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Thursday Hurricane Preppers Open Comments

It is that time again when the threat of hurricanes bare down upon us.  I know we are all going to  die, but if you don’t may might could lose your toilet facilities.  So being the good neighbor that I am, i have prepared instructions for this whiz bang instrument of potty comfort

Hurricane preparedness Cut-N-Shoot style.
IT IS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN
And if we lose power we cannot use our terlits. Dang anaerobic septic system is useless if the electricity goes off. BUT FEAR NOT I AM PREPARED. (UPDATE) I am now the proud owner of a whole house generator (WHOOHOO).
Built this when we went through hurricane Ike.
1. Shovel to shovel ash into the pot to cover the smell
2. Flashlight for not time maneuvers
3. Bleach for smell
4. Toilet Paper
5. Radio
6. Coffee cup (in the cinder block)
7. Newspaper to read and use for well you know
8. 5 gallon bucket with lid with 2 trash bags ( I burn the waste in a VERY hot fire)
9. Toilet seat tied down to two strategically placed saw horses
10. Tarp to block prying eyes
And this year if need be I plan to supply OFF with Deet for the mosquitos.

 

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  1. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Morning gang.  I’m up a little earlier than normal for some reason.  But as long as I’m up, I figure I just as well get posting.  About 5 years ago, I decided to replace all the flourescent bulbs in my kitchen with LED bulbs, and overall I’ve been pleased with the result.  But, I’ve had 2 of a batch of 4 bulbs fail in one fixture, and now 1 bulb (about 5 1/2 years old) is failing in another fixture.  The fault is that when these bulbs were assembled, it seems to me that the internal wiring was not sufficiently anchored to the little chip which drives the light.  When the solder joint heats and cools over time, the joint fails.  Apparently this problem is not limited to light bulbs, but seems like just about any device which uses solder joints is subject to hairline cracks of other faults over time as the result of heat cycles from normal on off usage.  Of course, my bulb has a 5 year warranty which expired in February.  I think I can replace it with the same bulb, but if not, I’ll have to replace all 4 since the colors (they call it temperatures) vary somewhat from manufacturer to manufacturer.  Anyway, this will be the 3rd failure out of 8 bulbs, so so much for that 50,000 hour life.  And they aren’t getting any cheaper – I paid $39 for the 4 bulb set 5 years ago – not they are $64 for the same set used.

    In other news, about all I can ask is that you all have a great day.  More later as it develops.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mornin’ El Gordo and Gang
    It’s looking like we might get a little rain even though it was expected tomorrow. Oh well, I guess Mike won’t be out putting up timbers for the Pole Barn.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Houston we have a problem. So the wife was trying to make it past Dallas/Fort Worth yesterday and pushed all the way to Weatherford. She bailed off I-20 about 8:30 and as soon as she got on the feeder her left rear went flat. She didn’t really know it was flat until the pressure sensor came on, and then she felt it. Luckily she had slowed down and could pull off quickly. A State Trooped stopped right after she pulled over and was on the phone with AAA, he offered to put the spare on but she said she’d just wait on AAA. The Trooper got on the phone with the AAA guy to tell him how to get there and avoid all the construction so he made it in 15 minutes instead of the prescribed 45 minutes. The spare was put on, Trooper left and she made to to her motel by 9:45 so all is well. She called the boy first to see which Michelin tire he’d recommend and he told her he’d call the local Discount and set her up with a set of Michelin Defender’s. He checked their inventory to make sure they had them in stock. The Discount Tire place is ¼ away so she’ll be there when they open.

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #3 FWIW; The Tahoe came with cheap Goodyear Wranglers and we had planned on replacing them but figured we’d use up as much of the tread as we could before replacing them. The Tahoe has 34K on it so I guess we got more service out of the Goodyear’s than we deserved. If I had any idea the damn things would asplode after several long trips I’d have replaced them sooner. The Trooper said they likely overheated and I’d agree it’s just that this usually happens when they’re under inflated and with the pressure sensors you know immediately if they are low. Maybe it was because they weren’t “Z” rated. 😀

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Justice is served; Inmate executed for 1984 killing of 8-year-old girl.

    FLORENCE, Ariz. – An Arizona man convicted of murder in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl was put to death Wednesday in the state’s second execution since officials resumed carrying out the death penalty in May following a nearly eight-year hiatus.

    Frank Atwood, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for his murder conviction in the killing of Vicki Lynne Hoskinson, whose body was found in the desert, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a statement.

    Vicki Lynne went missing months earlier after leaving her home in Tucson to drop a birthday card in a nearby mailbox.

    The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Atwood’s execution Wednesday morning after rejecting a final appeal by his lawyers. He died at 10:16 a.m., Brnovich said, and witnesses reported that the execution went smoothly.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Graveyard Dead, well my job here is done. 😉

  7. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Mornin’ Gang – Just sitting and sipping coffee, trying to get awake enough to focus…  Super Dave, so glad to hear that the tire incident was just an inconvenience and one that, prayerfully,  will be remedied without too much hoop-jumping.

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We’re getting a good rain, about .64″ in the last 30 minutes with 1.02″ an hour some of the time. As much as I hate my Pole Barn getting rained out I’ll take the rain. Earlier I was out front porch and noticed a Nissan truck under the cedar tree and about that time, a Chevy Avalanche showed up and the guy told the other guys we’d been rained out.

  9. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #8 Hooray for rain… whatever that is… been so long, I hardly remember

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    My heron/egret is back again. I’ve been trying to identify the species. It may be a juvenile great blue heron, but the beak is black and the legs are yellow. It’s not as large as the info I’ve found says it should be as an adult. We see these in our neighborhood, and I’ve never seen one as large as a great blue should be.

    So, close but no cigar. I’ll keep looking.

  11. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Does it look like this??? That’s a yellow crowned night heron – and the reason I ask is that we have one that’s hanging around here this year.https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/photo/70693871-1280px.jpg

  12. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    World’s biggest Buc-ees to replace the original Luling store.

    “ Located at 10070 I-10, the new Buc-ee’s in Luling will go up next to the existing store. It will feature 120 gas nozzles at 60 pumps. The current store, built in 2003, was the chain’s first “family travel center.”

    https://www.kvue.com/article/money/bucees-austin-worlds-largest-convenience-store-luling/269-4a9e7d84-c035-4c9f-98ef-0deab54618a9

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It might be a yellow crowned night heron – but the facial coloring doesn’t match. Face is more like the great blue, beak like the night heron.

    Oh, well. I’ll just enjoy having it in my back yard for a while.

    Naming him Hank. Hank Heron.

  14. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bsue – Yes, that’s it! So it IS the yellow crowned night heron! The picture I found was different than yours.

