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horn4life

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  1. Interesting technique you are using. But it must be hard to cast from... 😉
  2. The use of plate readers is a mainstay of ticket writing small town cops. Interesting story. A couple years ago my wife and I had cars that expired a month apart, may and june. Well she gets pulled over by a cop in I think Elgin, Hutto or Taylor for for expired inspection. Apparently I had put the May sticker on my Truck and the June sticker on her vehicle. So when she got pulled over in June she had the June sticker on her car, so the only way he knew anything is he was scanning every car going by. I also drove my 2020 Truck for over a year unknowingly with an expired inspection sticker with no incident. But good to know that Texas has figured out a way to take your money for registration when the vehicle is out of state!
  3. not to buzz kill. But one of our boys on the list got popped on the Comal today. Never try to save your drunk friend. Most interesting thing to me was that you can be white and vomiting in front of the cops. And one goes free. Sucks for the kid, but apparently there are/ were two silents he told me about. like 30 seconds before it all went bad on the comal. Sucks. I guess good for me that I am white, but New Braunfels is what is always has been. in the end you guys would have been happy as shit with what I heard right before it all when bad.
  4. There is simply one uniform that is waaaay fucking more exciting and harder to wait for than all the others! It will be worth the wait! Because we ARE gonna run this shit!
  5. Wow guys! Lots of great info. Though seeing troph's setup I feel like I am talking about a stack of home depot buckets and a soaker hose! Having done a little research I have found that the City of Austin will pay you a rebate of $.50 cents for passive collection per gallon of storage, and $1 per gallon if you have a pump. I assume the pump is so that this source can replace the sprinkler with pressurized water. Up to $5000 max per property. You can also apply for more rebates if you add on to system. I need to do some research on the Xeriscape side, as I might as well get the rebates I can. Thanks ROLF BOX for the hint about signing for rainwater collection to save the tax! And the run lengths of guttering. I have a long run cross the back and where I will need one downspout. But with the whole backyard running downhill I am going to need to manage that downspout's flow in come manner. My problem is like most folks in Austin is a combination of limestone and live oak roots, preventing much downward storage. However the steeper slope on that side of my house may give me an option to stagger height and partially bury at least one of the tanks. Unfortunately the closest biggest valley off the roof on the collection side is right above the dining room window so no collection tank there! 😉 I also agree with the 500 gallons is not a lot assessment. But I also want to try and tuck the storage in on the side of the house making it less obtrusive. But I only have 8 feet to the property line on that skinny side, so I may have to look at staggering multiple smaller tanks to make it worth the while. Or build the system to expand to extra tanks in the future is I am worried about capacity. Less capacity may be OK depending on how much the new xeriscaping landscape will need. Most of my stuff in the front yard is drought tolerant, simply to survive already but some plants love the agua more than others. This thread is a great example of why I love this site! You can get so much great info and experience in an area with from five minutes on the lap top! thanks guys!
  6. Gotta love that variable mileage from wind direction. I think the lowest I have gotten is 7 mpg going into a 25 mph sustained headwinds. Most of the time I am getting about 12 if I keep the speed in the 60-65 range. I usually drive so fast without the trailer I actually feel guilty for not hauling ass. But once I get past 70 mph everything seems more unstable and I can nearly see the fuel gauge declining.
  7. I have considered getting storage much closer to the coast, but to be honest we don't go much in the Summer unless we are meeting folks. So my main use is dropping it in Port A in mid to late September and keeping it there the month of October. But you are right it's a lot of work for just a long weekend! But I love being able to come and go with the favorable weather and tides. If I could find some good covered storage out of the normal hurricane range, but making my towing only an hour or so, that may be where I end up, if my current free storage ever dries up.
  8. Likely never ever happier to have a tow behind shitter! At least on mine if I make sure to tie the bathroom door back you can access the bathroom without having to extend the slide out. It's actually one of the things that has come in handy multiple times on the road. Sounds like a great trip! But a 3 hour anything traffic related would have had me losing my mind...
  9. The wife and I have been considering putting in a water storage system with new gutters. in the last year I tore about a row of about 8 red tip photinia "trees" along our back fence, and converted it to a new flower bed and are seriously considering tearing up the front yard and xeriscaping it. We thought adding a water storage tank into the mix might be good and since we would be moving a lot of dirt around this would be the time to consider it. I wanted to have a pump to be able to pressurize to water by hand, or run a sprinkler. I guess with the xeriscaping of the front yard I might try to add some sort of locational drip system? Not sure about how any of that would work on a storage tank system or if it would work. But I have to think gathering a couple hundred gallons of water would over time pay for itself in the summer and if I am ever going to do it. I should do it with the re-landscape plan. Anyhow anyone use water storage? Have any do's and do nots?
