Head west out Bee Cave Road from Austin till you hit 71, hang a right, then shortly left onto Hamilton Pool Road. Or you can turn south to this great rope swing swimming hole.
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We have a Tuesday thread!
That’s a neat picture, I’ve never been, but I’d like to see it.
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I wonder if Sarge uses an ol’ hammock like the ones in the video? 🙂
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Good morning Hamsters. Coolish 75 with light mist now, and our overnight rain was 0.4″ for a grand total of 1.7″ since the mess moved in on Sunday. More coming up from the Gulf, but we don’t mind being missed by the heavy stuff so far. Rosenberg and points SW have gotten a lot already and so has Sugar Land. Our dirt still has plenty of capacity for rain soaking in, and that likely will be needed before all this moves out. Cloudy days keep the temp down and are quite welcome this time of year.
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The reservoir east of hwy 6 and north of I-10 was dang near dry on Friday afternoon and now it has water all the way across. Bear Creek is just barely inside its banks as it goes through the Masters Course east of 6.
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HEADLINE: Pentagon releases 15 more Gitmo detainees
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has approved the release of 15 detainees from the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United Arab Emirates, a move derided Monday night by a leading member of Congress as reckless.
Rep. Ed Royce, the California Republican who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee, called the released detainees “hardened terrorists” who will be a threat for years.The POTUS needs to be tried for treason.
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TexMo says:
AUGUST 16, 2016 AT 6:16 AM
I wonder if Sarge uses an ol’ hammock like the ones in the video?I have one but don’t use it. Makes my skin look like a ham ready for the oven—-
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Some of you may remember last year sometime ny excitement at the building of a replica of the Bugatti 100P, the only aircraft Bugatti designed.
Built in the late 1930s by the most renowned race car manufacturer in France, it was an Art Deco masterpiece designed to set records at speeds above 450 mph. Virtually every aspect of the airplane broke new ground. The slender, streamlined fuselage housed a pair of supercharged straight-eight Bugatti Grand Prix engines powering contra-rotating propellers. The wings swept forward, not back. The empennage was shaped like a Y, with a V-tail and a ventral fin, and the elevators doubled as rudders. There was even an automated flight control system—an analog computer, if you will—that was meant to prevent the pilot from making a fatal mistake.
But before the airplane could be finished and flown, World War II erupted, and the Bugatti became one of the great what-if stories in the history of aviation.The plane was built (not restored, the only original hangs in a musuem) and flown successfully a year ago. Turn up the volume to get the true power of those two engines.
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Morning everyone. I found the following and posted it too late last night.
mharper42 says:
AUGUST 15, 2016 AT 10:01 PM
One of the goofiest stories I’ve heard in a long time. Seems the NYC architect son of Dominique De Menil is building a small artist colony in Acres Homes. Unless the “enclave” has an electrified fence around those 18 homes, I don’t see how it will be feasible. -
Those swimming holes, carved out of the limestone that covers central Texas, are all over the place out here. As kids, we used to be able to just drive to the San Saba River, step over the fence on to someone’s property, and swing out into the swimming hole as we pleased. There was another swimming hole, without a swing but with a rock beach (we called it a shoal) where the skinny dipping took place. Never had any trouble, owners did not seem to care, and it was something to do that didn’t take money and provided relief on hot days and evenings. The lawyers have ruined all that. That’s another reason kids are always sick – they didn’t drink enough raw river water to build their immune systems when they were young.
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Wimpy.
“Researchers measured the grip strength (how strongly you can squeeze something) and pinch strength (how strongly you can pinch something between two fingers) of 237 healthy full-time students aged 20 to 34 at universities in North Carolina. And especially among males, the reduction in strength compared to 30 years ago was striking. The average 20-to-34-year-old today, for instance, was able to apply 98 pounds of force when gripping something with his right hand. In 1985, the average man could squeeze with 117 pounds of force.
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#9 – Don’t you know that this will never fly as a private endeavor. If it’s ever funded, it will be with public money, and of course, it will flop. It’s just a scam to draw a little juice from the public trough. But with the liberals, all that matters is good intentions – the fact that it’s totally unrealistic is immaterial.
