1st Annual Freedom Hog Feast!

The biker church in our town had a vision of having a family friendly, Christian based bike rally. After a couple of years of working on their property and of planning, this year was the 1st Annual Freedom Hog Feast.
My brother, Dave, came in to town Friday to camp during the event. He asked if we were camping, and I said "No, I have a perfectly good home just a couple of miles away."  We went out to see them on Friday evening. Baby Girl, his dog, was going to spend the night with them in the tent.  We caught her getting a drink of Dave's sweet iced tea.

Saturday morning we signed up for the poker run. It was a perfect day, sort of cool and the sky was clear.

The poker run went east on Highway 7 to Davis. My brother left before we did. He wanted to ride with some of his friends. As we were nearing Davis, we saw a group of 3 bikes just ahead of us.  I looked and it was Dave, Lynn and his friends.

I couldn't believe we actually caught up with them, because he usually drives faster than us.
Our third stop was on the look out over Turner Falls. This area has had a lot of rain lately, so the falls were really running.

 We had to squish in so we could get the falls in the picture.

As we left this stop, 2 bikes pulled out ahead of us and there were about 6 bikes behind us. We were just talking and tooling down the highway. We were just passing a corner when I saw a small sign that said "Poker Run", OOPS, to late to make the turn. The bikes in front of us did not see the sign, so they blew past. The bikes behind were  following along, so they did not make the turn either. We were like a little group of ducks just following along. Keith knew we could go to the next section and take another road to get back on track. So at the next corner we all turned, but when we got to the highway, the 2 front bikes went past it. We turned and all the bikes behind us followed. As we all turned, the 2 front bikes u-turned and became the back bikes. We were now on the road to the next stop.
As we were leaving the poker stop, we told our group that when we get to Comanche we were going to take a south turn, but they all needed to go north back to the church grounds. We pulled out and there were about 6 bikes behind us. We didn't know but 2 of the bikes. Oh well, the more the merrier. We got to Comanche and pointed to the north but we turned south. Like a bunch of ducks, they all followed us. We were headed to the car wash, but they all stopped at the convenience store. We went on to the car wash, since we were going to enter our bike in the bike show. (It had lots of bugs and dust on it.)

We got back just in time to get the bike in line for the bike show. We didn't win, but we got a clean bike out of the deal.  We spent the afternoon listening to bands, watching the bike games, and visiting with friends.

At a break in the bands they drew for door prizes.  I couldn't believe they drew my number. I won a set of clutch and brake levers for a 07 and up sportster (now I need to find someone who needs them). My brother won a carburetor, he was very excited. 
At last the time came for the Free Hog Feast, and it didn't take us long to get in line with the rest of the hungry bikers.

After the Hog Feast, there were more bands and fun people games. Our group of 7 got chosen to participate; but when they said take off your shoes and socks, 4 of our group chickened out. So Carla, Larry and I took off our shoes and went to play the game. We had to move a container of WORMS from one pan to another using only our feet. I couldn't believe it, We won.  We stayed and listened to bands until after 10, then decided to go home.

We were all tucked in bed, about 12:30 our phone went off , it was a severe thunderstorm warning for our area. Then the wind and rain hit, OH NO, my brother and Lynn are in a tent, and his dog Baby Girl is outside at Mom and Dad's.  If it gets bad they will call and come to stay at the house.

Sunday morning it is beautiful, cool, the rain is gone and the sun is out. We get to the church grounds, Dave and Lynn have everything out of the tent and are letting it dry out in the sun. We have a delicious breakfast of biscuits and sausage gravy. Then it is time for church, outside at the camp grounds.

The amazing thing to me about the biker church is the group of people that you see there. You will see ladies in dresses, elderly people in dress clothes, ladies in biker vests, and men with their tattoos and rather big knives on their belts. There are people at that church that had said they would never go back to church, and yet, they are there working the bike rally. Some people in the traditional church world may not like it, but there is definitely a need for a church like this. You can really come like you are.
There were 8 people baptized this morning, and quite a few came forward during the invitation time. The 1st Annual Hog Feast was a great success.

You would think we would be exhausted, but never too tired to ride. Our friends said lets go ride to the mountains, Medicine Park. We ran home, dropped off a few things, and headed out to Medicine Park. We rode past Lake Lawtonka,. The weather is warm and the water looked cool and inviting, Why didn't we bring our swim suits???

We stopped to look over the dam where Keith and I went on our very first date, just a few years ago.  Then on to Medicine Park. We had a great time just watching the people play in the water.

After a bit, it was time to start home. It has been a most amazing weekend of riding, listening to music, good food, great friends, and God was with us during it all.

View from the back!

Until next time.

Clear Gold!!

Today we took a short ride to Lake Waurika. In south central Oklahoma, we have been in a drought for about 3 years. Lake Waurika is where we get our water. We had heard it is getting very low.

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As we were driving around the lake, the roads were getting smaller and smaller. We ran into a couple of dead ends, but of course, we weren't lost because we never get lost. We also saw some most interesting things..

It is always amazing what you can see and smell from the back of a motorcycle.
On to the lake..
It is very,very low.

Usually the water comes up to the bridge but today you can barley see it in the background.

Normally, you can't see the trees. The best thing we saw was at the marina, notice the sign.

 No Fishing off the Walkway.
Of course no ride is complete with out food, so we traveled down the road just south of Waurika to eat at a wonderful fish place, Bill's Catfish

After a huge basket of fried catfish, french fries and hush puppies, we headed home. It was a wonderful ride, a little worrisome because we really need rain or we may run out of water.

view from the back

Until next time.