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  1. On 1/8/2024 at 7:06 AM, Orale said:

    This past year I put in a new well and new septic on raw land we have in the hill country. I'm happy to share whatever you want to know. We have power from the county, but I have a large grid-connected solar system on my primary house in the city so I know a bit about that. Our well is on a hilltop, so we had to go 800 ft deep which cost about $50k. The septic was pretty reasonable at $15k. Because our land has hard rock a foot under the soil, we had to do an aerobic (electric/mechanical) rather than a conventional passive septic system which is ideal. Permitting for both was pretty straightforward. If you can find land with an existing water source, that would save you a lot of headaches as water is key no matter where you find land imo. 

    @OraleNot sure how advanced you are on building and such but feel free to post your construction journey.  This stuff always interests me and I'm sure some others.

    I posted about buying raw land on hornfans or shaggy many years ago.  I remember leaving thread not as motivated and over a decade later, I'm super displeased I stopped looking (and partly because of that thread).  I ended up buying some land with a house in Fayetteville that I love years later but I was looking at winchester/round top area for raw land around 2010 and all that area has blown up in that time. 

    I even thought about buying lots of land in Tahitian village after the fire in 2011 but talked myself out of it so f me because that place is back to being nice and the $ returns would have been crazy.  

  2. Completely agree with many of the cons to owning as second home.  For example, had to drive to place yesterday to prepare pipes and the water well for the freeze.  And then I get to do that at my regular house today.  Double the fun!

    On the flip side, we did a proper American firework show for NYE that we could never do in town….obvi with all Chinese made fireworks.  And no Mom was bitching about the kids lighting bottle rockets and Roman candles and then some of the big shit (pic below).    

    Also,  I made an outdoor movie set up a couple years ago and this is where we all watched the Sugar Bowl around a huge campfire.  Great way to watch a shitty 3rd quarter.

    So my point is that this house gives us an ability to do stuff we just can’t in Houston and the cost of that is definitely a bit of work (and $).

    As for traveling and locking ourselves into one location, this is a second home and we spend roughly every other weekend here and not where we take vacations. If house was further (and more of a vacation house), we might not have same mindset.  And this place being in Fayette County, we want to get the f out of Houston and here in summer and fly north.


     

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  3. I needed to get the stink of the Washington game off so was watching UT volleyball YouTubes and somehow meandered to this.  

    Interesting enough take by neutral observers.  They weren’t very complimentary of Ella but very complimentary of team and Madi.

     

     

     

  4. 6 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

    They competed in the rodeo earlier this week and can't even win that. Put them in the Texas Bowl every year. This is the most aggy thing ever. 

     

    Ags didn't lose, they just ran out of swine.  And yes, I'll be here all night.  

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  5. On 12/20/2023 at 8:47 AM, Js1 said:

    From too much a/c to LSU saying not enough a/c, I'm beginning to think we mess with the thermostat like no other.

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  6. On 12/20/2023 at 1:17 PM, Js1 said:

    The true culture Elliot has built:

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    I also note that not only did Caffey go to the team hotel send off in her burnt orange, Shook was seen at the arena in burnt orange. Culture 

    Feel free to post more of these type of pics as they are great and welcomed by us social media illiterates. Thanks dude

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  7. Such a great win.  Watched both the it and Nebraska press conferences.  Neb was a little salty.  That hottie Murray girl said they will win the next three championships and their coach sorta dissed the way ut builds teams via transfers the last two years and said "I kinda like the way were building teams by growing our own players."

     good for him!  it's important to feel good how you got to 2nd place.

     

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  8. I was at a bar during a game in 2001 and randomly sat next to one of Mack’s family members and they told me he was a poor decision maker and would always play not to lose rather than to win.  It colored the way I thought of him from then on and sadly his decision making fit right into that narrative.

    F Mack.  Hall of fame coach with what, two or three conference championships.   Brent Venables of all people might be halfway to Mr Hall of Fame Coach in terms of conference championships by Pearl Harbor Day.  

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  9. Bad news is I have a vision of Malik catching fire for a couple weeks of starter duty while Quinn returns, causing Arch to transfer.  And it was fools gold a la Jerrod Heard/Cal and this puts program back years as Arch wins Heisman at OU.

    Good news is my vision also told me we would beat UH 47-17.

  10. On 10/19/2023 at 9:02 AM, GreenspointTexas said:

    Does anyone here actually get to a legit bbq joint,  look at the menu, and then leave because of the price(s)?

     

    wtf

    Never but it is part of my calculus before going....$32 for my normal lunch order at Truth plus time in line = not worth it.  Take away or reduce one of those costs and I would go more often.

  11. I went to the UT UH volleyball game this afternoon.  We drove.  For a damn volleyball game with 7,100 folks, we were in park for 30 minutes after the game just sitting there huffing each others exhaust.  

    tldr do not drive or take a cooler that you leave in car for after the game

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