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CHIEF

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  1. My mother moved into a patio home, the front yard was river rock, and she constantly had a weed problem. She is covering the front yard in Oklahoma Flagstone. The undocumented rock masons are $275/day each, paid in cash, every other day. They are really good, work outside all day in the heat. I see why they can get that. CHIEF
  2. Seas are 3-5 ft. till Friday, then jump 4-6. Only 35 ft.+ boats would be the choice to make it. Especially since you would likely have to make it at night. Gonna take some brave souls. CHIEF
  3. I brought up this point this morning. He winked and said "we'll see." As free American citizens, with no illegal contraband, I guess they will "fuck around and find out". The Federal government could come right out and denounce it, but could also say, they aren't breaking the law. Once they are in International or Cuban waters they are no longer our problem. CHIEF
  4. I didn't want to open that can of worms. But I had breakfast with a good friend of my father, and a friend of mine, originally from Miami with family still there. My father and him used to go on Mission trips to Cuba. He said the Cuban community, in Miami, are loading boats with food, water, medicine, guns, ammo, walkie-talkies, generators, etc. Some spending their life savings. I have no idea to what extent, but he is very devout. I would take him at his word. He said that many of the older Cubans that left Cuba have said they are prepared to go back and fight to the death if need be. CHIEF
  5. Kleingrass was kinda the "in" thing to plant in the mid 80's-early 90's. It did really well in our area. Not sure the reason people went away from it. Maybe better hybrids of more common grasses. That's a great stand for just a year. CHIEF
  6. About the only thing they have going for them is an educated populous, they have no money on which to live. For sure, it can't go to straight Capitalism. You could start with giving everyone Deeds of Ownership to their farmland and dwellings. Set up a transparent commission to determine far market value of some of the beachfront property to sell off to foreign investors and divide that between all citizens. Let farmers keep what they can raise and barter the access off for cell phones, mopeds, TVs, etc. I don't think you will see huge salary discrepancies, like we have, here in the States. Doctors and engineers probably won't make twice as much as farmers. Having a roof over your head, the lights on, and food in your belly should be your concern, not who gets the wealth, or how its generated. Those are 1st World issues, they won't be thinking that far ahead. CHIEF
  7. I have a neoprene scope sock, but that looks a lot better. Thanks. CHIEF
  8. Anything that gets them COVID vaccines, medical help, generators, and enough food to keep from starving. Wanting freedom and liberty sounds like an appeal to the US. We are the only country close enough to have the logistics to pull it off. But the only way the US intervenes is if the regime is overthrown and the embargo is lifted immediately by Executive Order. Time will be of the essence, this rebellion can't last for 30 days. Protestors don't have the food, energy, or bodies to last that long. CHIEF
  9. The US better be prepared with humanitarian aid, and political advisors. With the largest population of Cubans, outside of Cuba, we should be poised to have the largest sphere of influence, mainly through family connections. One uncertainty, is how much of the Cuban population is still bought in on the current regime? With half of Havana filled with gutted buildings, starving children, and long ration lines, you would think there wouldn't be much of any. I would imagine, if the Cuban military personnel get to call home, the conversations aren't too rosy. They also grew up with that shit, and have to be second guessing the direction their country is headed. CHIEF
  10. Another thing that could help stabilize the country, if a successful revolution occurs, is a big influx of Cubans from Miami moving back home. It seems they would be very instrumental in helping establish a republic since most of the Cuban population probably has no idea of how to install a representative form of government. Many of them, I'm sure still love their homeland, and dreamed of the day they could return and help Cuba be successful again. CHIEF
  11. They will better off in the first year just selling cigars and rum in the US. Expedite importing regs and have the export buyers lining up shipping containers. Cohiba instantly has a new 30,000,000 cigar market, and Habana Club would grab a huge market share in the US as well. Everybody that can grow tobacco, roll cigars, grow and harvest sugarcane will have a job. CHIEF
  12. They probably didn't see this brewing. It seems to have been pretty spontaneous. Seems like a great time to lift the embargo, and flood Cuba with some humanitarian relief with every other MRE containing a loaded subcompact 9mm. CHIEF
  13. I think Venezuela is probably what caused this unrest. With shit going down there, Cuba has been left to fend for itself, and isn't fending too well. CHIEF
