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09-07-2014, 07:58 AM
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09-07-2014, 09:27 AM
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09-07-2014, 09:30 AM
Morning all.
Great story Doug, thanks for sharing. The owl events are crazy for sure. I told the wife that if it had been me, I would have been rolling on the ground punching that sucker screaming like a girl lol. I ride my mountain bike through that area often.
Noted. I think I'm going to do the Rugged Liners as I can get them for under a hundy shipped.
Looks like a great time withy the wife at least; that's all that matters 
Be careful out there
Funny story Steve. I'm glad she was alright, but I had to laugh because it reminded me of a situation that a coworker found himself in several years ago. We had just wrapped up a night shift and he was on his way home at around 04:00. It was a cool morning, so he had all 4 windows down on his Exploder. While he was driving down the main drag in his town, an owl flew through one of the open passenger windows and bounced off of the rear window glass, inside the vehicle, knocking out the owl. After my friend regained his composure, he pulled over and opened up the rear gate to see what the current state of affairs was. About the time as he reached down toward the owl that appeared to be dead, it sprang up and flew out past his head. I do believe fresh shorts were in order when he got home - and perhaps a shot of whiskey.
Thanks for the positive comments about the pictures. I had a lot of fun. One thing I have learned over the last few years about my brother's place is that there are cougars (not the older ladies that chase younger men), bobcats and coyotes that hang out in various areas around the property. Any time you are going to leave the house, you always carry a side arm, and it is a good idea to strap a rifle to whatever transportation method you are using at that time as well. There are also lots of snakes to play with too.
Andre, congrats on the spanking that your kids dished out!
Thanks for the positive comments about the pictures. I had a lot of fun. One thing I have learned over the last few years about my brother's place is that there are cougars (not the older ladies that chase younger men), bobcats and coyotes that hang out in various areas around the property. Any time you are going to leave the house, you always carry a side arm, and it is a good idea to strap a rifle to whatever transportation method you are using at that time as well. There are also lots of snakes to play with too.
Andre, congrats on the spanking that your kids dished out!
Evening guys, no time to catch up, but I thought I would share this photo. We are at a wedding with mostly Chevy Fans.
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09-07-2014, 09:38 AM
Got word that my dream house on that AL lake sold and my stomach about dropped.
Since we are going to be here for a few more years until the daughter graduates, we may just move into a bigger house and sell when we are ready to move out of the state. The issue is we are looking at 12k property taxes with the next house size. It's unreal to think that one would pay a grand a month in property taxes alone. Unreal, but we don't have much of a choice at this point.
Since we are going to be here for a few more years until the daughter graduates, we may just move into a bigger house and sell when we are ready to move out of the state. The issue is we are looking at 12k property taxes with the next house size. It's unreal to think that one would pay a grand a month in property taxes alone. Unreal, but we don't have much of a choice at this point.
09-07-2014, 09:45 AM
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Damn Steve, $12K in just property taxes? My current house in Hattiesburg is in one of the highest tax areas of Lamar county and it is $5k annually, and I thought that was absurd. Yeah, you need to get the heck away from there, ya'll must have the finest schools and roads paved in gold....
09-07-2014, 10:01 AM
Damn Steve, $12K in just property taxes? My current house in Hattiesburg is in one of the highest tax areas of Lamar county and it is $5k annually, and I thought that was absurd. Yeah, you need to get the heck away from there, ya'll must have the finest schools and roads paved in gold....
09-07-2014, 10:28 AM
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09-07-2014, 11:33 AM
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Got word that my dream house on that AL lake sold and my stomach about dropped.
Since we are going to be here for a few more years until the daughter graduates, we may just move into a bigger house and sell when we are ready to move out of the state. The issue is we are looking at 12k property taxes with the next house size. It's unreal to think that one would pay a grand a month in property taxes alone. Unreal, but we don't have much of a choice at this point.
Since we are going to be here for a few more years until the daughter graduates, we may just move into a bigger house and sell when we are ready to move out of the state. The issue is we are looking at 12k property taxes with the next house size. It's unreal to think that one would pay a grand a month in property taxes alone. Unreal, but we don't have much of a choice at this point.
09-07-2014, 12:07 PM
Steve -One of the reasons I wanted to move out of Florida (out of many) was that my HO Insurance went up to $13200 for the year. My taxes are $5k a year, but only because I bought a long time ago when house values were down. My neighbor pays around $9k a year, from a high of $11k.
AK has no income tax, no STATE sales tax, Anchorage has no city sales tax (some other cities do though), Anchorage has property taxes (some other areas do not).
If you didn't mind living out of a "city", you could have no taxes. HOWEVER, it comes with "No Services" too..
AK has no income tax, no STATE sales tax, Anchorage has no city sales tax (some other cities do though), Anchorage has property taxes (some other areas do not).
If you didn't mind living out of a "city", you could have no taxes. HOWEVER, it comes with "No Services" too..
09-07-2014, 12:09 PM
We were up 36-0 by midway through the second quarter. We had every single starter out of the game for half of the second quarter, all of the 3rd and 4th quarter. They scored on our 3rd string defense and it was on a blown assignment (mental mistake, not physical). We played outstanding. The last touchdown we scored was defensive. It was a weird game...the team we played was HUGE, but they were not well coached at all in my opinion.
We certainly were not trying to be unsportsmanlike, but at the same time, we need to run our offense/defense to see what works and doesn't work. In our conference, all the teams are pretty balanced. We only won by 6 points last week. This team just wasn't prepared to play against us.
We certainly were not trying to be unsportsmanlike, but at the same time, we need to run our offense/defense to see what works and doesn't work. In our conference, all the teams are pretty balanced. We only won by 6 points last week. This team just wasn't prepared to play against us.
09-07-2014, 12:11 PM
Evening guys, no time to catch up, but I thought I would share this photo. We are at a wedding with mostly Chevy Fans.
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09-07-2014, 12:18 PM
Steve...can't believe the wife was stalked by an owl jogging. That's unreal...glad she is alright.
We ended up going out with the other coaches last night. Wifey had to drive home as Captain Morgan and I were close all evening
Headed to a tryout for the Northern All Wisconsin football team for FBU. My 7th grader was invited to try out as linebacker. I'm proud of him regardless of his making the team. There will be at least 30, maybe 50 kids trying out for 6 positions and these are already the "studs". So at 118 pounds soaking wet, he doesn't have much chance, but it's still really a good sign that even at his light weight he is being looked at. We will keep hitting the weights...
We ended up going out with the other coaches last night. Wifey had to drive home as Captain Morgan and I were close all evening
Headed to a tryout for the Northern All Wisconsin football team for FBU. My 7th grader was invited to try out as linebacker. I'm proud of him regardless of his making the team. There will be at least 30, maybe 50 kids trying out for 6 positions and these are already the "studs". So at 118 pounds soaking wet, he doesn't have much chance, but it's still really a good sign that even at his light weight he is being looked at. We will keep hitting the weights...