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Great picture and another 60’s Step Side Pick-Up, about a 65 I’d say but hard to tell at this angle.We may get some of Y’all’s rain later today and tonight maybe it’ll not be as bad by the time it gets here. The weather Guessers maps show it petering out the closer it gets to us just after it crosses I 65.
Hopefully I can something done before it gets here but that’s 50/50.
BUT it’s Friday!
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There has been a lot of reports of squatters lately and now we have an illegal using Tic Toc to inform all his buddies to come on into Amerika, steal a house and have lots of babies to get the free welfare. He says; I don’t want to work!!! UN-DAMN-BELIEVABLE! That’s the KIND OF crazy laws you get from
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Beautiful Scarf joint, but how’d he do it? Hint look closely. 😉
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I’m no carpenter but the scarf joint appears to have that arrowhead shaped piece looks separate and carved out. The “V” shape pointed down does not hold the top leg down though, seems odd.
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Bingo.
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That scarf joint looks to me to be held together with the pin above the v shaped section facing the viewer. I think the whole thing was slid into place at a45 degree angle from top back to bottom front.
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Bingo 2.0
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Big race tomorrow night at Big O Speedway in Ennis, near Dallas. There are two dwarf car series in Texas – ours, Dwarf Car Racing Series of Texas and Lone Star Dwarf Club. We run at tracks in the south, they race Waco and tracks above. Race is dubbed North vs South, there is a heated rivalry between the two historically but they are trying to get along, we run two of these events this year besides the Nationals in Waco at the end of the year. So we’ll see. Forty five cars signed up so far.
Our seat belts expired last month so we are changing them out today (pain) and we have new power steering hoses to replace in his haul truck, Chevy Duramax. Evidently it is a factory issue and there is a kit to replace all of them, of course it’s never easy.
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My childhood best friend lives in Dallas, our dads raced together when we were kids. My brother and I were spending the night at his house in Hereford when we got the call about the wreck that killed my dad in July of 1970, I was eleven years old.
Mom soon moved us to Houston afterwards so he and I have not seen each other since the funeral, I found him on Facebook last year, fifty three years later. We’ve continued to be in touch. He told me the other day he is coming to our race Saturday, will be great to see him again.
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There’s nothing like old friends. Mine have all tended to die young. I still have my best friend though – my brother.
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Re squatters
There a guy in California who went through this with his mother’s house. It’s now his business, removing squatters from homes. His base fee is $5000 and he works with law enforcement to do it legally. He does his homework, though, to make sure he’s not liable to get perforated in the process.
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RE: OC Photo
The rancher standing up on the side of the truck looks a lot like Fred Schluens, Shannon’s late father-in-law. The hat is just like what Mr. Fred would wear.
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Alex Stein speaks truth to NY powers that be.
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Pretty sure the storm left.
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Hubby’s had the backhoe here at the house so Handyman could use it to tote all of the yard wood trimmings to the ditch for pick up. Hubby is driving it to a neighbor’s house about a quarter mile away to move a tree that fell across her driveway. He wasn’t asked to do this, he wants to. I married a good man. He has no obligation to those ladies; he doesn’t even know them, he just knows of them.
It’s good to have a man with big equipment and is not afraid to use it. 😉
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This house in Bellville was built by our maternal grandparents in 1935. Shannon and I sold it and closed on the morning of September 11, 2001.
When we walked into the title company that morning and told everybody what had happened less than an hour earlier, they looked at us as if we had totally lost our minds.We sold the house for $50,000. In 2001 dollars, the house would sell for $87,663 in 2024. Today, Zillow lists its value as $197,400.
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I’m guessing that the Fair Ground entrance wasn’t there back then?
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Correct.
And the second story on the house was was added some years subsequent to the original build.
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Slight correction.
When our grandmother was a young divorcee, she went on a summer historical tour of New England with a group of schoolteachers. She fell in love with the Cape Cod style and later gave the architect drawings of how she wanted it built. At the time, there wasn’t another Cape Cod house in the county.