  14. We can get them pretty clean with an air compressor, but don't use it on the action, but it is tedious. An hour or so per gun. I'm thinking about getting a touch up spray gun with a stainless bowl. Even with brushes, it never gets them completely clean. We shoot hogs and coyotes from the road, so you have to be able to get to your weapon quick, which means they are kept in the open. When deer season gets here, I may keep it in the case and leave another gun in the quick draw rack. CHIEF
  15. My county requires a perc test, and you have to have an acre to run septic unless you are in a grandfathered subdivision. Then, they will require an aerobic system. A conventional system runs about $7500 and an aerobic about $11500. They will require two septic tanks and at least 70 feet of lateral line on a conventional. Doesn't matter if it's a shop bathroom that might get used one or twice a week, or a 3/2 with a five member household living there full time. They have a one size fits all septic plan, it's stupid as shit. My Dad got away with it on a bathroom used for entertaining 50-100 guests about once or twice per month. I thought it would bite my mom in the ass when she sold that place, but it was never even brought up. With 1-2 county inspectors they have bigger fish to fry. CHIEF
  16. I'd love to. But I can only imagine about 20 ways a 20 year Master Sergeant could dispose of my body. CHIEF
  17. You're right. I should have specified that it was not all kids, just more kids. Population growing and all that. CHIEF
  18. Dude, these fucks are in their 40's, they aren't kids. These people were just raised different, they are part of my generation. Poor parenting is not generation specific. What a stupid fucking take. You take anyone from any generation and tell them they are special and the rules don't apply to them and you have raised a fucked up individual. We see dads in fist fights over Little League games, people take shit way too seriously. America's main problem is that no one can no longer let anything "slide", no one in America is willing to take the "high road". When you have no one willing to apologize, because it's always the other person's fault, this is exactly what we get. We have always had busybodies, we have always had Karens, but not near the extent that we have now. We have always had road rage, but not to the extent now. We have always had Charles Whitmans, but not to the extent we have now. Have you never seen a 1950's Western where the richest rancher in the area had a bad kid that always did bad shit, and his father would always cover for him and the rules didn't apply to him? The problem is most people now are that rich rancher. The premise was always that the entitled prick kid was the way he was because of his upbringing. Sometimes the kid was humbled and set straight and apologized for his actions, but most of the time he was hanged for shooting someone, or was shot himself. The same thing is going to happen in America today, those kids get a wake up call, or it ends badly, and it usually ends badly. Total disregard for human life because they weren't taught to handle their shit. Are there still great parents, absolutely. But if this trend moves the needle .000001% the wrong direction, how many more potential mass shootings is that. Especially with discipline being taken out of our school system, for some, that was the only place with rules and consequences that they were not getting at home. CHIEF
  19. My .300WSM is absolutely filthy. It's all synthetic/stainless. Our less roads turn it from black/silver to brown, I can't even clean the dirt out from the foreshock and barrel. I have a friend the pressure washes his without getting too close, then cleans it with diesel, wipes it down, and then oils it. Anyone heard of cleaning a stainless gun that way? His gun looks fine. CHIEF
  20. Here's mine...I've told it on here before, on another thread. I've always lived in "ranching" country from 8th grade until college. My 8th grade year, I rode the bus about 200 miles per day. The bus driver lived about a mile from me, so I was first on, and last off. A young Mexican kid, Blas, and his younger siblings were the next on/off. So Blas and I spent a lot of time together. His parents were undocumented, and worked in the Plantation Foods turkey plucking plant. They would show up at the bus stop in a 1970's Olds 98 with 15 people in the car. Blas and the others would hop out and get on the bus. He was always a great kid, and we spent the time on the bus polishing up his English, while I learned a little Spanish. We were pretty tight friends. The next year, I had to drive to school because the buses ran before football practice was over. Well, a few years ago, Blas' name came up on Facebook. So I hit him up to see what he was up to. He had moved one school district over to a 2A school where he graduated as Valedictorian. But he, also being undocumented, wasn't able to accept any of his scholarship offers. Blas went into the army, where he became a Master Sergeant at the end of his 20 years of service. His service granted him US citizenship, and he has been all over the World. I've seen pictures of him and his family in Venice, Berlin, Paris, London, etc. Last year was the best, his absolutely gorgeous daughter had graduated Magna Cum Laude from Baylor. To be honest, it was kinda dusty. He has gone a long way from being that little kid getting out of that packed to the gills Olds 98 with his Goodwill and garage sale wardrobe to where he is today. He was always happy, determined, and his parents were determined that he would have a better life than they had, they gave him the opportunity. He had that same determination for his kids. CHIEF
