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Armybrat

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  1. Her mum & dad were Welsh, but she married an Englishman and has lived most of her adult life in Perton, a ā€˜burb of Wolverhampton. She does love Texas though (politics notwithstanding) - particularly Fredericksburg and Luckenbach. At Dooley’s in FB:
  2. Dunno, but that statue is the one on Auditorium Shores in downtown Austin. I took the photo in 2017.
  3. This rude lady is from Wales….
  4. Gottdam window salesmen - at least once a week the doorbell rings followed by several knuckle raps on the door. ā€œI am not selling windows, but notice you have the older builders windowsā€ ā€We are just in the neighborhood and are offering free inspections to see if you would benefit from new windowsā€
  5. Spray Cy-Kick around your house foundation and under the eavesseveral times a year. No bugs at all.
  6. TommybOy certainly got that right. Lol
  7. She doesn’t do the Cowgirl any more - my belly is too big.
  8. She does have her failings though - she chose to marry me.
  9. Mrs. Brat actually walks out the front door to see what the weather is like.
  10. It may be his personal record though.
  11. Thanks - that clarifies what I remember. That $1 Texas bill is in such bad shape it’s difficult to determine if it was cut in any manner. Maybe not.
  12. Seriouly serious about the Cirrus….
  13. RE: Texas $10 bill….. I read somewhere that when Texas joined the Union, the Republic’s currency was physically canceled by punching out the triangles. Obviously, not all Texans turned theirs in for cancellation.
  14. I thought those Cirrus aircraft had a big emergency parachute that would deploy to lower the plane to the ground in case of a failure?
  15. Yep, when the local powers bought up the prospective land by Manor but the new airport was eventually built at Bergstrom. A longtime friend (Dave Helfert) was the mouthpiece for that ā€œinvestmentā€ group. They apparently did recoup their investment when the Manor property was eventually built at developed. edited to add: I think the shutdown tv station in the 1960’s scandal was eventually bought up and restarted under another call signal.
  16. That’s a political thread to comment about any topic, including old & new things. In that particular case it was a real example of government directly punishing a media entity for factual reporting of a scandal that occured in Austin and was subsequently ā€œburiedā€. I have no idea why you would be offended because I quoted the post.
  17. Reminiscing about a case in 1960s Austin…. Up until 60 years ago Austin, Texas had only one TV station (channel 7 CBS) owned by the President Lyndon Johnson family business. Luckily, after several years of consumer pressure overcoming LBJ’s reluctance, the FCC granted a license for a new 2nd TV station (either ABC or NBC - I don’t remember) which quickly went on the air. Several months later one of the new station’s news reporters went on the air documenting a scandal whereby a group of local and state democrat politicians used insider information to buy up hundreds of acres of nearby rural land cheaply before announcing that the City of Austin was going to purchase the property to build a huge power plant and a lake for cooling purposes. Also to include a park. Of course the City bought the land from the crooked politicians for triple the price they paid for it a few months earlier before the announcement. It caused quite a backlash of criticism among the citizenry, but local media went silent when several months later the FCC mysteriously and without much comment refused to renew that TV station’s license to operate…and it went off the air. Ever since then, it seems that Austin media ā€œinvestigative reportersā€ have been afraid to push any truthful news of several scandals of city property purchases, building projects, massive social programs for the homeless…etc
  18. Are those two assholes from Jasper or Vidor?
  19. My son built a deck stage in his back yard for his occasional bbq party band:
  20. DM Handcruiser who posted right above you - he should point you in the right direction.
  21. Ranking 2025 SEC OOC football schedules… http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2025/7/13/22677895/ranking-the-2025-sec-college-football-out-of-conference-schedules-alabama-uga-ole-miss-texas Don’t let those SEC mouth breathers diss UT for playing an inept SHS.
  22. One of these might be more practical.
  23. Me too - hanging by this one in my den
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