    Still naming him Hank.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #12

    I’ve been in the Luling store. Like the Madisonville one, it’s a madhouse. Elbow to elbow with all of humanity. They need a larger store there. I avoid the Madisonville store, stopping instead at the county rest stops before and after. I pack my own food and drink just so I don’t have to pull into the Buc-ees there.

    I thought the Texas City store was the biggest ever?

  16. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #14 How fun… the one hanging around here is quite comical at times… perching on top of the neighbor’s guard light pole, the fence, up in a tree… walking down the street, which makes me afraid it’ll get run over… crazy bird

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #3

    AAA is a lifesaver. I’ve had two batteries replaced by them. It’s hard to get to a store when your car won’t start.

    And a most generous tire repair guy fixed my flat coming home from Bryan. Waaaaay back when, a stranger doubled back on the freeway to change my tire during rush hour.

    God sends us guardian angels. Sometimes they wear uniforms.

    Years ago, I was driving our VW Bus (van) and then weird things started happening. Pressing the gas pedal actually decreased the power to the engine. I was doing better at idle or first gear. I managed to pull over, and a MAP county deputy pulled in right behind me. My phone (early days of cell phones) had died, so Deputy Fred allowed me to sit in his truck while I tried to call Hubby.

    Hubby, not recognizing the number, didn’t pick up the phone. I assume he was in the middle of a call. Fred and I sat in the truck for a few, and I tried again. Still no answer. He said he had to get back on his patrol.

    “Let me try one more thing,” I asked. This time I called Hubby’s answering service, who could page Hubby directly. I told them “I am stuck on the side of I-10, just out outside of the 610 Loop. Please tell my husband that I am sitting here with a very handsome Deputy Fred, and if he wants to keep his marriage intact, he should call this number immediately.” The answering service lady cracked up laughing and said she’d send the message.

    Hubby called me within two minutes, a very red Deputy Fred went on his way, and I waited for Hubby to come get me. Turns out there was a short in the wiring.

    Oh, and we’re still married.

  18. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    AAA saved my bacon one day when I went out to the parking garage at Hermann, to find a flat tire on our Tundra. I was grousing about trying to put the jack together to Squawk on the phone when he told me to call them – within a few minutes a very nice gentleman arrived at my location way up in the garage, and changed to the spare, so I could drive to the nearest discount tire store in 5 o’clock traffic and get a new tire… and LOL about the paging company tale

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Coffee & Covid ☙ Thursday, June 9, 2022 ☙ THE INSURRECTION REVUE

    Happy Thursday, and good morning C&C! It’s another fine day in the pandemic, or post-pandemic, or pre-pandemic, or whatever this is. It’s good, that’s all. Today’s informative roundup includes: a preview of the gala J6 Committee event tonight; several Philly democrats head to jail for voter fraud; Republicans object to the dems’ stage manager for their J6 TV event; another mysterious sudden and unexpected death; both Biebers now have sudden and unexpected weird health problems; China points the finger at the U.S.’s hypocritical disinformation board; and Putin points the finger at Joe on inflation.

    *****************************

    *COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

    An anonymous source who knows somebody that used to work for a guy who had lunch with a top official gave me an insider preview of the dazzling! spectacular! eye-popping! electrifying! house January 6th Committee live television event tonight at 8pm Eastern Standard Time. It’ll be carried live on ABC, CNN, ESPN 6 (until Japanese golf starts at 9:15), OutTV, and BBC 3. The Huffington Post website will live-stream the show adding the news blog’s own special brand of over-the-top analysis.

    My source said the show will begin by creating history with the largest trans dance review ever broadcast on live television, and I have been assured that it will be a celebration of ALL body types, so throw your crusty, dusty, worn-out notions of beauty right into the recycler (remember to rinse first!).

    Next up will be a celebratory vignette of ovary-person-hood, featuring a candid slideshow of feminist superstars Liz Cheney, Nancy Pelosi, and Sheila Jackson-Lee — in their natural bodies in different environments affected by climate change, like Nancy Pelosi’s gourmet kitchen. I have also been told there’s a chance that committee chairperson Bennie Thompson will read kids a gender unicorn book while wearing a never-before-seen special surprise outfit that he’s only been brave enough to wear at home before now. (I heard it depends on whether he can still squeeze into the, er, liberating getup.)

    After that, the real show starts.

    The screens will fade to black, and ominous rumbling bass will build in intensity while Adam Schiff begins dramatically narrating over the theme song to the Empire Strikes Back. “In the beginning was a Democracy.” Then a tiny twinkling ball of light will appear in the middle of the black screen.

    Schiff will continue narrating somberly, “And the Democracy was good. But an evil being saw the Democracy, and was jealous, and wanted to destroy it.” A tiny animated devil will appear and start chasing the little point of light around the screen with a pitchfork.

    Shiff’s voice will harden. “So the evil being was mean and rude to people on the internets and wore an offensive red hat all the time. And Democracy was damaged, but it survived. And Democracy elected a light-bringer to oppose the evil one.”

    A Joe Biden “I did that!” animated sticker will start chasing the little devil, sopping it from chasing the democracy light. A princess wand will spring into wee Biden’s outstretched arm, and he will start zapping the devil with miniature numeric digits, formed like gas prices.

    Then narrator Schiff will build to a frenzied conclusion: “And when the evil one saw the light-bringer had been elected by the people, the evil one became desperate, and he made … AN INSURRECTION!”

    Then the black screen will explode in light, flashing short clips of videos of angry voters pushing into the Capitol building, with each clip shrinking and falling into a wall of tiny moving images in the background until there’s hundreds of them blanketing the screen, set to the ominous theme music from the movie Halloween, all layered in with scenes of civil war battlefields showing stacked corpses, bones, piled up rifles, and burning crosses.

    I could go on. And I really want to, because this is so much fun, but you get the idea. It’s going to be great! It’s going to be the most breathtaking, grandiose, astonishing television event in history, if House democrats can pull it off, which they really, really need to — because many, many people are completely sick of their high-handed, autocratic, economy-dismembering nonsense. Covid-level sick. Monkeypox-level sick.

    *********************************

    Former U.S. Representative Michael J. “Ozzie” Myers, no relation to the horror-movie serial killer, but who was expelled from Congress and went to prison for his role in the 1970s “Abscam” bribery scandal, pleaded guilty Monday to stuffing Philadelphia-area ballot boxes with fraudulent votes — for years — to help elect democrat candidates.

    Specifically, Michael Myers pleaded guilty to violations of election law, conspiracy, bribery and obstruction. Prosecutors had evidence that Myers stuffed ballot boxes in elections for at least between 2014 and 2018. He also confessed that he’d bribed elections judge Domenick Demuro to add votes for Myers’ candidates, for as little as $300 and as much as $5,000.

