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  1. I was team insulated cover for my outside taps.  The one on the N side burst or had a leak.  The tap is covered solid by ice in the shape of the cover.  Do I need to turn off water main at street before I use water to unfreeze block of ice surrounding tap?  Then turn back on to see what kind of leak I have?

  2. 32 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    Yeah, I just taped a heating pad to the wall to warm the pipes, and it looks like it has worked as it's refilling. 

    Some bro on ABC13 who apparently is a plumber said that yeah, people can drip their faucets but what we should really be doing is flushing our toilets every 1-2 hours to keep that water running.  

    Two over seventies in this household.  Flushing regularly not a problem.

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  3. 16 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Yep.  My two have had the stryofoam covers on for a couple of weeks at least.  I'm not uncovering them to find out.

    Same here.  I hope the styrofoam covers are adequate to 5 degrees (@6:30 this AM).  I have kept all faucets in house dripping or light stream and open under sink cabinets at night.  Normally, we turn heat off at night, but have set it at 60 the past two.  Also have lights in unheated garage where wife has several plants stored.  Seems to keep it just below 40.  One of my outdoor faucets is on this wall, so hopefully that helps with it also.

  4. 1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    Isn't it funny how all of these folks are suddenly getting religion regarding who actually assaulted the capitol when there are legal ramifications or other (job, business) ramifications?  It's like it's all fun and games and make believe soldiers and "we're gonna take back our government!" and "there's gonna be a party in the U.S. Capitol!"  until the implications of their stupidity are made clear to them in a way that even they understand.  Then it's like "Oh, I was just driving through Washington D.C. and I got swept up in a crowd of people who said they were going to see the President and gosh darn wouldn't you know that they were actually Q-Anon Proud Boys and one thing led to another ..."  It's like they're Andy Griffith getting swept up in the crowd to go see a football game in the cow pasture and the next thing you know, while they were trying to get a big orange drink, an insurrection broke out and they was jumpin' on one another and kickin' one another and stompin' on one another and I don't what all ...

    Talk about a true classic reference.  Done long before most Surlyites were born.

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  5. 3 hours ago, pch said:

    Obviously a pre-Ticket reference.  Otherwise, he would have mentioned lived on the same street as Blue from the Grove.

    When I was in school, the Ticket was still WRR.  I used to listen to it on Friday and Saturday nights for Blues and R&B with Jim Lowe and his "How Blue Can You Get?" show.  Since it's been 50+ years since I left the Grove for Austin, I probably never encountered Blue from the Grove. Definitely a pre-Ticket reference.

  6. 9 minutes ago, AnTiM said:

    “I think it was a terrorist attack on the Capitol, and it was despicable, and anyone who committed acts of violence should be fully prosecuted and should go jail for a long time,” Cruz told the Washington Examiner when asked about the young men who went through his desk.

    Just saw this on MSN.  What a two-faced prick this guy is.

    One of them was prescient.  "Ted Cruz sold us out!"

  7. 19 hours ago, CHEF DIESEL said:

    I went to Hillcrest my freshman year. We called it Hebrew High back in the late 80s as many Jewish kids went to school there. Seems it was a first choice for Jewish families who did not want to put their kids into private Christian schools. I think there were about 5 or 6 buses of kids that were brought in from South Dallas somewhere.

    Enjoyed my year there. Back then Vickery Meadows was still single white apartments and the kids attending from the Dan D Rogers zone was minimal at the time.

    A lot of students from the Pershing and Preston Hollow attendance zones. Very few from north of LBJ where the Hillcrest attendance zone stopped at Arapaho.

    During this time Kramer Elementary and Dealey were mothballed because there were just so few students. Same with ED Walker Middle School which was closed. Just not a lot of kids around at the time.

    We shared a tent block with Hillcrest guys at a high school ROTC camp at Camp Wolters TX back in the sixties.  Some called it Hebrew High.  One guy (goy) said it was great going to school on Jewish high holy days.  So few students and teachers were there, everybody roamed the halls and hung out.

  8. 14 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Never met anyone that went to Samuell, either.  Until now, assuming this counts.  Spruce either.

    Kid on my block had a babysitter that went to Bryan Adams.  Close as I ever got.

    I wonder if any of the people that live in Kessler Park send their kids to Sunset.

