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The Lynchberg Ferry

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I would bet every one here has been on the Lynchberg Ferry. at one time or another.  Hopefully these are views you have not seen.  On the south side of Independence Parkway is the Juan Seguin Historic Park across from the Monument Inn.  The park offers all the amenities for comfort, fishing and picture taking.  There is always, during normal working hours, a park ranger there to answer questions and give a history of Juan Sequin and the area.  I spend hours watching the ships, barges and ferries come and go and for wildlife watchers there is plenty to see.  One of these days I will have to fish there too.

The Lynchburg Ferry, which crosses the Houston Ship Channel, connects North and South Independence Parkway and the San Jacinto Battleground Monument. Since 1888, Harris County has provided the ferry service free of charge.

Did you know?

Todd Shipyard built the William P. Hobby and Ross S. Sterling ferryboats in 1964. Both ferries are 61’8″ x 40’5″ in length and 8’9″ in depth. Their weight is 85 gross registered tonnage, and a capacity of 10 vehicles. Depending on the wind, currents and traffic the ferry can take up to 5-10 minutes to cross the ship channel.

 

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112 responses to “Monday Open Comments”

  1. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It’s been a long while since I’ve been on that ferry. And the Bolivar, too.

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I decided to not tell Max about the time change. So he’s getting me up at 4 instead of 3.

    Hallelujah.

  3. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Tell Max I haven’t been up this early in almost two years. Traffic to the med center is a cake walk at this time of day.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Four/five in the morning is a great time to drive in Houston. If you don’t get shot or have a head on collision.
    🙂

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It’s been years since I’ve been on that little Ferry it’s about the size of the ones at Port Aransas. We used to cross on the Bolivar Ferry a lot when the kids were small. We had a friend that had a beach house at Crystal Beach and we had a lot of good times there. 2-4 couples 5-9 kids all in a 25 X 25 beach house. What I remember most about that is how just about everyone wanted only to have a good time, there was only one complainer in the group and she was only there a few times.
    Mornin’ Gang

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The last time I was on the Port Aransas ferry was May 2021 when I made my last TX 35 run. The last time I was on the Bolivar Ferry was June of 2018 when daughter and I made a day trip for Father’s Day, tooling around in her Red Corvette. Good times for sure. 😉

  7. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  The ferry rides were always a time to step out of the car, breathe some sea air, occasionally watch the dolphins surf the wake, and just to take a few minutes away from the monotony of the drive.  I keep hearing that they want to build more bridges, and I know that you can now wait a couple hours to get off Port Boliver.  The little Lynchburg ferry is also a pleasant ride.

    Here it is 7AM in the morning and no sunshine yet.  What’s up with that.  Oh yeah, somebody was monkeying with the clocks again.

    You all have a good day now.  More later.

  8. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Or you can take the tunnel.

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Judging by her senior picture, I’m guessing that this gal had it rough in high school. 😉

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My sister’s estate sale at the big fancy home, was one of the best ever. She said that they processed an average of 2 people a minute. Today is the last day so it’ll be interesting to see how much ca$h they raked in.

  11. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Proof that the Dems are going full bore towards replacing piston engines in favor of Electric Cars.

     

  12. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I didn’t even know you could still say ferry.

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I saw a mower advertised for $99 bucks, regularly $799 and knew there was a catch and well the catch is that the fake website is a bunch of crooks. This is not unusual but it looked just like Lowe’s and it was claimed to be a Flash Sale lasting 24 hours. I didn’t think it was really Lowe’s and then I noticed the URL “https://lowea.shop/products/Yada Yada Yada” so I looked up Lowe’s and it was “https://www.lowes.com”. FWIW; this is the best one I’ve seen, complete with the “https:” (secure website). I wonder how much money they’ll steal?

  14. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Back from coffee and not sure that I’m any smarter than I was when I went in.  Left the plants out overnight and they do not appear to be any worse for wear this morning – looking for a high near 80 today.  Wind is still a problem for them though.  Still tempting to go ahead and put them in the ground, but I’m committed to waiting until April 1, so I’ll just have to gut it up for a couple more weeks.

    BFF’s sister was planning a trip to Dallas today, but I think they have some weather over in that direction so don’t know if they are going or not.  Not getting answer on phone either, so hope everything is all right with them.

    OK, going to stir around the house here and start moving stuff around and acting like I’m doing something.  More later.

  15. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    1965 Liverpool ferry music

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bolivar Ferry by Ezra Charles

  17. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon.

    I was going to listen to the 1965 Liverpool ferry music but I could not get past the obnoxious prostate commercial.