    I guess that’s what an elected office in Philly costs, if you want to buy one. Three hundred bucks when it’s on special.

    For his part, Demuro also confessed and pleaded guilty of accepting bribes to cast fraudulent ballots and certifying false voting results, back in the summer of 2020.

    Now. Forget all about this story. Elections fraud is a kooky rightwing conspiracy theory. It NEVER happens! Do you understand, dummies? Because shut up.

    **************************************

    In an article headlined, “House Republicans Question Former News Executive’s Work for Jan. 6 Committee,” CBS News reported yesterday that House Republicans sent a notice letter to Committee co-chairs Zoe Lofgren (D) and Bennie Thompson (D), informing them that the employment of a former TV producer to help put on a gala show tonight violates all kinds of House rules, regardless of whether the producer is being paid or is just a volunteer.

    Well, of COURSE it violates the rules. But so what? Rules are for the angry voters who pushed into the Capitol to protest the election, not for Committee members or George Floyd rioters. Please, be serious.

    ********************************

    Tragically this week, General Hospital stars Jack and Kristina Wagner suddenly and unexpectedly lost their youngest son, Harrison, 27. Los Angeles police found Harrison in a local parking lot on Monday and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death is currently under investigation and marked as “deferred.”

    The LA coroner’s office told Fox News that “‘deferred’ means that after an autopsy, a cause of death has not been determined and the medical examiner is requesting more investigation into the death, including additional studies. Once the tests/studies come back, the doctor evaluates the case again and makes the cause of death determination.”

    Weird.

    Prayers for Wagner’s parents, who must be experiencing the worst possible kind of grief right now.

    ***************************

    Also pray for the Bieber family, which is also having a very difficult year so far. First, Hailey Bieber recently experienced a sudden and unexpected stroke and mysterious blood clots. Yesterday, Justin Bieber disappointed Toronto fans by suddenly and unexpectedly canceling his concert at the last minute. By way of explanation, Bieber tweeted, “I’ve done everything to get better but my sickness is getting worse. My heart breaks that I will have to postpone these next few shows (doctors orders).”

    On Wednesday, Bieber posted on instagram that he is suffering from both Lyme Disease — an autoimmune problem — AND ALSO chronic mononucleosis. He said, “I have been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease,” and also said he has “a serious case of chronic mono which influenced my skin, brain function, vitality, and general wellness.”

    My gosh. What are the odds that a healthy young couple with excellent medical care could BOTH fall prey to such bizarre, rare, unrelated afflictions?

    Mayo Clinic experts interviewed for one story about Bieber’s Lyme diagnosis explained “certain men and women who get Lyme are more prone to produce an autoimmune reaction that results in their own symptoms but more study is necessary.” Autoimmune. Where have I heard that before, hmm?

    Lyme is considered to be incurable. I don’t even know WHAT to say about CHRONIC mononucleosis. Or having them both at the same time. It sounds perfectly awful.

    **********************************

    Dictatorial communist superpower China accused the US yesterday of spreading disinformation and hurting ordinary people, and launched a rhetorical Scud missile at the US’s now-paused Disinformation Governance Board.

    Among other remarks, the Chinese official explained, “It makes sense that the Disinformation Governance Board faces skepticism since the US government itself is the top spreader of disinformation…     The US government is apt at selecting and distorting facts, deliberately omitting the source of information, and polarizing public opinions, so as to confound right from wrong and mislead the people in their judgment.”

    Twitter avatar for @MFA_ChinaSpokesperson发言人办公室 @MFA_China
    US Politicians might get away with irresponsible statements. But it’s the ordinary people who could pay the ultimate price for disinformation. ​
    It’s the ordinary people who could pay the ultimate price for disinformation.US Politicians might get away with irresponsible statements. But it’s the ordinary people who could pay the ultimate price for disinformation.youtu.be


    It’s really a shame that our Administration is giving our enemies such easy opportunities to accurately criticize the U.S.,     which completely undermines our moral authority to complain about anything anyone else is doing. We really need to get our act together and stop disinforming everybody.

    ***********************

    *THE MINORITY REPORT*

    ZeroHedge ran a story late last week headlined, “Putin Says US Decision To Print Money Is Behind Soaring Food Prices.”

    Now, I have been informed by no less a luminary than White House Resident Joe Biden that inflation was caused — not by him — but by Putin, because Putin invaded Ukraine. True, I can’t figure out how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could possibly cause inflation over here in the U.S., but I trust Joe. He never lies. I know, I know, he said if you took the jab you won’t get covid. That was a mistake, dummies.

    ZeroHedge reported that Putin attended a TV interview last Friday evening, after meeting with African leaders. So much for the U.S.-fueled rumor he’s a shut in, dying of brain cancer. Anyway, in the interview, Putin accused Western leaders of trying “to shift the responsibility for what is happening in the world food market.”

    Joe? Shifting blame? Come on, man.

    Putin continued, explaining that “restrictions imposed by the US and its allies against Russia and Belarus will only exacerbate the looming global food crisis by affecting fertilizer trade and sending the food prices further up.” That’s defamation. Our top experts like Chuck Shumer came up with those sanctions. There’s NO WAY they could backfire on us.

    Then Putin said that the “root causes” of the inflation and food crises lie with the US’s decision to print record amounts of money, which inevitably led to an increase in global food prices, not to mention Europe’s over-reliance on kooky green renewable power and short-term gas contracts, which have led to price hikes and concurrent inflationary pressures.

    Now, Putin makes a certain amount of sense, because I can totally see how sanctions on gas and fertilizer could backfire,     since the world depends to an impressive extent on Russian gas and fertilizer, and if that source of supply is shut down, the laws of economics tell us that in the short term prices will spike and scarcities will occur. That’s economics 101. It’s a law of economics. A “law,” not a theory.

    I also get how spiking gas prices could inflate everything else, due to the fact that gas is used to transport almost every other commodity. And those rising commodity prices then roll right into just about all other goods and services. So, Putin’s clever rhetoric does seem logical. But maybe logic isn’t what we need here. Right? Why use logic?

    Finally, the Russian president is also right about the money. It is also basic economics that when you freely increase the SUPPLY of money, by printing more, the value of the existing money falls. That’s been a fact since, I don’t know, whenever they started using shiny rocks and shells as a placeholder for value. There’s millions of historical examples. And printing money has NEVER EVER increased the value of the currency. So.

    But despite all that, I trust Joe. That guy exudes competence. Just watch him stumble up the stairs to Air Force One. And he obviously knows what he’s doing. True, he might not know where he IS a lot of the time, or even whether he’s the president or Kamala is, but on the big decisions, well, I mean … sorry, I forgot what I was saying.

  20. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Coffee break is over. Time to go jab my plants, especially since I found a vbm yesterday.

