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July 20, 2009

Soapweed

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Every year in July, stargazers from all over the world converge at Merritt Dam in the Sandhills of Nebraska to gaze
at the star-studded night sky. Sunflower was commissioned to craft a cake for this year's event,
which honors man's walk on the moon forty years ago.
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An American man was the first to walk on the moon.
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Exhilarated explorer
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I'm proud to have witnessed the event on TV back in 1969.
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I'm also proud to have a stake in the baker of the cake. :wink: :)
 

MsSage

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Great cake. Did she make Neil? Very cool.
I have been told I watched it as well BUT we were in Mexico at the time on vacation......nope dont remember it
Remember the park ranger who scared the t total be jeeses outta me by telling me to stay on the path at the metor site cuz if i didnt i would get bit by a rattlesnake and die.......geee great way to talk to a kid :roll:
Been PETRIFIED of snakes ever since.
sorry to hyjack back to the AWESOME CAKE
 

Big Muddy rancher

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This morning on the radio they were talking about what we were doing 40 years ago when the moon walk happened. :?

I think I was probably doing the same thing as this morning.


Raking Hay. :shock: :D :D
 

Soapweed

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Big Muddy rancher said:
This morning on the radio they were talking about what we were doing 40 years ago when the moon walk happened. :?

I think I was probably doing the same thing as this morning.


Raking Hay. :shock: :D :D

I'm sure I raked hay that morning, but we were at the JF Ranch celebrating out-of-town company and watched the moon walk on their television.
 

Cedarcreek

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Big Muddy rancher said:
This morning on the radio they were talking about what we were doing 40 years ago when the moon walk happened. :?

I think I was probably doing the same thing as this morning.


Raking Hay. :shock: :D :D

Nice cake Sunflower, you've got some creative talents

I was probably raking hay too, I was in high school and remember watching it.
 

Soapweed

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Cedarcreek said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
This morning on the radio they were talking about what we were doing 40 years ago when the moon walk happened. :?

I think I was probably doing the same thing as this morning.


Raking Hay. :shock: :D :D

Nice cake Sunflower, you've got some creative talents

I was probably raking hay too, I was in high school and remember watching it.

Other events when I sure recall what I was doing include:

John Kennedy's assination

Bobby Kennedy's assination

Marilyn Monroe dying from a drug overdose

Ronald Reagan getting bullet wounds

Space shuttle Challenger blowing up

Oklahoma City bombing

Nine One One
 
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Anonymous

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Soapweed said:
Cedarcreek said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
This morning on the radio they were talking about what we were doing 40 years ago when the moon walk happened. :?

I think I was probably doing the same thing as this morning.


Raking Hay. :shock: :D :D

Nice cake Sunflower, you've got some creative talents

I was probably raking hay too, I was in high school and remember watching it.

Other events when I sure recall what I was doing include:

John Kennedy's assination
Just walking back to the old High School during lunch hour...

Bobby Kennedy's assination
Can't remember what town I was in- but was at a rodeo somewhere- and didn't know until someone told me the next morning

Marilyn Monroe dying from a drug overdose
Can't remember

Ronald Reagan getting bullet wounds
I was working driving down the highway west of town when it came across the radio

Space shuttle Challenger blowing up
I was in the jail kitchen watching it because it was the only place in the courthouse that had a tv....

Oklahoma City bombing
Billings Montana law enforcement center at a terrorism conference. I spent the night at the War Bonnet Inn- and I remember the next morning when I woke up there was a Ryder truck parked right outside my window :shock:

Nine One One
Sitting in my office at home drinking coffee- when it came across the radio- and I flicked on the tv and watched the second plane crash..
 

garn

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Big Muddy rancher said:
This morning on the radio they were talking about what we were doing 40 years ago when the moon walk happened. :?

I think I was probably doing the same thing as this morning.


Raking Hay. :shock: :D :D

wasn't even born yet and my dad was just a year out of high school :shock:

BTW, that's a beautiful cake! Soapweed, you and your wife should be proud.

