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Is not what you really want for a hair style,but when you’re knee deep in retired guy mode…….and you decide cutting your own hair is a viable cost reduction option ……well…..this is what you get. I mean $15 bucks plus a 50 cent tip is outrageous….look closely….there are so few hairs….you can count them…….$15 bucks…..what is that….10 cents a hair???……..that’s just un-American
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You may also decide to reduce your monetary outflow by
grilling one brat at a time.
There was extensive discussion about reducing the food and booze bill so we opted for: 
it’s worked out quite well until we ran out of bread and crackers to apply the peanut butter to, we experimented with putting it on gerkins which was all that was left in the fridge other than the mixers for the hooch………..results were less than optimal .
tough times call for tough choices .
Truth or Consequences New Mexico is a town full of nice folks, but a town that relied on Elephant Butte Lake to bring in the tourist-as……EBL is at 8% full…….or at least that was what we heard
and we believed it after finding the boat ramp!t
this is the newly resurfaced and striped boat launch area………they need some rain…or a lotta snow in Colorado….but really they need the polar ice cap to melt before this launch will ever have enough water to be useful
a gal at the store told me that they had sold their water rights over to Texas a few years ago and that ………sealed their fate…no amount of snow melt in Colorado was gonna fix this problem. Although I know it’s more complicated than some dongface in DC making a wrong call….or maybe it was the right call and I can’t see that…what I can see is a town that once flourished…….and is now dying on the vine
Truth or Consequences had a golf course ! Hell they had two of them! I was fortunate enough to hit crappy shots,lose balls and in general desecrate the great game of golf on both courses! I hit a duck hook sooo bad it tore my pant leg plumb off!!!
we had fun on both courses…..the second one was the muni course and it needed something called WATER……as you can see from the photo above…….it was a bit dry…..
The first course was 97% more expensive because they either painted the fairways or owned a water hose…….While especially pleasing to the eye,the green fairways seemed to have very little effect on my ball flight………..more than once Karen asked “why did it go over there “?…..”because I suck Karen, that’s why ………get in the cart” 
The nice fellow in the back was cleaning windshields at the intersection by WalMart so we invited him along for a bratwurst…………..not really……that’s our friend Steve…….he had one of those “gumberment” jobs where he’d hafta kill ya if he told you what he did for them. One evening…..after a few IPA’s and some top shelf tequila he came clean…..Steve was in charge of the $400 toilet seats and $600 hammer procurement task force…. the tequila….while not exactly water boarding….was most effective. I slept just a bit more soundly each night after learning the sacrifices and contributions Steve and other brave men and women have made to provide us with a comfortable place to sit when the need arises ………………………..alright….I made that up…………but I couldn’t really remember what Steve said he did….we were drinking ……..tequila after all………that shit IS effective..
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.This is Truth or Consequences muni, the fairways were the same color as the building behind us…….the guys running this place were fantastic even if the course is a bit rough…..I would however recommend waiting till it greens up a bit more before forking over $27.50.
here Larry is pointing me in the direction of my golf ball….they just don’t come any better than a guy like Larry…real salt of the earth that Larry and he makes the best oyster shooters! I think Larry and I get along so well because we are so much alike…..uhh…we like to talk sh*t ……and we are also full of it.
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here is our campground at Elephant Butte State Park…..Steve picked this spot..and even if it was far away from the lake, The wandering around was quite good
we found this buried in a foot of mud near the shoreline,from the looks of the 30″ deep ruts and the debris scattered about that they had used for traction……..they were VERY stuck
Elephant Butte was uneventful for the most part, but that’s ok sometimes….go check out T or C….just to say ya did, the people are very cool.
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Be advised that I take EXTREME latitude with my story telling, I hope that my friends as well as the strangers who are featured in my yarns are not too butt hurt about the fun I poke….if so ya need to “Cowboy up”……….snowflake.
Round the bend 