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Just got our estimate and designs from the contractor. He says its 124 linear feet. with 8' diving well.

Any .224 guys out there? I'd like to put one together, but would love a review from someone who owns/shoots one. TIA

I'm confused, did they actually create a time crystal or are they just saying they modeled it with the quantum computer?

I haven't read this thread, so forgive if this has been addressed. But may we please have a direct link to "6th Street Journal" at the bottom of the page?

If you're looking for traffic updates ... traffic in Midland has been brutal this week since everyone has come back from their summer homes and are back in the office now.

I'll chime in. A large part of my high handicap index, is the fact that I get into trouble off the tee and am often scrambling for bogey or worse. At Bandon, I think I hit 10 fairways, on my worst driving round of the whole trip. Not necessarily because my aim was better, but because in general, the fairways seemed to be quite large at the distances where a typical tee shot would land.

New to this thread since the switch from TOS, but I'm fresh off a Bandon trip and I came by to say, if you haven't been go, and if you have been, you know you need to go back. That place is like nothing I've ever seen ... We had a group of 8 arriving 8/1. We did some punchbowl putting that night. The next morning, we did Pacific Dunes, ate lunch then played Bandon Dunes 8/3 we played Old Mac at 11am 8/4 we started at Sheep Ranch and ended the trip at Bandon Trails after lunch. I'm a 19 index on GHIN and shot mid 90s on all my rounds. (I know I don't really belong in this thread with a handi that high, but don't-care-had-golf)

Thanks for the offer. I'm more focused on Bonanzas at the moment, but I'm not opposed to the right turbo 210 as well.

I need to find out what year Cessna switched the engine driven hydraulics for the electric pump. I've heard that can cause some headaches. I'm currently 2nd in line for an A36TC Bonanza, some bastard beat me to the punch with his deposit. If he walks, I'm ready to send my mechanic over to give it a look.

I have false started on purchasing my first plane several times over the last few years. (just look at my post history on this thread for example). But after driving back from Crested Butte yesterday for the 4th time in 2021, I'm very, very ready to get something bought. The idea of making the trip in < 4 hours among the clouds vs white knuckling an 11 hour drive at 85mph is very enticing. I'll admit to spending much of my drive yesterday day dreaming about taking the trip from KGUC to KMDD. The problem is my timing sucks. Looking through controller/trade-a-plane and some of the aviation forums I follow, the inventory of six place, turbo charged (or turbo normalized) piston singles is as low as I've ever seen it. Any ideas on where else I could be looking? I've talked to one plane broker, but he wants what seems to be quite a high fee just to help me look, and he wants to get paid rather I find something to buy or not.

That's the pool, sub concrete and "some landscaping" Like I said, I'm waiting for some more detail, but this is seriously making me think I need to be in the pool installation business

I got a verbal number back on the pool bid. Waiting for more detail, but let’s just say I’m sticker shocked and will be soliciting other bids as soon as I can find someone else to bid it. I know it’s a large-ish pool, but $250k seems a bit steep. Is that what you guys are paying?

If I had owned my place in CB when that order went through, at a minimum I would lobby to proportionately reduce my property taxes by the percentage of the year that I was forbidden to use my house.

I've been working on my instrument rating this spring. Last week I was excited to not have to wear the hood and get some actual IMC in my logbook. However, I also got the opportunity to shoot an approach to minimums for the first time ... Holy Shit. Did you more seasoned guys ever get used to that feeling of popping out of the clouds and them almost immediately sticking your wheels on the ground?

I usually spend about three weeks a year in Colorado between Crested Butte and Telluride. In general, I haven't felt or seen much of the aggression against Texans that others have reported. In fact, I bought a place in Crested Butte earlier this year and I would say that when I'm up there, the reception to me by the locals has ben quite warm. I've heard some stories about Texans being treated poorly, but like Chewbacca mentioned, it may be against people rolling in with the "we made you, so you need to lick my boot" mentality.

The bolded part is still true, at least for me and it's a big part of why I like it here. I know people almost everywhere I go, and I've never had that experience other places I've lived.

