Posted on 03/20/2019 1:43:07 PM PDT by Red Badger
Edited on 03/20/2019 3:30:42 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Albany, Texas
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This is about an hour and half from our family ranch.
I hate going there, due to the chance of rattlesnake gatherings :(
I ALWAYS wear my snake boots, while there.
That basement sounds like the DC House of Representatives.
Used to be.
Raised (or pier and beam) foundations were once the standard for all residential homes in the U.S. Not anymore.
Once concrete slab foundations were perfected in the mid sixties, it was all over for pier and beam. At least that's true for the western half of the country, though I suspect that slab foundations are now the norm for the eastern half, as well.
I bought a used car from a fella in Dallas in 2006. Got over to his place and it was a dilapidated farm about twenty acres in size - right in the middle of downtown.
Chatting with the guy, he said that the property had been in his family for many generations, and that he was the last surviving member of his immediate clan. His plan was to sell the old family farm and buy another chunk of land far outside the city.
When I asked him how much he was being offered for the place, he just grinned and said, "I'm embarrassed to say, but I'm gonna be in very good shape."
Where in Texas? I'm in the residential construction business in North Texas, and have never seen a new pier and beam house being built here.
Custom homes perhaps? You won't find a major subdivision being built that way. It's all slab foundations.
Yes, custom homes. E.Tx.
Since there were 45, it’s more like the Senate: Half asleep.........
Probably not any, since it’s cold they are all asleep or in a stupor...............
Is that correct about the taste and texture?
I have never had it but that sounds delicious.
Yes and the bigger the better.
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