  18. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Channel Shipyards sits on the end of the peninsula with the Lynchburg Ferry and is the site of my first job as a Coast Guard & Navy certified welder 47 years ago.  I started out at $6/hr. which is the equivalent of $31/hr today.  I actually loved working on the Ship Channel with all the marine traffic and activity.  I had a nice duplex apartment on West Gray and Crocker St. that cost me about $150/mo. which made my commute easy because I was going against the rush hour traffic.

    There was a series of incidents that caused me to finally quit.  For instance, one morning the front gate was locked and everybody had parked out on Lynchburg Road.  Shell Oil had dropped off a barge in the middle of the night and called the yard manager at home to tell him don’t let anyone light even a cigarette lighter in the yard.  The barge had hauled some new, highly volatile and toxic chemical and needed cleaning.  That was one of the milder insanities.

     

  19. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I was going to listen to the 1965 Liverpool ferry music but I could not get past the obnoxious prostate commercial.

    I got the ear wax removal stick thingy, not sure which is worse.

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This photo caught my eye in a search about an entirely different subject.  An interesting story attached to it.  It was built in South Jersey for Brazil via the Port of Houston.  It’s a cracking tower for a biomass refining facility in 2015.

    150′ long

    8.5′ wide

    125,000 lbs.

    904L stainless steel  (this probably costs more than gold right now)

    42 wheel trailers

    The vessel load was permitted through 11 states to the Port of Houston because it was the only port on the Atlantic seaboard or Gulf of Mexico capable of lifting and handling something of this size.  Here’s a video of it leaving the plant.

    This would have been a nice gig for Katfish to broker.

     

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If you’re in a hurry you’ll hafta catch a jetfoil ferry.

  22. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From one of my NASA buddies;

    Guys I found out today why my garage door opener wouldn’t close all the way. First let me say I checked the safety sensors by the door, I tried increasing the down force adjustment, the door down limiter, the connections of all the wiring, and even the 2 wall units. All was working perfect so I ruled out all of the above. I looked on the net to see if someone out there was having this problem. The unit has worked perfectly until 3 weeks ago, then it started acting weird, the remotes didn’t work everytime. I found an article that said remove the LED light bulb of one is installed, and replace with incandescent bulb. Because the RF Frequency of LED bulbs is around 300 Mhz, and the remote controls on the receiver off the garage unit is in the same frequency range. I did change the bulbs but really doubting that would make any difference. I’LL BE DAMN!!! It worked, my opener now works perfect again. Goes all the way down and my remote control works from across the street like it did before, and so does the remote on my motorcycle. So I don’t know if this is true for all garage door opener but it’s true for the Craftsman model from Sears. I posted this in hope it saves you all the BS I went through today. Good Bless and Have a Blessed day !!!

    FWIW; Now that is interesting I didn’t know that but I’m not surprised. Good information for sure. BTW; All the garage door openers operate in the 300-433 Mhz range, assigned by the FCC.

  23. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I did not get a chance to recap our race weekend yesterday, Friday night my son and I set out on our rookie racing season in Edna, Tx at Texana Raceway. Friday night was practice and registration, several things led to us not act being able to get on the track, so first time out was going to be race night Saturday. Saturday night they had a brief hot lap session, he got a little feel for it then it was our first heat race. He was doing well, staying up with the pack, about 5 laps in he spun out, got going and spun again then the clutch cable broke. I was embarrassed for him but he got out of the car grinning ear to ear having a blast! We did not have what we needed to get the clutch cable  rigged up for the feature race so our night was over. But, he got the feel for it and first time jitters are now gone. This week we get the clutch cable replaced/repaired and move on to Alvin at Gulf Coast Speedway next Saturday night.

    The guys that run the series are as nice and helpful as can be, the other racers all help each other out, many came and introduced themselves to us telling us to let them know if they can answer any questions or help in any way. Don’t know how many there are but there were twenty cars this weekend.

    At about 200HP in a thousand pound car the power to weight ratio in these things is incredible, running 12K RPM down the straights they flat out fly.

    With our brief track time I was unable to get any decent photos, hopefully Saturday I will be able to get some. All in all we are tickled to death, getting some fantastic father/son time in with much more to come. At 63 I get to live my life long dream of going dirt track racing through him, and he gets to go fast in a race car lol.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Remember folks to wear your helmet when riding your go cart.

  25. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The price of gas in the year you started driving.  It was 1966 the year I got my Texas driver’s license.

    gallon of gas:  $o.34

    in 2022 dollars:  $2.86

  26. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    24 Squawk

    That is Don Knotts, isn’t it ?

