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mininghorn88

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  1. Just how far can you go on a little bacon and a little beans?
  2. What will 6666 be about exactly? Jimmy stated that he does not like the fighting and such at the Yellowstone and that all he wants to do is to cowboy. With him being the apparent lead character on the alluded to 6666 show, will it be some type of reality/docu-series?
  3. This right here. I made this comment the other night while watching the show. That is a testament of just how much drama is going on at the Yellowstone to do any real cowboying. Had to leave Wyoming to go to Texas to become a real cowboy.
  4. In the last pic here they look they are having a bit of a nice rear “interaction”.
  5. 9 and 27 for OU have both mastered the art of holding.
  6. Plan "A" was to be a professional baseball player. Plan "B" was to be an architect. Plan "C" was to be an archeologist. I was offered some scholarships to play ball in college but none of the programs that offered me scholarships to play ball had architecture as a major. Plus, there was a "girlfriend" involved at the time so I gave up baseball and went to architecture school at UT. Upon graduation I worked for a small firm in east Texas for about 4 months. They went belly-up and let everyone go after not getting some of the jobs that they were banking on. Fortunately for me I had worked for a civil engineering firm for 5 summers doing some design work for them so I had gained a bit of "engineering" background. A local mining equipment manufacturing company was ramping up their engineering staff so I applied and was hired. This was in 1989. I am still with the company even though we are now on our third owner. I spent about 15 years in engineering being responsible for all hydraulic and pneumatic systems on the mobile mining equipment. For the last 15 plus years I have been on the commercial side being heavily involved in product management, sales/marketing and applications. The job has provided a very comfortable living plus it has allowed me to travel to most States and over 30 different countries. About a year into the job the architectural firm called me and wanted to know if I wanted to come back. No thanks and no regrets. It did, however, take about a year before I would even talk about or watch a baseball game once I hung up the cleats.
  7. I was in Tucson all week last week and it was cooler there than it was back home in northeast Texas.
  8. Love me some Sanford and Son. Watched it as a kid growing up and still catch the occasional episode today. Funny is funny.
  9. I enjoyed the first episode, and like Yellowstone, I am thru to the end now even if the writing goes awry. One immediate question though. Why are two "Pinkerton" men leading a wagon train? That is not part of their charter.
  10. My kids (now adults) have common sense. They understood what I was implying.
  11. Yep, the Fonz lining up the ramp to jump the shark. Hope it steers back on course.
  12. When you are at a public toilet and you line the toilet ring with toilet paper or the pre-made sheet and the auto flush feature comes on and sucks the barrier away before you have a chance to sit down.
  13. I have impressed with my kids that it is better to be an hour early than a minute late. Tardiness is a huge no no for me.
  14. For some reason I never watched it when it first aired either. Started watching it a couple of months ago as time allows. Almost finished with season 1. In one episode you can clearly see the word “Phlugerville” on Dillon’s stadium. I really enjoy the series and I have to remember to not be too critical of the football aspects of it and the time that the “students” have and what they do away from school. You know, cause Hollywood and such.
  15. Just dropped my son from my auto insurance as he is picking his up with a new truck. I Went from having 2 fully covered trucks to just one. My rates went up because of just one vehicle now. WTH? Going to have to dig into this as it is unacceptable.
  16. Lloyd picked Walker up after the fight and appeared to give him a pat on the back. Could they be “all good” now?
  17. Did we see a soft side from Rip? Think that he knows the next time he intervenes ol Loyd is a goner.
  18. While I love his enthusiasm and able to share the moment with his dad, he does look a bit like Ben Stiller in Dodgeball.
  19. I have been doing a bit of flying on Delta Airlines recently. They have The Band of Brothers featured on their inflight entertainment. I have been watching one or two episodes each flight. Been getting dusty on each flight too. The mask helps to hide the tears.
  20. RIP. Certified badass mofo.
  21. I have a love/hate relationship with racoons. I have a barn cat that comes in and out of my house. So I keep food for him on my back porch. The problem with that is that I also live in a rural area so I also have racoons that want to eat the food. There is a family of 7 racoons that come around every night around 9pm to see if there is any cat food out there. Back in the Spring 5 of the raccoons were babies and they have now grown into near full size. Due to my weakness for wildlife I made the fatal mistake of feeding them too. While they are fun to watch they can become a pest. I cannot bring myself to "off" any of them. They have gotten to the point that if I open the door they will try to come inside. I can also sit outside and they will come to me. As much as I want to try to pet one of them I do know better than to do so. Unfortunately raccoons are known to carry rabies. Cat doesn't seem to mind them too much either. If he is outside when they are around he will just watch them from a chair. If they do come too close he will hiss and they will leave him alone.
  22. Late to the game with this. Daughter in NC declares that we are going to have brisket for Thanksgiving. She then proceeds to ask me to pick one out in Texas because she cannot find one in Chapel Hill nor has she or her husband ever done one before. She also tells me that they have bought an electric smoker a couple of weeks ago and want to do the brisket on it. No problem...but there is. So now I am trying to find a decent brisket in East Texas at the last minute before heading out on the road trip. Not feeling good about this. I pack it heavily in ice because we are first driving to WV for the Texas game and then after the Texas game are driving to DC for a few days. All the while keeping the meat on ice. Now mind you I have only done brisket on a wood smoker. Never used an electric smoker before. Get to my daughter’s house Wednesday around 5:00pm. Once settled in I ask where the smoker is. Daughter: oh it’s in the garage. me: great, let’s go have a look. Daughter: it is still in the box. It needs to be put together. me: what? Hasn’t even been opened and seasoned? son in law: yeah, we have been busy. So I put the thing together Wednesday night. Get up early thanksgiving day to “season it”. And finally put the meat on. SIL thought the brisket turned out great. I was embarrassed with the product. Daughter knew it was not my best effort but appreciated it anyway. In defense of my SIL, he did not grow up having a father in his life so there are a lot of things that he is still learning. They will be moving back to Texas after the first of the year. The electric smoker is going back to Texas with me so that I can put it to use.
  23. I enjoy your content with photos such as these. I am always enthralled with what people leave behind and simply how things are just abandoned. Am also curious as to why? A truly what is “ones man’s trash is another man’s treasure”.
  24. Yes, the poles are a tremendous help. Use them most of the time.
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