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  1. I read through hiker websites that chronicle gear setups. Not sure if I'll ever do that kind of thing, but the gear head in us fascinated. So what does your load out look like?
  2. Got > penny hail. Covered windshields with cardboard. Seems to have held. Jollyville. Rain just about done.
  3. I should have checked this board and thread sooner. I studied in Finland and traveled quite a bit. Too bad you can't take the train to St Petersburg - the Hermitage is one of the world's treasures. Finland: we used to have reindeer stew every Wednesday. Lol. Olavinlinna is my fab European castle. Smack dav in the river. Finns and Swedes are big vacation cabin people. Sauna and cut a hole in the ice. Old winter war fortifications in Savonlinna. Watching Northern Games ski jump in Lahti. Ice hotel/bar in Rovaniemi + northern lights. Ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki is a good way save a night if time is tight. Tallinn in amazing - old walled Hamseatic League town is gorgeous. Helsinki to Tallinn ferry is a trip: working class Finns getting FUCKED on all you can drink beer at buffet, duty free Saku, and trashy euro disco. I loved Visby as a trip out of Stockholm. Another old Hanseatic League town. I think they have a hydrofoil ferry. Estonia: had good times at the Maximatti (literally "black market"), basically a good old Texas/Mexican flea market).
  4. One side (in part) down to 5 ft below first set of shoring. Aboyt 9 ft total. Now the ladder is on a ledge and I need to switch sides. I still have to widen things. That may be a trip by itself. Probably time to start gathering and cutting the timber for the next set. Lately I've been moving the spoils to ruts in my internal ranch roads. One good gully washer will probably wash the fine stuff away, but maybe it'll help.
  5. Oh shit! You telling me there are two killers at large?
  6. Second batch of 10 silver buffalos came today. So far I'm liking this putting $100 aside each month. Got a nice full tube thus far that I wouldn't have purchased otherwise. I've got some sterling silverware. Trying to decide if I should just try to trade it for the equivalent weight in bullion (~82 oz per old assay). Kind of a hassle to put in a safe. Probably hasn't been used since Easter '85. at least coins are easy to store. I know survivalist types are convinced the sterling has useful health properties, but I can't imagine breaking out the good stuff in an emergency. Gotta clean that stuff all particular and such.
  7. 13 year old girl. We have android phones AND she wasn't able to sit at her preferred lunch table 3x this week. Pray for us.
  8. If some of these people are dead because the same person/persons have been drugging them to rob them... isn't that still a serial killer even if the motivation isn't total psycho shit?
  9. Pully system! Worked pretty well. I could hook up a bucket, climb the ladder, and haul it up. Probably only got another 6" deep, but kiddo didn't want me to dig all day. Fair.
  10. Udder Devastation: Cow Farts Explode, 18,000 Ungulates Undone
  11. Entities don't set the tax rate until they know the tax base (when appraisals are done). Which is why everyone went insane at the 40% market value jumps last year, only to quietly shrug at the actual change in taxes. Except for those dudes about to reply to me....
  12. I don't know. The deeper I get, the more complicated it gets logistically. The neighbors well is 40' last I heard, so at some point there I will find a hard cap. But I'm hoping to get like 20' or 24'. For now I am just motivated to do one 4' section at a time. And then when i get as deep as feels right, I'll go lateral (if I can figure out a good way to shore up). BTW - anyone Surly in Austin have kitty litter buckets? I find they are a good size with sturdy handles. Mine are starting to wear out. And free is good. PM and I'll pick them up, if I can.
  13. After Mass, hauled ass to move to mass. The plywood rested in top of the bolts, to I was afraid critters could slither in. Made a little 1x2 frame around, and screwed and glued it down. Not sure how much rain it got, but the hole was very dry. Sides and pond liner seem to be working out. Shallow side now about 3 ft deep. Nearly level with the other side although it has a little trench so the 8 ft ladder fits in the hole such that I can just plop the plywood on top. Cut a little shelf about 36.5". Makes it handy to move stuff. Hole now pretty much too deep to life bucket over my head and push to the side. This is basically how I leave things before closing it up.
  14. https://idahogeology.org/pub/Bulletins/B-21.pdf
  15. Not sure. But the book recommends overburden depth 2 to 2.5x the height of any horizontal tunnel. So if I wanted a tunnel 6'4" I should go down 22 ft. But probably any side tunnel would be more like 4.5' tall (knee height basically). So right now my thought is 16' of wood walls, then dig to 20 or 22, and then build up concrete from the bottom up. I could then take out lowest set in 4' segments as I raise inside wall in lifts. But really, that's all a future me problem. Next goal is down about 9' total (need space as i bolt in threaded rod) and get second set of 4' in. Then the next 4' and so on. I've already purchased the next 4 5/8 rods, nuts, and washers. Need to cut and drill the 4x6, but I have time yet. It's getting deep enough I need to find a metal bucket to use a winch with. Carrying 5 gallon buckets of dirt up the ladder is starting to suck.
  16. https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/body-recovered-from-lady-bird-lake-saturday-evening-apd-confirms
  17. Counterpoint: At work, we do biweekly reports but sometimes also monthly reports, so often I do a second roundup a mere 24 hours after the previous one.
  18. Got the one side deep enough for my 8ft ladder.
  19. I keep all my emissions in neatly labeled breast milk bags taken from the Stepping Stone dumpster, thank you very much.
  20. I may have a dug mysterious hole but I have never buried any of my victims there.
  21. I am not sure we will ever be able to just hike in Castner. Too much unexploded munitions. But speaking of open lands, the state leg should use some of that 33B surplus to buy out some of those giant ranches for future state parks.
  22. Wife and I can take TRS and ERS at age 52 - in 8.5 years. Should have enough roth/403b/457 to make it until SS kicks in. Really just need enough to act as inflation adjustment to the defined benefit. Probably wouldn't need to touch it for a couple years. Saving a good chunk means ~60% pension covers as much or more than we spend now. Kids will be in college, so I'm not so sure about the timing, but trying to fund 529s to cover at least 120k each. Would love to be able to pass on 100% of whatever inheritance I may get onto the kids or load up 529 for potential grandkids. I'd like to go part time, so I could dig my hole Sunday afternoon til maybe Tuesday or Wednesday, and then be in Austin (low maintenance townhouse or condo?), have some hole money, and be available for dinner with friends and such.
  23. The boy accompanied me for a rare hole overnighter. First two shots are after first 7 buckets Friday evening (prior to fite pit poking). Then worked a little more this morning. Home by noon. it's now about 7'4" on the one side, maybe 5 ft from where I am sitting. Hoping to dig another few inches on the deep side and then knock out the shelf on the one side. Then I'll need the ladder to get out.
  24. Bad rains happen there. From our own ToT: https://m.facebook.com/TracesofTexas/posts/1770249726340482
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