Posts posted by Nueces River Rat
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2 hours ago, Hate said:
There is a chance I may be relocating to SA soon and the 281 corridor north of 1604 is pretty much the only area I'll consider. Of course, I've lived in the Houston area for the last 12+ years so a 45 minute commute is pretty much nothing to me.
We are looking at this possibility too. My last kid will have graduated by then, so worrying about the school she will go to is not an issue. But the quality of the ISD and schools connected to it has much to do with the mojo for the area, so we will take that into consideration. Right now north 1604 up to Blanco and west to Boerne is high on our radar as far as getting some land in the near future. Originally we though more towards New Braunfels, but we are waiting to see what occurs with a permit fight on a quarry proposed on RR 3009 near Garden Ridge turns out.
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1 hour ago, tokamak said:
That's my hesitation as well. There's been times in the past that I've had to mow my St. Augustine midweek because it's so damn thick. I haven't dug into reviews on the eGo mowers much. There's a guy in my neighborhood that has one and he said it's fine but I didn't really grill him. In theory, I'd think an electric mower should be able to put out plenty of torque. Might need an extra battery for when it gets really thick, and those big batteries ain't cheap. In any case, my gas mower still has a couple more years of life in it, so I'll worry about it later.
Get the eGo trimmer. I've been really happy with it. My only complaint is that the model I have isn't incredibly ergonomic. I wish it had a curved shaft instead of straight (I'm 5'9"). Also, the eGo brand cord is garbage. Buy yourself a roll of good stuff for like $10 and wrap your own spools (it's very easy).
Same here with the life of my mower. Hopefully it can give me a few more years until we move up to the Hill Country where in many of the areas where homes are being built, the grass of choice is Zoyisa or some other thinner blade grass which requires less water and mowing.
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31 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:
We have a battery powered ryobi. Beats changing oil and fucking with fuel.
Yep. A few months ago I changed the fuel lines on the Echo I'm looking to replace and it worked for awhile, but it started leaking again a few weeks ago. So I figure it's something deeper in the motor which is causing the leak and slow start up which means taking it to a repair shop will probably come close to buying a new one. Plus it's 10 years old which might have something to do with it.
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45 minutes ago, tokamak said:
I’ve got the eGo weed eater and blower. Love them both, great tools. Can do my whole 8000 sf lot with one 2.5 Ah battery. I think my favorite part is that they are essentially maintenance free. No mixing gas, no gummed up carb. Just plug in the battery and go every single time.
Never owned a gas weed eater, but the blower beats the pants off my old Poulan gas blower.
I’m very seriously considering their lawn mower when my gas mower craps out. Will also get the hedge trimmer as soon as I have a need for one.
The eGo is what I have my eye on. It has great reviews on Home Depot’s website.
I am not quite ready to jump into battery operated lawnmower just yet for the very reason our grass of choice down here in South Texas is St Augustine and it can get thick as heck after a good rain and being off schedule with regular mowing. My Honda gas mower sometimes struggles cutting it when this happens so I can’t imagine a battery powered mower doing the job.
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5 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:
I remember reading about an eightysomething abuela caught rigging an RGV school board election by handing out $10 bags of cocaine to voters. Laugh at the small dollar amount but ten bucks gets you a lot of yay on the border.
I just looked back into it and it turns out she was one of several politiqueras working for a boss man who was campaign manager for four members of the school board. After the conspiracy started to unravel the head of the school board hung himself on New Year's Day.
Or did he?
That occurred in my hometown. The school board has two former members serving time in the Fed Pen for soliciting bribes from a building contractor. One of the things they asked for was Spurs and concert tickets.
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On 2/27/2020 at 3:29 PM, Fuck Tim Beck said:
Yep. Killeen ISD is a cespool of corruption and the good ol boy network. It's all sickening
A number of Rio Grande Valley ISD's say hold my beer.
The old Compadre system is still alive and well down there. I believe the FBI has a special unit focused just on government corruption in the RGV which includes everything from the local water districts to the county courthouses.
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17 hours ago, texifornia said:
Any hint of a hot seat from the AD in public is bad for the program. Especially ahead of a season where, if it goes well, things could be totally fine. No reason to torpedo recruiting.
Yep. Right now CDC's full attention should be on firing Smart the day after the last game in a couple of weeks.
I bet some 1A or 2A girls playoff basketball games up in the Panhandle outdrew the attendance last night.
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Man, none of the teams in Kingsville's district were even on their schedule, let alone in their district, when I was there. Fuck, I'm old.
Kingsville should be thankful for that district. Some thought they might pull them north where they would be battling TM for last place. If Hidalgo or La Feria go 5a next realignment, they might pull the remaining north anyhow. I think Cal at best will be moving back in four years. A lot of new home and apartments getting ready to get built here -
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12 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:Curious how they split up corpus / Victoria / port Lavaca
15 4A D1 is going to be pretty good. We (Calallen) are in with Alice, PLC, CC Miller, Tuloso Midway and Beeville. Our issue right now is trying to finish out a five game non district schedule. We may have to play someone from north or west Texas to fill that game. With what we have coming back next season, I think we have a very legit shot at playing a Jerryworld next December.
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Horns at blOU SUCKS!! ......Tonight 8pm ESPN2
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Yep. Last night Smart should have gone bat shit crazy more than once with the refs. Would it have worked? Probably not. It seemed like the ESPN commentators were waiting for Smart to snap because they could even see the slant in the obvious stat which was our lack of attempts at the free throw line until way late into the second half.