I'm guessing it's just temporary during festival setup to limit soil compaction around the root systems, but if they leave it that way the Chair Tribe will probably attempt to tear them down.
I'm skipping it for the first time since 2004. I'll be around the neighborhood but not in the park this time. I just finished a bunch of travel and a week of Fantastic Fest so decided to take a breather. I'll likely rejoin next year.
Have a blast out there!
My goal with getting vaccinated is to minimize the amount of time I spend being sick and missing work, vacations, concerts, other events, etc. because we have so many people who love spreading their sickness that it can be difficult to avoid picking up some bullshit.
I don't think it's an unreasonable goal.
I got the Pneumonia and Flu shots 2 weeks ago. I asked for the covid shot also but as my Dr. said, "Thanks to the anti-science folks running the show these days we don't have it yet"
I really liked their Memorial Drive / Asbury location. We had a HornFans HH there back around 2004 or so which was when I realized half the board were folks I knew from growing up in Houston.
My memory of the times I stopped in were that it was a darn good spot for watching football and other sports.
Hah, yep. I was in #203 which was directly above Flying Saucer. It was a corner unit that had something like 16 almost floor-to-ceiling windows and spanned half of the building fronting Main and wrapped around the corner on Capitol. Awesome spot and that was the year I met @mycox.
Hell of a post-divorce year before moving to Austin during spring/summer 2005.
Back when I lived above a bar in downtown Houston (20 years ago before moving to Austin) a buddy and I rode our bikes from downtown to Hermann Park drinking the whole way- vodka/drank in multiple water bottles with a stop at the Smith St. Spec's to load up a bit more.
When we got to Hermann Park we commandeered a golf cart from the tournament that was in progress. We drove the cart around the course and various non-golf parts of the park getting absolutely hammered for a couple of hours- it was one of those gorgeous spring days that you only get a handful of in Houston. Great time.
After that we rode our bikes down to Valhalla for (a bar on the Rice campus) a few beers and then over to The Ginger Man... and then bike/bar hopped back to downtown w/out getting run over somehow. Anyway, that was the last time I was in Hermann Park.
/csb
MIA- definitely take advantage of your location as much as you're able and keep kicking cancer's ass!
I saw it this evening at Fantastic Fest. I recognized the title from this forum but didn't know anything about it going into it... thoroughly enjoyed it- it's good.
I asked my GP this question last year just to be sure (I never had chickenpox and then got the vaccine in my 20s). He said I didn't need the Shingles vaccine.
Butler was my regular after work happy hour routine for quite a while back in their byob days. I still live super close but don't go nearly as often with it being so regularly crowded since the remodel... not surprising, they did a great job on the remodel.