Desperados Waiting for a Train
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Texpat’s got one sexy pose there.
Nver realized how much the dos hermanos look alike. -
Nice pic. Agree with Darren, didn’t know y’all looked that much alike. Thought TP looked more like Katfish 🙂
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Looks like a nicely done dry stone fireplace there.
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Mornin’ Gang
I love the huge limestone fireplace.
So is Texpat back to stay?…I hope so, I’d hate to see anyone live out his years in the northeast.
Oh and yesterday was my Friday. -
My Brothers-from-another-Mother!!!
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Good morning Hamsters. Crisp 52 at 6 and so welcome, heavy dew again and the green things appreciate it.
Since I have not had the pleasure of meeting Shannon and Texpat in person, please to tell us who is who. They do look related. 🙂 -
One of ’em has Yankee shoes.
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#6 – Ms Adee – ShaNaNa is on the left
Wish I could get out west to see Texpat dangit
#4 – SD I highly DOUBT Texpat is back permanently – his ‘Princess’ (as I understand it) is firmly rooted in Joisey -
Just in case anybody was confused about the teacher’s unions “inmates running they asylums” we have this:
HEADLINE: Teachers’ Unions Put Sex Offenders Before Students
With support from teachers’ unions such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, liberals like Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) are opposing a bill that would help protect school children from the possibility of being exposed to criminals, including sex offenders, in America’s schools.
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In addition, the NEA wrote that criminal background checks “often have a huge, racially disparate impact” — a reference to critics’ complaints that minorities make up a disproportionately high proportion of people convicted of crimes.I guess now the idea that a human baby still in the womb is not worth anything but a murderer convicted several times via the appeals process must be never be put to death ( even though the death for the convicted murderer is far less painful than that which the baby human in the womb experiences) starts to become a bit more understandable. These people are absolutely crazy, good is bad, bad is good up is down, etc.
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Good pic, brothers. What is the device on the right, and did either of you arrive on it? I don’t have one of those (yet).
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MY EYES!!!!! ARRRGGGHHHHHHH.
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What is the device on the right,
That looks like a fireplace log hauler to me.
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I’m on the right in the photo – obviously, the better looking one.
We’re staying at a very nice place down the road from Gruene Hall.
No. 1 shock: The unbelievable traffic in the Hill Country 24/7.
No. 2 shock: Lake Travis 60 feet below normal with floating docks sitting on the lake bed.
Photo: We were in John Thomas’ Wildseed, Inc. in Fredericksburg – great place. We even bought wildflower seed for the NE there. -
Oh, well no wonder I don’t have one, they haven’t hauled me to a fireplace (yet).
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Texpat’s got one sexy pose there.
A classic, bad-back stance.
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No. 2 shock: Lake Travis 60 feet below normal with floating docks sitting on the lake bed.
I would imagine it could be interesting going for a walk with a metal detector, no telling what one could find.
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When John Thomas was working on an early prototype of his seed harvester, which is essentially a giant vacuum cleaner, he used it near Bellville. We also visited with him at nurseryman conventions years ago.
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A classic, bad-back stance.
Takes one to know one! (bad backs dat is…… not the sexy part 🙂 )
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What is the device on the right, and did either of you arrive on it?
Exactly what I thought. Which one is on the Hoveround?
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I’m probably closer to needing a Hoveround. I’m only good for about a 100 yard walk without really annoying pain.
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I’m only good for about a 100 yard walk without really annoying pain.
At least you have a spine, which is a far sight more than I can say for a goodly number of Rs in DC.
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Texpat, hopefully your next visit will not bring the following…
“No. 3 shock: All 38 Texas electoral votes turned blue…” -
I have to make up my mind today so I can go early vote later today. In addition to the state amendments, there are three bond initiatives for the City of Sugar Land. The last one they had more than several years ago passed and they did not raise the tax rate. This one will require a tiny (2 cent) hike in the property tax rate for the city. I am not keen on that, but the city has proven its financially conservative credentials time and time again.
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Request for info from my fellow couch dwellers:
Good and bad about the Rhodes Scholarship program
Is the goal to brainwash the students into becoming leftist, globalist, elitists?
Is it a way for overachieving foreign students to learn more about Great Brittain? -
grrr this pad and posting links
Check out kxan out of Austin. Sebelius is in town promoting O-care. -
For all of us with back pain.
I like Simon & Garfunkel, too. -
TT: It has been a while, how about a condition update? Is that Mirkwood thing still laughing at you?
