{"id":2253,"date":"2012-01-22T21:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T21:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2018-11-08T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:36:54","slug":"quail-hunt-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/kermit-weeks\/quail-hunt-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Quail Hunt 2011!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got invited out again to the Kelleher\/Agather Quail Hunt in west Texas again and had a blast. \u00a0I&#8217;ve blogged about it before so won&#8217;t go into the details of the event but this year had some interesting and fun twists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2255\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 576px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kermit-and-Aaron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2255  colorbox-2253\" title=\"Kermit and Aaron\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kermit-and-Aaron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Roommate!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Guess who my roommate was? \u00a0Country Star Aaron Tippin! \u00a0He did some singing for the group on an old guitar and I got a chance to bang out a few songs on an old piano they have at the ranch house where we all gather to eat, drink and be merry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 559px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kermit-and-Bud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2259     colorbox-2253\" title=\"Kermit and Bud\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kermit-and-Bud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shamans Bud &quot;Light&quot; Feather and Kermit the Brave &quot;Lost-his-Feather&quot; pleading to the Great &quot;Spirits&quot; to show up later for the evening&#39;s festivities in an actual Indian ceremonial cave complete with petroglyphs!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As is the protocol, we drive around the 200,000 acre ranch all day in search of the elusive Quail (I&#8217;ve never had the heart) and gather in the evenings to tell tall tales with aviation greats such as Bob Cole (Jimmy Doolittle&#8217;s copilot), Dick Rutan (around the world flight), Bud Day (longest POW in Vietnam), Tex Hill (highest scoring Flying Tiger, now deceased), Sean Tucker (airshow performer extraordinaire \/ heli-ski partner), Clay Lacy (movie pilot), and\u00a0an assortment of Air Force generals, etc. \u00a0As I mentioned before, most of the shots fired are with a glass and based on the groups past hunting record Fish and Game is considering giving us a conservation award!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 557px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kermit-with-CitationJet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2266    colorbox-2253\" title=\"Kermit with CitationJet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Kermit-with-CitationJet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">My carriage for the trip!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This year was a great surprise when I got a chance to fly out from Ft. Worth and back in a Cessna Citation Jet. \u00a0I got to ride up front and actually got to take-off and land it. \u00a0What a blast! \u00a0I am hoping one day my Stayhealthy investment will pay off so I can get my <em>own<\/em> personal transportation. \u00a0I guess I&#8217;d better get my Instrument Rating first! \u00a0We&#8217;ll see!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2269\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 418px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Aaron-Tippin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2269    colorbox-2253\" title=\"Aaron Tippin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Aaron-Tippin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron listening to Naked in Jamaica!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the weekend I got a chance to play Aaron my songs <em>Naked in Jamaica<\/em> as well as <em>Daddy&#8217;s Little Girl!<\/em> He was impressed! \u00a0What a great fun group of guys. \u00a0I can&#8217;t wait until next year!<\/p>\n<p>Kermit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got invited out again to the Kelleher\/Agather Quail Hunt in west Texas again and had a blast. \u00a0I&#8217;ve blogged about it before so won&#8217;t go into the details of the event but this year had\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,15,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-travel","category-kermit-weeks","category-notable_friends_and_visitors","quail-hunt-2011"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6341,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/6341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasyofflight.com\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}