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  1. squib

    Heads up!

    Something BIG is coming...for yo head. That really sucks. Hope it wasn't intentional.
  2. Couple of years ago I get a flat on a trailer outside of Justiceberg—between Post and Snyder—on the way to Lubbock. I hit the ditch to change it and have easy access to all my tools. No big deal. No less than 5 ranchers pull over asking if I need help. I didn’t want to mess with their treks home to get a beer so I told them all that I was fine, I appreciated the offer, and that they should get home after what I assumed was a long day working in the sun. Some of these guys took a lot of convincing, but they all eventually headed off down the road. I got the tire changed and was putting up the tools when one of the guys from earlier pulled back up. He says: “I got home and my wife poured me a glass of tea and I sat down to watch TV. But I kept thinking about you out here on the side of the road. Finally just figured it was better to come back than to worry about you.” Friends ask me how I can live out here. Sometimes I ask myself. But the story above is one of the reasons. No place like it for neighbors watching out for neighbors. Small town West Texas folk are generally good folk. I don’t agree with many on everything—but most of them will leave a glass of ice tea and some A/C to help a stranger. I’ll take it—and return the favor when I can.
  3. As long as you have been a member here, I find that hard to believe.
  4. Tatsu is the best I have ever used--and there isn't a close second. I buy it in 8, 10, 12, 15 and 20 lb test. For lift-and-drop bottom-bouncing baits, there is nothing better. It is outrageously expensive though and will encourage you to go braid to leader. Learn the FG knot and don't look back. I have recently tried a few spools of Diawa Samurai, and I am impressed with it as well. It is cheaper, but it still has the feel of high-end fluoro. For moving baits, there are lots of good cheaper choices. I bought several spool of P Line Tactical fluoro on sale last year, and it has been fine. If you want to buy just a good in-betweener that can do it all pretty well, SunLine Sniper is good stuff. For crankbaits and topwaters, I still like copolymer and McCoy's Mean Green has never done me wrong. Good combination of stretch, abrasion resistance and knot strength. Also cheap. Now braid is a different discussion.... Gearing up for my third tournament weekend in a row right now. Looking at my line supply, and it is a bit embarrassing. Probably 30 spools in my line case--not counting the ones I carry in the boat in case I blow up a reel.
  5. Thanks a ton NMAS. So I suppose I have to establish and provide verification/documents for what you state. I will start the roundup this weekend.
  6. Sold a rental property in 2022. Got my disclosure sheet and a 1099 on the sale. I am hoping I don't have to pay taxes on the whole value of the sales price. Can I turn in documents on original purchase price and a list of improvements with receipts over the last 5 years, and have those deducted from the "profits?"
  7. Came her to say "Parasite." Started thinking about it more, and I submit original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" First part, sad Charlie and punk-ass Grandpa looking for tickets; following news. Second part, drastic change from where Wonka trips at entrance gate and the whole thing turns looney and also Oomphas. Then I guess there is the brief sequence at the end where Wonka acts all gangsta. Anyway, I hate that movie. Just seems to fit here.
  8. Team '83 South Texas ExtremePain Dodgeball would have raced to mid-court, snatched up all the red balls and gone medieval on Team Square Dance.
  9. Cajun friend introduced me to the scoop of tater salad in the bowl of gumbo. Now I won't hardly eat it any other way. When I make gumbo now, I always make a potato salad. Everyone who has ever eaten it at my house first looks at the combo with a sideways glance--then wonders why it was hidden from them for so long.
  10. Not this. But the next few episodes after. And I was 46 at the time.
  11. Great Saban. Now do BoB
  12. Michigan & the under, Bama & the over, Ole Miss and the over
  13. Both staples at my house. If you like peanuts, these are fantastic. Much bigger and crunchier than others I have had.
  14. 10-hour round trip drive and taking a day off work to help a rich old field company? They need to hire some help with all them profits.
  15. Was talking to my dad about this yesterday. He is 55 years into being a pumper on a collection of gas wells in south Texas. He actually was out in the field near Sonora two days ago carrying drums of methanol for injection into flowlines in hopes of keeping them from freezing. 73-year -old man rolling 55 gallon drums out of the back of a truck pisses me off but whatever---I am not driving down there to help. Anyway, his claim is something like 70% of natural gas in the state is produced by companies/guys that own just a few small wells (my experience as roustabout makes this believable). These guys maybe clearing only a couple of hundred dollars apiece on these low-MCF wells, and they are struggling meeting new demands. It is not like it is Exxon that can't pay for methanol injection or other anti-freeze procedures--it is Ralph. He also said that the new paperwork requirements are crazy, and lots of small guys are getting out. Anyway, just a take from an old guy that has seen about all of it down there. But he also made sure to tell me before he hung up that the last outage was because all the bullshit, lib windmill blades froze up so there is that too.
  16. Yep. Was a 10-year-old growing up down on the border near Del Rio. Dad and his friend took a hood off some wrecked caliche-colored Chevy pick up, flipped it upside down to make a sleigh. They then ran a rope from the “sleigh” to another pickup. 3 or 4 of us kids would get on the hood sleigh and dad and his friends—I assume now they were drinking heavily—pulled us up and down the icy city streets. They would take a hard turn and sling us out into someone’s yard. Sometimes we would wreck into a tree. The blood provided some warmth. After that week, the hood sleigh was “stored” out by the barn in case it ever iced over like that again. It never did.
  17. squib

    Eyesight poll

    So is LASIK at 50 a waste? No correction to my eyesight until 43. Then steady downhill. Hate contacts. Really hate glasses too. But don’t want to pay for LASIK if it is gonna be just a 3-year fix and the back in glasses
  18. I’ve been working more and more in Manchester, and I really like the city and the people. As stated above, London is London but there are many places more English…and more enjoyable to me. Bath, York, Liverpool, and tons of small hamlets. Drop in to any pub outside of London order a pint—conversation will follow
  19. Little add on. Pulled Pork Finishing Sauce 1 cup apple cider vinegar 2 tbs brown sugar 1 tsp Tony’s cajun seasoning 1 tsp course black pepper 1 tsp red pepper flakes Warm vinegar in sauce pan then dissolve the sugar, Then add the remaining ingredients, Put in a squirt bottle, and apply to meat after you pull it, then squirt the sauce on the sandwhich, etc. I also thin my BBQ sauce with it It is amazing and everyone is blown away.
  20. Three chickens, two goats, a quart of clabber, and a left-handed toddler.
  21. Yes, it is.
  22. Tom T. Hall. Beard might turn down hot bologna, eggs and gravy today, but he won't tomorrow.
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