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Lazarus Bocanegra

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  1. modular hoop house? Hammer a couple lengths of rebar into the ground, then bend a length of 1/2" pvc between them. Poly sheeting over the hoop, clipped in place and weighted on the ground? Put a lamp in there with the maters
  2. rolling in the luffa over here in Houston
  3. Headed down to Whitsett last Friday night. Ominous start to the weekend when I ran over a deer carcass in the middle of 59 outside Victoria. I don't recommend it. I don't have night vision so I stayed in Friday night and headed out to the blind in the morning. Didn't see much that morning. Set up on the range and checked the zero on my 30-30 at 100 yds. Running around pulling cameras and filling feeders mid-day Saturday, caught a coyote down the sendero and tried an ambitious 200 yd downhill shot but missed. I saw on the cameras there were pigs coming out to the main feeder around 4:45 the last couple of days, so I finished up my chores and got into the blind around 3:00. They didn't show, and the deer were fairly unimpressive, but towards dusk a group of four large pigs crossed the sendero about 250 yds out, marking the first time I've seen pigs live, and in daylight, since we got the place last year. Much too far out and moving too quickly to attempt a shot, I'd hoped they would loop back around to the feeder but they didn't. Closer to dark, I was watching three doe at the feeder when two got spooked by something to the right and ran off into the brush to the left. A moment later, a coyote comes looping through after them. After that, another pops into sight, eyeballing the remaining doe, but I can't get a clean shot at it. First it lingers behind the leg of the feeder, then it moves to the left so that the doe is directly between us, then it's gone off after its running buddy. Waited till dark, bagged it in, and went back to the house and drank E.Craig while making dinner and listening to the last couple hours of Heat 2. Planning to make an early break Sunday, as I was still uncertain of the extent of the damage to my car and facing 250 miles back to Houston, I went out to set the clocks on the feeders back an hour for DST. We have one feeder near the house in a field of several acres we cleared last fall, so I headed to that one first. Grabbed my rifle on the way and as I passed the barn, I thought about grabbing my shooting sticks but didn't. Coming through a clearing into the house field, I rounded a corner and there were pigs down past the feeder, 100-125 out. I took a knee, but couldn't get into a prone position because I had my binoculars on my chest and the sounder was now looking straight at me and were right alongside the edge of brush. I didn't want to risk waiting on them to turn broadside, so I picked a face out of the group and took a shot steadying the rifle on my knee. Missed that one too, but it's good to finally lay eyes on some pigs after all this time. And a weekend at the ranch trying unsuccessfully to shoot swine is still a weekend at the ranch, even for a hungry pilgrim. Heat 2 was badass. I recommend it bigly. Car damage was $1500 and counting. /CSB
  4. Do we do audiobooks here, too? I finally gave in a few months ago and have been tearing through them on long drives. I've been using Libby app via the Houston Public Library, so there's often a wait for popular titles - which is actually kind of fun as it lends an air of anticipation to a book, some more than others. Had to wait a couple of months for this: https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/michael-manns-first-novel-heat-2-is-a-work-of-obsession.html I'm about 6 hours of 19 into it, and it is pretty good so far. The dude who narrates it gets Pacino's voice pretty close. Pure fan fiction, but if you enjoyed the movie, you'll enjoy the book.
  5. it gets better with every rewatch. Watch Orla in the background. She's ridiculous
  6. wait I thought water bottles in Houston were just for pissin in and leaving in the street
  7. Just finished S1 and really enjoyed it. Agree with the poster above that the only misstep was in casting Patton Oswalt as the raven. I took a JanTerm at Austin College in 1997 on Visual Storytelling. Somehow, the professor got Neil Gaiman to come and give a couple of lectures. I feel like he really took something away from that class
  8. Gabrielle Carteris was just in We Own This City
  9. I celebrate Candace Milllard's entire catalog. Currently enjoying the latest
  10. they were abundant at the private seller tables at the last gun show I visited
  11. in other news, I saw a sign go up announcing that the shithole property nextdoor to the carwash on Ella is going to be a carwash. Which is just down the street from another soon-to-be carwash, and across the street from where they tore down another carwash. Carwash is the new banks
  12. just got on this train with a 2 year contract with Chariot at .065 expiring 7/1. Hatin it
  13. the old Sinn 556 has shit the proverbial bed. Any recs for a repair shop in Houston? Has anyone sent one back to Sinn for servicing?
  14. note how she changed the color of her hand emoji too. Whole thing was a riff on the myth of whiteness White Earnest talked about in S1.
  15. If you had told me a year ago it would matter to me today, I’d have laughed. Now, 130 acres needing a fuckton of brush hogging later, and a 2011 kioti CK35 that is finally running again after being under repair for most of the last 8 months, here I am, supplicant to the throne of shaggy implement wisdom Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  16. Dude on TGT took his listing down and stopped responding to texts so I went to the HCGA show this weekend with a fat pocket, looking for a .357, 4” barrel, fixed sights. I came upon this Dan Wesson 14-2 (c. 1980) and took it home with a couple boxes of shotshells, .38sp and .357. On the way out the door I spied a random holster on a table that fit like a glove, so I threw the ole chap $40 for it and left with money left in my pocket. Satisfied. Can’t wait to put some rounds down range this weekend. And here’s hoping I jump that big coyote again too. I’ll be quicker on the draw this time Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  17. Took a long time to wrap my head around this one
  18. there is iron in your words of death for all men to see
  19. This guy is on TGT, I was wrong above. Would be a face to face. I thought about meeting up at Hot Wells in NW Houston, but I think an Academy would suffice. Worst part about it is I've been planning to hit up the gun show this weekend, but then this guy comes along with a post that pretty much ticks all my boxes, and I'm anxious not to let it get away. I've got half a mind to go ahead and buy it and take it to the gun show and see if there's a deal to be made.
  20. I'm in the market for a pistol and I found a private party seller locally that has one on the internets. So far, seller seems legit but only has 1 listing on GB, member since 2013. Beyond a bill of sale, a heightened sense of awareness, and a public meeting space, does anyone have any recommendations on best practices for not getting robbed and/or murdered?
  21. In case your tickets are at will-call, you'll be looking for the Taquilla, not as we wabs found out at the old estadio, a "ventana de boletos"
  22. If I could get $10,000 for my Marlin 336 I might actually part with it
  23. you left out drone footage of cars. I'm still pumped for it though
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