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Not that it really matters but the shooter(s) (the 3 brothers/landscapers) were black, the shootie was black (Waller, white tshirt/red shorts wearing disgruntled neighbor with lawn clippings in his driveway, who takes landscapers around the corner to threaten them with the pistol) and the other neighbor girl (who hired the landscapers) was the only white person involved.

Cant see a pug without thinking of Frank

Spent Memorial weekend and last weekend camping at Lake Granger and Lake Somerville respectively. We drove to Granger with our son and then our daughter drove up and met us for the weekend. When we reserved the site, we had expected family in the Austin area to come and visit us and hang out a bit as we used to camp there a bunch when the wife's parents had their trailer, but that didn't work out so it just ended up being our family. I pulled the trailer and my wife towed the boat so we spent a good bit of time on the water even though the water temp was fairly cool. It was good camping with the kids as we hadn't spent any time together since March of 2020. Granger is an OK park but the COE parks seem to be a bit rowdier crowd and it was packed for Memorial day. I didn't really take any pics over the weekend and really missed an opportunity for a great shot of an American flag wrapped deck boat named "Tha Donald" and its cutoff-sleeve wearing, mullet haircutted owner. Last weekend we were at Birch Creek State Park at Lake Somerville. We really like this park and can be there in about 90 minutes from leaving the house. Most of the sites in this park are carved into the yaupon brush understory beneath post oaks except for a few at the end of each camping loop that look out over the lake. There are a couple that we really like and it allows us to launch the boat and then anchor up off the shore for the whole weekend. It makes it easy to just walk 50 yards down to the boat and take it out for a spin. We drove up Thursday night after work and setup and on Friday, my wife worked remote (3 bars of ATT LTE service at our site) while I did some work on the boat trailer and took to boat out for a few drives by myself. On Saturday, our son drove over from College Station with a couple of his roommates for the day. The lake was super flat all day and we did some tubing then tried to get his roommates up on a kneeboard and wakeboard with moderate success. My son had never completed the Safe Boating course so he really hasn't driven the boat much without an adult in it. When he showed up in the morning, first thing he did was pull out and present a printed copy of the course completion certificate and a Mel Stubing Captain's Hat, which he then wore the rest of the day. After lunch, the yutes took a cooler of beer and headed out on the boat by themselves. I have been wanting him to do it for years but it was weird seeing him drive off without being in the boat with them. After a day of boating, I broke out the blackstone and griddled up some bacon, egg, 3-pepper cheeseburgers (with jalapenos) for the boys and sent them home stuffed. Biggest issue this trip was the lake was up 7' over normal due to all the recent rains and the boat ramp in the park was shutdown so we had to drive down to the dam and launch at the marina. Wasn't bad when we launched at noon on Friday but picking up at 3 on Sunday was a beating with 20-25 trucks/trailers in line waiting to pick up or launch. If the lake is up again on our next trip we will definitely figure out a different launch spot.

Pffft, 7MM 22lr rounds is like a good weekends plinking.

I would look into a 2-3 trip out of the fleet in San Diego going south. One of the 7-10 long range trips is near the top of a bucket list trip for me.

On the banks of the river where the willows hang down And the wild birds all warble with a low moaning sound Down in the hollow where the waters run cold It was there I first listened to the lies that you told Now I lie on my bed and I see your sweet face The past I remember time cannot erase The letter you wrote me it was written in shame And I know that your conscience still echo’s my name Now the nights are so long, Lord sorrow runs deep And nothing is worse than a night without sleep I’ll walk out alone and look at the sky Too empty to sing, too lonesome to cry If the ladies were blackbirds and the ladies were thrushes I’d lie there for hours in the chilly cold marshes If the ladies were squirrel’s with high bushy tails I’d fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails

He said Taiwanese, not Thai.

My daughter (nopics) send me this last week saying she wanted to get a camper top for her Tacoma and build out a sleeping platform similar to the one below. If she decides to go forward I'll post up some pics with what she does.

tap, tap

Hey everyone, look at my new sbr ...

Ahem

No thanks @NowThis

Those Camp Chef stoves are awesome but they don’t pack well IMO. I know they have bags and stuff for them but they are kinda ackward. We had a couple for the adult patrol when my son was in scouts and it seemed like they were always in the way or falling off of a shelf. My buddy has several of these cheap burners on a sheet metal covered counter in his camp barn. I want to take something like these and mount in one of the old Coleman stoves. The enclosed box shape of the Colemans is what I like for packing in the back of a truck.

I’m your huckleberry. I’m up at Dad’s checking on him and just walked out and looked in the garage. There are these three and 5’ to the right a box with 2 more in it and two stoves next to that. I’m sure the storage shed in the back yard has 4 or 5 hanging from the rafters and there are 3 or4 ones we actually use in a container at the farm. Let me see if I can find one that is in decent shape.

Pos rep for using a white gas Coleman. We probably have 10 stoves and 20+ lanterns. Dad and Mom did a bunch of garage sale trip when they first retired and I think dad bought every one he saw. I really like how sturdy the old metal frames are and want to take one of them and put in a medium flow propane burner to have one for frying fish.

Stole this from @Hornius Emeritus and his Traces of Texas page

When I read of this $25-30/hr people are making driving uber/lyft, is that a net or gross figure? Is there a mileage allowance given or anything like that? I'm pretty much a rideshare luddite so I don't really know how that side of the business works.

I probably posted this before but left out a couple days early and stopped one day in Capulin and hiked the rim of the volcano, then stayed in the cabins at the NRA Whittington Center and spend one day doing a full pack hike up into their back country. I think both of these helped with acclimation for a bunch of Houston flatlanders.

Got an email today from them announcing a show at the Height theater Nov 11th.

The higher the altitude the smaller the jet. http://cdn.powerequipment.honda.com/pe/pdf/pubs/pci54675.pdf

Doesn't matter if you use one of these.

Car pretty much always beats hammer and knife.

They are fun for shooting at bumble bees flying around the old cedar pole barn and impromptu ritz cracker skeet with an iron sighted yute 22 single shot.

Yep. Sales tax is based on where you register the car, not where you buy it. This. I bought a new truck in Bartlesville, OK over internet in 1998. Flew up there, signed the docs in 20 min and drove back to Tx. Took the MSO to the tax office and paid the tax in TX to get it registered. These days you would also need to get it inspected in you county first.