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CHIEF

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  1. 6 hours ago, TheFlyingBoat said:

    This is dumb as fuck. If you want to curb housing price growth rates, build units at the rate the population grows. Cutting interests rates would massively inflate home prices as dry powder sitting on the sidelines rushes in to buy at low interest rates.

    The problem is there is not a lot of fat between construction costs and retail pricing right now. Small time custom home builders (like myself), are pretty much sitting on the sidelines, or building for clients at cost plus a percentage. The cost of building, right now in our area, is from $190-195sqft. 1450sqft. starter homes with single car garages, sitting on $10k lots in mixed housing (stick built homes and mobile homes) are $250k. We are closing on one today. It's a young couple with a combined income of a little over $100k, and it was still tough to get them qualified.

    I paid $117/yard for concrete in 2020. It is hovering around $200/yard currently. Until material costs come down, building will lag behind, and the units that are being built are still unobtainable to most young families at current interest rates. Doubling interest rates basically halved what potential home buyers are able to qualify for. 

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  2. I haven't met anyone as famous as CHIEF Jr. has. He and a buddy were given Rangers tickets by his buddy's mother that works for XTO Energy. They went to the game and set next to Pudge Rodriguez, W, and Laura. He turned to his buddy and asked him whose seats they are sitting in again? It was Bob Simpson's seats. He said they were all really nice, especially Laura Bush. Said she talked about the ranch at Crawford and her family.

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  3. 16 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

    I bought my wife a Coach purse back when we were dating before the turn of the century.  She didn't much use a purse before and only uses it occasionally.  It'll last her lifetime.

    Same here. My wife is a penny-pincher, as was her whole family. I bought Mrs. CHIEF her first $25+ purse, a $250 Coach. She carried it for about 25 years before giving it to her sister, that had never had a $25+ purse. It looked like it had been with Lewis and Clark on the expedition to the Pacific for several years.

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  4. You have to drive down the road a bit to Proctor to hit any liquor stores. Oh, and the milk transporter that washes out his trucks on the SW side of town has to be the worst thing I have ever smelled.

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  5. Got a buddy that works for Hill County Sheriff's Dept., he has a house in Aquilla, which is dead center of the path, he is gonna get a full 4:30 minutes of totality. I'm in the path, but only get a little less than 2:30 of totality. Think I'm gonna just sit in the back yard, and say "fuck the extra two minutes." The drive to Aquilla is usually about an hour and a half, but would probably turn into an all day affair just getting there and back.

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  6. 15 minutes ago, DaggerHorns said:

    *The Panhandlers

     

    ….Jesus Christ, I’m not sure if you were serious. The Flatlanders are from half a century ago.

    Cleto Cordero is with Flatland Cavalry. 

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  7. On 3/29/2024 at 8:30 AM, MontereyMX said:

    Discussed this last night. CHIEF Jr. has been keeping up with it. Apparently a dab pen was found in the boy's truck, there isn't evidence that they were high, but blood results showed THC in their system, which means they had smoked within the last 30 days. Both boys are semi-vegetables, have no recollection of the accident, and will probably end up being deemed "not competent to stand trial". It would be a death sentence to throw them in the GP of the prison system. It makes sense to charge them for the satisfaction of the victim's families. I'm not sure where they will end up.

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  8. Mrs. CHIEF has stayed on top of the season. I quit checking prices and size. Looks like she is planning a boil the third weekend in April. Prices are down, size is good, and there aren't as many dead soldiers. I still want to write the season off, but that bitch is persistent. May have to let her rub my "Man card" on her bearded clam.

    CHIEF 

  9. 8 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    Yeah, I’ve got mixed feelings about hunting mountain lions because they’re cool cats. But without hunting, they will take a serious toll on deer populations before turning on domesticated pets and livestock. Or they will starve off or die from diseases (like feline leukemia) they contract from domesticated or feral cats.

    A large lion can eat up to 30# of meat a day which translates to about 150 deer a year because they also kill smaller deer while their caches are sometimes raided. A neighbor about a mile from us set up a trail cam by a freshly cached kill, and a momma and her two half grown cubs finished it off the next night. I also saw an online article by Nat Geo that included pics of mountain lions that could only eat half of their kill because the bottom half was frozen solid to the ground, protected also from top by their skeleton. Cats’ paws are not designed for digging.

