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Storm the Field

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  1. Busy dove hunt out in Sealy yesterday afternoon. Tons of birds, but they were all just passing over our field with no intent to land anywhere nearby, so flying high and fast. Our group of 5 fired easily 250+ shots and ended up with 38 in the truck (plus another 10 or so lost in the brush or fell in the field behind us). I lost count of how many birds we knocked feathers off of but not enough to down. I'd feel worse about my shooting, but my buddy, who is a competitive skeet shooter and the best dove shot I've ever hunted with, was roughly 12/50.
  2. It appears we'll settle into a consistently steady pattern of warm, dry, sunny days next week. Daytime highs in the mid-90's, but pleasant mornings and evenings with low humidity. It ain't gonna feel like Fall, but it ain't blastfurnace.
  3. According to a post on HAIF this morning, Target is going to be the anchor tenant for the former Sears property on N Shepherd. Permits filed recently indicate an April 2026 construction start date. I'm sure people will be bummed b/c they were hoping for a Costco or HEB. There were originally plans for a Target with several floors of apartments on top to go in where they've cleared out most of that block between 26th and 27th, but that was going to require a weird building design to wrap around the doggy daycare. Looks like they called an audible when the Sears property came available.
  4. The low humidity this morning made for a very pleasant walk with the dogs. Unfortunately, that same low humidity will allow for extremely efficient heating this afternoon and it's going to be damn near 100 at 4 pm, just in time for me to go stand out in a dove field. The duality of early September weather in Texas.
  5. Latest projections with just 3 weeks remaining. Baseball Reference: HOU 87-75, 87% chance to make playoffs, 70% chance to win division SEA 85-77, 56% chance to make playoffs, 18% chance to win division TEX 84-78, 35% chance to make playoffs, 12% to win division Fangraphs: HOU 89-73, 94% chance to make playoffs, 77% chance to win division SEA 86-76, 77% chance to make playoffs, 21% chance to win division TEX 82-80, 12% chance to make playoffs, 2% chance to win division
  6. W over the Yankees while M's and Rangers both lose = a perfect night.
  7. I had a very similar situation, and the only time I've ever been close to thinking about shooting someone. Woke up middle of the night about 4 years ago to dogs barking up a storm. Head downstairs and opened one of the curtains to see what they're barking at (usually a stray dog or the neighbor's cat in the front yard) and there's a guy standing on my front porch, literally an inch or two in front of the window. Scared the shit out of me. Dude starts knocking on the window "hey, let me in, let me in." I ran back to the bedroom, grabbed my gun and came back down. Told him to get the fuck out of there through the window, but he seemed to be totally out of it and wasn't hearing/responding. I could tell pretty quick this was either mental health crisis or he was black out drunk/on a bad trip. Called neighborhood constables and waited in the dining room, gun in hand, watching him through the window. They showed up within a few minutes and threw the guy in cuffs and sat him down in their cruiser. Turns it out was a young guy with schizophrenia. Snuck out from his sister's house a few blocks away and was wandering the streets, thought my house was a church that would take him in. The sister showed up a few minutes later and they released him into her custody after I said I didn't want to press charges (he hadn't damaged anything or tried to force his way in). Extremely relieved it worked out that way. If I had forgotten to lock the door or he had started trying to kick down the door or climb the driveway gate or something, I don't like to think about how I would have been forced to react.
  8. They should make a movie about it. I'm thinking maybe James Franco in the lead role.
  9. 76-62. Fangraphs has us winning the division if we can get to 88 wins. Would only need to go 12-12 over the final 24. Let's try for 14-10 at least.
  10. Boom. Nail in the coffin.
  11. Nice. Price was released and it's only gonna be $20, which will likely be an absolute steal. Hollow Knight was easily 40+ hours of content and I imagine Silksong will be at least as big.
  12. Spent the morning driving back from friends' lake house, so no Opening Day action for me, but I'm doing an afternoon dove hunt out near Sealy on Thursday. Should be fun, but man it's gonna be a hot one. Planning a trip up to the deer lease on Saturday morning to replace a cheap POS feeder that got destroyed by coons with a proper metal unit. Gonna go sit in a stand that evening and should have an easy shot at a pack of hogs right before sundown (based on camera action the last few weeks). It's officially hunting season boys!
  13. Way to come in and walk the first 2 batters you see. Christ almighty.
  14. I held on to all my shares in Confederated Slave Holdings, Transatlantic Zeppelins, and the Baltimore Opera Hat Company b/c my lackey never told me about the big crash of '29.
  15. Heading into the final weekend of the year where it's not at least 1 major hunting season!
  16. Hogs are doing their job of trampling down the vegetation around the feeder. Just running this one in the evenings for now. I'll need to head up in the near future and "thank" them for their service, just need it to cool down a tad.
  17. Crescent makes its 2nd big acquisition in the past 18 months, buying Vital Energy for $3.1B. Surprising move b/c Crescent is primarily an EF operator, while Vital is a pure Permian play.
  18. Looking possible that we get that our first Fall Head-Fake front rolling through on Saturday, which would provide for a rather mild start to September. Think highs and lows more in the 90/74 range than 97/78.
  19. Was high 90's yesterday but very low humidity by Houston standards so actually a pretty nice day.
  20. I see LA has an "extreme heat" warning today. High of 90, low of 66, low humidity. LOL. That's considered almost an ideal day in May in TX.
  21. Currently not bad by late-August standards. Hot and sunny today through Monday, but a little lower humidity than usual. Forecast has us shifting to slightly cooler conditions (highs in the low 90's vs. mid to high 90's) starting Tuesday, which is right around average for this time of year.
  22. TPWD Dove Season Forecast looks promising:
  23. Almost came home from vacation with a new acoustic. Just got back from visiting my wife's best friend in Colorado. Her dad passed about a month ago and one of the things she brought back from his house was a very good condition 1998 Taylor 710-CE (similar one pictured below). I played it a bunch while there and asked what she was planning to do with it. She didn't know yet or have any idea what it was worth. I showed her the make and model number on the tag inside the body and sent her a bunch of links to what they sell for in stores. Followed up with what I considered a very fair offer, which was significantly higher than 2 lowball offers she'd already received. She's gonna take some time to think about it, but she told my wife she'll probably end up selling it to me. Fingers crossed.
  24. Damn, tragic final year of his life. "Parted ways" with Mastodon after 20+ years and spent the last few months trashing his former bandmates.
  25. September 4 it is.
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