    Diligence. Constant diligence.

  21. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #20 Happy Hunting

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    and LOL about the paging company tale

    Got another one fer ya’.

    We sprang a leak in the kitchen sink supply line, and Hubby told me not to use the sink until he could fix it. Three days later, I’m still washing dishes in the bathtub, and Hubby was out running business calls and earning money. I believe this happened during/after a freeze, so he was incredibly busy. We weren’t the only ones who’d had pipes burst.

    I finally got tired of waiting, so I called the answering service.
    Me: “Hello, I’d like to schedule a service call. I can’t use my kitchen sink because I have a leak in the line.”
    Them: “May I have your name and address?”
    Me: “My name is Tedtam, and my adress is….(give them my address)”
    Them: /long pause/ “Wait, aren’t you his wife?”
    Me: “Yes, I am, and if I’m going to get my kitchen back, I guess I need to make an appointment.”
    Them: /cracking up laughing/ “We’ll get him the message.”

    Hubby fixed my sink the next day. Oh, and we’re still married.

    I miss that answering service.

  23. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    This one made me laugh.

    https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1534593503774253058

  24. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #23 I can see why LOL

  25. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    TOK busy today, but not much news to report on.

  26. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I thought the pic up top was what the high-rollers in CNS all had.

    Just look at it…
    A tarp for shade, privacy, rain protection
    A fru-fru cat booty wipe holder
    A liberry
    Armrests/grab handles for the elderly and/or constipation sufferers
    An entertainment console

    Squack’s in tall cotton I tell ya.

  27. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning, Hamsters,

    We’re pretty much covered up again with high clouds and bits of blue sky here and there over our area.  Thinking today might be like yesterday with more desert dust blowing in from N. Africa.  I’ll have to go outside and see if it smells like it did yesterday when it had a distinctive faint odor and left a fine dusting of itself that you could see on the car windshield amongst all the dead May fly splatter.  May flies have not been seen for almost a week now, so they must have gone elsewhere.  Spouse thought it was time to get the car washed today.  Rain would be handy to wash all that grit off everything, but rain is not in the forecast this week.  The sidewalk up to the house has enough on it to definitely make footing slightly crunchy and a tad slippery.

    I’ll have to find out what idiocy comes out of the J6 fiasco hearings from others who have made it through watching it.   Downside is how many of our fellow citizens are so misinformed that they think whatever nonsense spills out is true. The Republican retort better have some spine behind it….

     

  28. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    And by the way, the surprise avatar for me is hilarious.  Presume it was just random choice from the “brain” of some computer.

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #11 BSue & Tedtam

    It was years ago, but I once got a pic of a yellow crowned night heron perched on the electric cables way up high in the backyard in NW Houston. It was getting duskish so not a detailed photo like the one BSue put up.

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

    It’s June 9th and the U.S.A. led invasion of the USA commanded by General Mayorkas de Santa Ana de Fidel Castro and the Creature from the Kenyan Lagoon de Beelzebub continues at a record pace as they continue to run circles around Private Gomer Abbott Pyle and his flex seal and 17 miles of wire.

    But don’t worry.
    Those wasically goopeecons are going to continue to let another 5 million enter before the Nov election and then it’s Hi Ho Silver time.

    Wink, wink, nod, nod, fingers crossed and a billion in blood money knapsack strapped to their backs.

  31. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #15 – “Currently” – largest Buc-EEs is here in western Katy

    120 gas pumps

    and

    so I’m told the largest car wash in the US

  32. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The original Buc’ees is in Clute, been there several times but it is no bigger than the average convenience store. It is not a “travel” store so I assume that is the distinction of the claim Luling location is the largest.

  33. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #29 MH – NICE picture – they can be “flighty” if you know what I mean LOL

  34. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I love Buc-ees but geesh people forget their wits once in the parking lot and in the store. No standard “stay to your right” when driving or walking, people  cutting you off walking or driving. Madhouse.

    I am in the bathroom stall time share program however.

  35. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #32

    I meant the clam Luling is the first.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    From the link in #12….

    For now, the largest convenience store in the world is the Buc-ee’s location in New Braunfels, measuring a little over 66,000 square feet. But Buc-ee’s recently revealed that a new store coming to Sevierville, Tennessee, would take that title. However, it wasn’t long before Buc-ee’s topped itself by announcing the world’s largest convenience store would be a Buc-ee’s planned for Johnstown, Colorado.

    Later this year, though, Buc-ee’s will start building what it now says will be its largest store — and, therefore, the world’s largest convenience store — in its home state of Texas. The iconic Lake Jackson-based chain plans to replace its existing store in Luling, nearly 45 miles southeast of Austin, with a more than 75,000-square-foot location. The new Luling store will beat the new Tennessee and Colorado stores by roughly 1,000 square feet.

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Adee

    Just crossed the Brazos on FM529.

    Pretty low. Dozens of large, dead trees standing sentry in the lazy current.

    No exposed sand bars up here. Yet.

  38. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #36

    From #12:

    The current store, built in 2003, was the chain’s first “family travel center.”

    I read that it was stating it was the original store, but obviously it meant first travel center which the Clute store is not.

  39. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Still remember my first Buc-ees experience… My business development manager, her hubby and I had to go to San Antonio for a mandatory corporate training – on our way to the airport, we found that the flights were all on ground stop because of fog, so we turned around and drove to San Antonio… Made a pit-stop at the Luling store on our way home, and decided to go inside to see if they had any decent snacks – WOW… the food service side was as big as the Walmart we had then here in Conroe… with something like 50 stalls in the bathrooms… I was amazed for days LOL… So when Walt’s Mom and Dad and us went on a Saturday drive and saw the Buc-ee Beaver sign in Clute, I was so excited to share the experience with them… LOL – they did all appreciate the very clean bathrooms but were not at all impressed with the store

  40. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    This country has lost its collective mind.  Been nice knowing all of you, I love you BSue, I am leaving to become a Tibetan Monk.

    Warning really gross

    Heard on Michael Berry

    My WHAT!!! Candles

    Nawwwww he!! nooooo

    You can get your GOOP here

    And with notoriety comes the lawsuit.

    Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop sued as man claims ******-scented candle ‘exploded’

     

     

     

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Only the mosquitoes are big in Clute.

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d8/73/1b/d8731bdd3ce906b4fb065bbf20fdabd8.jpg

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Fresh bananas! Get your fresh bananas right here!

    Above, Lisa Page, as an FBI lawyer in 2017, wrote “talking points” for director James Comey ahead of a briefing to Congress — a memo now exposed for its deceptions. Her lawyer at right, Amy Jeffress, is the wife of the judge for the trial of recently acquitted ex-Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann.

    https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/06/09/fbi_chief_comey_misled_congresss_gang_of_8_over_russiagate_lisa_page_memo_reveals_836434.html

  43. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    And just wehen were ya gonna tell us?

