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mininghorn88

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  1. Ok, I guess friends and family trumps complete strangers even if he is a fellow Horn!!! lol
  2. Score?
  3. I work remotely due to Covid. I can work from anywhere. I am looking to avoid the oppressive East Texas heat this summer. Got a spare bedroom or sofa? I am honest, dependable, hard-working and self-sufficient. I wouldn't be in the way. I just need a place for a base of operations.
  4. Ok, that explains it. I guess you live close enough to make day trips? Live in which direction?
  5. Dude, you are killing me with these pics. I was up in Yellowstone and GTNP this past October and this is making me want to go back now.
  6. Some of these replies should be in the “Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do” thread.
  7. Care to elaborate more? Inquiring minds want to know...
  8. Refuse to click on the image. Do not want to see.
  9. Some on here have it all figured out until the first chunk of hide is missing due to a ferocious animal bite or your entrails are laid open from some slashing action from a claw. I have been bit a couple of times by a dog and it happens before you even know it.
  10. Back when talk shows were fun.
  11. That is for bull nettle stings
  12. Jacked up jaw...check broken glasses...check whiplash...check head injury from fall...check loss of credibility...check shit in underwear...check
  13. I had to run on a treadmill once in Lima, Peru at a “clinic” prior to visiting a mine at elevation. Quite the experience I must say.
  14. Since she obviously does not have proper gas cans, how does she expect to transfer that gas into a tank? I know of several possible remedies but for some reason I do not think that she has thought that far ahead.
  15. Awesome experience. Glad you survived. I have had close encounters with moose and bear while hiking. Coming across wild animals can be both thrilling and scary at the same time.
  16. Physically how far were you from the wolves?
  17. I had a news feed that Acho would be considered to take Aikmen’s place in the broadcast booth along side of Buck should Aikmen decide to leave. What a beating that would be. I hope that is not true.
  18. Union Pacific released in 1939 starring Barbara Stanwyck with Joel McCrea, Brian Donlev and Robert Preston. A railroad agent (McCrea) faces treachery from an old friend (Preston) as he struggles to ensure the completion of the Union Pacific. Both McCrea and Preston have set their sights on Stanwyck, the Postmistress for the railroad. It was directed by Cecile B. DeMille so naturally you can expect a big production. Union Pacific loaned four 1860's period locomotives to the production along with 37 railcars. The production also laid 6 miles of railroad track which meant they owned their own railroad. As such, the production company was granted a Regulation Railroad Operating License from the Interstate Commerce Commission. I enjoyed the movie. It does seem to get lost when you mention all of the other great movies released, in arguably the greatest movie year ever, 1939. This movie has it all fake Irish accents, good guys, bad, guys, Indians, and comic relief sidekicks. Stand By for Action released in 1942 starring Robert Taylor with Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy and Walter Brennan. An Ivy League reservist (Taylor) and a bootstrap veteran (Donlevy) save the convoy of an admiral (Laughton) during World War Two. Though not a comedy this is a light-hearted war film. It has its light moments rescuing a boatload of women and children. Plus Laughton pays an affable admiral while trying to be stern and serious has some quite funny lines to say. A typical hero-in-the-end movie. It is worth the watch just for Laughton's performance.
  19. She will not know that. Expect disaster!
  20. There is a chance that the gas will make that plastic soft and could rupture and spill. Dumb.
  21. Glad you asked this question, my son is a geologist with a minor in Geographic Information Science (GIS). Could not figure out how to apply that to this conversation as that is the only GIS I knew of.
  22. For whatever reason I had never applied that logic. Makes sense. My grandparents did not have hot water in their meager home until 1986. They grew up without it and never bothered to have it installed. They were born in 1915 and 1917 respectively. I remember going to their house to spend the night and my grandmother boiling water on the stove so that I could take a hot bath. Their house was pier and beam and was poorly insulated. It would get cold in the bathroom too. They were some tough folks.
  23. Settings for TV shows and movies can be problematic for those that have the even the slightest knowledge of geography. It can be downright comical at times where they are supposed to be in one location but the scenery just does not align. Prior to Covid we would have a lot more visitors to our factory in NE Texas and they were always surprised about the environment because of all of the trees. This was particularly true for almost 100% of the foreign visitors. All of their exposure to Texas were westerns and cattle drives where it was all like West Texas or the Hill Country.
  24. Love it. Had know idea there were words to the tune. Learned something.
  25. It is difficult to know exactly how people will respond. I had an aunt that passed away this past January at the age of 82. She had seven children. 3 boys and 4 girls. She was preceded in death by all three sons and her husband. The youngest son died in an industrial accident at the age of 30 in 1996. About 2-1/2 years (1998) later she lost her husband to a heart attack at the age of 61. 11 months later (1999) her oldest son, 43 years old, was shot and killed by an armed assailant breaking into his (my cousin's) place of business. My cousin's son was also shot during the robbery and is paralyzed from the waist down. Lastly, her middle son committed suicide at the age of 46 in 2005. I was very close to the youngest as we were the same age. As a family we were always doing stuff together. I never knew my aunt to be a very religious woman but once these events started to occur she really threw herself into her faith. She realized that she could not get through this alone and knew that she needed the power of the God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit to get her through the most difficult of times.
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