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The last big windstorm knocked down a rather large, dead tallow tree. I had been wondering if I was going to be crushed one day, or if I was going to have to invest in a lot of rope and pull it down myself. Momma Nature took care of that for me. Now, I get to break it up after check for bee nests and such, and haul it out to the street. If Hubby won’t bring the backhoe to move the dirt, I certainly am not counting on him to take out the tree, either. I may invest in an electric chain saw. Hubby has a gas powered one, but I don’t need one that big, and I don’t want to mess with the oil and gas and stuff. I won’t be using mine often enough to worry about gas getting old and stuff.
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Now, I get to break it up after check for bee nests and such, and haul it out to the street.
That is prolly one of the best ways I can think of to really aggravate a beyotchy back/hip.
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For my Pic of the Day recipients, you will find this funny….
Aggie Beau is on my list, and after he got this morning’s picture, he replied:Oh come on, how come you didn’t photoshop a horn onto that horse?? That’d be a PERFECT unicorn photo.
I replied back, telling him how funny it was, in light of our ongoing RFU references here on The Couch.
For those of you not on the list, it was a picture of a horse standing next to a tree, surrounded in mist. -
#31 Bone
Small pieces. Many trips. Multiple days. -
Thanks for the identification, gentlemen. No hard to see you are brothers. And you both inherited the propensity to having bad backs? Ouch.
Spouse has two lumbar discs above the tailbone essentially gone and a third disintegrating, but the good news is Nature seems to be fusing them on her own. Downside is he can’t bend that section any more.
If’n you’re at Wildseed, that’s likely a nursery cart peeking into the picture. Love Wildseed, and no trip to Fredericksburg is complete without stopping there. A dear friend and I years ago visited the Eagle Lake Wildseed and fell in love with it. Then we did lunch at a B&B’s restaurant, and that made for a perfect ladies’ day out. -
I was just pondering TexPat’s comment about Lake Travis being 60′ below normal. Think about the volume of water that is required to get it back up to reasonable level, a Katrina sized storm parked over the area for a week would not be enough. I checked Google earth to get a picture and it appears that most of the Pederanales is dry. The Colorado river at the north end of Lake Travis near the dam appears to be dry. It may take several good, wet years to bring the lake back up to full.
It looks like the Colorado River north of Lake Buchannan is dry as well, all the way back to its headwaters. -
I blame Bush and his weather machine, myself.
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35 BC
The problem with the Colorado River system is the battle between the cities of Austin and San Antonio versus the downstream irrigation needs of farmers and ranchers in the Coastal Bend. The war between urban and rural goes back to the earliest of times in this state. -
The last big windstorm knocked down a rather large, dead tallow tree.
Can’t be true.
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I saw a Rock Hyrax at the San Antonio Zoo and recalled it being mentioned in Leviticus or Deuteronomy. So I’m reading up on animals mentioned in the Bible and again reminded that the one animal Not Mentioned In The Bible is the…
CAT.
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About 10-11 years ago, my uncle had a house on the northern end of Lake Travis. That section went bone dry for 6+ months. They pumped water from the lake and sent it through an elaborate system to filter & purify it. Obviously they could not do that anymore so he had to purchase a 2,500 gal tank and put it next to his pump house. He then figured it was cheaper for him to purchase an old used water truck. He would drive it into Marble Falls and fill her up. It took several months of good rains to fill that part of the lake back up. Once he had water in the lake again, he sold the water truck for the same amount he paid for it.
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My single lady neighbor had asked me to prune her two oaks in her front yard. I told her I could not get to it until mid-Noveber. I guess she asked her lawn guy to do it for her. Apparently she wanted more pruned than I would have done to open it up a little. Now I have about two nights worth of fire wood once it is seasoned. 🙂
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#39 TP: In Kings or Chronicles is speaks about King David, before he was King, killing a lion with his bare hands after rescuing a lamb from its jaws. King David was a big powerful dude.
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#43 – Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr – @ Chez Katfish any of those bed thievin felines would INSTANTLY become 100% outdoor cats – PERIOD – end of story
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I really REALLY hope they try. . . .
HEADLINE: DNC chief: Democrats can run and win on ObamaCare in 2014
This is the same Debbie Whataskank-Schmuck who is now lobbying for a delay in the individual mandate. What are there now, a million people who have received cancellation notices because they can no longer keep the plan that they like and are being forced into the gov’t plan. I thought the Ds were all about choice? I guess not.
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#43, 44: A squirt bottle or gun will cause that bed-thievin cat to vacate pronto.
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No such a thing as a dead tallow tree
That is really funny.
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#47 Shannon
Ditto.