     

    I had a history teacher, Dr. Talmadge White, that once said that most of us would graduate from HS, stay in what he called "Peasant Grove", marry a high school sweetheart, and live the rest of our lives in PG. Maybe that's why you never met any.  I, luckily, escaped that, but many I went to HS with didn't.

     

    However, the Director of the Briscoe Center of American History at UT Austin and a former Democratic Party Chair of Fayette Co were co graduates of mine.

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  9. 58 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

    My ex-girlfriends parents went to high school with Russ Martin.

    W.W. Samuell was not a northern DISD school.  I graduated from there, also, but five years after Martin was born.  I was long gone to Austin before he was a radio personality.

     

    I did meet two Bryan Adams graduates in my work career.  They were about six years different in age and did not know each other in high school.

    I did meet John Colley (later John Ford Colley) in high school.  He wasn't in Samuell yet, but was in a friend's band.

     

  10. 15 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

    If you haven't already watched it try Inspector Morse. Endeavor is the prequel.

    I think Amazon also has Inspector Lewis, the series about Morse's DSS after he's promoted to DI.  It may be the best of the three.

     

    Just checked.  It's on PBS stream and you have to pay for it on Amazon.  I watched it free, but don't remember if it was on another streaming channel.

  11. I think I had or have 12 of them.  Lost hundreds of vinyl and compact discs in a flood.  I also had many by same artists, but different albums.  Fairly good list.  Getz/Gilberto belongs, but not sure at number 3.  To paraphrase Todd Snider I have tons and tons and tons of Bix and of Louis.

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  12. 6 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Leading off 2021:

    Gerry Marsden of Gerry & the Pacemakers..."You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Ferry Across the Mersey"

    Kind of a big deal in the UK 

    Ferry Across the Mersey was pretty big here.

     

    Just checked - it, How Do You Do It, and Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying were all top ten US singles.  Part of the British Invasion for those old enough to remember.

  13. 1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

    Best place to watch fireworks?

    For viewing, probably Roberts Point Park, but a lot of people park in parking lots on the N end of the island or along Port Street.  In the past, those areas were ridiculously crowded, a real traffic mess at the end.  We were lucky last year to be invited to a private residence on the N end of Sixth St. where we could watch from a 2nd story balcony.  We generally watch from our place on S. 11th, where you can only sees the higher, bigger bursts because of the buildings in between.

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  14. 13 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    Going down to Port A. We’ll be making s’mores and drinking some beer on the beach. It might be my first NYE ever with my kiddos because we always take them to the grandparents and go party. 

    We've been going to Port A for many years for NYE and will again this year.  Always just at the house.  We did get an invite last year to watch the fireworks over the channel at the house of a friend of an in-law.  We may go outside to watch parts of this year's fireworks at a distance, but mostly stay inside watching TV festivities.  Son may come down.

    In year's past, kids and grandkids would often come, but not expecting much this year.

  15. 3 hours ago, Lobo said:

    Read anything by (H.W.) Bill Brands.  I'm biased since he's a Longhorn, but he is an absolutely riveting storyteller.  He's written on Grant, Reagan, Truman, Lincoln, Jackson, Wilson, LBJ, and Eisenhower.  He typically sets the narrative inside the second biggest test/tribulation of that President and then through kind of a "middle-out" approach, fleshes out the rest of what happened in America during that era.  Although he's got two Pulitzer finalist nominations, he remains one of the most underrated writers in America.  

    I have a hard time getting through biographies, even ones that do a great job of giving you historical insights into a country.  But Brands is just such a gifted storyteller.  He could have written fiction and been just as successful.  

    Just finished his The Zealot and the Emancipator about John Brown and Lincoln.  He reads very easy. Will have to read more of his.

  16. On 12/22/2020 at 11:23 AM, BHMCruiser said:

    butter milk or regular milk?

     

    either way no get out of here with that Yankee bullshit

    My dad preferred it with buttermilk, but it was rarely available in our house, as he was the only one who would drink it.  He grew up on a farm outside Savoy, Texas.

    With whole milk, he called it "cornbread and sweet milk".  He especially liked it for breakfast with any cornbread left over from the last night's supper.  Probably not a lot different from corn cereals.

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