I’m a Cajun but I got here to Texas as fast as I could. One of my favorite characters of Texas history is Sam Houston. Huntsville maybe be famous for all the prisons but that little city is full of relics, museums and houses relating to Sam. My favorite attraction is still Sam Houston’s statue at night.
Roadside America has this to say about Sam:
At 67 feet tall (on a 10-foot-high Texas granite base) the statue is called “Big Sam” by locals, but its official name is “A Tribute to Courage.” Sam Houston, political architect of Texas, towers in concrete above Interstate 45, with walking cane and snappy duds of a 19th century statesman (though he could also be mistaken for a statue of P.T. Barnum). In the summer humidity of east Texas, we appreciate the tensile strength of one who could dress like this and still lead.
Stupendous Sam is touted in attraction literature as the second largest freestanding statue in the U.S., bested only by the allegorical and over-promoted Statue of Liberty (And, pssst… Roadsiders know of other statues taller than Sam, such as Tulsa’s 76-foot-tall Golden Driller and Butte’s 90-foot-tall Our Lady of the Rockies).
If you have not seen Sam at night traveling north exit one exit past Sam and circle back on the feeder road and you can stop at night and admire Sam just as I have,
Sadly, the Green Bay Packers’ season is over. They lost out tonight for the last slot in the playoffs.
#103 Texpat
I know that raccoons can be a nuisance, but I hate to think about them being exterminated.
Dang. I thought George and Tammy was a movie.
Framing.
No kidding.
I still want a mesquite frame for the first one.
Not sure about this new one.
I have a friend that can make the mesquite frame. I may have to buy him router bits and saw blades for the project.
🙂
We did a free trial on Showtime to watch George and Tammy, last episode ended like another was coming but that was it. No idea if it will resume later or what, just poof, over.
Shannon, no need to get in a big hurry with Yellowstone. Second half of this season doesn’t resume until summer. Terds.
Im two shows behind in 1923, I’m digging it.
Getting about bedtime out here in the country. I’ll go settle in for a few minutes and find something on TV to kill a little time, then it’s off to bed for me. You all have a good night now. More later.
I just stopped by but if the cops ever find the dude that killed the bad guy, they will arrest him for manslaughter or something. Can’t have justice that isn’t administered by some Government agency. ~SIGH~
My #111, Let me show you my $6700 Keepsake Booklet,…oh and don’t forget the baked ham,…baked ham WTF?!!? Yes the Banks Funeral Home gave us a cooked ham!? As tight as these bastards are I’m guessing they cooked it while cremating old man Winslow. 😉
#92 Shannon, I saw that also and dang, I can afford it and I’ll find the wall space BUT I can’t afford the dang framing job! I’m beginning to think the frame shops are worse than the furniture stores and undertakers combined!
I’m at least two episodes behind on Yellowstone.
I may wait a couple more episodes.
I really get off bingeing that show for several hours.
Go Horny Toads!!!!!
I thought she’d never leave,…naw just kidding, sister came over and I put 3 T-Bones on the grill, the wimmins made salad and baked taters so we had a fine supper. Then we had to watch the last 3 episodes of 1923, (we watched the first one a couple of weeks ago) and I’m about done. But it was a… Read more »
And coonskin headwear.
The shooter’s friends will stay mum.
Unfortunately, some Karen that lives two doors down from him will turn him in.
One positive note is that we’ll have bacon throughout Armageddon.
It’s going to get very ugly.
Climate change has coons and hogs taking over the planet.
Should MHarper42 move to Iowa to save the raccoons ? The coon population has tripled or quadrupled and the damage to crops, equipment and property is out of control. They had about a 2-1/2 month hunting and trapping season, but Iowa has opened it up year round. It’s worse than wild hogs in Texas according to a Wall Street Journal… Read more »
That shooter, they have a full frontal photo, and that POS truck of his should not be too difficult to locate either. Surely he’s a local around there and someone knows who he is. Yeah right, the police just want to talk to him – no charges pending, etc. He knows better than that, and so does everyone else. Hopefully… Read more »
#95 – Yeah, they’ll be claiming that he shot the guy too dead. Just a couple of shots would have left him dead enough.
Mayors Adams and Lightfoot demand Colorado stop sending migrants From the letter from the mayors: It is apparent that the influx of asylum seekers has provoked consternation amongst states. Although we share the concerns of accommodating the flood of asylum seekers, overburdening other cities is not the solution. We respectfully demand that you cease and desist sending migrants to New… Read more »
95 EG It doesn’t make any difference to me, but I figured the shooter wasted 7 rounds. I’m pretty sure the bandito was down for the count after two. I can understand maybe the third round, but nine ? Public outcry now will guarantee they hunt this guy down and charge him with manslaughter. The shooter’s bad luck is the… Read more »
Here’s Ted Cruz on some crap that Obummer has his skunk Biden whipping up behind closed doors.