Edit for a typo.
 

garn

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Soapweed said:
Cedarcreek said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
This morning on the radio they were talking about what we were doing 40 years ago when the moon walk happened. :?

I think I was probably doing the same thing as this morning.


Raking Hay. :shock: :D :D

Nice cake Sunflower, you've got some creative talents

I was probably raking hay too, I was in high school and remember watching it.

Other events when I sure recall what I was doing include:

John Kennedy's assination

Bobby Kennedy's assination

Marilyn Monroe dying from a drug overdose

Ronald Reagan getting bullet wounds

Space shuttle Challenger blowing up

Oklahoma City bombing

Nine One One

Sixth grade band when the Challenger blew up. I was at work when the bombing in OKC happened, really didn't know the scope of it until I got home and I was at work as well on 9/11 and with the internet, everyone knew that it was bad.
 

Cedarcreek

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Soapweed said:
Cedarcreek said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
This morning on the radio they were talking about what we were doing 40 years ago when the moon walk happened. :?

I think I was probably doing the same thing as this morning.


Raking Hay. :shock: :D :D

Nice cake Sunflower, you've got some creative talents

I was probably raking hay too, I was in high school and remember watching it.

Other events when I sure recall what I was doing include:

John Kennedy's assination

Bobby Kennedy's assination

Marilyn Monroe dying from a drug overdose

Ronald Reagan getting bullet wounds

Space shuttle Challenger blowing up

Oklahoma City bombing

Nine One One

John Kennedy's assination:
Was in school, still remember where I was on the playground when I heard it from a classmate that went home for lunch.

Bobby Kennedy's assination:
Remember watching it on TV but not what I was doing.

Ronald Reagan getting bullet wounds:
Heard it on the radio as Dad and I were going help the SCS lay out our irrigation dikes.

Space shuttle Challenger blowing up:
Working in the shop, heard it on the radio and went up to the house to see it on TV.

Oklahoma City bombing:
Was watching TV since some of my wife's relatives live in OKC.

Nine One One:
Propane supplier was here, had heard it on the radio. Watched some of the TV coverage since the internet news sites were overloaded.
 

Soapweed

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Soapweed said:
Cedarcreek said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
This morning on the radio they were talking about what we were doing 40 years ago when the moon walk happened. :?

I think I was probably doing the same thing as this morning.


Raking Hay. :shock: :D :D

Nice cake Sunflower, you've got some creative talents

I was probably raking hay too, I was in high school and remember watching it.

Other events when I sure recall what I was doing include:

John Kennedy's assination

In the school yard playing outside after lunch. The teacher came back across from the other building bawling her eyes out. Later in the day, knowing my dad was not a John Kennedy fan, it surprised me to realize that he was just as shocked and saddened as the rest of the nation. We didn't have television at the time, so got to watch the funeral on our neighbor's TV, in the very house where we now live. Having access to all the Pepsi and Hydrox cookies one little boy could handle, it was a memorable day.

Bobby Kennedy's assination

Camped out down in the hills on a cattle drive. My uncle showed up in his pickup and said, "Bobby Kennedy sure got his." I thought that was an odd way to say it, and the words have stuck in my mind ever since.

Marilyn Monroe dying from a drug overdose

My dad and I were coming home from checking our summer pasture thirty miles from home. It was big new on the radio.

Ronald Reagan getting bullet wounds

We were calving pretty hard and there were four cows calving at once. I was in the pickup driving back and forth between the cows, trying to listen to the radio. One calf needed a sack pulled off his head, and I was hoping no crucial news would be missed while attending to saving the calf's life.

Space shuttle Challenger blowing up

In the pickup caking cows when the news came over the radio.

Oklahoma City bombing

Pulling through a gate just east of the house with a tractor while feeding hay.

Nine One One

Laura, a young lady who was a shirttail cousin from England stayed with us for over a month during the summer of 2001. After she left our ranch she traveled by bus for two weeks visiting Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon, and other points of interest. She called one night to report that she had enjoyed seeing the sights of the western United Statest and was back in Washington D.C., where she planned to visit for three days before flying back to England. After she reported in, I called my dad to update him on her travels.

