Howdy Everyone,

RECENT ADDITIONS/REVISIONS:
Tim Graham, Rusty & Tania Hudleston, Michael Johnson, Frank McGrath, Bruce South, Dave Tingey, Terry Wilson

ORGANIZATIONAL WEB SITE OF THE MONTH:
The Jim Bob Tinsley Museum & Research Center, 20 West Jordan St., Brevard, North Carolina 28712. Jim Bob Tinsley is a man of many great talents: singer, musician, researcher, writer. He is the Dean of musicologists when it comes to Western music. And, shoot fire, he is one of the nicest guys in the world, too. All that plus a sweet and talented and devoted wife. Take a look at his web site.
www.jimbobtinsleymuseum.org

INDIVIDUAL WEB SITE OF THE MONTH:
Baxter Black is, without question, the best-known cowboy poet today. In fact, he comes closer than anyone else to duplicating the wit, wisdom and popularity of the legendary entertainer Will Rogers. He writes cowboy poetry books, novels, award-winning songs, a regular newspaper column, has a syndicated radio program, and is in high demand as a speaker and entertainer. You'll find his web site at: http://www.baxterblack.com/index.html

A TIP O' THE STETSON TO:
.....Jack Bruce for emailing me that I had a broken link on the web site, preventing access to my religious writings. When you have thousands of links (counting graphics), you sure do appreciate folks like Jack to take a moment to let you know about a problem...........To Jim Bob & Dottie Tinsley for their warm hospitality when we visited them in Brevard, North Carolina back in October..........To Jerry & Muriel Paregien and their neighbors in Kingsport, Tenn., for several days of relaxing fun during our three-state vacation in October.

THIS MONTH'S JOKE:
In honor of Turkey Day: A big tom turkey was talking with a bull one day and said, "Brother Bull, I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree, but I just don't have the energy."

The bull looked at the tree, then looked at the turkey and said: "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings? They're packed with nutrients, don't you know?"

The turkey wasn't so sure about that, but figured he had nothing to lose. So he ate a lump of bull dung. To his amazement the turkey found that it gave him enough strength to hop up to the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. The next day, after another meal of bull dung, he triumphantly hopped all the way to the top of the tree. And that's when he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

The moral of the story is this: Bull dung might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.

Well, that's about it for this month. Hope to see each of you down the trail.

Vaya con dios,

Stan Paregien (aka: Tex Mexx)

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© 2001 by Stan Paregien, Sr.

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