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Happy Fathers Day to all the FELLASS!!

EastTexasGal

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HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL THE FELLASSS!!! Hope you have a GREAT DAY WITH YOUR LOVED ONES!!


History of Fathers Day

Father's Day, contrary to popular misconception, was not established as a holiday in order to help greeting card manufacturers sell more cards. In fact when a "father's day" was first proposed there were no Father's Day cards! The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman named Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon.

Mrs. John B. Dodd, of Washington, first proposed the idea of a "father's day" in 1909. Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife (Mrs. Dodd's mother) died in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state. It was after Mrs. Dodd became an adult that she realized the strength and selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent.

Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910. At about the same time in various towns and cities across American other people were beginning to celebrate a "father's day." In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. In 1926, a National Father's Day Committee was formed in New York City. Father's Day was recognized by a Joint Resolution of Congress in 1956. In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day. In 1972, President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June.

Father's Day has become a day to not only honor your father, but all men who act as a father figure. Stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, and adult male friends are all be honored on Father's Day. So Father's Day was born in memory and gratitude by a daughter who thought that her father and all good fathers should be honored with a special day just like we honor our mothers on Mother's Day.






When God Created Fathers

When the good Lord was creating Fathers he started with a tall frame, and a female angel nearby said, "What kind of Father is that? If you're going to make children so close to the ground, why have you put Fathers up so high? He won't be able to shoot a marble without kneeling, tuck a child in bed without bending, or even kiss a child without a lot of stooping."

And God smiled and said, "Yes, but if I make him child-size, who would children have to look up to?"

And when God made a Father's hands, they were large and sinewy.

And the angel shook her head sadly and said, "Do you know what you are doing? Large hands are clumsy. They can't manage diaper pins, small buttons, rubber bands on pony tails or even remove splinters caused by baseball bats."

And God smiled and said, "I know, but they're large enough to hold everything a small boy empties from his pockets at the end of a day..yet small enough to cup a child's face in his hands."

And then God molded long, slim legs and broad shoulders.

And the angel nearly had a heart attack. "Boy this is the end of the week, all right," she clucked. "Do you realize you just made a Father without a lap? How is he going to pull a child close to him without the kid falling between his legs?"

And God smiled and said, "A Mother needs a lap. A Father needs strong shoulders to pull a sled, balance a boy on a bicycle, or hold a sleepy head on the way home from the circus."

God was in the middle of creating two of the largest feet anyone had ever seen when the angel could contain herself no longer. "That's not fair. Do you honestly think those large boats are going to dig out of bed early in the morning when the baby cries? Or walk through a small birthday party without crunching at least three of the guests?"

And God smiled and said, "They'll work. You'll see. They'll support a small child who wants to ride a horse to Banbury Cross, or scare off mice at the summer cabin, or display shoes that will be a challenge to fill."

God worked throughout the night, giving the Father few words, but a firm, authoritative voice; eyes that saw everything, but remained calm and tolerant.

Finally, almost as an after-thought, he added ~ tears. Then he turned to the angel and said, "Now are you satisfied that he can love as much as a Mother?"

The angel shuteth up.. - Erma Brombeck -




What Makes A Dad

God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature,
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle's flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And so, He called it ... Dad

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nr

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Heard a duet today. A young father stood in the front of the church
and held his 7 yr old son's hand. Each sang to each other.
The words had to do with the father's goal to train up the son well.

At the end the relieved son gave a brilliant smile to the congregation, really cute.

It was so well done and nary a dry eye around.

Best to all you fathers. I'm doing a flaming duck a la orange for the first time to celebrate the occasion and hope I don't burn down the house!
(yeah I know its not beef, but once in awhile we need to try new stuff)
 

Faster horses

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For pete's sake, nr...if ya hafta try something new, TRY IT WITH
BEEF!!! :wink: :p :lol2: :nod:

Feeding him bird is no way to treat a man on Father's Day!!!
 