  27. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Lol.

    Friday night we camped out at the track in his enclosed race trailer, with nothing but an electric heater that did not even attempt to keep up. It got down to 30 degrees and nothing but a barbed wire fence two miles away to break the 25MPH winds let me tell you it was COLD! I was on an air mattress and it just transferred that cold steel floor right through my body, we were very much unprepared! Should not have any more of that moving forward, thank goodness.

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    That is Don Knotts. isn’t it ?

    Yup I linked that picture here a while back…..Can you say anti-aircraft artillery? Be careful those things will put your eye out. 😀

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat #26

    Yup.  I do not know the story behind that picture.  I was taken by the chassis on that go cart.  Oh and the bumpers too.

  30. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Friday night we camped out at the track in his enclosed race trailer, with nothing but an electric heater that did not even attempt to keep up.

    Should not have any more of that moving forward, thank goodness.

    Uh oh, I can see GJT modifying the whole dang trailer into a man-cave deluxe 2.0.

  31. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    was taken by the chassis on that go cart. Oh and the bumpers too.

    😀

  32. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    27 GJT

    I was on an air mattress and it just transferred that cold steel floor right through my body…

    I learned that lesson the hard way too years ago.  Some kind of insulating mat is critical for underneath an air mattress.  Those air mattresses conduct whatever they lie on, cold or hot.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    GJT

    We have an in-house sleeping bag tycoon.  I’m sure he can fix you up with some fine, vintage sleeping bag Davy Crockett slept in before he went to the Alamo.

  34. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    GJT. #27

    Yabbut it is those adventures with your son that makes it all worth while.  Cool stuff right there.

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yes sir!

    Yeah many things we can do to stay warm but I had no idea it was going to get that cold. Should not have any other freezing nights this season, we won’t be having to overnight it again until Corpus in three weeks.

  36. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tex Super Pat Dave #s 26 & 28

    According to MeTV and a youtube vidiot Don Knotts was a spokesman in

    1962, the West Virginia native was the “ambassador” for McCulloch racing karts. The McCulloch Motors Corporation manufactured little racing motors (Knotts could hold one in a hand) from 1959 to 1977. Just as The Andy Griffith Show was taking off in the early Sixties, a go-kart boom swept America.

    At the end of the vidiot Knotts has a head on front end encounter with the young lady.

     

  37. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, chickadees. Warmed up a bit, but a slight chance of rain this morning, increasing as the day goes by. If I could get the last of the leaves out of the circular flower bed, I could put the rake away till late in the fall. Eccchhh! Nope, I am forgetting that the magnolia tree will soon be swapping out its old leaves and making new ones.

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Uh oh, I can see GJT modifying the whole dang trailer into a man-cave deluxe 2.0.

    Son has plans in his head for all that, including a terlet and shower, also projector to watch movies/YouTubes. But he tends to be a chip off the old block with many undone plans.

  39. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    At the end of the vidiot Knotts has a head on front end encounter with the young lady

    Dang! I wonder where a feller would go to get one of them McCulloch Go Karts?!

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    How about that? El Gordo sent me a jar of Bill’s Texas Style Butt Rub. I’ll be trying it out on Sunday.

  41. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    McCulloch Go Karts: Back in the 60’s the oldest TV Shop closed down and the owners bought a new Small Motel to use as a retirement vehicle. Their youngest son was only 15 at the time so when they put in a Go Cart track in front of the place to raise more money, it was his job to keep the rental machines running. As a typical boy from LA, got to tinkering with them and wound up with a factory, McCullock Go Cart with twin engines. He’d take them to the Dothan Drag Strip on weekend nights where he was paid $50 bucks to run exhibition runs. That thing would hit 85 MPH through the traps and Freddie said it would scare the hell out of you at that speed. At 4″ off the ground it seemed like 200 MPH. 😀

  42. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    About the motel, it was modular units that were brought out on semi-trailers and set into place, kinda’ like mobile homes. The facade was some sort of painted plywood so once they were tied together you couldn’t tell it wasn’t a real hand built building. The service life was supposed to be 30 years with a 20 year guarantee but the motel is still standing. The Candlelight US 231 south.
    At some point the owners bricked up the front and I’m sure they’ve been gutted a couple of times. I have no idea who owns it now.

