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  1. In the defense of Frisco, it does let FC Dallas be an epicenter of youth development. Acres and acres of practice fields. I hope eventually that FCA works out a way to have lots of youth coaching and stuff. 

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  2. 7 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:


    Dallas Stars

    I said major sport. (I know, pot kettle black, etc)

    I like the idea that maybe ATX pro franchises would have a consistent color scheme a la Pittsburgh. 

  3. It'll do. AFAIK its a different scheme than any other major pro team in Texas, and its not UT, A&M, Tech, TCU, UH, or Baylor. I vaguely recall the Mavericks being primary green in the 80s, but they are pretty squarely blue/white now. FC Dallas Burn is red, Dynamo is that weird orange. Not sure how about the tree thing. It looks cool, and I'm rather fond of badass ancient live oaks, but it doesn't scream austin to me. The Portland Timbers is an axe, so at least its not a different tree. They probably could have kept that Crew yellow, but I can see why they might want to rebrand. 

  4. I have the cbsaustin interactive weather map bookmarked. As of few minutes ago it said "weak front passing though, storms not expected to be severe." Now it says "Warning until 6:15pm. Possible winds to 60 mph and hail to 1" in diameter with a storm over Andice tracking SW 10 mph."

    I'm guess that is just copy/pasted from NWS outlooks, but it made me laugh. 

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    in writing this up its apparent the solution is to run an easement along the east fence of Neighbor A from the north county road. I guess? So long as the parcel that is new to my FIL touches his remaining acreage, I dont think an easement by necessity would have cause to be created. 

  6. My father in law bought the adjacent 43 acres to my ranch (the old "la casita" thread on the other forum). My FIL had some money burning a hole in his pocket, and the nice lady neighbor was looking to sell (we bought our original ranch from her and get along great). She get the money she needed and we got to control the use, rather then ending up with the next door property being some junkyard or whatever. She sold off to my FIL 43 acres, but really we just want about 18ac of it (the pretty wooded part on both sides of the creek so we don't need water gates and such). But it was one of those deals where my FIL had to buy the whole 43 acres right then, and figure out the rest later. It has a nice 25 acre field that is good for a couple cuttings of hay each year. But a denuded field is not great for use for us. We just want to putter around and drink beer, not be worries about fertilizing a field and working out deals to have someone with a tractor cut hay. 

    Other neighbor could use it for his hobby cattle raising - he can finish off non-weaned calves and check up on them daily. That's fine with us, and he'd be a good steward for the land as well. He suggested a land swap, FILs 25 acres for a similar amount from his proverbial back forty. Seems a fair deal and a win-win; our 25 acres is more useful to him for honest agricultural production, and his ~25 is nicely wooded and would fit in well with the hunting property we have (we do wildlife ag exemption).

    The issue is that freshly broken off a piece of neighbor's property would be "landlocked" (it would not have frontage or a deeded easement to the country road). Technically FILs new 43 acres, once you cut off that 25 acre field, would become landlocked as well. Not actually a problem, since I intend to buy the remaining 18 acres (and I guess that 25ac as well) and unify the whole tract. But that's probably can't happen the same day the land swap closing would happen. 

    Would this kind of deal run into the TX common law principle against landlocked property? To be clear: we have no interest in any implied easement or whatever, I just don't want this vaguely recalled legal precept to screw up what would otherwise be a pretty straightforward deal. 

    (I'll try to whip up a MS paint diagram tomorrow)

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  7. The retirement thread got me thinking. I've got about 50 acres (80ac now, but may sell a portion). I have a wildlife ag exemption, and don't have cattle now. Not really interested in keeping them. But I could see having some bison, I just always thought they were cool. I'm sure my fences would have to be replaced and bulked up. Would having a 5'4" fence (taller than normal) mess up white tail deer? 

  8. 9 minutes ago, Amos Moses said:


    I think you’ll really like the Canyon. I have a Colorado crew with about 30k miles and find it to be a really good mix of capable truck (for off-road driving as well as moderate hauling and towing) and nimble commuter vehicle. Mine has the mini Max diesel - I’ve averaged 28 mpg since I bought it.