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Anonymous

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Faster horses said:
For pete's sake, nr...if ya hafta try something new, TRY IT WITH
BEEF!!! :wink: :p :lol2: :nod:

Feeding him bird is no way to treat a man on Father's Day!!!

My daughter and the grandkids have been camped at the Lake for the last week- they have invited us out this evening (when the wind goes down) for a fish fry...But I can be easily persuaded to eat fresh caught walleye :wink:

Grandma barbequed me a ribeye steak last night and it was about the best I ate...First steak we ate off a 2 year old heifer that apparently sluffed her calf this winter- came up open this spring...Put her on barley for a couple of months and looks like I got her about right....Definitely must have the right angus marbeling genes working- and I'm picky- can't stand that dry old Lauras lean type beef......
 

EastTexasGal

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Well this is a very special day. I am very close to my Dad and he has been more of a dad to my sons than a g.father. I suppose it is really hard not to compare other men to him, he has been such a role model not only to us, but to other kids growing up. He would do anything to make sure children had what they needed, and help out in situations that they needed some guidance. I can remember my friends, even boys I would date going to him to find out what he thought about things. He would always start out, I aint a educated man...but he was the smartest man I knew.

I am glad you fellas all had a special day and I want to hear what else you all did....we are heading out for dinner and celebrate just a little longer.

Huggsss to you all,
Easty
 

Hanta Yo

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Oldtimer said:
Faster horses said:
For pete's sake, nr...if ya hafta try something new, TRY IT WITH
BEEF!!! :wink: :p :lol2: :nod:

Feeding him bird is no way to treat a man on Father's Day!!!

My daughter and the grandkids have been camped at the Lake for the last week- they have invited us out this evening (when the wind goes down) for a fish fry...But I can be easily persuaded to eat fresh caught walleye :wink:

Grandma barbequed me a ribeye steak last night and it was about the best I ate...First steak we ate off a 2 year old heifer that apparently sluffed her calf this winter- came up open this spring...Put her on barley for a couple of months and looks like I got her about right....Definitely must have the right angus marbeling genes working- and I'm picky- can't stand that dry old Lauras lean type beef......


Hey OT,

Have you found feeding barley makes the fat taste rancid?? Just curious. I guess if you're used to it, doesn't matter. I sure can taste barley fed beef. :?
 

Faster horses

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If you are getting that taste out of barley fed beef, I wonder if something is amiss at your processing plant, Hanta Yo.

We buy a half beef when we need it from a fellow here that feeds barley to his feedlot cattle. The meat is fully guaranteed. We've been buying it
for several years from this place and have yet to get one that wasn't just
tops for taste and tenderness. Some friends get theirs there also. Their folks are from Minnesota where beef is corn-fed and they've even been getting meat from the fellow here because it tastes so good.

My mother worked in the meat department of a grocery store and she says if there is anything wrong in the cooler and a hot beef goes in there, the fat will take on the taste of whatever is wrong. If the cooler is too full, the meat won't cool out properly and that will change the taste as well. (I know, cuz this has happened to us. I make a point to never take a beef in or buy one right after the fair because all the coolers are full.)

Don't mean to point fingers but I don't think you should be able to tell
beef that has been fed barley. Be interesting to see what others have to say.
 

Hanta Yo

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sw baled all day today. I won't go there. Montana Cowgurl and I spent most of the day chasing cows back to where they belong, including the neighbors' cows. (We are being good neighbors, here 8) ) Checked all the water tanks, all the herds including the PH's, everyone doing fine. Got home, started cooking supper, we made sw for dinner

boneless rib steak
twice baked potatoes with home grown garlic and regular chives in them :!:
salad straight from the garden :!:
sw's own special recipe for breadsticks

We also gave him nice cards, and 2 short sleeve dress shirts.

sw has expensive tastes...shirts or nothing :wink:

Marine son also called right after supper...short visit as they are out in the desert, practicing...I think this is one of sw's best Father's Day we've given him....

sw works so hard to keep us here. We appreciate it with all our hearts. We love you, sw :heart: :heart: :heart:

Hanta Yo :heart:
Montana Cowgurl :heart:
 
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Anonymous

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Hanta Yo said:
Oldtimer said:
Faster horses said:
For pete's sake, nr...if ya hafta try something new, TRY IT WITH
BEEF!!! :wink: :p :lol2: :nod:

Feeding him bird is no way to treat a man on Father's Day!!!