    My immediate area was teeming with lions a few years ago. I captured at least 4 different adults on trail cams in a year or so, not including two grown cubs one mother had tagging along with her. So much for the conventional wisdom that they control large territories. Our deer population plummeted, and still hasn’t fully recovered. I’ve only caught one Tom on my cameras in the past year, so they’ve moved on to new hunting grounds.

    During this same time period when we had higher lion populations and decreasing deer numbers, our next door neighbor started losing sheep (maybe it was goats) to mountain lions. He discovered the remains of several in one concealed spot on the mountainside behind his house.

    Back to my friend. He doesn’t use dogs, bait, calls, or mechanized vehicles on his hunts. It’s strictly solo, on foot. It took him from predawn to almost sundown to track down and wait out this particular Tom. He didn’t get it packed out to his truck until 10p which was almost 17 hours after he set out on foot.

    We've got the same situation, here, in Pecan Plantation. We have so many deer, they net around 1000 each year. Someone will post a mountain lion picture about once every six months. We usually have three to four in here at any given time (momma, two cubs, and a Tom). It is a buffet on the hoof.  A lot of coyotes as well.

    CHIEF

  10. 5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    And y'all took it and made some pretty bad ass music.  I'm looking around at Gen Z right now and...not seeing that.

    When you are not glued to a screen consuming 16 hours of social media, or have access to hundreds of TV channels at your fingertips a lot of creativity can come from staving off boredom. It was also used as a great coping mechanism. Writing great lyrics, catchy hooks and riffs, and getting a little notoriety was great for the ego, especially when your friends and hot girls would bring lawn chairs to your garage to hear your buddies and yourself play.

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  11. 2 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    The house size thing (I also have a violent reaction to saying we build “homes” and not “houses”) is not just unrealistic consumptionism. Zoning and NIMBY has made it damn near impossible to profitably build smaller.  All those post-War American dream suburbs couldn’t be built in most cases. More “fuck you, I want my house value to go up” mentality. 

    As a builder, small homes just aren't profitable. It costs just as much to plumb a 2 1/2 bath 2000 square foot home as a 2 1/2 bath 3200 square foot home. Plumbers charge by the fixture (or hole). Garage doors, lot cost, appliances, etc. are going to cost the same but you have much less square feet to spread the cost across. Spending 6 months driving 15 minutes each way, each day to GC and check on the progress just isn't worth the $10-20k in profit, especially since you have to warranty all of the work.

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  12. On 3/14/2024 at 10:23 PM, Chet Steadman said:

    Nice.  This and one other taken a month or two later during construction are my fave Travis pics.  

    The deepest part of the lake is actually just west of Starnes Island.  Well over 230’ when the lake is full.  

    At full pool level, not over filled, I have seen depths of over 300 feet, on a high end depth finder, in the area right below The Oasis. I remember back in the 90's when someone lost a sailboat, and they didn't find it for about a decade. It's pitch black at the bottom.

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  13. Well, CHIEF Jr.'s best friend is getting married in Ashland on Labor Day Weekend, he is the Best Man. We found a deal to fly into Medford for only $20 more/head than into Eugene. His buddy is the associate golf course superintendent at Bandon Dunes.We are debating going for 4-6 days. CHIEF Jr. and I both want to see Grove of the Titans down by Cresent City, then head to Bandon for a couple of days to eat, golf, and hang out with the wedding party. If we are there for six days gonna hit up Crater Lake. We will probably have some of the groomsmen with us, any "can't miss" breweries in the area? Mrs. CHIEF and I will probably hit a couple of wineries as well.

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  14. 16 hours ago, Getafix said:

     

    Texas Recruiting Notes 2025:  Now we have the combine record!

     

     

     

     

     

     

    And props to Adonai Mitchell, too! (Official - 4.34) (Second fastest WR, at the time ... ).

     

     

     

    CTJ could give Worthy a three  Mississippi count and still beat him by three yards, all while doing it backpedaling. 
     

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