The home was originally built as a Cape Cod style house with big dormer windows, center staircase and two bedrooms upstairs. Around 1951 or ’52, they raised the roof, built out the exterior walls and made it into a full 2 story house instead of a 1-1/2 story design. It still looked Cape Cod on the inside, but no longer on the outside.
There is an old washhouse behind the garage where laundry was originally done by hand and an old wringer. The long four wire clothesline would be filled with clothing and all the bed linens every week.
With the remodeling, a gas line and electricity were run to the washhouse and a washer and dryer were installed. Our grandmother still loved to sun dry her laundry on the line until she couldn’t physically do it anymore.
The Salt Grass Trail riders camp every year right against and beyond the back fence line and the wagon group that would set up camp there would give our grandmother $10 or $20 to let them plug an extension cord into the washhouse.
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Great story. My grandmother had a “Washhouse” but didn’t ever have any kind of machine to wash with. She used a scrub board and heated the water in a big wash pot with a fire under it. I saw her do that and once I saw her use that pot to make another batch of lye soap using lye and lard. When REA brought electricity to the farm my grandfather ran two overhead wires out to the wash house to power a light and plug but I don’t know if the plug was ever used or if so what it was used for. FWIW; She didn’t have running water, used a bucket and windless at the well.
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The Austin County Fair Association bought the 2 or 3 small homes to the left of the home and created a north entrance to the fairgrounds.
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MmmK….. The funny thing about this is that there wouldn’t be a sign is some IDIOT didn’t try it. 😀
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SuperDave I think you are right on the year of the chevy truck…
Daddy’s was a ’66 and the horizontal groove thru the door and fender were not so pronounced… -
It’s good to have a man with big equipment and is not afraid to use it.
sigh…
hussy
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THE ELLINGTON FIELD “canteen” in 1918, the year after the base opened.
Ellington had a series of “firsts”, including the first camp newspaper, the first American aerial gunnery and bombing range, the first “canteen girls”, and the first aerial ambulance in American military history.
H/T You Know You’re From Clear Lake,…..
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Harumphhhhhh What would have made that picture great is if the pickup was a Ford. They prolly had to push that truck into place.
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I found the OC photo a year ago after wandering into an online fine photography auction site.
It made me think of our late great uncle Earl Byrd, San Angelo-area rancher.
I regret I lost the credit information.
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Fords and beans. What is wrong with that man!
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Ok this is just too cool for an outdoor sink, spotted over yonder.
A Radio Flyer for a sink and an old Singer Sewing Machine stand with the treadle removed.
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The new Russia collusion hoax 2.0 brought to by the WEF servants and super moneyed swamp dwellers is that the illegal alien invasion is great for the economy and to shut the border will put the country into a recession.
As a side note the groupofCons party is finished after they vote for this.
no one will vote them in Nov including me because they never wanted to win anyway.I’ll vote for Trump and some local races but 0 for the dc sans a belt slacks Vampyres.
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I swear I never knew that the Lone Ranger found Silver in a battle with a buffalo and saved the horse from a sure death by shooting the buffalo. He and Tonto camped for days with the wild stallion, nursing him back to health.
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Tonto died when the Lone Ranger found out what kemo sabe means. It is the Indian variation of “peeping tom”.
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Why did Shapiro and Boreing put up with this insane woman for so long ?
Candace Owens and The Daily Wire have parted ways after weeks of tension with her co-founder Ben Shapiro over the Israel-Hamas war and her promotion of various conspiracy theories.
‘Daily Wire and Candace Owens have ended their relationship,’ co-founder and CEO Jeremy Boreing posted on X Friday morning.
Owens, 34, reacted to the news saying, ‘The rumors are true – I am finally free.’
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I’ve never figured out this widespread thing against those who are of Teh Jew.
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as expected the fake Christian but real swamp dweller jr boehner Johnson gets his bill passed that gives the NY Mayo Stain everything he wanted.
guess jr Boehner Johnson has chosen whom he will serve and it appears to be NY Mayo Stain.
the groupofCons party is finished.