    Don't get me wrong, I think the diesel is cool as hell. Doesn't diesel store a super long time? I'd be tempted to have some kind of rad external tank in the bed, just for the notion of being able to cross the zombie apocalypse strewn wasteland without ever having to fuel up. Did you keep your air dam on? 

  9. 5 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:

    Tell me you got the diesel 

    Hell no! I'm cheap as hell. I paid $27k out the door. No way am I paying whatever crazy price they want for those diesel rigs. The fancy pants offroad packages are also of dubious necessity, and I actually do drive off road and have three different rough creek crossings on my property. As it is the tow rating far exceeds what is probably reasonable given the truck (7000 is a load for a midsize seems a recipe for disaster). I got four doors, AC, keyless entry,  cruise control, and an aux jack. I can't fathom needing anything else. Basic transit that can take the kids to school and haul 300 pounds of corn and/or leaking jerry cans of diesel & remedy for the mesquite is all I need. I removed the chinstrap air dam before mile 200, and am good to go. 

  10. Had my protest today. Knocked it down $28k to what I can honestly say would be a fair market value. Waited about 15 mins, and the face to face was about 90 seconds. Honestly, as far as evil incompetent bureaucracies go, it was fine. 

  11. Bought a 2018 Canyon. Too much city driving & tiny parking garage, couldn't justify a full size. Backseat is as much or larger than the backseat of my old SUV. I'm liking it so far. Got the G80 automatic locking diff, and it really does feel more locked in when I was trying to purposefully throw up dirt at the ranch in the loose powder (damn if my place is not already dry as hell and its only May). 

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  12. Over at La Casita I had this idea for a survival garden. To that end I planted some sunchokes (jerusalem artichokes). I have this elaborate water tank system to automatically irrigate. It's been a dry spring, but they are doing well considering I just bought them from HEB and stuck in dirt:

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    There wasn't enough pressure for a drip line, but a hand dug little channel seems to do the trick. 

     

  13. I practice law that is about as far away from appellate constitutional interstate commerce law as a person can and still get flooded by constant bar election emails. But the Modell Law is a joke. 

  14. I wouldn't sweat the sick kid thing unless they have some other medical condition. My view is that there are dozens of little cold and stomach flu viruses, and sooner or later they'll catch them all. It sucks and you move on. And its better to have it happen when they are young and toughen them up, then constantly be picking up a sick kid from the Elementary school nurses office. The whole "1 day fever free" thing means way more days off. Daycares, in my experience, are more loosey-goosey about it. Sure that means little disease vectors getting sick, but in the ends that fewer days you or your spouse have to take off for work. Kids who never got anything age 0-4 just end up catching every thing age 5-6. It evens out. 

  15. The la casita is just outside of Mullin, and 10 miles from Goldthwaite. Technically we could move there tomorrow. My plan is to retire and spend Monday through Thursday up there, and then Thursday night through the weekend at a zero outside maintenance condo or townhome in Austin. Our kids are young, but sometimes we do talk about how a small town is an option, and an escape from the pretty intense competition. Out kids could easily play varsity sports (hell, every sport) and probably walk into top 7% stuff. But I grew up in some nerdy burbs, and I think having virtually 100% of my high school peers expecting 4 year college was really good for my own ambition. 

  16. 13 hours ago, pacman said:

    Another sidebar, what made you all choose i9 vs a local(insert town name) soccer association?

    I9 is less intense, for the most part, but I wouldn't do it after the introductory season I think. My daughter started Town & Country soccer in the second grade. Some of the girls on her girl scout unit played on the same team, and she LOVES being on there with friends. She probably should have started the year before, but its working out. My son is in kindergarten (age 4 would have been a riot, and possibly pointless). The main thing with I9 is its just a 1 day commitment, we practice a bit before the game (actually T&C might be like that at age 5-6, too). Also, its always Sunday, so I don't have to be at the T&C fields like 6 hours in a row. But I suspect this fall we'll be double soccer parents. 

  17. hey, are we stealing them for next season (March 2019), or would it be in 2020? Where would they play the first couple of years? That RRISD stadium, on campus, or somewhere else?

     

    first I've heard of Austin Blues, but like it!

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