Never mind, I couldn’t get the link to print out here…
Man, the tinnitis in my right has ratcheted up this afternoon. Real loud.
92 Shannon
Michelle and Mark have got to stop coming up with things I want to buy. I don’t have a square inch of space left to hang anything on a wall.
Here are some pictures from the incident at the Tacoria wherein a good samitarian recovered stolen money and phones, returned it to customers and left. Wow, 9 shots and all connected – not bad. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11611751/Customer-fatally-shoots-robber-held-Houston-restaurant-fake-gun.html
A perfect example of when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
The hapless Houston Texans just handed the #1 draft pick to the Chicago Bears by beating the Indy Colts with 50 seconds left in the last game of the year.
How appropriate.
Eye Patch McCain speaks. https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/01/08/crenshaw-apologizes-calling-some-gop-colleagues-terrorists-was-turn-of-phrase-during-tough-negotiations/
Oh for Pete’s sake. Another “must have “ from Copano Bay Press.
The original Batteship Texas.
Was undercover spyduck Ray Epps leading the charge?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazil-national-congress-breach-presidential-palace-top-court
Although I no longer have a rain gauge, I know we got a great rain last night from the eye-opening lightning flashes and the thunder that followed. After the storm moved on, I got a great night’s sleep!
I apparently lost a post into the ether out there too this morning.
Covering a hot springs pool with a wooden structure. Lordy, Lordy.
Wellllllllllllll I had a good post about ready to go and hit an errant button and *poofski* gone forever. Suffice to say I can honestly testify that ALL of the gullies from La Grange to Katy got THOROUGHLY WASHED last night! That was my longest run of having my flashers on and keeping slow at 50 mph (and less) in… Read more »
At least seven people were injured when a roof over a pool at a hot springs in Idaho collapsed, police said. but, Police said that the cause of the roof collapse is not known, however, it “appears to be structural,” as there was no snow in the area at the time. Appears to be structural ? Who speaks like this… Read more »
A therapist in Nashville posted a video to TikTok where she bragged about a time she emotionally blackmailed the mother of one of her clients, claiming the parent’s choices were let their child transition genders or deal with their child’s suicide. Bailey Jo Carter, described as a “queer therapist” by her place of employment, the Nashville Collaborative Counselling Center , posted the… Read more »
RE: My #75
This is not the first time Carlson has criticized Domenech on air. I can’t remember the subject, but it was in the past year and I believe it was in a live interview.
I used to like Ben Domenech, but I began to seriously wonder him when I found out he married Meghan McCain. That is really weird in my book.
If Texans were as smart as the Israelis, they would train all the feral hogs in Texas to march down to the Rio Grande and stand guard shoulder to shoulder to keep the illegals from coming across.
This is an excellent article by Kathleen Brush on the distortion and lies about the history of slavery in human history, particularly in America. America is the only nation where people politick to make its long-dead slave past the center of its history. As a historical matter, it makes little sense when compared to the slave sins of other nations.… Read more »
Texpat IMHO Ben Domenech has been a jackass for some time and he is a rabid Anti-Trumper.
And here I thought javelinas destroying property were the devil, who knew it was the Jews!
You were worried about spy ducks ? Think again, people, the Jews have Spy Cows, trained-attack Spy Boars and Spy Rats ! “These are recruited and trained cattle, Palestinian villager Rushd Morrar reportedly told the daily. “On the neck of each cow, they hang a medallion with an eavesdropping and recording device on it and sometimes cameras, in order to… Read more »
#74 – Good story. I had trouble following who was who when the reporters kept referring to the victim – hard to tell if they were talking about the rapist who got turned up or the girl who was assaulted. The end result is that is how justice will be administered on a regular basis with all these liberap… Read more »
Tucker ran out of patience with Ben Domenech. “This is what democracy looks like when you get up close,” Carlson said. “I want one thing, you want another thing. We schedule a vote to see who gets it, or in this case 11 votes, but whatever. But how is that disaster? Well, it’s not a disaster. It’s how the system… Read more »
Defund the police and hire useless, leftwing prosecutors and you get vigilante sentences like this.
Detroit family members administer street justice.
Good morning gang. I slept in this morning and awoke to another bright and sunny day. A little chilly this morning but warming up rapidly with the sunshine. I’ll probably get outside here in a bit and take care of minor chores like filling the bird feeder and the water trough. But first, another cup of coffee and peruse the… Read more »
Texpat
Somehow I believe HPD isn’t looking too hard for the taqueria shooter. It would seem to me they have real bad guys to catch.
You forget that we have liberals running this city. Once they get their hands on the protector, they’ll call him racist and scream about gun control. Just wait.