Same goes for hackberry trees that line the rural roads out here and fall over at the most inopportune times in storms, high winds, no winds, too many squirrels or birds aboard, or just because. 🙂 -
#47 & #48 – same goes for Mesquites!!!
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No such a thing as a dead tallow tree.
That is really funny.
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My backyard neighbor has a big old camphor tree right inside the property line so I reap the rewards of lots of berries and seedlings. The smell of that tree almost makes me sick just thinking about it.
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I HAVE HAD IT WITH CUTE CAT CRAP”
Dogs of the world unite. You can do this too.
Cats are bullies and humans let them get away with it. If a dog pulled this crap that people consider cute with cats OMG the outrage we would see in the lame stream media. I am surprised this has not aired on the 6PM I Witless News. -
Uhhuh cat don’t like it when the tables are turned do ya.
Ya done got yer butt whipped by a
CHICKEN!!!!!
Muhwahahahahahahahahahaha -
Those videos are tooooooo funny!
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Public notice:
Kruez BBQ still good. -
Forget pitbulls, it obviously chihuahuas that are dangerous.
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#56 Squawk,
Chihuahuas are said to have a distinguished history as guardians of king’s tombs in pre-Columbian America, being small enough to freely move around the tombs through spaces too small for grave robbers to intrude.
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Texpat #13;
obviously, the better looking one
Not necessarily better-looking, just sexier.
Shannon #15;A classic, bad-back stance.
The result of years of sexy posing.
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katfish #18;
not the sexy part
Sure ’nuff. It is totally presumptuous for anyone to think he/she is as sexy as Texpat.
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Come to think of it, squawkboxnoises’ sexy pose way back when he did not have a beard and sporting his man purse does rival Texpat’s sexy pose. We do got some competition here.
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Darren ah’m startin to worry aboutcha Pahdnah………. 🙂
(you didn’t ever hang around that gate at Ft Sill didja?)
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The Liberty Jail Vistor’s center celebrated its 50th anniversity last week. Liberty Jail was where Joseph Smith Jr. and five others were held captive for four months. Some great revelations were given there and are recorded in Doctrine and Covenants sections 121-123. Section 122 records one of my all time favorite scriptures. While praying to God as to why he was suffering so and when it’ll end, the lord spoke ot Joseph Smith saying:
1 The ends of the earth shall inquire after thy name, and fools shall have thee in derision, and hell shall rage against thee;
2 While the pure in heart, and the wise, and the noble, and the virtuous, shall seek counsel, and authority, and blessings constantly from under thy hand.
3 And thy people shall never be turned against thee by the testimony of traitors.
4 And although their influence shall cast thee into trouble, and into bars and walls, thou shalt be had in honor; and but for a small moment and thy voice shall be more terrible in the midst of thine enemies than the fierce lion, because of thy righteousness; and thy God shall stand by thee forever and ever.
5 If thou art called to pass through tribulation; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in perils among robbers; if thou art in perils by land or by sea;
6 If thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can’t you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb;
7 And if thou shouldst be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.
8 The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?
9 Therefore, hold on thy way, and the priesthood shall remain with thee; for their bounds are set, they cannot pass. Thy days are known, and thy years shall not be numbered less; therefore, fear not what man can do, for God shall be with you forever and ever.These short verses testfied to Joseph Smith that his trials would be for his own gain if he would be endure them faithfully. That God will stand by him and that the no matter what Joseph was to suffer. Joseph Smith was also, as I see it, “put in his place”. The Son of Man suffered more and is, of course, greater than Joseph Smith and all mortals. Just as the Son of Man remained faithful to the will of the Father, so should Joseph Smith and any mortal despite the trials and sufferings which they may need to endure. Our faith, of course, rests squarely on the Son of Man.
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#62 KatFish, I didn’t want to say it but my thoughts perzactly.
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(you didn’t ever hang around that gate at Ft Sill didja?)
YIKES!Never had 20 bux to spend. 🙁
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Super Dave #64;
I didn’t want to say it but my thoughts perzactly.
Wuhhhhhhhhh??????? What did I say?
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#66 Wuhhhhhhhhh??????? What did I say?
1 Darren says:
October 25, 2013 at 6:47 am
Texpat’s got one sexy pose there.
59 Darren says:
October 25, 2013 at 3:56 pm
Texpat #13;
obviously, the better looking one
Not necessarily better-looking, just sexier.
60 Darren says:
October 25, 2013 at 4:12 pm
katfish #18;
not the sexy part
Sure ’nuff. It is totally presumptuous for anyone to think he/she is as sexy as Texpat.