    The United States declared a national energy emergency on June 6, 2022. The emergency – declared to exist with respect to the threats to the availability of sufficient electricity generation capacity to meet expected customer demand – will stay in effect for at least 24 months or until it’s declared terminated, whichever occurs first.

  44. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    So when Walt’s Mom and Dad and us went on a Saturday drive and saw the Buc-ee Beaver sign in Clute, I was so excited to share the experience with them… LOL – they did all appreciate the very clean bathrooms but were not at all impressed with the store

    The on in Giddings is just as big a disappointment, very small. The one in Pearland is bigger but not by much, it’s funny, in that one it has many racks of wine to cater to the Pearland hoity toity.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Don’t know much about Costco.
    But I just drove by the one in Katy and there is a traffic jam at their gas pumps.

    Must be cheap, huh?

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And there’s a place nearby called Sushi Burrito.

    I don’t have anything against either, but the thought of the combination kinda turned my stomach.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    First of all, I didn’t know Pearland had a hoity toity.

    I’ve always thought of Pearland as Cut n Shoot without trees.

    And second, I didn’t know I got my hoity toity card when I switched from beer to wine. Where do I get it? And does it come with a bumper sticker?

  48. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The new side (west) of Pearland is pretty faincy.

  49. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yeah, no sushi burrito for me either. Rings the same bell as fish tacos. Uck.

  50. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #43 Squawk, from your linkage:

    “Multiple factors are threatening the ability of the United States to provide sufficient electricity generation to serve expected customer demand.”

    The declaration continues:

    These factors include disruptions to energy markets caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change.

    For example, in parts of the country, drought conditions coupled with heatwaves are simultaneously causing projected electricity supply shortfalls and record electricity demand.

    These liars will not stop and will use any and every excuse (real or imagined) to cover for their mismanagement and ulterior motives.

    What is the over/under on whether or not we will actually have elections in NOV?
    I just read that the EffBeeLie arrested the R gov candidate for Michigan for a supposed J6 infraction.

  51. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    When one has tasted the exotic flavors of some of the finest truck stops in the world, one is not overly impressed with Buc-ees.

  52. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #51 Squawk

    My son and I were wondering not long ago how truckers feel about not being allowed at Buc-ees and do they go to the place in their private lives.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Decided to stop at Buc-ees for a car wash on the way out of Katy. I don’t like car washes with brushes but it did a good job. Hadn’t washed the van since Fay got hurt. It was pretty bad.

    Same deluxe wash in Brenham costs $9 more.

  54. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Also in Katy, I got behind one of those fancy, small limousine buses.

    It was all black, with blackout windows.

    It said Columbia Party Bus on the side.

    Probably comes with a complimentary Narcan Stick in each seat.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You gotta hand it to those Toyota engineers.

    They’ve come up with a carpet that you cannot get absolutely clean, no matter how powerful the vacuum.

  56. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You gotta go to a vacuum place with the high pressure air hoses. Blow against the grain and suck the dislodged crap up with the vacuum at the same time.

    Or you could try wiping your feets off a little before getting in. Or those all-weather floor mats work real good.

  57. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    LInkage for the MI R Gov candidate arrest by the FBI

  58. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Survived the outing to HEB – max’ed out on pork loins, and chicken quarters for the day… Now to get the rest of the beef into the canner after I get ME cooled down.

     

  59. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #56

    The hypno toad knows all, it seems.

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

    As the Kentucky Swamp Turtle goes for a swamp swim and the rest of the goops suck on blood money and do nothing about the New AmeriKan Gestapo.

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/fbi-arrests-michigan-republican-governor-candidate-ryan-kelley/

    But you just wait til Nov by golly, gosh darn, schucks, fiddlesticks and all of that.

    Look up in the sky…it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s, it’s Super Cornhole.

  61. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    GJT #52

    We don’t care.  Buc-ees is not set up for 18 wheelers.  They do not honor truckers fuel cards, diesel pumps are set up for RVs at best,  no overnight parking,  no parking areas for trucks.  Most truck plazas like Loves are designed for trucks to get in and out without fighting with Uncle Fred and Ethyl pulling their AirStream or the cars..

    That old saying of eat where lots of trucks are parked is wrong.  The food might stink in the restaurant but those guys got a place to park.  T&A in Lafayette is always busy full of trucks.but you would have to whip my butt to make me eat in that place.

    Oh and as for going to buc-ees off the clock, sure if the gas is cheaper.

  62. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    When TSHTF comes along with my whiz bang outhouse you might wanna wash your clothes.  A simple solution.

  63. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Arrived in Baghdad-on-the-Hudson a few hours ago.  I’m wiped out.  Up all night in the torture devices United calls seats.  I swear I’ll never fly UA again.  Alaska Air was a much better experience going west.

    My visit in Oregon was great.  After graduation my daughter and her mother and I spent two days on Oregon beaches and the magnificent Columbia River Gorge.  Words are not enough and now I understand why my daughter loves the place even though it takes her thousands of miles from me.

  64. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The hypno toad knows all, it seems.

    Fear the toad.

  65. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    45 Shannon

    The Costco I use up here has about 36 dual pumps and the cheapest fuel in the county.  It’s jam packed 12 hours a day.

  66. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #61 – Yessir

    ONLY tractor trailers allowed at Buc-EEs are FUEL haulers

     

  67. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #s  63 & 65 – Welcome home TP!

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Or you could try wiping your feets off a little before getting in.

    Go live in a sandy place and see how well that works for ya.

  69. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Quick Drive-By after I went to Dothan to go to Sams since it was raining, then I checked the Tarr Pressure on the old GMC, (I’ve not done that lately) All Tarrs were 45 PSI+ except the left rear, 30 PSI, SO I looked at it and there was a screw in the tread. I headed to the east loop in Montgomery to get it fixed and met the manager from Athens Georgia that was hired by my boy’s boss and the guy that was raised in Santa Maria CA that moved here for a better opportunity. NOW! Since I derailed my own post I’ll reply to Shannon on his;

    “First of all, I didn’t know Pearland had a hoity toity.

    I’ve always thought of Pearland as Cut n Shoot without trees.

    You Have NO IDEA! Not only is Pearland hoity toity, New Brockton Alabama is also! A small farming community that is only a few miles from Enterprise Alabama has become the place for the well-to-do folks from Fort Rucker. If I hadn’t seen it myself I wouldn’t have believed it…Don’t get me started on Skipperville, the old dirt farmers would be spinning in their graves. 🙁

  70. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    My #69 Dave “0” Block Quotes one hunnered and eleven dozen…..SIGH,…..

