January 27 2007

Well, there’s some good news, and there’s some bad news this week gang. The current and foreseeable price of crude oil is making it commercially feasible to recover oil from deposits that in the past were just not worth the trouble.
Not too long ago, we had a gusher out at our shooting ranges, but as you probably recall, that was due to somebody digging into a forgotten or unmarked pipeline. Or maybe it was due to an explosion on the heavy mortar range. At any rate we all got excited for nothing, and "Red" Adair’s boys had to come out and clean up the mess.
Anyhow , last week we learned that some geologist fella named Jack Flannelmouth, while looking through some old records, discovered that everything indicates that there is a tub of oil underneath our property that will show a profit if somebody will just go and get it.
It wouldn’t show a profit forty years ago, but it will now.
You might think that this is the good news, but it isn’t.
It turns out that we don’t own the mineral rights to the land, and to make matters worse, the ownership of the mineral rights themselves are being disputed by two families who have had it in for each other since way back when Christ was a corporal.
Jack Flannelmouth, who says that his last name is pronounced the way that you pronounce Plymouth, says that our plans to spruce up the clubhouse and ranges will have to be put on hold until the feud is settled and they decide where they want to drill.
As you may well remember, the clubhouse sits on the highest point of our property, which just might be a salt dome, and all that it means.
So, that’s the bad news.
The good news is that the planning committee for the official cookbook of the Montrose Beer and Gun Club will have it’s first meeting this coming Monday, January the 29th 2007.
In the near future, they will be asking for members to donate favorite recipes for the book. Especially those that have won trophies at our annual benefit for kids.
You just know that everyone wants to get their hands on "Ozark" Aaron’s recipe for black bear liver pate’.
Oh yeah.
The cookbook already has a name, and that is: "The Texas Food Chain Massacre" official cookbook of the Montrose Beer and Gun Club.
Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

Till next week
Helga Biermeister
Secretary