Last post on living in Midland and I'll leave it alone ... First, I never said Midland was the best place to live or even the best place that I've lived, I said, it's not a bad place to live and I stand by that. I'm detecting a theme here ... people who grew up in west texas / Midland, have not lived here as adults and think it's a shitty place to live (which I'm sure is part of the reason they haven't moved back). My wife grew up here, she'll be the first to say, it's not the town she grew up in, hell it's changed quite a bit since I moved here 14 years ago. But, I'm sitting in my office downtown on Walls street as I type this, looking down at the cool new park they built where the courthouse used to be. I like it here, my friends really like it here. I know many examples of people who have begrudgingly been moved to Midland for work, came to really like living here, and have chosen to stay, even when presented with the opportunity to move back to where they came from. We decided a while back, we can bitch about what we don't like, and spend our days wishing it were different, or we could get involved and try to change it for the better and that is what we are doing.

Yep, you’ve been doing it wrong ... You mentioned Starbucks (we have 5 now) but I walk to this great coffee shop called Far West across from memorial stadium in the mornings. The owner is this nice dude named Olaf and he starts making my order when he sees me crossing the parking lot. I don’t hunt for parking at HEB because it’s 2021 and we usually get our groceries delivered. Yeah it gets hot, but I’ll take 110 with no humidity over DFW or Austin at 90 with 90% humidity any day. When I need my doctor, I text him. He’s a friend and we play golf together all the time. When I need my dentist, I text her, because she’s a friend and I see her at Yoga every week. My high point of the year 2006 was a party at the petroleum club (my wedding reception). I have no idea what the high point of last year or this year was because there’s so damn many of them here. We have the country club for golf, we have the racquet club for tennis, we have the polo club for riding horses, we have a gun club for shooting, we have Midland Airpark for flying planes. We have a dove lease 30 minutes from my front door and a quail lease 45 mins away. Are there negative things about living here? Absolutely, many, many of them. But that’s true of every place I’ve ever lived. The pros way outweigh the cons. Midland is a land of opportunity. We moved here with nothing but some student loans and credit card debt. Since then, we’ve started a business, had kids and bought a house. I’ve learned to fly a plane, picked up golf and tennis And made tons of incredible friends. No, I’m not a member of the chamber of commerce, but people seem to have a really poor impression of Midland but I think it’s a pretty good place to live.

Counter-counter point ... I’ve lived in Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles and Midland (for the last 14 years). I’ll repeat, it’s not a bad place to live ... maybe you were doing it wrong?

That is interesting. I'll be curious to see what comes of the folks I know who have been re-located from Midland to the Cimarex HQ in Denver. I guess they start shopping for real estate in Houston now?

Add in a party in the ballroom at the Petroleum Club and you just described my wedding weekend. Midland isn't a bad place to live, and those southwest flights go the other way too ... meaning I have easy non-stop flights to hobby and love field

No experiences with these in-ground retractable covers on the Surl?

Also, here is a sketch the architect did. The black squiggly lines are rough dimensions of the canopies on the live oaks. Also, we decided to make the pool a couple of feet narrower since this drawing was done, which is why the dimensions don't line up with what's in my post above:

I just ready 27 pages of pool talk. I've got to say that it was fascinating reading through the posts knowing that the Covid shutdown was coming as well as the Freeze-mageddon back in Feb. I'm looking into installing a pool and while I'm waiting on my bid to come in, I have a few questions for the group, but first here's the basic stats: It's a modern design, being one big rectangle 44' x 16' At one end is an 8' x 8' spa with an 8' x 8' tanning ledge next to it The "pool" part is 36' x 16' with an 8.5' deep end and 3.5' shallow end The spa is the same level as the pool The plan is to do one of those vinyl mechanical covers that runs on tracks under the coping to cover the whole thing, the reason for this is the two giant live oak trees that have limbs overhanging one end of the pool. I live in Midland and there just aren't many decent tress here, so taking the trees out isn't an option (I'd rather not put in the pool if removing the trees is a requirement). Onto the questions: 1) Does anyone have experience with these mechanical covers similar to this? 2) Do we think keeping the cover closed when the tree is shitting leaves in the spring will be sufficient to keep me from losing my mind? 3) What sort of system does the group think is best to keep it clean considering we have a lot of blowing dust + I'll have some leaves to deal with? 4) Apparently the costs for a pool install are quite high here. I'm being told to prepare for NLAA because a basic bitch kidney pool with spa starts around $100k and what I'm talking about will be significantly more. Am I crazy?

I’m 42. Like I mentioned in the OP, I’m now hitting a golf farther than I ever have. I can fully turn my back to the target and I can feel myself load up through the trunk. I was a runner for a long time, and as such have had really tight hips, they are still not great yet, but I’ve seen a lot of improvement.