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Hamilton Pool, like Barton Springs Pool, just got too popular, too crowded. Glad I had a chance to enjoy them 35 years ago.
Regarding the rope swing into flowing water, I went to one long ago that was near Kerrville, guess it might have been the Guadalupe River. Or more likely a small tributary; I remember a small muddy creek. I did not do the rope drop, didn’t look at all safe to me. -
Less than half an hour from the Montrose museum that bears his family’s name, he hopes to remake a sliver of the semirural, traditionally African-American Acres Homes neighborhood into an enclave of 14 sleekly designed homes with sunlit studios that will be marketed to local artists who seek a community of like-minded neighbors.
“I think what is nice about it is the trees, the vegetation, particularly those tall pine trees that exist in Texas,” de Menil said on the phone last week from his office in New York. “The idea is to keep as many trees as possible and keep that rural wooded feel that you get when you drive around there.”
But with new for-sale signs on recently cleared lots in the area, and other developments in the works, Acres Homes increasingly looks like a community caught between its rural past and urban future. De Menil’s project – to be called NoLo Studios, for “North of the Loop” – will occupy about 3 acres on Mansfield Road, at Midgeley, where on a recent steamy morning the only sounds were occasional whooshing car, a horse’s whinny and the continuous chirping of cicadas. -
I’ve never understood how horses, cows, and chickens can live in Acres Homes, when they can’t, anywhere else inside the city limits.
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#5 Bones, I was just about to post that, yup our Man-Child-in-Chief is recruiting new ISIS Savages for the Middle East. SPITS~
The official added that six of the detainees had been approved for transfer back in 2009. The others had been evaluated by the interagency Periodic Review Board and it had been determined that their “continued detention was no longer necessary to protect against a significant continuing threat to the security of the United States.”
The move brings the population at the famed detention facility down to 61. There were 242 detainees at Guantanamo when the Obama administration came into office.
The latest transfer is part of an acceleration in the prison population’s decline, with the State Department official noting that in the past 11 months alone, 55 detainees have been transferred to 13 different countries. -
#8 Sarge, what a beautiful aircraft, what a shame it crashed.
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#17 SD: What the article did not mention is that about 20 of those released have already taken up arms against the US. It is only marginally more dangerous than releasing convicted murderer illegal aliens here in the US.
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Finally checking, reviewed yesterday afternoon’s posts, and…
Re EG’s link on yesterday’s thread:
I actually posted this some days ago – not this article, but was commenting on the rising body count – and the article I found had a quote from Mr. Thorn to a friend some days before his body was found. Basically he said, “If I turn up dead, it won’t be suicide. I would never kill myself.”
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Acres Homes, truly one of Houston’s garden spots of serenity.
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Does anybody else see a strong resemblance between the Maserati SUV and the Land Rover Evoque?
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MHarper:
I’ve never understood how horses, cows, and chickens can live in Acres Homes, when they can’t, anywhere else inside the city limits.
In my neighborhood, where the lots range mostly from 1/2 to 7/8 acre (that’s our lot size), the deed restrictions allow us to have livestock, but they must be 100 ft from any residence. We have a flock of some chickens and their goose friend that roam from the house on the corner. They’re in our yard quite often. Occasionally I hear a goat. I’ve thought about getting one for yard maintenance, especially on Mirkwood.
Sometimes we see a horse and rider; there’s a fenced, undeveloped triangle of land on Airport, at the edge of our neighborhood, where there are some horses. There are still cattle on some undeveloped land on the south side of Airport. I’m assuming that’s so the owners can claim an ag exemption on their taxes until it gets sold. Hobby Auto Auction has developed one large chunk of that land, and Powell Electric has a new, huge facility as well. I will be said when the last pieces are sold off and developed. I like looking for baby cows. They make my heart lighter when I see them.
As long as the livestock area is mucked regularly and they don’t inconvenience the neighbors, we can have ’em. Subdivisions with smaller lots would find these rules difficult to follow. -
Looks like Google has given up on the Rio Olympics. Although NBC shows events scheduled through Sunday the 21st, Google has no little fruity athletes bouncing around in a doodle today.
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The UN is an absolute disgrace and should be disbanded.