  71. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    And there’s a place nearby called Sushi Burrito.

    SHUDDER!!! Get a Rope! Mercy isn’t anything sacred any more?!?!

  72. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Super Dave

    I could never bring myself to eat a fish taco either.

  73. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sushi  =  bait

    Fried sushi = meal

  74. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK, So how many of Y’all have come home from a unsuccessful fishing trip on the bay and cooked the left over live shrimp that you bought? I’ve done that more than once, especially after feeding a bunch of them to the Hard Heads. 😀

  75. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Pic of the current harvest. This doesn’t look like much compared to what I used to see as a kid, with a garden that was easily a full quarter acre, maintained by the free labor of a passel of kids.

    From top left, clockwise:
    Chocolate mint – in Fred right now; for making into tea later. That plant just loves getting pruned back. It keeps coming back like it’s giving me that little Matrix hand wave.

    Mustard greens

    Basil – also in Fred. Love basil, and I have some already dried and in storage.

    Cucumber – eaten one already, I counted five more on this one vine. The other vines are finally acting like they’re going to give me something. I might have enough come in at once to do some pickles after all. Maybe.

    Green beans – yeah, just a handful. They’re not producing much, so we’ll see…

    Tomatoes: Enough for a salad or two. The grape tomatoes are coming along steadily, a few at a time. The larger tomatoes are one-off items. Not getting much because I may not have pruned them properly. I have a coupla plants that are suffering blossom end rot, so I added some amendments to the soil today.

    Serrano peppers (among the tomatoes): Caterpillars killed my cayenne pepper plant, but the serrano and tobasco pepper plants are loaded and starting to ripen.
    ******************
    I saw a butterfly lay an egg on my serrano this afternoon. I couldn’t find the egg today, but I will. And if her progeny manages to hatch, I shall Bt that kid into oblivion. It was all I could do not to swat the b-fly from the sky. And I used to love butterflies….

    As for squash, they’re all looking healthy today. My white squash has a growing fruit on it, which makes me happy. I have a pregnant yellow squash flower which should be opening tomorrow, and a male flower next to it. Here’s hoping that a little bumblebee matchmaker comes along and introduces the two of them….

    I remember bringing in the harvest from my childhood. Baskets of okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash…every day, darn near. We had to grow a lot of our food, couldn’t afford to buy it. Our scraps got composted or fed to the chickens, pigs, or ducks. We had rabbits. One of my brothers was the family butcher. For our family, we needed an industrial size harvest to feed us all.

    So, seeing this little bit on my kitchen table, I try not to be discouraged. I don’t have a green thumb by nature, and to not kill plants right now is a success in itself. Maybe I’m being too impatient, expecting end of season results too soon.

    But I did prepare some seeds last night, and will put more in dirt in a few more days. Gotta get more totes ready…

  76. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    What is wrong with perfectly fried fish in a perfect home made tortilla.

    Heathens.

  77. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    When we were sent to San Fran for a bid-ness development conference, I hadda go ride the cable car down to Fisherman’s Wharf – and what would a trip to San Francisco and Fisherman’s Wharf be without trying a fish taco… Definitely NOT a San Francisco treat, IMHO – just sayin’

  78. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The Neo hand wave I’m referring to comes at 2:25 in this clip.

  79. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Fish taco does not equal chili with beans.

  80. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tacos are tacos.  There is a right way to eat tacos and then their is fish taco.  The twain shall never meat.

  81. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Well, maybe I should say the San Fran version definitely did NOT have a perfect nor delicious home-made tortilla…

  82. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Yes Buc-ees have it clearly marked – No 18 wheelers allowed.

  83. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    SF has Dungeness crabs and abalone.

    And very serious sourdough bread.

    Haven’t been there in like 25 years.

  84. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I like fish, same as I like bananas

    I like tacos, same as I like peanut butter

    Not fish tacos or banana and peanut butter sammiches

  85. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Oops. The original is made with corn tortillas. Which I prefer anyway.

    From this perspective, there is little question that people have been eating fish tacos in the coastal areas of Mexico for an awfully long time. It probably goes back thousands of years to when indigenous North American peoples first wrapped the plentiful offshore catch into stone-ground-corn tortillas.

    More recently, somewhere in Baja California, sometime in the last 40 or 50 years, someone concocted what is generally considered to be the prototypical fish taco. According to aficionados ― call them the codnoscenti ― this humble delicacy consists of a lightly battered mild white fish that is deep-fried, then served in a corn tortilla (often two) with shredded cabbage, a thin sour-cream- or mayonnaise-based sauce, a bit of salsa, and a most vital spritzito of lime.

    https://www.sunset.com/food-wine/flavors-of-the-west/in-search-real-fish-taco

  86. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In fact, any breakfast taco served in a double corn tortilla is infinitely better than the same ingredients in a flour tortilla.

    The authentic taco trucks around here will serve them either way.

  87. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    83 wagonburner

    Back when I was 18, my girlfriend’s parents thought I (and some of her other friends) was a bad influence so they shipped her off to her grandfather’s mansion high on a hill in San Francisco in June.  I decided to hitchhike from Houston to San Francisco to see her.  My mother was sure she would never see me again.  It took me about 3-1/2 days to get there.

    Anyway, I remained there for about 2 weeks and stayed with a friend.  Each day, I would walk through this park to a huge, old sourdough bread factory where they had a little retail store about the size of a 2-car garage.  I would buy a loaf of sourdough and a pint of milk and that’s what I lived on while I was there.  The loaf and milk cost me maybe $1.25.  If I was feeling flush, I would buy a few slices of  cheese down the street.  Man, that was some wonderful bread.  I can still smell that factory.

  88. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    They had some excitement at the port of Norfolk this week.

    A famous tour boat with dozens of children on board caught fire. Another tour boat responded and saved all the passengers.

    While this was going on, a passing ship in the narrow channel lost power in trying to avoid the fire rescue operation and was drifting towards a U.S. Navy Destroyer.

    The Professor has the details.

    https://youtu.be/Xn97OTX1-wQ

  89. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    The last of my cubed beast roast is out of the canner – 10 1/2 pints, all together… Tomorrow I move on to chicken breast meat or pork loin… And my sweetie got dinner for us – Burger Boy still makes a marvelous Greek salad with chicken added…

  90. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    SF has Dungeness crabs and abalone.

    And very serious sourdough bread.

    There is a bakery in San Fransicko that has a sourdough culture that dates from the 1849 Gold Rush. They’ve kept it alive all these years and while most cultures have mutated a thousand times over, this one is the same! Scientists say that there is no other like it anywhere.