The next morning, September 11, 2001, I listened to the news at 6 a.m., shut off the radio, then Peach and I headed out horseback to gather cattle in a distant pasture. A young couple from Wyoming were working for us at the time, and they met us at the pasture on their horses. I was up on a high hill when my pocket phone rang. It was my dad, and he said, "I am sure worried about Laura." I said, "Don't worry about Laura, she is back from her bus trip and is in Washington, D.C." He said, "That is why I am worried. Aren't you watching the news." Even though my saddle was equipped with a horn, it had neither radio or television, so I had to truthfully answer, "No." He filled me in on the details, and the wind plumb went out of my sails. Then a friend called and asked if I was watching the news. Again I said no. As we talked, the second tower got hit, so he gave me the play-by-play.

We had the cattle gathered, and Peach had moved some bulls in the next pasture out of the way. I really didn't feel like working cattle that day, but figured we'd just as well at least get them closer to home. We put them into the first empty pasture, and I announced to the cowboy crew, "Let's go home, unsaddle, and watch the news." We had just put the horses out of the barn and were walking towards the house when my doggoned pocket phone rang again. It was the driver of a feed truck who was delivering creep feed, with the delightful news that he was bogged down in low ground where he shouldn't have been driving to start with. It took the next two hours and two front-wheel-assist tractors to get him pulled up out of the mud.

We never did get a chance to watch the news that day. Our oldest boy was in a football game at Bassett, Nebraska, that afternoon, so we drove a hundred and twenty miles one way to attend the game. Deciding to top off our fuel tank in the pickup on the way home, we had to wait in line behind several vehicles and pay a jacked-up price for the fuel. Yes, it was a day to remember.
 

per

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The moon landing I can remember the chair I sat on in the house watching black and white tv. I wasn't very old.

911 I was watching the news before a dentist appointment. Can't explain the kind of empty feeling I had when the second tower was hit and as the towers went down. Made the 2 hour dentist work seem not so bad. Not a day to ever be repeated.
 

Shortgrass

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I was a "short timer" in the US Army. I was so busy counting days to the "big event" of my discharge, that I forget just what I was doing when Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon :cry: . Great Cake, Sunflower :D !!
 

Mrs Leanin' H

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The first one I remember was the Space shuttle blowing up. I was in 5th grade and we watched it in class. I thought it was cool we got to watch tv instead of work until I realized what we were watching.

I remember the Oklahoma bombing barely.

I was working at an army base for 9/11. Leanin' H called and asked if we were all hiding in fox holes. I didn't know what he was talking about. I went up to the front office to check out the tv to find them replaying over and over the first tower getting hit. Everyone was guessing as to what was going on. One guy said it was terrorists. Most of us thought it was some kind of freak accident. Then the second tower was hit, and the pentagon, etc. We were put in lock down, security was everywhere and FBI guys were a common sight for months afterward. Our lab got to work on the anthrax stuff from DC. I won't ever forget the feelings I had, even though I knew no one involved personally.

Oldtimer, that's pretty ironic where you were during Oklahoma City bombing.

To happier things....that is and awesome cake!! What a talent.
 

jkvikefan

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When the moonwalk was going on, I was out looking at the cows , while the rest of the family watched on TV ...
Was on the playground in 3rd grade when JFK got shot....
Too young to remember Marylin Monroe........
Probably the two events that shook me up the most were 911 and the plane crash in Sioux City, Iowa... Both made me feel sick to my stomach
 

CattleArmy

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Sunflower appears to have great talent when it comes to decorating cakes. She should advertise some the local lady down by my folks that used to do it has since moved. There are several occassions around that call for a pretty cake!
 

OldDog/NewTricks

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1957 Spud-nick
I was just waking up from a "COMA" (Asiatic Flue) Lowry USAF Hospital Denver, CO. - I woke-up and that was the first thing I heard on a radio
 

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