HEADLINE: South Sudan Troops Raped, Beat Foreigners as U.N. Force Ignored Calls for Help
NAIROBI, Kenya — The soldier pointed his AK-47 at the female aid worker and gave her a choice.
“Either you have sex with me, or we make every man here rape you and then we shoot you in the head,” she remembers him saying.
She didn’t really have a choice. By the end of the evening, she had been raped by 15 South Sudanese soldiers.
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For hours throughout the assault, the U.N. peacekeeping force stationed less than a mile away refused to respond to desperate calls for help. Neither did embassies, including the U.S. Embassy.Were the “peacekeepers” participants? What good are they?
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The UN just cannot intervene in situations where there are cultural differences at play. It’s about that simple. In other words, they are about as useless as a SWAT team at a school shooting.
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Rains have arrived over us again starting with a strong downpour that’s slacked off to a steady light rain. Only a few small puddles dot the yards, and they will likely vanish once the rain stops. Our surface soil is still thirsty below, though way below it’s probably still moist from the May floods if the healthy vigor of the pecans with their long taproots is any indication.
#16 mhaprer42
Would guess deed restrictions (if there were any originally) might have governed which farm animals are allowed in Acres Homes. The name of the area would indicate acreage lots were there from the get-go.
The very elegant multi-acre Rivercrest subdivision facing Westheimer just west of Gessner near the Briar Grove Park subdivision has homes with horse stables and riding arenas. You can see one such property from west-bound Westheimer when the trees are bare. It is not a large enclave.
Without zoning, deed restrictions rule in Houston. IMHO that’s a better arrangement than zoning since the property owners directly control their land and have a large say in what the rules will be. Zoning under the control of a city council is wide open for favoritism, bribes, and rule changes in areas that folks who live there have little say in implementing restrictions or nullifying restrictions to suit a big-bucks outfit. -
Adee, I just read a HouChron piece from last year about Rivercrest. Never heard of it before, but it turned up in a google search for info on DR and livestock.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/Rivercrest-neighborhood-a-hidden-treasure-6717636.php
This one may be behind the paywall too. Sorry, Tim, I know you will want to read about the house being built with 36,000 sq feet. The comments are all about trashing people who build a bigger house than they “need”. 🙂 -
Back in the dark ages when we first moved to Houston (1969) I took riding lessons at Tri Oaks Stable just off Westheimer a few blocks east of the huge Presbyterian church that now faces West Belt just north of Westheimer.
It was a large stable with large covered arena that housed horses in training and/or boarding belonging to comfortably off and well off families whose children took riding lessons on their horses. Some of the moms did too. The property was heavily wooded and of course eventually became a very nice subdivision. Many of these folks were longtime supporters of the Pin Oak Charity Horse Show both financially and in volunteer time.
At the lessons I met a mother and daughter both taking lessons, and they became our first good friends in Houston. The husband was a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, and through his recommendation I became a medical editor in a different section of his department. When they decided to transfer to a different riding teacher elsewhere, I went with them. It was a good decision for all. -
Raining hard again. 🙁 I had plans, don’t think they will jell today.
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It’s cloudy and rainy and I didn’t have plans. I believe we have a match.
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Yabbut did your lack of a plan “jell”, or did it just happen? Plus it’s Tuesday, don’cha have to work? OHHHH — vacation? staycation? Aaaarrrggghhhh, I can barely remember my own comings and goings.
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Pretty much steady rain since 9am, occasionally an interlude of harder rain. Plans around here all involve staying inside. Plenty to do there.
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When the Green Party is spending more money on ads than you are, you’re not even trying to win.
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Meanwhile, the margin between Trump and Clinton is down to six points—–
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What is it with these moronic hipsters trying to rename communities that have existed for over 100 years? EaDo. NoLo (north of the loop). They tried to rename my part of town NoDo. That quickly got squelched by the natives.
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I’ve heard EaDo but not the others. Also heard my old stomping grounds called The Branch. No, it’s Spring Branch. That’s what they named it.
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What’s a cool catchy name for Gunspoint?
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Hey, I got one! A-Ho for Acres Homes.
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Heh. That’s pretty good. Nolo is what that trust fund Menil loser is calling his acres home artist colony.
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G-Spot for Montrose.
