Everything posted by CleverNickname
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Truck Nuts
Bought a six pack of tie downs for my Canyon. $30. The kind that I gotta pop off the the little plastic blanks. Feeling pretty fancy.
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Little cabin "treehouse"
FWIW they did hit me up the cabin in this years appraisal. .. from like 18k to 42k. We showed em pictures of the inside and got it down to 24k. I think I could buy a barndominium shell for like $7k so still seems a little much to me. But they are very cool on our wildlife ag exemption so I won't rock the boat. I am sure they use google sat photos to check for improvements. Not sure how visible this will be once a new one gets taken. The trees cover it well, the roof is shiny new galvanized panels.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
My wife teaches in AISD, and we live in RRISD (tangent: I'm glad she pays into social security). Likely will keep kids home first 9 weeks and see how it goes. Planning now on how to prepare house and kids for the prospect of my wife effectively living in a self quarantine on the master bedroom away from the rest of us. I'm betting the school district, or at least that general area, is all virtual to start the year and we can kick the can a little more.
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Little cabin "treehouse"
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Little cabin "treehouse"
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Little cabin "treehouse"
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Little cabin "treehouse"
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College Football in 2020 in danger?
In the late 90s all the Dell folks had this great analogy about their JIT systems etc and how their competitive advantage was that they could stand in the deep end of the pool while competitors drowned. P5, but especially the true deep pocketed blue bloods, will use this as an opportunity to flush out the pretenders. No need to create a Super Div I to pool TV deals because all the scrub teams will have to cancel their teams anyway.
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This is Texas. A Modern Texas. What Is A Ranch?
4k acres? Holey moley.
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This is Texas. A Modern Texas. What Is A Ranch?
Going on 10 years the drywall still is not taped and floated and the shower is just a curtain tacked to the cement panel. If it was too nice then the womenfolk would come up more. There is talk of building a shed to move out the tools and crap that we store in the tiny bedroom. Kinda getting tired of the bare concrete, but really with the scorpions I dont like to walk barefoot anyway. The last couple of years I have taken gallons of Monterey oak acorns from my front yard and planted them Jonny Appleseed style all over the land. This year I actually found a couple that came up and put up a cage before a deer ate em. Still probably will be annihilated in the July/August dry spell.
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I think I may have Covid-19 thread - 2 confirmed cases
Just glad you are L-I-V-I-N. Thanks for update.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
RRISD told teachers pick 1 of: (1) teach in-person; (2) show a valid medical excuse; or (3) resign. https://mobile.twitter.com/bstockus/status/1281365421292126208
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Little cabin "treehouse"
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This is Texas. A Modern Texas. What Is A Ranch?
I have 51 acres (bought 35 in 2007 and buying 16 adjacent acres). I go probably 20 times a year (1:45 drive from my home). Honestly it is probably all I can handle in terms of keeping roads good, keeping the mesquite from taking over, and keeping the cedar from taking over. I always have projects going. If I had 200 ac it would either just be field/scrub or I would just not lay eyes on some areas for months and months.
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AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
Funny thing about Eanes putting TEA on blast is that I bet many of the TEA and gubmint mucky-mucks have kids attending Eanes.
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Little cabin "treehouse"
Yeah. Like a second entrance, a little ladder through the bottom. I think this stems from children's books depictions of tree houses.
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Little cabin "treehouse"
I think I dug the holes last fall. And pinched my sciatic nerve for the trouble. Progress is slow. This is in Mills County.
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Little cabin "treehouse"
He wants a trapdoor. I'm not sure how I'll do that. I guess cut in a square and then nail up 2x to frame it from the bottom. Maybe a piano hinge? I dunno. He also wants a permanent nerf mega-dart emplacement for defense. The "main" cabin is only 20x30. So I'm kinda hoping the kids will want to "camp out" in the treehouse while we have a little privacy for adulting. Still a lot of work to do. Much caulking is necessary. Insulation. Inside paneling. Biggest hassle will probably be boxing the eaves. It's a pain. The walls are about 7.5, but are up off the ground and that makes it more like 13 ft high, on uneven ground. Kinda scary for chickens like me. Plus I'm usually drinking. Oh, and I need to add a front door. I hate putting in doors. Doors suck.
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I think I may have Covid-19 thread - 2 confirmed cases
Day 2 & 3 update from Horn of Gabriel & wife?
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Little cabin "treehouse"
Currently the plan is to put two (so 5x14) sets of scaffolding as a cheap/fast deck on the one side. And to hunt from.
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Little cabin "treehouse"
Gonna paint outside this weekend. Then cut in siding for windows (framed up, just slapped up siding to be weather tight). May put in window ac too.
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Idea: 8x16 ish elevated cabin thing for kiddos at our land. No plans. One side is 7'9" and one end is 7'8". Close enough to square. Six 8x8 posts, two beams are doubles 2x8s.- AISD's (and other districts) Plans for Schools Starting August 18
I'm pretty close to an AISD principal. The higher ups HAVE NOT requested from that single campus (and presumably other campuses): (1) a list of teachers with pre-existing conditions who simply cannot work face to face next semester. Of course these teachers should be on top of the list for teaching on-line classes. (They are also often the oldest teachers least familiar and adaptive to technology. Oh well. At least the spring helped them adjust a little. Oh, and btw: AISD is forcing an entirely different technology ecosystem from what was used in the spring that was designed for college students. I'm sure it won't be a hot mess for third graders...) (2) made a survey of classrooms assuming spacing restrictions to figure out how many classes and # of kids they can actually safely accommodate (assuming every possible art room etc is converted to a classroom). AISD is the most segregated district in the state. It is likely west side schools will open with fewer than 25% in physical attendance, and many east side schools will open with >75% attendance. There are scenarios where kids (and teachers) will need to be bused to campuses that have the physical space. Hi west side liberal parents who think they aren't racist: here are 80 east side students from a coronavirus hotspot, bused to your school. But nobody, as far as I can tell, have talked or discussed this. - Little cabin "treehouse"
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