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Mentions of ranchers in our family, Fred Schluens and Earl Byrd, Austin and Tom Green counties respectively, got me to thinking about hats. I used to own quite a few myself. My hats were all Resistols and the felt ones were almost all silver bellies. I didn’t wear dark hats.
When I was a boy, a very popular hat among men in Texas was the Open Road originated by Stetson and copied by Resistol. Here is a photo of the classic.
And here is a photo of President Lyndon Johnson wearing a silver belly Open Road. He made the hat style famous.
A big shocker for me a few years ago was to walk into the western wear stores in Brenham and see the prices on straw hats alone. They cost more now, sometimes a lot more, than what I used to pay for a nice felt Resistol hat.
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Morning, chickadees! I’m glad for the rain I got yesterday, but also glad it is expected to be dry this afternoon when I take Travis to the vet for his annual checkup.
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I received my 10 pack of Solar Eclipse glasses yesterday. My grandson and I are going to have an eclipse party on Ramapo Mountain on Monday, April 8th, from noon to 4 PM. Everybody is invited. BYOB.
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. . . .and now for something completely different.
Cycloidal rotors, like those used on some ships and harbor tugs, are being looked at again for use in aircraft. -
So now Marjorie Taylor Green is going to try and get Johnson thrown out as Speaker. What difference does it make. ? They might as well have left McCarthy in there since we got the same trillion dollar debt anyway.
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If the R Speakers are going to cave in to the left they are useless to the right. Johnson is probably a nice enough kind of guy, but this repeated behavior has to stop. The correct path was to pass individual bills with plenty of time to read and critique/amend. Get tough with the Rs who do not want to get on board. Pass these appropriations bills one at a time and move them to the Senate, one at a time. If the commie Ds and squishy Rs can’t pass the bills, THEN SHUT THE GOVT DOWN UNTIL THEY DO.
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I’m glad mtg voted to vacate the fake Christian.
he got in bed with the NY Mayo Stain and tickled his belly button while lying to us, screwing the country and all of us at the same time.
there’s always just enough groupofCons to vote with the totalitariancrats every time but never the other way around.
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The video of the border rush by illegals shows how effective Abbott’s securing of the border is going.
Once the illegal squatters start squatting in larger numbers and in more neighborhoods then maybe people will take notice.
I think they should all squat in Martha’s Vineyard right next to the Kenyan’s mansion.
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Good Morning Hamsters,
We got 0.45″ of rain yesterday morning and then enjoyed the following sunshine the rest of the day. Just enough to keep things moist but thankfully not the large amount to the east around Houston. Looks like white clouds are gathering from the west and moving this way, but we know that can change fast.
The circus many Pubbies are performing in can stop any time now. Those turkeys need to listen carefully to the real conservatives in the party and follow their lead or find themselves voted out of office, the sooner the better. Voters are taking names….
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Ronna Pierre Delecto hired by mockingbird media spoke nbc.
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The ghosts of Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and William Travis are probably sitting around somewhere thinking man we could’ve lived a lot longer and never gone to the Alamo had we know the groupofCons party was going to give it all back to Mexico, and without a smidgen of a fight, for blood money that enriches themselves at the expense of everyone and everything else.
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All of those Missouri area auctioneers wore that short brim Open Road.-
My old rabbi, who loves hats, has one although I’ve only seen him wear it once or twice. He prefers fedoras.
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I’m sure Childers will have something to say about the announcement that Kate Middleton has cancer. The type wasn’t announced, but since she was jabbed I’m assuming it is of the turbo variety. And the king has cancer, too.
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It would be great if all those people who were saying and writing nasty things about Kate and William would publicly apologize and promise to try and be better human beings.
I know, it will never happen. You can’t much nastier than the British tabloid press. I do wish somebody would smash that Steven Colbert right in the mouth.
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The video that showed the illegal aliens storming the border yesterday cut off when they got to the fence. That was a ruse move because the gate was opened and they were processed in.
that’s the real reason Abbott put them there.
to stand around when the border is stormed and then open the gate and process them in.fool me once shame on you
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True story.