  91. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s a story about one of my cats, 15 y.o. Tyler. He had become quite pesky. I spend a lot of my time these days sitting at my Dell notebook in the breakfast room at Chez Harp, adjacent to the kitchen. It is very common for up to all 5 of the male cats to flake out and nap on the table. I long ago gave up on having anything on the table except the computer, small mouse pad, and a wicker holder for my cup or glass. The rest of the table top is covered with old towels for the cats to flake out on.

    The last several years, Tyler had become neurotic about being merely one of the cats, and always wanted my undivided attention. If he couldn’t get it, he’d jump up on the kitchen counter and walk toward the microwave. There he would fiddle around with whatever he found, just making noise, occasionally pushing something off the counter. He’d do this till I got up and went after him.  I kept unrolled Leader newspapers handy to paddle him with, sending him back to the table for another nap with the other cats, till he’d get restless again.

    Then came that night I was in an upstairs storage closet to get out some AC filters because it was time to put in fresh filters. I didn’t know until the next morning that Tyler had slunk into the closet unnoticed, and was locked in overnight. I missed him for cats’ breakfast and found and released him. And now he is a new cat! Since then, he naps among the other boys, and he no longer gets bored and makes a nuisance of himself to get attention. I think maybe he viewed that accident of being locked up as a punishment…

    Here’s a fairly recent pic of Tyler, doing one of his many oddball favorite things: he likes to sit in these paper sacks along the kitchen wall, and just watch what the other cats might be doing.

  92. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    And that sourdough is seriously good stuff – if it’s the same one I’m thinking of, it’s not far from the end of Fisherman’s Wharf… the clam chowder served in a hollowed out sourdough “bowl” was the most memorable part of the lunch with “fish tacos” – and IT was delicious

  93. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    #91 MHarper – great picture… and good evidence of the old saying: “Dogs have family, cats have staff” (just kidding… sort of…)

  94. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    1931 Bugatti Royale Dancing Elephant Radiator Ornament

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    91

    Locking up children in a closet overnight is an age old method of attitude adjustment.

  96. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #88 Shannon

    To show how corporate-indoctrinated I am, as I watch listening, watching the professor and the videos, I couldn’t help but wonder all the paperwork/red tape that is to come – different companies, industries and even countries involved, who pays who what? They all had expenses, time lost, schedules disrupted.

  97. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Harper
    Isn’t Tyler the really friendly, pesky one I met??

  98. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Instead of watching the the final Democrat take-down of Donald Trump (with the prime time help of the legacy TV media), I’m watching Dick Cavett interview Bette Davis a hundred years ago.

  99. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I agree. Great photo of the cat.

  100. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    96 GJT

    Heh.

    Yes. The downfall of the country is due to insurance company lawyers, corporate coneheads, and sex maniacs.

  101. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I think I’m going to copyright that one.

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Unfortunately WordPress hates Apple/iPhone and I can’t apply the little copyright symbol.

  103. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I apologize to my fellow electricity grid paranoiacs.

    I just turned down the AC to 72 and the oven is preheating to 400F.

  104. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I apologize to my fellow electricity grid paranoiacs.

    I just turned down the AC to 72 and the oven is preheating to 400F.

    Cool.  Great combination, nice balance.

  105. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Another Quick Drive By; did you know that ABC, CBS and NBC are all broadcasting the Democrat S#!T Show about the INSURRECTION from 7 PM to 9 PM? I’m not really surprised but do they not normally have scheduled TV shows on at this time?…Asking for a friend.

  106. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Sigh just contacted Ideal Roofing.  This shingle job has been on my house for well over 23 years.  My insurance company said they are canceling us because they the roof is in poor condition.  All that from pictures.  Not to happy about them saying that but on the other hand i must admit it is time to replace the shingles.

  107. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Super Dave

    i dunno.  I watch the weather on ABC 13 and BSue watches Jeopardy.  Other than that I do not watch national broadcast boob tube.

  108. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #103 #104 The one thing I love about my new stove is that the oven almost never heats up the kitchen, it must have really good insulation. BUTT the other day my wife decided to use the “Self Cleaning” function for the first time, DAYAAM! It was on for several hours and must it have been slightly less hot than the surface of the sun! Dang it was hot.

  109. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Shannon

    If you will click on the “omega” symbol on the comment box menu, it will open a box with all kinds of symbols including ©, ® and ™.  Quick, easy to use.

     

  110. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    We have a great roofing company if you want a referral. They did great work on two of our roofs and on our neighbors, and were affordable to boot. They went to Bryan, so they may be willing to go to your place

  111. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #106 Squawkster you should consider Galvalume Metal Roofing, you’ll not be disappointed. You can get the 3′ wide sheets cut to exact lengths, up to 40 feet long. That way there is no overlapping sheets. You can get it in the natural Tin Roof, shinny silver or many colors. Oh, and have you ever slept under a tin roof when it was raining? Mercy…..

  112. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hey! Texpat has been spotted and with a really Goofy avatar,……>>>>SCRAAMM>>>>>>

  113. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Our guy does the metal roofing, IIRC. Has the equipment to cut it on site ‘n everything.

  114. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I just found out that a lady who’s been a pillar of our neighborhood for as long as we’ve lived here, is about to transition out of this life.

    I thought my parents would be here forever, a dear friend from church would be here forever, this lady would be here forever…it’s another reminder to keep my side of the street clean.

    May God bless her and give her a peaceful transition.

  115. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The Couch™.

    Well I be dang.

  116. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Tedtam

    Will file that bit of knowledge away.

     

    Super Dave

    love sleeping under a tin roof/metal roof.  I can easily afford upgraded shingle.  What is the cost of Galvalume?

  117. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Squawk

    Ignore this if you already knew it.

    A lesson I learned too late after roofing several houses in Texas, including the Galveston beach house, was it was a big mistake to go with the heavy duty, more expensive (example: Timberline 35/40 year warranty).  I was finally educated by a guy who explained using the top of line, heavy duty shingles absorbs and holds too much heat in the Texas climate which causes them to deteriorate quicker.  It’s better to use the lesser expensive, lighter duty shingle.

  118. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    105 Super Dave

    See my #98

  119. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Not sure why this popped up but who can forget Suzanne Somers in the 57 T Bird on American Graffiti.…She whispered “I Love You” to Curt Henderson in the 51 Merc, riding along with the Pharaohs.

  120. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I don’t have an omega symbol in my menu.

  121. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    Yup knew that.  When I say upgraded there is a hail resistant shingle I do want.  It is a mid weight product.  The architectural stuff is too heavy for my roof anywho

  122. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #118 Shannon, I didn’t watch any of it but while I was watching Tucker I clicked on the Dish program page and was somewhat surprised that all there networks were devoting 2 hours to this total BS! Like I’ve said many times they are all deathly afraid of Donald J Trump. He is one of the few people on the earth they can’t control and a whole lot of normal Americans love him. That said, I love the fact that he lives rent free in their heads 24-7. 😉

  123. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Now I’m watching the old Dick Van Dyke show.