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Stories like this increases my appreciation of alligator stories.
A story of a pole vaulters mishap with his ummmmm just read the headline you will finger it out. -
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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“I’ve only found two sports that are more expensive — anything to do with a horse, and car racing.’’
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#43: That bar was gonna fall, schwantz or not.
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There’s lots of “funny money” schemes out there and when the hammer falls the pain is going to be extreme.
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#43: That bar was gonna fall, schwantz or not.
Uhhh okay. If you want to argue that, this guy wants to talk to you.
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Did anyone see Biden yesterday talking about Trump couldn’t be trusted with the launch codes? He turned around and pointed at a secret service guy and said “that guy right there with the launch codes follows me everywhere in case something happens to the president.”
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That Biden isn’t laughed off the stage whenever he appears is proof that the LSM are nothing but partisan hacks. I’m surprised that Joe “the D!p$#!t” Biden doesn’t forget to breathe or wear clothes to work. . . .
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The launch code guy that has to follow Biden around looks up with admiration the elephant dung picker upper.
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Memphis race baiter politicians found some cameras today to claim racial profiling not allowing BLM to go see Elvis last night.
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EaDo is a taxing district. People like us who own property there pay it. People who live there do not, but they vote on how the money is spent. I’ve noticed a few EaDo pick-up trucks doing maintenance stuff. The goal is probably to make the place all spiffy like the Galleria area. Technically we are within EaDo but realistically not quite. Definitely still Third Ward outside the gate. South of us, other side of Cullen, are a lot of 40-50’s vintage houses that have survived the years. They are on fairly large lots as inner loop homes go. They seem to be upgraded rather than torn down. These may soldier on as dwellings before the EaDo condos get there.
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The NoLo art cottages will be built on virgin woodlands in Acres Homes. I looked the address up in google maps and it is a heavily wooded long thin rectangle. No old huts to tear down.
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Meanwhile, in Cut ‘N Shoot, the local culture continues to degrade…
“They wore rubber masks depicting pigs’ heads and they started screaming and waving a green laser.”
A laser beam hit one of the teens in the face and the children rushed back home, shaken but luckily unharmed.
The masked shooters, who also wore T-shirts labeled ‘King’ and ‘Queen’, were next spotted by incredulous motorists as they had sex beside the hamlet’s waterwheel.
Traffic backed up on the highway as some drivers slowed down and others clambered out of their cars to behold the bizarre spectacle, one motorist told the paper.http://www.thelocal.se/20160816/pig-mask-pair-enjoy-waterwheel-sex-after-pokmon-hunter-attack
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When it comes to blog killing you can’t touch me, baby.
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You guys need to wean yourselves off of Bachelors In Paradise.
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BiP? I’m watching the Walking Dead marathon I recorded Sunday.
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I’m shooting video for a review of a new budget underquilt.
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In May and June 1941, the Wehrmacht’s leaders issued the Barbarossa Decree and the Commissar Order, which gave soldiers a free hand in killing enemy civilians in the name of “the total eradication of any active or passive resistance.”
….In December 1942, with the German forces in desperate shape, Hitler again commanded that the army use “the most brutal means … against women and children also,” and prevented officers from punishing soldiers who had committed “excesses” against civilians. Hitler proclaimed such excesses were, in fact, commendable.
…Shepherd finds only one instance of a German officer who refused on moral principle to assist the Final Solution. In the spring of 1944 Colonel Emil Jäger argued against the deportation of Corfu’s Jews to the camps on the grounds that the Germans would forfeit their “ethical prestige” in the eyes of the Greeks. What Shepherd calls Jäger’s “clear if delicately worded” moral stance leaps out at the reader. In a dark time he was one of the few Germans who spoke for the moral norms that the Wehrmacht had so decisively discarded. War’s usual moral boundaries had been radically reshaped, and only a handful of soldiers among millions raised their voices in opposition.http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/209235/germany-and-collective-guilt
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I gotta tell ya.
I love, absolutely LOVE, talking about gun control with a Liberal who is also a mental health professional.
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One verdict is in – Hillary has Parkinson’s Disease.
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Yeaahhhhhh—
Lets come up with a better source than the most hated man in the world——-
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