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  1. I have 51 acres (bought 35 in 2007 and buying 16 adjacent acres). I go probably 20 times a year (1:45 drive from my home). Honestly it is probably all I can handle in terms of keeping roads good, keeping the mesquite from taking over, and keeping the cedar from taking over. I always have projects going. If I had 200 ac it would either just be field/scrub or I would just not lay eyes on some areas for months and months.
  2. Funny thing about Eanes putting TEA on blast is that I bet many of the TEA and gubmint mucky-mucks have kids attending Eanes.
  3. Yeah. Like a second entrance, a little ladder through the bottom. I think this stems from children's books depictions of tree houses.
  4. I think I dug the holes last fall. And pinched my sciatic nerve for the trouble. Progress is slow. This is in Mills County.
  5. He wants a trapdoor. I'm not sure how I'll do that. I guess cut in a square and then nail up 2x to frame it from the bottom. Maybe a piano hinge? I dunno. He also wants a permanent nerf mega-dart emplacement for defense. The "main" cabin is only 20x30. So I'm kinda hoping the kids will want to "camp out" in the treehouse while we have a little privacy for adulting. Still a lot of work to do. Much caulking is necessary. Insulation. Inside paneling. Biggest hassle will probably be boxing the eaves. It's a pain. The walls are about 7.5, but are up off the ground and that makes it more like 13 ft high, on uneven ground. Kinda scary for chickens like me. Plus I'm usually drinking. Oh, and I need to add a front door. I hate putting in doors. Doors suck.
  6. Currently the plan is to put two (so 5x14) sets of scaffolding as a cheap/fast deck on the one side. And to hunt from.
  7. Gonna paint outside this weekend. Then cut in siding for windows (framed up, just slapped up siding to be weather tight). May put in window ac too.
  8. Idea: 8x16 ish elevated cabin thing for kiddos at our land. No plans. One side is 7'9" and one end is 7'8". Close enough to square. Six 8x8 posts, two beams are doubles 2x8s.
  9. I'm pretty close to an AISD principal. The higher ups HAVE NOT requested from that single campus (and presumably other campuses): (1) a list of teachers with pre-existing conditions who simply cannot work face to face next semester. Of course these teachers should be on top of the list for teaching on-line classes. (They are also often the oldest teachers least familiar and adaptive to technology. Oh well. At least the spring helped them adjust a little. Oh, and btw: AISD is forcing an entirely different technology ecosystem from what was used in the spring that was designed for college students. I'm sure it won't be a hot mess for third graders...) (2) made a survey of classrooms assuming spacing restrictions to figure out how many classes and # of kids they can actually safely accommodate (assuming every possible art room etc is converted to a classroom). AISD is the most segregated district in the state. It is likely west side schools will open with fewer than 25% in physical attendance, and many east side schools will open with >75% attendance. There are scenarios where kids (and teachers) will need to be bused to campuses that have the physical space. Hi west side liberal parents who think they aren't racist: here are 80 east side students from a coronavirus hotspot, bused to your school. But nobody, as far as I can tell, have talked or discussed this.
  10. Maybe one of these days I'll try to recreate the old La Casita cabin building thread on the old site. Image sites died. Plus the whole SB brouhaha. Currently building a 8x16 elevated cabin for my kiddos dubbed the "treehouse."
  11. I've got 3 wildlife troughs that are fed by a rainwater collection system. My cabin has been off grid for years (only got electric run to it a couple years ago). Just built a shed roof last year that sole purpose is to fill a 500 gal tank that keeps a 60 gallon trough full on the other side of the creek. They work great! I've got a little low spot that keeps water, but it would be swell if I could pump it out and stored a little better. Probably 1500' from my power and cabin. I could do another water collector. But been there and done that. Basically I want to harvest the water from an intermittent hole. As a logic statement: If (hole > 0) AND (container < full) then pump into container/trough.
  12. Awesome. I knew there had to be systems like this out there. Anything that would work as an off switch if the source goes dry?
  13. I have a tiny water impoundment on my property. I wouldn't even call it a proper tank. I'd like to pump water up and out to a small water trough. Something between 60 and 300 gallons. Anyone have a good way to do this? I could easily pump it with a generator and a pump if I was there, but I'd like to try and figure out some way to have it work when I'm not there. Ideally I'd like something like an inexpensive wind generator or a solar panel working on a 12v sump pump. Probably wouldn't need more than 20 ft of lift. Maybe as little as 10 ft. If I could rig up a cut off that would be great. I've got a couple of wildlife water troughs that fill up via a float valve and a rainwater collection tank, but none of that is powered. I'm usually pretty good a googling a solution but this has me stumped. I must be missing something easy.
  14. Amen. My wife teaches elementary. Her usual day is 7:30 to 4:30 (20 minute lunch), with another 2-3 hours of work each night and on the weekend. Easily 60 hours per week. She does get the summer & winter break mostly off, which is nice for the kids. No crazy camp scramble. And to tie it back to covid, she teaches Rundberg area, which is one of the Austin-ara epicenters: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/austin-public-health-new-testing-sites-black-latino-communities/269-e78e6788-6c24-4069-ae6a-d9d71e134067
  15. I'm being shelled in 78759.
  16. When we first got married my wife and did a good MT trip. 2007 I think. Flew into Great Falls, did Missouri River by canoe from Fort Benton for 6 days. Then rented a car and did Glacier/Wateeton. Good times. Thinking of taking kids (11 and 9 next summer) and doing it again. I want to add an ice cave.
  17. At every scenic overlook there are a multitude of signs that say "don't throw rocks." Sooner or later you will not be able to resist the urge to throw one tiny pebble in. One day humankind will fill in that hole. It is our destiny. But seriously, the GC is sort of meh. Its amazing, but its hot as balls in the summer and all you really do is kinda look at it. Hit up Zion and Bryce and do the North Rim.
  18. Spouse teaches Rundberg area AISD. Virtually no one has internet at home. Eventually they got 2 or 3 buses revamped as wif hubs but that didn't cover all the kids. The busses were there for part of the day... the part of the day when their parents were not at home and often not keen on letting their elementary kids run free without supervision. Many if the families have already moved. Lost jobs and doubling up. And it's the margin of the district so often they bounce over to PfISD and that creates tracking problems. Those first graders just learning to read... they pretty much are screwed.
  19. Renting a little place up near Uvalde. Neighbor 1 has a miniature pony dude. Cute little guy. Likes apples. Neighbor 2 has his own miniature pony. A little philly just across the road. So Neighbor 1 and Neighbor 2 decide it would be cute to breed em. Done deal. But now Mr. MiniHorse runs in circles all day. Wont stop moving. Losing weight. Won't eat enough. Just prances and huffs at girlfriend across the way. Little Philly doesn't care, chill as can be. /undefeated
  20. Lunch and swam a Utopia Park. Very nice. Got a cheap cabin on Dry Frio. Nice swimming hole 4 to 5 ft deep. Perfect for my kiddos. Kids even enjoyed neighbor goats which I didn't even think to mention to the. Garner day passes on the way out on Tues. Didn't being enough beer. Dry precinct.
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