  43. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    One more thing, I met Freddie at the TV Shop where I worked. He went to the Alabama Aviation School, got his A N P license and worked as a civilian contractor at Rucker. Low on the totem pole, he worked nights a lot and worked with us part time. He was a character and do I have stories about him and the TV Shop? That said, young Frankie beat him hands down as far as shenanigans were concerned. 😉

  44. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #16 – I’m pretty sure that I have mentioned on here before that Ezra Charles was my room mate at Rice one year.  Of course, that wasn’t his name back then.  His parents were very upset at graduation when he signed a recording contract instead of using that fancy Electrical Engineering degree that they had paid for; but he did use it later on to develop and market his piano pick-up – he told me his first customer for it was Elton John.

    I told SD that they buy that mixes up that rub does it out back of his house in the same wash tub he uses to slop the hogs, so that gives it the unique flavor.

     

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I knew America was in decline when the trophy girls at the racetrack went from bikinis to t-shirts to dresses to racing uniforms to no trophy girls at all.

  46. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I believe the photo of Barney Fife is from one of the lost episodes of the Andy Griffith Show titled Barney discovers Rack and Pinion steering so toodaloo Thelma Lou.

  47. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat
    No matter what else you might think of them, it took Governor Abbott and AG Paxton to do what Dan Patrick, Speaker Phelan and the Texas legislature have been unable/unwilling to do for years.

    “A friend of mine told me about clinics here in Texas that perform surgeries on young teens,” Watson says, “So I had my friend Arielle Scarcella call up.”

    What ensues in Scarcella’s phone call with what Watson revealed to The Post Millenial to be the American Institute of Plastic Surgery in Plano, Tex., is a disturbing account of just how easy it is for children to be ushered into irreversible surgeries and drug treatments in service to gender identity.
    plus,

    Scarcella posed as a mother who was eager to help her child surgically remove her healthy breasts.

    “We were 12 and over,” the rep for the clinic said, “as long as the child had already met all the requirements and had been in therapy for a long time, y’know, had followed all the guidelines and they were on hormones or the therapist was already following them and recommending this next stage.”

    “As of right now,” she went on, “literally when that first mandate went through, they dropped our malpractice insurance for the doctors instantly for anyone under 18.”

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    When my dad raced they still had trophy dashes and trophy girls, my dad didn’t win a lot of races but he did  get to enter and win a few trophy dashes, as a young boy I can still remember my daddy out there kissing some pretty young thing and just a giggling.

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    FYI:

    Here is the full page ad taken out in the Dallas Morning News by 60 companies criticizing the state of Texas for protecting children from predatory gender madness medical criminals.

     

  50. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I made it back home in one piece with just a few punctures in me from the laproscopic procedure. I thought I could work this afternoon… that’s not gonna happen. Y’all hold down the fort here.

    The surgeon was happy with what she saw. We are a go for the big one next week.

  51. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I know I have ghosted quite a few people in the last couple of weeks. Don’t take it personally. I do appreciate all the thoughts and prayers.

  52. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Don’t worry about that TexMo, we are all here for you and in our prayers.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Car magazines with girls were all we had in those days. I think they were about cars.

  54. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texmo

    I have trust in God, I have belief in God, I have faith in God so….

    So I am praying for you and your healing to God.

     

  55. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Checking in from vacation land in Missouri. We spent all day out of the condo, attending mass and then heading out to a very nice lunch on the river in Branson, window shopping, meeting LD’s friends and family at the Butterfly Palace, then to dinner at Paula Deen’s. By the time we made it home, we’d been walking almost all day. LD2 crashed in the car as we made a mad dash to the grocery store to get food for the week, making it just in time before the store closed at 8:00 pm.

    The girls had fun with the butterflies. The staff had vials of sugar water with a fake flower on top, which was used to attract the butterflies. LD2 was getting discouraged until a large white morpho landed on her flower – and then it wouldn’t leave. She finally dislodged it. Aggie Beau had something similar happen – a butterfly landed on his shirt and wouldn’t leave.

    Today is a more relaxed, hanging out at the resort day. We had a rather cool picnic lunch – it feels colder today than yesterday. Temps will remain on the cool side for the rest of the week, but we’ll still have fun. I think later we’re going to try the mini golf course they have here. Fishing at a hatchery is on tap for tomorrow, and Aggie Beau is planning on make trout almondine for dinner tomorrow.

    Getting lots of cuddles this week, which makes me happy.

    Texmo, prayers for a successful surgery and rapid recovery.

  56. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good afternoon, Hamsters:

    A sunny morning vanished among gathering clouds in transition from fluffy white to lumpy grayish.  Rain in the forecast looks to be quite possible this afternoon.  We could use some rain here, as the ground is becoming rock hard in some places.