My daughter and the grandkids have been camped at the Lake for the last week- they have invited us out this evening (when the wind goes down) for a fish fry...But I can be easily persuaded to eat fresh caught walleye :wink:

Grandma barbequed me a ribeye steak last night and it was about the best I ate...First steak we ate off a 2 year old heifer that apparently sluffed her calf this winter- came up open this spring...Put her on barley for a couple of months and looks like I got her about right....Definitely must have the right angus marbeling genes working- and I'm picky- can't stand that dry old Lauras lean type beef......


Hey OT,

Have you found feeding barley makes the fat taste rancid?? Just curious. I guess if you're used to it, doesn't matter. I sure can taste barley fed beef. :?

Hanta Yo--Never happened to me- and we been feeding beef out on barley for 50+ years-- in fact about everyone around here that feeds them out uses barley as there is not a great deal of corn grown.. What corn is, is raised by the big local feedlots for silage and used to feed them out to the 800-900 lb weight, whereupon they ship them to Kansas or Nebraska for finishing...

FH may be right about you having a bad processor...Since I got little of this meat ( most went to 4 kids) I have a couple late last years steer calves growing out and fattening on grass now which I will throw on barley about Sept. (whenever the grass loses its kick) and feed on barley for a couple months until December or so to get him just the way I like them....But I like fat well marbled beef....That marbling is half the taste...
 

Hanta Yo

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I have a GREAT IDEA :idea: :!:

How 'bout we have a weekend barbeque at our house, You, OT and you, FH can bring some of your barley fed rib steaks, we'll cook them just right, we'll supply everything else out of the garden (gettin' close to new potatoes 'n peas 'n carrots) plus salad plus strawberry shortcake...strawberries from the garden... we'll see if that "barley fed beef" tastes strange... whaddya say ? :?:
 

Faster horses

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You're on and I'm serious!!!!

MMMMMMMMM. Sounds too good to be true.

Gotta wait til we get this hay crop put up and we'll be
there with barley fed steaks in hand. We'll bring our
camper trailer and you won't be able to wait for us to leave!!
 
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Anonymous

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Hanta Yo said:
I have a GREAT IDEA :idea: :!:

How 'bout we have a weekend barbeque at our house, You, OT and you, FH can bring some of your barley fed rib steaks, we'll cook them just right, we'll supply everything else out of the garden (gettin' close to new potatoes 'n peas 'n carrots) plus salad plus strawberry shortcake...strawberries from the garden... we'll see if that "barley fed beef" tastes strange... whaddya say ? :?:

Hanta- I'm getting the feeling this is about the fact you don't agree with grain fed beef- Is that it? To each their own--but I grew up on barley fattened well marbled (prime) beef and I can't choke down the dry stuff or the stuff that needs marinating to give it taste....To me they are best when grass fattened as fat as they can get on grass, then fed barley (barley) until you think they are perfectly finished- and then fed another month or so for good measure...... :wink:
 

Faster horses

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OT, come on, let's go for the party!!!

Besides that, I've owed you a drink for quite awhile now and
if we meet at Hanta's I can pay up!!!!!!!! :wink: :nod: :p

I'm with you on "fed some more for good measure"...
 

Jason

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All our beef is fattened on Barley.

I did use corn part of one year but can't remember if I butchered one fed that way.

