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Ten Bears

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  1. Ten Bears

    Getting old sucks

    I walked 30 miles in 3 days in Chicago the other day. I can walk all day it seems but standing in one spot for more than a couple of minutes is torture on my knees. Went to see Bobby Wier last night with some friends that like to be up front at ACL Live ground area where there is no place to move around. I barely lasted past the first set before I said fuck it and left as my my knees were locking up. 59 and have had no major damage to my knees, just minor stuff here and there that is really adding up I guess. I'll see what the ortho dr has to say next week. Getting old sucks.
  2. Two what? Cover albums? I am firmly in the fat drunk Isbell camp. I haven't enjoyed anything of his since Southeastern.
  3. Because they don't want to get car jacked?
  4. Sounds like the same easy listening dreck he has been putting out lately. They should do an album of covers. That I would listen to.
  5. I would rather stick my hand in a rattlesnake den.
  6. When I was 16 a buddy David and I were driving around the Coleman Co dirt roads drinking up the leftover beer from the night before when we had gone to a country dance in his mom's station wagon. We had a blowout that night so we had to change out the spare (this is critical to the story). I was constantly getting into trouble with this guy. We came upon a road construction site that had a trailer with a sign that said Danger Explosives and a huge Masterlock padlock on the door. David grabbed a 36 inch Stillson pipe wrench and with two blows had the lock open. It even relocked. We stole 350 lbs of dynamite, a spool of detonator cord (that we thought was fuse cord - even tried to light it), a detonator, fuses and various blasting caps. So away we go trying to figure out how to light some dynamite fuse. Failing that I figured out how the detonator worked with the blasting caps and we start looking for something to blow up. A row of mailboxes? Sure why not? One stick was enough to level all 6 mailboxes except for the one that we put the tnt in. It went so high it was just a speck in the sky before nearly landing on David's head. We then go dynamite some stock tanks but nothing but polywog catfish came up by the hundreds. Fast forward to Monday afternoon as I get off of the school bus and see the sheriffs car sitting in front of our house along with David's parents car. Oh shit. David's dad ran the local gas station/shop and Monday morning went to fix the flat we had Saturday night and found blasting cap instructions that had fallen into a crack where the spare was. My mom had to call the beer joint to tell my dad he better come home and deal with his son and the sheriff. David and I were 2 of 3 country fuckhead delinquents that ran around together and before we were even made to turn our selves in the sheriff had all 3 of our names written down on a Round up the Usual Suspects style list. The construction crew had reported the detonator missing and was worth like $2000. They hadn't even noticed all the other shit we stole. Turns out blowing up mailboxes is frowned upon and is a felony which went along with the 3 other felonies they came up with. I received a years probation supervised by the probation officer who happened to be a family friend. After 6 months she said gtfo you're done. Hardest part was having to apologize to the mailbox owners, one of whom was my dad's best friend's dad. That flat tire and the instruction sheet for blasting caps probably save our lives.
  7. Those texts have to released right?
  8. What the fuck is wrong with you North Texas?
  9. Do you have the chain in backwards?
  10. People cook with live oak? I always thought it made kind of rancid smoke.
  11. Pretty sure you can just use latex paint to seal the oak tree damage. I don't see how we won't have lots of oak wilt damage in the days to come.
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