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HouTex

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  1. Patrons, not fans. The one time I went I never felt hated. It was the exact opposite.
  2. No harm in repeating Shakespeare: From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
  3. I’m now team fry. A friend cooked one for me this past spring in his electric fryer when he was cooking a few for a family get together. 18-20 pounders come out perfectly and it was just the basic frozen turkey from HEB with Tony Chachere’s Cajun Butter injected marinade. One of the best turkeys I have ever had. I just bought the same fryer to do it myself.
  4. We always had frog legs at extended family fish fries. They were always lightly battered with corn meal and deep fried. They were glorious.
  5. It’s happened to me a couple of times. I’ve never been able to figure out why, but it’s seemed to happen only when the roux became very, very dark (but not burned), almost black per Paul Prudhomme’s method.
  6. Didn’t Hugh Grant say he was going on a trip to Cleveland during the party while the perfectly tittied Mrs. Alves was still at the party?
  7. Love watching the tour pros deal with the bermuda rough along the fairways and around the greens. Memorial Park is holding up very well.
  8. Post round interviews yesterday were interesting. The bermuda rough didn’t look that bad but it was thick enough to prevent a good shot to the green. And the green complexes were very difficult if you missed the green in the wrong spot. Doak and Koepka did a good job with the course. As of a few minutes ago there were only 31 players under par.
  9. It is. Crane is proud of it. He knows a little about golf courses. His Floridian is top notch.
  10. Still early, but they are not tearing up Memorial Park. Many of the early starters are finished. -3 is leading. Jordan went bogey, bogey, double and is now +1 and four back.
  11. Not much. Jim Crane completely renovated it to get the tournament venue inside the loop. I haven’t played it but I know many who have. It’s supposed to be a very good course.
  12. I agree on powders. My tastes can’t tell a meaningful difference. I like the consistency of powders. It’s no wonder that the world champion cook off recipes pretty much exclusively call for powders. And they usually use Mexene.
  13. So just as in the the spring they will be playing on rye grass. I guess the underlying Bermuda would already be too dormant in early November in north Georgia? In Houston our Bermuda grass has been near perfect and it should still be great through mid November. But even at its best, Bermuda grass is never as green as overseeded rye. I thought Tiger’s comments were interesting about how the course plays in November. He’s played it several times in November and sometimes it’s driver and three wood into 1 and 18 depending on the wind. We’ll be seeing shots we don’t normally see at Augusta.
  14. Wait. I’ve worked in downtown Houston since 1984 and I never knew there is/was a Luby’s downtown. Where was it?
  15. Another brother here. I would add apple to the pie list. German Chocolate Cake is the best cake ever created.
  16. Fresca is still easy to find in the 2 liter bottle. Cans are hard to find.
  17. GI Joes with the kung fu grip.
  18. Completely agree. And user name checks out.
  19. Jessica 6 had it all going on. One of my early teen obsessions.
  20. It’s now late for Oktoberfest, but what are the better festbiers vs the Marzen Oktoberfest which are heavier? I recently had the Paulaner festbier and I like it better than their Marzen.
  21. Oh, and I recently replaced one of my garage fluorescent fixtures with an LED unit like yours and it was about $39 for the entire unit. My guess is that you just replace the entire fixture.
  22. It may depend on the fixture but i recently had an LED fixture fail. It was a decorative fixture and it wasn’t cheap to replace. There were no replacement strips available that i could find. The strip is built into the unit. But a new LED fixture can last around 50,000 hours. At 5 hours a day that’s around 27 years. My new fixture came with a 5 yr warranty and it’s rated for 50,000 hours. The old one was 6 years old and it’s probably a fluke that it broke.
  23. For the Houston folks, coming to make a recommendation to play Gus Wortham. I played in a charity event there a couple of weeks ago and it’s a fine course and in good shape. It was the Houston Country Club course until the late 50’s. Not long but lots of character and a surprising amount of elevation changes because it runs along Braes Bayou. If you were taken there blind folded you wouldn’t know you were in Houston.
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