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CHEF DIESEL

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  1. No problems. Never lost power. -4 degrees F at my house in Dallas. Dripped inside faucets. No dripped two exterior faucets that are 2 feet from pier and beam foundation. One on north side of house, second on southern exposure. The faucets use copper pipe and are vertical, go underground a couple feet before contacting main.

    1-Used swimming pool noodle cut at length to fit each exposed pipe that protrude about 8 inches out of ground.

    2-Put triangular shaped piece of fiberglass wall insulation over the faucets.

    3-Filled up a 5 gallon home depot homer bucket half way with packing peanuts and then dumped the whole mess upside down on top of faucet with bucket on top.

    4-Raked a bunch of leaves around the buckets and walked away.

    Might have been overkill but it cost me zero dollars and only ten minutes of my time.

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  2. 13 hours ago, Wax Beer Cup said:

    Took mom and dad (both 83) to Parkland drive through site at Eastfield in Mesquite today.  40 mins total from pull up to exit including the 15 minute wait.  Well oiled machine - staff were all great.  Got very lucky that neighbor showed me how to register them last week when they opened the process.  Dad has severe mobility issues, so drive through was probably our only option right now.  Received Pfizer - back in 3 weeks for round 2. 🤞

    How did the County contact you after you registered? Email, phone, text? Trying to get my father vaccinated in Dallas County and signed up awhile back. I did get the email confirming registration but nothing since. He's in his 80s, had a stroke a few years ago, heart condition etc and proud Longhorn.

  3. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    80s?  Early 90s?

    I played kid soccer at Walker and Kramer and they were still active in the 70s.  I didn't know they actually shut down.  I think I might have recalled seeing Dealey mothballed rolling down Walnut Hill.  I did sense that attendance was way the hell down in the 80s when I was in HS.  I think it was a class down from HP in UIL.

    Walker shutdown in the mid-80s and everyone moved to Ben Franklin. Walker became a special needs school. Which is a shame because Walker was 10x nicer than Franklin. I think DISD tried to turn Franklin into a GED hub for messed up flunkies in the late 70s and early 80s. That failed and they discontinued that program. Not sure when that happened exactly. In late 80s and early 90s Hillcrest was  Class 4A.

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  4. 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.

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  5. Been there many times. I guess last time was around New Years 2020. Not many homes. You can drive right past the space ships, within 50 feet of them on the public road headed down toward the beach. If you stop even on the public right of way you are instantly confronted by local sheriff deputies moonlighting as security guards who yell over a loudspeaker to "get the fuck out of here". Screw those guys.

    It's a bad ass drive from there down the beach to the mouth of the Rio Grande. It's wild, beautiful and really interesting down on the beach there. I worry access to the road and what is technically a state park will be lost there if Musk gets his way.

  6. 7 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

    Pretty sure you're going to be wrong about that. We have an entire crowd of people there yet none of the witnesses have reported him firing his weapon and all of the witnesses I've read said the driver fired at him point blank.

    First volley of shots on that video were from an AKM. 100% sure of that.

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  7. 21 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well it opened in 1965 and I believe basically in the configuration that it is in.  They added the Lord & Taylor wing (NW corner, Park and Boedeker) in the 80s, or 70s, then the Nordstrom wing (Barney's wing at the time, NE corner, Park and Central), food court and theater in the 90s or oughts.  

    Prior to that, the only Needless Markup location was downtown, which may be what you are thinking of.  That segment of downtown has always been a little more retail-oriented and less office-building oriented.

    Actually, there was a Neiman Marcus in Preston Center from 1950-1965 off of Preston and Northwest Highway. It was free standing and not in a mall. I am not sure what corner it was on at Preston Center though. I know that the Titches later turned into a Sanger Harris then a Foleys then the Target/Ross/Office Depot/DSW.

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  8. 2 hours ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

    Given that hogs have been around for a long time, how did we get such an explosion of number in recent times?

    In Texas, as much as landowners say they hate them....there is money to be made selling hunts for hogs. Eradication seems to be a secondary goal now with making some money being the first.

  9. 1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

    The problem with corral traps, besides the cost, is that pigs quickly learn and adapt/modify their bahavior.  It's a full time job moving them around.  Baiting them.  And emptying them.  Exposed pigs are highly vulnerable to direct sunlight and heat.  A trap full of deceased, bloated hogs makes for a peachy afternoon...

    Well, that's why the contractor is not allowed to trap in hot weather and in the open. I think they have only lost two pigs while transporting them to Fort Worth for slaughterhouse processing. Hogs don't learn the trap and the danger. If you wait for the entire sounder to get inside the gate then it's never an issue. The trap doors are triggered by cellphone many miles away.

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