strogg got busy with work, and I neglected to put in my vote early enough, about attending. We both planned on coming, but didn't step up early enough. We will make every effort to make the "1st Saturday East Texas breakfast" on December 6, 2019.

It won't be the opening day of hunting season so maybe we can get some new East Texas faces to the next one. If C-dub has that weekend off, we just need to prevail on him to wear a jacket and not be afraid of the cold (see last Saturday's excuse!).

A native Minnesotan was contacted by the press when he reported -35 degrees Farenheit.
Press: Is there such a thing as "too cold"?
Minnesotan: No, but there is such a thing as not wearing enough clothing! :-)

SIA

After the breakfast strogg and I took the cook's tour, that is, back roads from Terrell throughRockwall, Lavon, Princeton, Celina, etc. on the way back to Denton County.

We had a good laugh at the Celina Gun Store. They had a lifesize standup photo of Beto O'Rourke. strogg got his AK-47 from the car, with the bayonet attached, draped it over Beto's shoulder, and we took photos. Since this Beto version was only a cutout, he was not successful in stripping stogg of his AK.

Lastly, in a purely coincidental occasion, we ate at a restaurant on US 380, and who should be waiting in the lobby for their party, but C-dub's daughter H-dub, and her fiance. Out of all the places in the world that the 4 of us could have been, we ended up in the same restaurant which was some miles from all of our homes. Cosmic, man. :-)

SIA

Reminder to all East Texans: LTC breakfast is tomorrow morning, 800 AM, in Terrell.

SIA

Lena, et al:

If the restaurant is not too crowded, we can simply take a table, or set of tables, out in the main room.

They do have a breakout room off the main dining room. If we need it, we'll use it.

To ID our group, we will all be open carrying, I will have my white Stetson on, and a light gray Springfield Armory T-shirt .
I will let the manager/server know we are the LTC group, so she can direct you to our area.

Looking forward to it!

SIA

Reminder to all East Texas LTC/Forum friends: The Terrell breakfast is this Saturday, 10/5/19, at 800 AM. More detail at the top of this thread.

Be there or be square.

SIA

Lena and other East Texas LTC friends:

At our Arlington breakfast yesterday, we discussed the new East Texas 1st Saturday breakfast, and there are multiple folks who said they would try to make the Terrell breakfast. Possible other attendees: flightmare, strogg, and C-dub, as well as myself.

We look forward to seeing Lena, and all other East Texas folks.

SIA

For a while now, North Texas LTC friends have been having breakfast together on selected Saturdays at 800 AM. We have great conversations and hear all kinds of stories from others' life experiences. It's enlightening to put a screen name with a face.

2nd Saturday = Dallas side of DFW, held at Rudy's BBQ in Frisco, Texas.
3rd Saturday = Fort Worth side of DFW, held at Rudy's BBQ in Arlington, Texas.
4th Saturday = Fort Worth side of DFW, held at Manny's Cafe in Hudson Oaks, TX (population 1,024; near Weatherford).

With this thread, I am kicking off "1st Saturday LTC breakfasts" for those LTC friends who are east of Dallas.

Site : County Pride Restaurant, 1700 Wilson Road, Terrell, TX 75161. This is on the eastbound side of I-20, exit 503, inside the 18 wheeler truck stop.
Date: 1st Saturday of each month. The first one will be October 5, 2019.
Time: 800 AM until whenever we get tired of talking.
Open Carry: Allowed.
WHO: Lena is from Cash, Texas, and will try to make it. I will be there. I'm looking to have LTC friends from Mesquite, Forney, Terrell, Seagoville, Kaufman County, Canton, Van Zandt County, Wills Point, Tawakoni, Tyler, Lindale, Big Sandy, Gladewater. Heck, I can't name every place, but if any of you know where Exit 503 off I-20 is, you are invited.

Finances: Everyone pays for their own breakfasts. Just in case anyone thought that the Democrats were going to provide free breakfasts.

The previously mentioned venues have remained our go-to breakfast places because they have so much seating that we can stay for hours, and not get hated on by the servers since they can't "turn" our tables. I believe Country Pride will be the same way. I had scouted some other breakfast places in Terrell, but they looked like they didn't have much seating.

An additional unique feature of this venue is that the server I talked to used to work in a C-store, was getting robbed, and shot the BG in the stomach with the Border Patrol 1911 in .45 ACP that her grandfather bequeathed to her upon his passing. She didn't kill him, but his life is pretty bad now.

My hope is that this "1st Saturday LTC breakfast" will become an ongoing event for all LTC friends east of Dallas.

I will be attending this first one, and then expect to pass the torch to someone in the aforementioned target audience to keep it going.

SIA