    The wind was hiding until mid-morning and started out rather benignly but has now switched to showing teeth and increasing strength.  The St. Paddy’s Day banners on the front porch are working hard at flying without wings with each gust.  If it gets too wild we’ll take them down and bring them inside so they don’t end up visiting the neighborhood.

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m watching a kid’s movie, and in it there are two FBI agents tellling kids “We’re the FBI, we can do whatever we want.”

    That ain’t a kid’s movie any more, it’s reality.

  58. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Whew, that timed out just right! 4 more bags of leaves, and just started sprinkling at Chez Harp. I just barely had the energy to get the rake and blower put away.

  59. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I saw this on ACE and had to bring it over. Is she really that stupid and/or ill prepared? Who in any sense of reasonability could possibly assume that she is fit for the job of toll collector let alone VPOTUS, one heart beat away from the presidency?
    Her very presence as VP is an ongoing insult to the taxpaying citizens of the USA; Bidet as POTUS is an even greater outrage.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    47 TP

    Lt. Governor Patrick has been calling for a Special Session to address the matter since at least October of last year.

    Abbott absolutely refused to name the matter a priority in the last regular Session NOR for the following THREE Special Sessions.

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby just called to tell me something disturbing – the management company in charge of the apartments we sold has yet to transfer utilities into their name. They expect us to pay the bills, then they will pay us back. Tenants are still not sure how to pay their rent.

    This breaks my heart. We loved our tenants and had personal relationships with many of them. Nevertheless, we are going to have to cut off our accounts and leave them without water. They all have their own power, so they can still heat and cool their units, but they won’t be able to shower or wash dishes.

    Those folks need to take care of business. Now. Period.

    On a happier note, an old tenant wants to rerent her previous unit, which is the one we just renovated. She was always able to pay her bills before, and she’s divorced her husband. This is a good thing. I had no problem with her, it was always her husband. I told Hubby that it will be carved in stone that if ANYONE ELSE moves in, it’s an automatic eviction. So we’ll be dealing with a known quantity, and at our rental price, and get some of our income coming in while we renovate the upstairs unit.

  62. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    How about that? El Gordo sent me a jar of Bill’s Texas Style Butt Rub. I’ll be trying it out on Sunday.

    Next you should try Boudreaux’s Butt Paste. It’s a moist rub.

  63. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Fragot: $0.61/gal

  64. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    One thing about the free ferry is there is no ferry man to pay.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    61 TT

    One of them needs to call the local media.
    They love these stories about evil landlords.

  66. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This is from a newsletter I get from Decision Desk HQ, which covers elections nationwide:

    Harris Commissioners Rake in Vendor Money

    In the run-up to the Texas primary last week, you might have missed a blockbuster story from Zach Despart of the Houston Chronicle that focused on the Harris County Commissioners Court, which consists of a county judge and four commissioners who represent individual parts of the county.

    During the past two years, donors to incumbent commissioners have given $5.9 million – and “most of that money has come from executives at companies awarded no-bid contracts by those commissioners.”

    Although a majority of contracts approved by commissioners are competitively bid or chosen by a committee, individual commissioners also approve vendors for work performed in their “precincts” (the equivalent of districts), and standard practice is not to weigh in on projects outside their territory, thus handing significant authority to individual commissioners.

    Other large Texas counties and the City of Houston don’t use the same system, which campaign finance experts say increases Harris vendors’ incentives to contribute to incumbents’ re-election efforts. And there’s more: unlike the FEC, which requires committees to list the employer and occupation of donors, that information is optional in Texas. Most commissioners leave those fields blank, so Despart looked them up. “Each commissioner received at least 70% of his contributions from vendors” during the past two years, he found. For one of them, the figure was 88%.

    The amazing thing is how much of an outlier Harris County is compared to other counties. Harris commissioners’ campaign accounts raised an average of $2 million in 2020-2021. In Dallas County, the state’s second-largest, the average is $109,000.

  67. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk & Others

    I forgot to mention this earlier.  If you go to fish at Lynchburg, or anywhere else on the Ship Channel, make sure it’s catch-and-release.  Don’t eat anything out of that water.  It’s a whole cleaner than it used to be, but those heavy metals, etc. don’t just disappear.  All those industries used to use the Channel as their chemical garbage disposal.  It was really bad back in the 1970s when I was there.

  68. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I just saw a short announcement made by Dr Naomi Wolfe on Steve Bannon’s news show, about proof that people in charge of releasing the mRNA jabs knew they were lying when they said the stuff stayed in the bicep, did not circulate into the body.

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/naomi-wolf-we-now-have-161-lawyers-working-on-pfizer-documents/

  69. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I have found the definitive proof that civilization is near its end. There it was…in the frozen food section…next to the Country Cheddar with Broccoli…..

