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El Diablo

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  1. Lou, I think we found the booby trapper. J/K!!
  2. I was wanting to walk from Oakwood to Redwood shelter. Guess that will have to wait a year or so.
  3. Yep. Probably same thing on BU side before you get to Ranger's HOF if coming from law school.
  4. Tried to walk from Indian Springs TO campus a week or so ago and couldn't get past probably about where the fire tower is. Right under one of the RR bridges they've got a barricade on the river walk.
  5. Thinking about taking a walk across town, a photo safari of sorts. Is there a good place to cross I-35 as a pedestrian, say from the BU campus to downtown?
  6. I'll do that. Went back the next week and a guy stopped me to talk, he'd seen me taking pictures of it the week before. I think he was the owner. Definitely a car guy, gave me the history of most of the cars he'd ever owned. I'll try to get a better look if I see it there again.
  7. I went to Walmart yesterday, showed up as the doors were opening. Still felt like I was playing craps.
  8. A couple from the zoo yesterday. Terribly overcast day but a chance to use the f4 300mm + 1.7 TC.
  9. Don't cops already approach every scenario assuming the public is armed? "Armed and polite!". My new t-shirt.
  10. A friend of mine here in Waco is retired and does this. I went out with him one day a couple of years ago and he shared some of his "secrets" with me. South 3rd street just outside of Waco runs along the Brazos and is good old river bottom black dirt farmland. The actual river bottom is sand. He says that when the Indians would camp they would have the women folk haul sand up to the campsite to spread around because the black dirt was, well, either dusty or muddy. If you can find someone who flies or even ag office aerial photos of a particular field you can spot the light color of the sand that marks the old camp sites. He'll identify a field and then add it to his list of places to drive by. When he sees that one of these spots has been recently plowed he'll go walk the part of the field with the lighter colored soil. He does well with just this one method. He also does creek hunting but the plowed fields are the easiest way.
  11. That's unions. Only difference with this union is they're carrying guns literally rather than unions figuratively holding guns to the heads of their bosses.
  12. No shit... I'm thinking... "Although things have changed my love and appreciation for you, guys, remain the same."
  13. A few from a walk along the river yesterday.
  14. Saw this guy on the Brazos yesterday. Music booming, wake boarder it tow. Looked like a hell of a party and something I'd have given my left nut to be doing when I was in my 30's.
  15. El Diablo

    Disc Golf

    A bit windy at times yesterday but the weather overall was fantastic. Couple of shots from the course at Cameron Park in Waco.
  16. Didn't mean to take a picture of a kid but I was practicing panning and I don't see so good to start with and I was pretty much shooting anything that moved. Turned out to be the best pic of the day, the Spider Man "hood ornament" cracked me the fuck up more than the look he was giving me.
  17. An MG TC? Helluva car in its day. Saw these two while shooting at the park today. And I think this fella may be related to Richard Petty.
  18. I grew up here and it was I think the HQ for 12th AF and it was not uncommon in the 60's to hear a sonic boom from high overhead. We kids loved that shit. Now that you mentioned Chrysler I think they were the predecessor to L3 and it may have gone thru a couple of other name changes along the way that I don't remember.
  19. Speaking of fuel, I took a job at an FBO at the Waco regional airport when I first got out of the Navy. Used to take a 5 gallon bucket out to the fuel truck and drain a few gallons of that blue gas and then pour it into my '78 Monte Carlo. 100 low lead was good shit, lol. Not really theft I reasoned, might have been a bit of water in the fuel so taking a couple gallons from the bottom of the truck was just just looking out for the customer! ETA: L3 is the name of the company now. They've had a lot of interesting contracts over the years, many being DoD hush-hush stuff. Great place to work but with contract work come layoffs and getting on and staying on long term is a challenge.
  20. 1986 according to this guy's video description. I was thinking they may have had the Concorde there more than once. I was in the Navy from 80-84 and overseas so if they had that bird at a show during those years I didn't know it. That air show was at the (then) TSTI airfield which is the one Prez Bush would use. Being an old military airbase the runways can accommodate almost anything.
  21. Yeah, we've had them here in Waco off and on, one year wayyy back they brought a Concord in. I think they were charging $500 a seat to take a ride out of Waco, out over the Gulf of Mexico and break the sound barrier. Best part about the shows to me is hearing the old piston engine warbirds rumbling overhead all weekend.
  22. Just barely got the camera up in time as this guy went tooling by on Easter Sunday.
  23. My old man landed a job as a Maytag repairman when he got out of the service after WWII. Paid OJT. Kept that job for 40+ years, even after finally getting on at the USPS. Only brand of appliances we ever owned when I was growing up was Maytag. For a number of years they were built like tanks, indestructible. Then a couple of things happened thru the '70's and '80's - manufacturers discovered statistical process controls and electronics. Shits been downhill ever since. Wish like hell I could find a bunch of old fully mechanical Maytag machines. Build one good one and have a few for spare parts.
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