Back in the 1950s, during the 7 year 1957 Drought, local politicians in Tom Green County asked the federal Bureau of Reclamation to help build a huge project which became Twin Buttes Dam & Reservoir on the Concho River. It was a $13 million plus deal and the people of San Angelo region would have to pay it back over 40 years.
Uncle Earl Byrd and the other conservative ranchers mocked the idea, said it hasn’t rained here in years and was a terrible waste of taxpayer money. The Concho was a bare trickle and it was absurd to think it would ever fill up the reservoir. They lost the battle and the dam was built.
Right at the end of the project of building a bone dry reservoir, it started raining 24 hours a day and didn’t stop a for couple of weeks until there was a fair-sized lake behind the dam.
The funny thing was no one in charge was worried about water anywhere and the reservoir basin was full of bulldozers, draglines, maintainers, front end loaders. They all were completely submerged by the time the rain stopped.
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Kate Middleton has cancer.
thatisall
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That’s all that was on the dang radio while I was driving back from Troy so I switched to XM 70, The Sinatra channel. Our only Talk radio station had Hannity on and can’t listen to that Blow-Hard.
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Can you say Karma?
Truth Social parent company Trump Media & Technology Group to become publicly traded company.
TMTG stock will trade as ‘DJT’ on Nasdaq
I heard this on the radio while I was in my truck this morning and the first thing I thought was that the left-wing whack-jobs have failed yet again. Think about it, Trump got kicked off all social medal and a friend says why don’t you start your own media companion so he did but he would never have done this except for his being censored on all other media. So they’re responsible for him even having a public platform. Then that fat pig DA in NY tries to extort a half a billion dollars out of Trump hoping she can seize his proprieties when he can’t come up with that much cash. Then out of the blue, his media company merges with another company and the Donald is $3 billion, with a “B” richer so he can sell enough stock to cover his extortion bill.
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I want to know why the vote tab “Article Rating” goes up and sometimes comes down.
All the votes are positive as far as I’m aware.
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Average of the # of star. You vote 5 and I vote 4=4.5
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All I have ever seen when I click on it is “1 vote.” I don’t get it.
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Pick how many stars you want to assign for your vote.\
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The house of cards-groupofCons playing their games again.
by November the totalitariancrats will have the majority again as if they don’t already have control everything anyhoo.
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We have 68 degrees and windy weather this evening, just right for comfortable walking for a bit. Spring is indeed here, given the wildflowers in bloom but not yet at peak blossoming. It is the favorite time of year to enjoy the wonders of Mother Nature waking up and spreading her beauty, leaving winter’s cold behind.
It is a nice relief from the insanity of governments of all kinds and all places. Can understand why New Yorkers are leaving their state. Same for Californians leaving theirs. Comon sense seems to have awakened them at last.
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It looks as if the US house could be run by Democrats before the end of the summer. It’s good to see these RINOs cut and run, but if the House flips before the election…
Now Colorado Democrats are setting up to overrun the district election in June to replace Ken Buck and he is all for it.
At least Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin is quitting after the April 9th deadline and Kay Granger of Dallas is serving out her full term. ( I don’t blame her for leaving. She’s 81 years old and has been there for 28 years. )
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Not much happening around here. Well we got a grand total of .02″ of rain today a bit shy of the 1.31″ and .36″ the two different weather guessers promised. Both of their computer models showed most of the rain south of us, one more than the other but I don’t know if they even got any rain in the Florida panhandle.
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Stumbled across Wisconsin playing James Madison in the basketball tournament. The Badgers are currently lousing and regrettably look as though they are playing with their shoelaces tied together. 🙁
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It looks as if the US house could be run by Democrats before the end of the summer. It’s good to see these RINOs cut and run,
the totalitariancrats have been running the show anyway.
both parties along with the kangarooed penguin branch are corrupt and beyond repair but I give the edge in corruptedness to the groupofCons party.
it’s full of fake conservatives, real snakes and fake Christians like mike Johnson the ny Mayo stain belly button licker.
After today I’ll never vote for a house groupofCons republican’t again.
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