    Three Cheese Kale Bake.

    Oh, the humanity!

    If you dare, there’s a pic of it on my page over yonder….

  70. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

     Texpat says:
    MARCH 14, 2022 AT 11:27 AM

    GJT

    We have an in-house sleeping bag tycoon.  I’m sure he can fix you up with some fine, vintage sleeping bag Davy Crockett slept in before he went to the Alamo.

     

    Yes, but I am currently very busy on re-entering the media space I abandoned before entering the incredibly lucrative and exciting world 0f old sleeping bags. Don’t worry, I’m currently looking into expanding into Rumble as well as reviving the YouTube channel. I think I can link both accounts and still rake in almost $50 a quarter—–

     

    But, for the time being, get a yoga mat.

  71. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    But, for the time being, get a yoga mat.

    WWII version?

  72. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    69 Sarge

    That definitely ranks up there with Squawk’s soy-based Memphis BBQ.

    Let all these lefty fools tank up on cruciferous crap.  You know what’s in kale and cruciferous plants ?  Thallium.  And who loves thallium ?  Vladimir Putin, that’s who.

    It’s all a sinister plot.

    “She (Marina) didn’t have enemies. Everybody loved her. She’s a great doctor,” Stern said.

    Powdered or crystallized thallium is used to poison someone. The toxin works by knocking out the body’s supply of potassium, essential for healthy cells, and attacking the nervous system, the stomach and kidneys.

    Its effects are not immediately noticeable and can take weeks to kick in. Symptoms include hair loss and a burning sensation in extremities.

    In the past, thallium has been used in rat poison and continues to be used industrially to manufacture products including glass lenses, semiconductors, dyes and pigments.

    Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used thallium to poison several opposition members. The CIA also reportedly considered using thallium against Fidel Castro to prompt the loss of his trademark beard.

    I posted this fascinating story years ago on this site.

    The Vegetable Detective

  73. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    My fishing is restricted to certain swamps, sloughs rivers and a couple places i hike into on the gulf.  I like the gulf spots because I have never seen another person or game wardens.  Great flounder locals.  I do not fish for red or drums because of the keep no keep laws.

  74. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    73 Squawk

    I like the gulf spots because I have never seen another person or game wardens.

    I hate to tell you this, but it’s because the gators already ate them.  Be careful and take a shotgun.

  75. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Gator don’t go near Swamp Monster.

  76. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #69 Sarge,

    I also saw that while browsing through the frozen food case in the Pecan Grove Randalls and had to look to see how it was to be prepared.  Mostly lost interest when there were no instructions for microwave heating, but instead oven baking for something like 45 minutes.  Did think about how to convert that into microwave heating on the fly but decided not to experiment.  And found something else sorta like it with microwave instructions. 🙂

  77. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Back to the Channel Shipyards and Lynchburg Ferry.

    Shortly before I left my job there, I was back in the holding tank farm area looking for my straw boss, the yard foreman.  I found him opening up some well hidden valves behind the tanks.  I never went back there and he was adamant about handling the tanks by himself.  I asked him what he was doing and he admitted they had a secret, buried 8″ pipe running out into the Channel to illegally dump toxic, poisonous wastewater from cleaning the chemical barges into the water unseen.  I faked not being shocked, but I didn’t sleep very well after that.  I wanted to turn them in, but didn’t know who to call.  I was just an ignorant kid and to this day, I regret not following through with reporting it.  The thing that upset me the most were the dozens of black families that would fish around the Ferry immediately downstream from the shipyard.  I knew those poor families were there because they needed to feed their children.  Yeah, I’ve asked to be forgiven for that moral laziness.

  78. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It highly likely that even three cheeses can’t save kale.

  79. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    All set up to talk here, but got nothing to say really.  I skipped my nap today, and it’s certainly too late now even though I’m getting a little sluggish.  Maybe I’ll try top work one of my Absolutely Nasty Sudoku puzzles.  More later

  80. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    I’ve taken retirement seriously enough to spend less time on things that were routine before “retirement”.  Cooking was never a passion as far as exotic dishes goes, just something to engage in for special occasions or company coming.  The rest of the time we prefer taking advantage of restaurants that provide variations of all kinds of cuisine rather than make it at home and take twice the time to prepare.  Also I prefer to have the pantry and refrige stocked with things regularly used rather than other things not used or opened and pushed farther back in the cupboard or fridge until they are useless for eating.