    Hoping Laura shows those dancer’s legs.

  124. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    122 Super Dave

    This is their final take down of the Donald.

    Prime time. Three nights?

    That bitch – purportedly from Wyoming – getting the opening, introductory remarks?

    This is it.

    They all have to move on after this and go home and try to win elections.

  125. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #117 Texpat, what he said, the last time I re-roofed the house in Clear Lake I bought Prestque II shingles instead of the heaver Prestque “something or another” heavy duty ones that I wanted. BTW: Those shingles were still on the house when I sold it and it passed inspection even after several dozen roofers came by my house after storms to tell me the roof was history.

  126. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Prime time. Three nights?

    Really??!? Three nights?!?!?!? Mercy they are desperate but come November they have it handed back to them and like Gutfeld says; if the Republicans can’t win at least 60 seats in the House, they’re totally useless!

  127. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Dick Van Dyke is going to a psychiatrist.

    He’s a funny guy.

  128. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The buttons on my Comment menu (in Text) are:

    b
    i
    link
    b-quote
    del
    ins
    ul
    ol
    li
    code
    close tags

    I don’t have a clue what the last six of them are for.

  129. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    In other news; Big Mike came by while I was in Montgomery and put up the corner markers and yellow cord where the Pole Barn outline will be so the question is; will he be back in the morning?

  130. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I also have an Add Media button.

  131. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Big Kike?

    Dang, I didn’t know they let those into Alabama.

    🙂

  132. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Big Kike?

    HA! Thanks I edited it before the clock ran out! 😀

  133. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, since I got up about 3 AM my batteries are running a little low so I’ll see y’all in the morning. Nytol.

  134. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    21:45 might be a little late for a chicken pie.

    I don’t care.

  135. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #74 – Me.

  136. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    About bedtime here again this evening.  Got some chores done today.  My brother brought me some yeller skwash, and after trying to figure out what I could do with it and remain keto, I just diced it up, sauteed it in some butter with salt and pepper and ate it.  Dang, it was pretty good without all the fancy prep listed on all the menu sites.

    In other news, who knew that a little old 73 year old granny lady could be hot.

    Night all.

  137. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Shannon – do you have 2 tabs above those “buttons” – I see what you mention when I click the Text tab… the other “Visual” has the little symbol thingy’s

  138. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    120 Shannon

    You have an iPhone.  I have an iPhone.

    Scroll to the comment box.  Look at the menu for comment editing such as B for bold and I for italics.

    At the far right end of the symbols is a square icon with a bunch of dots.  Click on that and it opens a second row of symbols/icons.  Click on the omega icon and a big box of all kinds of punctuation and annotation symbols will appear for you to use. Take your pick.

  139. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #91 mharper42

    Your beautiful Tyler and my Purrscilla  have similar color and markings, but her tummy has a large patch of goldish colored fur.

  140. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Texpat/Shannon – I have no idea how ya’ll do this on an iPhone… I have trouble sending a simple text…

  141. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #97 Shannon

    Isn’t Tyler the really friendly, pesky one I met??

    Don’t recall, but could well have been Tyler. Most of the cats run and hide when there are any strangers in the house. That goes TRIPLE if the strangers rang the door bell to get in. I had a plumber replacing the faucet in my kitchen sink, who got the scare of his lifetime when there was a sudden scramble as the giant cat Lynx burst out of a nearby cabinet door, where he had taken shelter from that spooky doorbell.

    Here’s a recent pic of Tyler (with his new personality) conked out with Lynx on the table.

  142. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The only time I am in “Visual” is when I need to do a hyperlink.

    ……And the fact that the rest of those symbols in “Visual” mean nothing to me.

    Thanks, BSue.

  143. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Obviously, Texpat is always in “Visual” (when on his iPhone) and knows what all those symbols do/mean.

  144. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    BSue
    I haven’t used my laptop in going on 4 years.

    I’m iPhone all the time.

  145. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    128 Shannon

    There’s something weird going on because your collection of icons in the comment box don’t match mine.

  146. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    145 Texpat

    Are you in Visual or Text?

    That’s the whole problem with this conversation.

  147. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The buttons change depending on whether you are in Visual or Text!!

    Good night.

    Tomorrow is another day.

  148. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    140 bsue54

    I almost never use my phone except to occasionally comment.  I was just trying to help Shannon.  I don’t mind reading on my phone if I’m forced to, but I use my computer for everything else. I really don’t enjoy using my phone at all except for voice and texting.

  149. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Normal people use visual so they can see what they are writing actually looks like.

  150. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Works for me.

    Who says I don’t know what it’s going to look like when I hit the publish button?

  151. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #102 Shannon

    Just write out the word Copyright instead of having the c in the o. Same thing as far as the Copyright Office is concerned.

  152. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    However if you want the copyright notice to be fully activated, it has to be registered with the Copyright Office.  Current copyright notices are good for the life of the author + 50 years.  Eliminates having to re-register the item after 28 years for another 28 years as under the old system.

  153. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; There are 4 guys out digging post holes for my new Pole Barn. About 6:30 I saw two guys out there with old fashioned post-hole diggers but when Mike showed up he went to get the powered auger. BTW; The 6″ X 6″s are pressure treated, structural beams and you can see the heart of the tree in the center of all of them…Gumby Dammit!

  154. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m looking for a product to seal the silver bracelet that I’ve worn constantly for years. I love it. It is a moebius bracelet with the complete serenity prayer on it.
    Serenity Prayer

    God grant me the serenity
    to accept the things I cannot change;
    courage to change the things I can;
    and wisdom to know the difference.

    (Although known most widely in its abbreviated form above,
    the entire prayer reads as follows…)

    Living one day at a time;
    Enjoying one moment at a time;
    Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
    Taking, as He did, this sinful world
    as it is, not as I would have it;
    Trusting that He will make all things right
    if I surrender to His Will;
    That I may be reasonably happy in this life
    and supremely happy with Him
    Forever in the next.
    Amen.

    I do love the message of the entire prayer, and it helps keep me focused properly when people make my life difficult. Or when dealing with vbm’s trying to devastate my squash plants.

    Anyway, since I’ve been wearing it while I’ve been getting all sweaty under the hot sun, it’s started turning my wrist green. I guess the alloy contains copper. I’m looking for products to re-seal the metal, and I found these comments.

    Will it work on Rhodium?
    Answer:
    I do not know, but it did not work on silver plated jewelry. It still turned copper.

    Horrible product, would not recommend. Try Windex or something.

    This one cracked me up:

    Question:
    Can it be used on a black painted tungsten ring?
    Answer:
    Yes. But it would serve no purpose

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