  10. This thread brings up my one gripe about the Apple watch, why not have a much longer battery life? I got used to charging mine, but for an older person? My Dad could do it, but he is fading. He actually keeps his phone in what I think was a passport bag around his neck. He is in an independent living apartment and my mom is in memory care, while they await a larger apartment where they both can live together. Praying that works, but am about to search for caregiving help so that it might work.
  11. Hell I did not know where Austwell was, so i google searched it and it does have 8 RV spaces and a boat ramp. And I thought Seadrift was tiny...
  12. Honestly, most of my fishing trips are around Monday- Thursday. It was already easy to see the pressure increasing in the bays, but I think Covid made a lot more folks discover the Texas coast for more than a quick out and back party weekend. All you need do is look at the rise in saltwater fishing licenses. The graph below is pre covid. the one below it catches 2020 when covid came on.
  13. well hell, you have 4 days left and the wind is laying down. Get to work! So I can live vicariously!!!!
  14. You know visiting College Station just sucks... because it's, College Station. But this is a whole new season now, and hope springs eternal. Sure would be fun to send the Ags to an endless summer of endless boredom in CS.
  15. I used to carry two 3 woods back in the day, one with very low loft that I used as a driver on all but the longest of holes, and one with higher loft off the turf. In a way that lofted three wood was what allowed me to mostly use that shorter but straighter 3 wood off the box. Might even get a chance to play again occasionally soon... but haha I was saying the same thing this time last year...
  16. If it's any consolation there have only been about two days since I went to Port a the last weekend in April that have not been pretty damn windy. You gotta get that humidity North somehow to create those monster storms! But you can always catch a buzz... 😉
  17. For some odd reason this picture made me think of this picture
  18. Time to start enjoying some cooler meals. My wife is trying to avoid acidity in foods but she loves a Caprese salad, so I used a Peach substitute. Damned Delisions! Second photo is a few days later with the charcuterie board, rosemary pistachios were something new, and we seared then chilled and seasoned the asparagus. Nice refreshing meal.
  19. Sometimes... it just comes down to stupidity, arrogance, and some leaning Lincoln logs...
  20. Reminded me of the old days when my Dad used to do some photography for team Yamaha when Kenny Roberts was a badass on everything with two wheels. Cool that his signature is on the bike. It was cool for me to have pit passes as a teen in the Astrodome when they ran the steeplechase and flat track events. Dad went out to Daytona a few times with Yamaha as a the team photographer. He got one shot of Kenny in a road race that became a big wall panel photo for the dealers nationwide, His profession was geologist but he loved racing and anything fast all his life and damned if could not take some incredible pictures. If you bought a motorcycle magazine in the late 70's he had a great photo that Can Am used on the back covers that he took at Rio Bravo. Anyhow he will be excited to see this old screamer with Kenny's signature.
  21. Sorry for your loss. I don't usually look at the pics. But I think the title "Securing the Pipe" gives credence to the "I'm a woman" argument! 😉
  22. I'll be honest. If you have to call a plumber for this sort of shit, fucking hand in your man card!!! Fixing a p-trap connection is as fundamental to manhood, as navigating without a map!
  23. I live in NW Austin and I almost never go that way anymore. My mind begins to explode with the slow fuckers in the "fast/passing" lane on 35, and then the 410 South has been suckage for years. At least for the most part folks know to GTFO of my way once you hit 37. If it's a weekday I tend to roll down 183 as the ferry ride is sort of fun. But about now if I am not arriving early in the day I just go south on the one shitty section of 80 at Luling down through Kennedy and hook up to 37 in Mathis. I doubt it's any less time, but I arrive in Port A in a much better frame of mind! I am trying to figure out how to get down there again, but taking care of my Dad has killed my usual springtime forays. But looks like the weather has been blowing so much with high tides that I haven't missed much beach time. I'm curious to see how the staffing is gonna be at the new 3 story place that I assume is going to be open soon.
  24. The main thing about Surf fishing is having a good shade cover. With some decent shade it's you can hang out all day long. One thing I used to do a lot when we knew when we knew we were going to be on the beach all day is precut some Tomato, onion, jalepeño and lime wedges for fresh ceviche. Nothing better than fresh caught ceviche on a frito scoop, delicious! It's also fun and crazy when one line bends towards the surf, and then another goes off. Tell me this wasn't exciting when I had the second line went off... Unfortunately with my house flooding two years ago with a total remodel, and this year taking care of my folks I had to go back a few years to find this Picture. But sure was a nice adrenaline rush at the time, trying to figure out which rod to loosen the drag on, and which to fight the fish on, AND not get tangled.
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