    The cat sometimes gets some leftovers, but she does not get older stuff.  Some recent items go out in the back yard for the birds or squirrels or whoever comes by at night.  Have never found a dead body the next morning and so assume whoever took the stuff was ok.

  81. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Symptoms include hair loss and a burning sensation in extremities.

     

    Yah, but penicillin clears it right up.

  82. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Gators don’t bother me.  I keep on eye on em.  You learn the signs and steer clear.  Most times they just want to sun because eating time is usually morning and night.  I have walked up on them accidentally.  They never moved as I slowly backed away.  Where people get in trouble is when they corner the gator, get in the wrong water or get in their face.  Oh and I keep an equalizer on my hip.  They twitch and they die.  I do not take chances and I ain’t no macho man.  I am more afraid of water moccasins.  Those buzzards are sneaky.

  83. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There used to be a big bull gator down in the swamp pond near the water at St. Charles bay in Rockport.  He was kind of a neighborhood mascot.  There was a guy who lived around there with an alto sax who would sit far across the road from the pond and blow a long B Flat on the sax.  I swear that bull gator would come back with the exact same sound in response.  The sax player would only do it once or twice because he was afraid it was a mating call and you know who would come running.

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    82 Squawk

    I am more afraid of water moccasins.

    I’ve been chased.  I know.  /shivers

  85. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    water moccasins

    I have only encountered those serpents a few times. Once when a friend of mine and I were on a road trip we had to stop and “de-ballast”. We chose a bridge and went for a brief walk underneath. I saw a water moccasin and having had enough “canned Courage” I picked up a stick and pinned his head down, then I picked it up and proceeded to rinse him with fresh, warm urine; after which I threw him/it out in the middle of the lake/body of water.
    Road trip resumed.

  86. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Water mocs are nasty bastards.  I crossed paths with them a couple times.  I thought sure I was gonna get bit.  Damn things are hard to kill even with shot.  you almost have to turn their head in a slurpy.

    Gators that have been around people scare me more than totally wild.  Even if they are not fed by people they will fool you.  There is a big bull at Anahuac that i swear new my voice.  I always talked to him because he war about 60 ft across the slough.  He’d be in the reeds and I would call to him and out he came…. every time.  He never crossed the slough but he would come.  I called him Phydeaux.

  87. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bones you are nuts.  I have picked up my share of poisonous snakes.  Never one of them

  88. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just outside.
    Can see and hear some nasty stuff coming in from the W/NW.

  89. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Watching a light show just north of us.  Gonna be a bumpy night

  90. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Bones you are nuts.

    I thought this was established a long time ago

    I have picked up my share of poisonous snakes.

    They are venomous, not poisonous. They can be eaten, but they prolly taste like $#!t!

    Did you miss this:

    I saw a water moccasin and having had enough “canned Courage”

    This would be known as “beer”, most likely Budweiser.

  91. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Heh

    Even during my drinkin days I never got “that” type of courage.  Sober yeah but not drinkin.  Okay I have picked up my share of venomous snakes.  SOBER

  92. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    When I was 12, 13, 14 years old working on a ranch and building fences, every time we’d start setting posts and stretching wire through a creekbed or ravine, it was always all about the damned water moccasins.  We carried varmint guns and watched carefully, but sometimes they would be right there at your feet before you knew it.  They’re the worst predator, hiding until the last minute and the stubtail moccasins are the worst.  You can smell them before you can see them.  They stink to high heaven.  High-top, thick leather boots are still the best protection.

  93. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve picked up copperheads, rattle snakes and even a coral snake, but never, ever a water moccasin.

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Was messing around a friend’s pond in Kenney when we were in high school and came upon a moccasin on the bank with an oversized bullfrog halfway sticking out of his mouth. He didn’t move, just sat there. Friend got a forked stick and pinned him behind the head. Snake not happy.

    Friend: Here, hold him down.

    So I did.

    Friend: I’ll be right back.

    Me: What the hell. Where are you going?

    Friend: (taking off running) To get a shotgun.

    Sheesh. The house was 250 yards away!

    He finally got back. Huffing, puffing.

    Friend: Okay let him go!

    It took about 0.125 seconds for that frog to come flying out of his mouth and snake was back in the water. Lightning quick.

    But friend was ready. He got him.

  95. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    I have et a water moccasin. Somebody else ketched him, but I et it.

    Tastes like chicken.

    Et turtle eggs, too.

    Boogers when I was younger.

  96. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Boogers when I was younger.

    That explains everything.

  97. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Friend got a forked stick and pinned him behind the head. Snake not happy.