  21. Not at 2 a.m. and I've never had a tarp that didn't leak at 75 mph. CHIEF
  22. I think Slorch is on to something. Kids are no longer taught by their parents how to deal with disappointment, rejection, or life difficulties. They are taught they are perfect, it is the other person who is at fault, and that retribution is ok. The retribution is just a lot worse when these kids grow into adulthood. Then you add in addictions, and they are part of the wrong crowd, they are invincible in their eyes, and shit turns deadly. When I was a kid, if I got in trouble at school, I could expect to be in trouble when I got home. My parents, taught me how deal with disappointment, difficulties, rejection, and depression, and how to be respectful, courteous, sympathetic and conscious of other's feelings. My wife had the same "old school" upbringing as I. That is the way we raised our son as well. At 23, he has all of those traits. I have never had to bail him out of a difficult situation, caused by any of those negative traits. He had a few classmates, that were raised in the former, that are now in jail. They were the perfect bad examples. Their parents were the ones that always sided with their kid over the teacher, which seems to be the new norm. All that teaches the kid is they don't have to respect authority (even if the authority figure is wrong) because Mama always has their back. But Mama has a lot more difficult job when things go criminal. CHIEF
  23. Wow, what a night. Everybody started packing up and leaving because there were going to be storms overnight. If you get 2-3 inches on the lease, you will not get your truck out for 3-4 days, or more. You always have to be watching the weather up there. CHIEF Jr. and I made the decision that we were going to take my truck and gooseneck to the front gate, take the Ranger back to camp, and rough it back out in the morning. It was cooler in the evening, we had purchased a 1500 lb. protein feeder, and were hauling the last load in, when a ball joint popped loose on the Ranger. That changed everything, suddenly it's leave the gooseneck at the top of the river crossing, and take my truck back to camp, load up, and get the hell out. This is at 11 p.m. The run to camp from our stand is about 20 minutes, took us about 20 to load, and get everything buttoned up. By this time we can see the lightning lighting up the thunderheads to the north of us. I had purchased a ton of protein, we put 1450 lbs. in the feeder, so I still had 550 lbs. on the trailer, no tarp, and would have a $320 loss if it got wet. We haul ass back to the gooseneck, hook it up, throw on the Ranger and tie it and the remaining protein down. It still is 30 minutes to the front gate, by the time we get there it is 1 a.m. we have to run east for about 80 miles before turning south, and these thunderstorms are moving north to south. So it's 85 mph from west of Benjamin all the way to Olney. CHIEF Jr. is driving, and I'm on the radar app watching. We thought we were going to get caught in Olney, when we turned south towards Graham, we could see heavy rain to our north about a half mile with each lightning flash. We turned south and put some distance between us and the storm front. But of course, we have to stop in Graham at 2:30 a.m. for CHIEF Jr. to pick up his Whataburger order that he called ahead and ordered, the storm almost caught us again. Now, I'm driving and CHIEF Jr. is on the radar app. We have a hail core to our left, in Grayford, that I am pretty certain is going to catch us in Mineral Wells. When we turned to get back over to 281 in Mineral Wells, I ran 60-70 mph almost to main street, turned south and finally got enough distance to not see lightning right behind us. We pulled into my shop, as soon as we got home, and shut the overhead door, crisis averted. We walked into the front door, here, in Granbury, at 4:51 a.m. By 4:58, it was raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock. I was so wound up, from being chased by the storm, I couldn't go to sleep, watched the lease get absolutely pounded on radar. I took a shower and watched the sun come up. Finally hit the sack about 6:30 a.m. I'm too old for this shit. CHIEF
  24. I go all hillbilly on shit like this. My electrician can pull any permit needed, but rarely does. For septic, I read the county rules, but never pull permits, just tell them it was an existing system from when permits weren't required. The previous structure was an unlivable 1970's mobile home, and I drug it off. Works great in the rural areas that were once cheap land. The septic on my 6 acres cost me about $2500. CHIEF
  25. At the lease for a work weekend. Saw that big Aoudad ram again. I’m shooting that fucker as soon as we get cooler temperatures. Gonna find us a good swimming hole on the river this evening. The river is as clear as the Comal up here. Never would have thought it. CHIEF
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