61 Darren says:
October 25, 2013 at 4:13 pm
Come to think of it, squawkboxnoises’ sexy pose way back when he did not have a beard and sporting his man purse does rival Texpat’s sexy pose. We do got some competition here.That said, I’ll assume that you were kidding. 😉
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That said, I’ll assume that you were kidding.
Super Dave is super wise as he is super correct. 🙂
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Well Lil’ Bit is in my lap and reminding me that it’s time for her walk. FWIW; I had to fire up the Beast today and of course I couldn’t not take her for a little ride down the pipeline. 😀
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Mother just called and before she said, “oh there’s a policman following me, i don’t want him to pull me over for talking on the cell phone” and then said good bye, she told me that their house was put up for sale Sunday, they had four howings, received four offers, and they accepted one of the offers. So they’re closing the doors on Illinois and opening them up in Florida where they already have a house bought. It’s weird that I’ll probably never again visit the state I grew up in but I’m very happy for my parents and their upcoming retirement.
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I had to fire up the Beast today and of course I couldn’t not take her for a little ride down the pipeline.
Sweet ride, dude!!!
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Titan Arm: Bionic bicep gives you the strength of Hercules
The Titan Arm straps directly to a user’s right arm to help lift heavy objects that the user wouldn’t normally be able to lift. Its inventors believe that it will be useful in aiding physical rehabilitation, both for people who have suffered upper body injuries and for those with pre-existing muscular-skeletal disorders.
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Ms Adee
That little dog igloo has to be quite a come down. 🙂
Ahhhhhh yes that would explain it for sure. I was convinced that them little mobile bags of protoplasm were simply spawns of Hell. No more. :0
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We love our little protoplasmic spawn of Hell.
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I had an afternoon rehab session today, very varied exercises including some on machinery, and overall it seemed deceptively easy on the bad knee. But after a late lunch, I conked out and have been asleep for almost 3 hours. I need to stay on a more consistent schedule, and fortunately do not have any more that are not starting at 9 or 10 in the a.m.
As far as I know, they have not injected me with an rfid chip, so they don’t know about unplanned naps.
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Well, the wildlife at night have been assessing for several weeks the pumpkin and gourd arrangement on the bench and little table in the bullrock garden along the driveway. Found several samples chewed out of one pumpkin, a big bite out of the bottom of a large green pumpkin/gourd (not sure which it is), and today discovered that the green gourd shaped like a goose has lost its head and neck. Must not have been that tasty, as a significant part of it was discarded beside the corpse on the bench. Also there are small samples chomped out of pumpkins on the front porch, but not nearly as destructive. Front porch lights are on a photocell and so there is always light at night.
Some nocturnal critters also must be drinking out of the fountain since the water level is always lower in the morning. Occasionally there are wet footprints beneath it. Getting to be the time of year to repeatedly clean leaves out of it and small tree debris the wind blows in as well as whatever the raccoons wash in it and leave behind. Come December we’ll drain it and fill the large basin with red flowering plants for the winter season. -
Adee, sorry about your decorative pumpkins being predated…
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How real conservative feels when surrounded by a herd of McRINOS.
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Brother-in-law put a note in the birthday card to spouse saying he had just finished mowing the lawn mostly to mulch leaves that are falling up there when it started to snow a couple of days ago but did not stick. This is in a Madison suburb that was in the path of the latest Canadian air outbreak that gave us the backdoor cool boost. BIL is hoping this was not a omen of an early winter. Old Farmer’s Almanac says it is.
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#77 mharper42
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Well well well:
No Bid Contract for Obamacare Website with a Twist
The most corrupt administration in the history of administrations. -
Oh, and it gets even worse! Valerie Jarrett’s daughter works for CGI!
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#82 Shakey: I bet this info will be all over PMSNBC and CNN and ABC and CBS, etc.
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President Jarrett can do as she pleases.
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Racist hater. -
#81 phil – yes, the Obama’s definitely are! 😉
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Satan cannot be a racist.
But racism does send a thrill up his leg, I’m sure.
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Glad he’s not going to kick me in the huevos again.
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Obama the uniter.
Exclusive: 21 Nations Line Up Behind U.N. Effort to Restrain NSA -
I wonder if the Nobel Peace Prize committee is having buyer’s remorse yet.
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I wonder if the Nobel Peace Prize committee is having buyer’s remorse yet.
I may be wrong but I don’t think a bunch of commie loving Satan worshippers would have much remorse.
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Hey, it’s the weekend and I have to work today.
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Good morning Hamsters. No fog yet and 52. Smoke from the marsh wildfire near High Island was a light and slightly smelly haze yesterday evening out here. Likely to return today according to the weatherman.
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