I have eaten steaks in the States that I would assume are corn fed and to tell the honest truth I didn't see a difference. I saw the difference in steaks that were CAB vs generic, but not as far as fat color.

The CAB steaks reminded me of mine at home. :)
 
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Anonymous

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Faster horses said:
OT, come on, let's go for the party!!!

Besides that, I've owed you a drink for quite awhile now and
if we meet at Hanta's I can pay up!!!!!!!! :wink: :nod: :p

I'm with you on "fed some more for good measure"...

Sounds good, but I'm afraid Hanta's veggies will have frost on them before its the next time I get a chance to get out of the county.....I think the last time was the Chase Hawks in 04.....

Looks like the state has a fair shot at rain, or thunderstorms for tonite and tomorrow--70-90% chances of rain- and the weather boys are saying where it hits could be abundant amounts of moisture.....
 

Hanta Yo

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Oldtimer said:
Hanta Yo said:
I have a GREAT IDEA :idea: :!:

How 'bout we have a weekend barbeque at our house, You, OT and you, FH can bring some of your barley fed rib steaks, we'll cook them just right, we'll supply everything else out of the garden (gettin' close to new potatoes 'n peas 'n carrots) plus salad plus strawberry shortcake...strawberries from the garden... we'll see if that "barley fed beef" tastes strange... whaddya say ? :?:

Hanta- I'm getting the feeling this is about the fact you don't agree with grain fed beef- Is that it? To each their own--but I grew up on barley fattened well marbled (prime) beef and I can't choke down the dry stuff or the stuff that needs marinating to give it taste....To me they are best when grass fattened as fat as they can get on grass, then fed barley (barley) until you think they are perfectly finished- and then fed another month or so for good measure...... :wink:

No, OT, nothing wrong with grain fed beef...just feeding them straight barley...fat seems to have a different flavor. We feed ours with whatever we happen to have at the moment, cake, leftover creep. This year we're using bull developer with corn. I'm not into grass fed beef.
 

Hanta Yo

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Faster horses said:
You're on and I'm serious!!!!

MMMMMMMMM. Sounds too good to be true.

Gotta wait til we get this hay crop put up and we'll be
there with barley fed steaks in hand. We'll bring our
camper trailer and you won't be able to wait for us to leave!!

We're WAAAIIIIITTTTING! And I'M serious!!!! We have a lot of hay to put up, too, tractor broke down today, I'll be gone to Reno 9-12 of July. We can make it work :D
 
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Anonymous

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Hanta Yo said:
Oldtimer said:
Hanta Yo said:
I have a GREAT IDEA :idea: :!:

How 'bout we have a weekend barbeque at our house, You, OT and you, FH can bring some of your barley fed rib steaks, we'll cook them just right, we'll supply everything else out of the garden (gettin' close to new potatoes 'n peas 'n carrots) plus salad plus strawberry shortcake...strawberries from the garden... we'll see if that "barley fed beef" tastes strange... whaddya say ? :?:

Hanta- I'm getting the feeling this is about the fact you don't agree with grain fed beef- Is that it? To each their own--but I grew up on barley fattened well marbled (prime) beef and I can't choke down the dry stuff or the stuff that needs marinating to give it taste....To me they are best when grass fattened as fat as they can get on grass, then fed barley (barley) until you think they are perfectly finished- and then fed another month or so for good measure...... :wink:

No, OT, nothing wrong with grain fed beef...just feeding them straight barley...fat seems to have a different flavor. We feed ours with whatever we happen to have at the moment, cake, leftover creep. This year we're using bull developer with corn. I'm not into grass fed beef.

OK Hanta, I get you...We do pretty much the same-- whatevers handy or whatevers cheapest...But usually it is a barley base mixture...I really like to use rolled barley/oats as the oats seems to give a little more fiber for less chance for bloat-- but lately oats has been a little pricey... Year or so ago, the elevator came up with some cheap corn so I had them mix some corn with the barley....

But I've never noticed much difference in flavor....
 
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