    WHERE THE EFF WAS YOUR KNIFE?!? I have carried a knife since kindergarden and have never regretted it; those darned things come in handy. I use my fixed blade knife (whichever one I choose to wear) every day and I use it every day. Prolly the most handy tool a person can have.

  98. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My first encounter with an angry, aggressive water moccasin was on the banks of Rummel Creek when I was 10 or 11.  I used to spend an inordinate amount of time down there, much to the consternation of my mother.  I was trying to catch turtles for my collection and I was kneeling at the muddy bank when I saw the head of a submerged snake moving through the water right towards me.   I decided to stand up and step back right when the serpent slithered onto the bank and opened up that white cottonmouth like it was going to strike.  I ran about 10 or 12 feet, looked over my shoulder and the SOB was coming right behind me along the water’s edge.  I must’ve covered another 12 or 15 feet before I could find a spot not so steep that I could finally climb out of there and that sucker was still on the chase.  It scared the ever lovin’ daylights out of me.

  99. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Boogers

    The original nose candy

  100. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #99 SQUAWK: That right there is Bonecrusher kind of humor, well done sir.

  101. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    New reading assignment.

    Wilfred M. McClay holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College. This essay was delivered as the 34th Erasmus Lecture.

    Excerpt:

    A long time ago, at the beginning of my graduate studies in history at Johns ­Hopkins University, I read the philosopher George Santayana for the first time. We all know Santayana for a famous saying, frequently misrendered: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s a favorite adage of op-ed sages. But I had never seen it rendered as it ­originally appeared, in Santayana’s book Reason in Common Sense:

    Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

    Santayana was not concerned here with the putative “lessons of history,” about whose precise contents he was always skeptical and circumspect. He was speaking of something more fundamental, more elemental, more anthropological. He was designating memory as a central precondition for a mature, civilized way of life—a subject about which he knew a great deal.

    A second passage from Santayana was more startling, at least to me. Here I was at Johns Hopkins, an institution that prided itself on being the model of the modern research university in the United States, an institution dedicated not to the placid ideal of cultural conservation but to inquiry, to the remorseless supplanting of traditional learning with ever more incisive and disruptive scientific knowledge, including the relentless rethinking and reinterpretation of the past. So imagine my shock when I came across this passage:

    It is one of the foibles of romanticism to insist on rewriting history and perpetually publishing new views without new matter. Can we know more about the past than its memorials transmit to us? Evidently we cannot know more; in point of truth concerning human history, any tradition is better than any reconstruction. A tradition may be a ruin, broken unrecognizably, or shabbily built over in a jungle of accretions, yet it always retains some nucleus of antiquity; whereas a reconstruction . . . is something fundamentally arbitrary, created by personal fancy, and modern from top to bottom. Such a substitution is no mere mistake; it is a voluntary delusion which romantic egotism positively craves: to rebuild the truth nearer the heart’s desire.

    It was a shocking statement, a repudiation of everything Johns Hopkins University stood for. Historical revisionism a “foible of romanticism” and a “delusion”! What chutzpah!

    But it also made me think. “Any tradition is better than any reconstruction”; “a reconstruction is something modern from top to bottom.” These two sayings seemed to contain an element of truth. The flames of memory, kept alight in culture, embodied in custom, passed along in tradition, ruins, relics, rituals: These have their own reason for being, their own insights, their own right to our respect, a right that cannot be abrogated in the effort to cast history as a science.

    https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/01/the-claims-of-memory

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I guess my knife was in the shop for repairs.

  103. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dang.

    Was editing a big comment and poof it went away.

    Try again mañana.

  104. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Bones

    LOL. Yeah i have had that joke in my back pocket for years.  Old trucker humor too.

     

  105. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    95

    I’d eat day old kale out of the fridge before I ate moccasin.

  106. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’d eat liver before I’d eat moccasin.

  107. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’d eat Squawks chili before I ate moccasin.

  108. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #106 – Dayum!        😉

  109. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The bad cells of that line broke up just as it got to us.

  110. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I do not now and never have eaten reptiles or rodents.  I also don’t eat internal organs like liver and kidneys.  I do admit to eating mountain oysters twice a long time ago.

  111. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Bedtime out here.  I’ve never liked snakes of any kind, and I just try to avoid them.  Feral cats and roadrunners seem to be helpful in controlling them up here on this rocky hill, so I’m friendly with the cats and roadrunners.  I think the possums are immune to the poison and eat them too, but don’t quote me on that.  You all have a good evening, and more later as it develops.

  112. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Fried rattlesnake is the bomb as is gator.  I have had rattlesnake chili (No Beans).  that was really good.  NO!! Rattlesnake does not taste like chicken

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