I've been there in august,when I did long haul trucking and yes it's hot.mind you it gets in the 90's f up here as well.it's classed as semi arid desert here.lol

 

WOOHOO! What's better than winning a play-off game ? Beating the arch-rival Eagles 2 times in a row! How 'bout them Cowboys?

 

Yea, Central. It's pretty doggone cold here, 20 and below the past day or two. There's some icy areas on a street near my house, and we slid a little on it the other day in the Cherokee. Was interesting...lol

Not to discuss a taboo subject, but I saw this newer Dodge dually today...sure it was nice, but the tires are what caught my eye. Dick Cepek Mountaincats or something. He had six of them, two front, four rear. Looked awesome. If they sell those in the right size for my truck, I might try to get some of those someday.

And just throwing this idea out there....but how do ya'll think a Kaiser M715 dually would look? Sure I'd have to do something about the rear fenders, but I think it'd look pretty good.

 

Yep. It's 21 right now here and I saw it was 27 in Austin. A high of 44 for today so I'll have to check my pipes this afternoon. My main concern is where the back is frozen. I have a washing machine hose hooked up from the back hose bibb to PVC pipe that I trenched in to the garden. At one time I had a sprinkler system on top of some trellis' that I built, but now its just 3 different hose bibbs scattered around the garden that come up about 10" out of the ground.

So what I'm hoping is that the house stuff is okay and any freeze damage will be limited to the above ground pvc stuff in the garden, which I can cut off at the house and fix at my leisure, as in when it gets a little warmer.

The good thing about this weather is that I can smoke my sausage I just made on my smoker without cooking it and store it in an empty ice chest as I go through the batches. I miss my smokehouse right now.

 

Well I won't have to wait until this afternoon. I went to my truck to get a saw and heard water at the house connection. I thought maybe it was just the hose running into the pond was open too wide as the pond is now to the top.

Then I noticed my neighbor's yard was flooded. Then I noticed the street had ice and water flowing down it all the way to the National Guard.

I have a couple of places where I left stubs up for future additions to the garden plumbing and one of them had shattered. 1/2" pvc basically running wide open for how ever long it was since it broke. I'm not going to be any happier with my water bill than my neighbor is when he drags his butt out of bed about 1:00 this afternoon. If he says anything, I'll tell him his grass was looking a little puny so I watered it for him and I won't even charge him for the water.

So, at least the house plumbing is OK.

 

It's really funny for me to read how y'all from the southern locales deal with snow, ice &
cold, it's kinda like a novelty to you... OF COURSE your car is gonna slip & slide on ice,
what did you THINK might happen - that traction would somehow be increased?... You
used PLASTIC water pipe OUTSIDE??? My god, what did you THINK would happen when
it froze? Sheesh....

Not trying to be a jerk or be critical or anything, it's just funny for me to read these stories. I
have the same feelings when people build houses on the banks of the Mississippi river and
are shocked when things get wet when the river runs over its banks. Or, the people in
California who build houses supported by stilts on hillsides and who lose everything in the
rainy season each year as the hillside erodes away and their (very expensive) house slides
into the ocean.

 

Been there over 10 years. Had one pipe failure to fix because of freezing in all that time, (not counting this one). Have had to replace much more and eliminate the sprinkler system due to UV damage. As a matter of fact, I'm sure that was the main contributing factor in this failure, as all the above ground pipe is very brittle now.

Overall, it has worked out very well. The trellis' that the sprinkler pipe is connected to is now rotted beyond repair, and I'm considering building a new one and re-plumbing the sprinkler set up with the same type pipe. I'll price out the UV resistant pipe and I may go that way, but simply painting the standard schedule 40 would have eliminated the UV problem to start with.

It's a matter of cost. All that pvc plumbing was cheap. And extremely easy to assemble, modify, and repair. I have less invested in it than I would water hose to do the same thing. Any other pipe would have to be protected from freezing anyway and the pvc is cheaper than the insulation to cover it.

You know us southern boys "...R.C. Cola's and Moon pies, we're not too bright, but we have a lot of fun."- from "Southern Comfort"

 

WOW! one of my favorite movies! yall don't f..k with us

 

It's "We leave bauck up een here, thees is hour home and nobody do'nt f..k weeth us."

"If I were you, I'd stop askeeng qwesthions and haul ***, 'cause my buddies, the'yre not nice like me." 'Are we supposed to say thanks?'
"You aint suppossed to say nottin'- soulgha boy."

Like a lays potato chip, can't watch it just once. I used to have every line in the movie memorized, but it's been quite a few years since I last watched it. Deliverance too.

 

prolly my favorite is "Payback" with mel gibson

 

.....and whats that one with Bruce Willis where he is in that tall building fighting terrorists? He is a NY cop just there on vacation

 

The original "Die Hard".

 

oh, yeah!....and the original First Blood with Stallone

 

this is the last one(i swear) vin diesel in that movie where he is fighting the Necromungers....man, i love that movie

 

I like a lot of movies but not too many that I will (or have) watched multiple times. A few that fit the bill: It's a wonderful life. On Golden Pond. Platoon. Quigley Down Under. Unforgiven. 3:10 to Yuma (with Russell Crowe, not Glenn Ford). Tombstone. To Live and Die in LA. (and yes- Die Hard and First Blood ) E.T. Blazing Saddles. Forest Gump. Saving Private Ryan. Evil Roy Slade. An Officer and a Gentleman. Super Cop (Jackie Chan) Airplane. Young Frankenstine- (just a quick aside here- I found out the other day that the reason the horses aways neighed when they heard "Frau Bruker" is that bruker is German for glue factory).

AW screwit- I guess I do have quite a few I like enough to watch over and over- or at least used to. I keep remembering more and more.... Jaws. Almost any Mel Brooks or Leslie Nielson film. Training Day. Shallow Hal. Uncle Buck. Almost every Clint Eastwood film.( But particularly The Legend of Josey Wales and Dirty Harry). All the Death Wish movies but paticularly the 1st. Dog Day Afternoon. Joyride-(Candycane....) Ferris Buelers Day Off. The Sixth Sense. Breaking Down? (I'm pretty sure that's the name- Micheal Douglas leaves a traffic jam on the freeway and goes on a killing spree). Field of Dreams. Bagger Vance. One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest.

Not a fan of horror movies in the least, but the Saw movies, Children of the Corn, Food of the Gods - (corny, but I liked it back in the day). Jurrasic Park.

Not that I'd want to repeatedly watch all of them, but did Morgan Freeman ever make a bad movie?
I'm going to stop now -this could go on forever.