Posted on 08/25/2022 2:04:09 AM PDT by Morgana
I thought this was in a local fast food restaurant and then upon closer inspection realized it was a school bus.
It was a good place to grow up.
My family has owned/operated farms in this county since 1889. Before that in Coryell County. Before that farther east.
My Dad’s grandfather (grandmother’s side) was born in the Republic of Texas.
It is home.
I was fortunate years ago to be in San Antonio , and took my pipes.Played them at the Alamo, and then spent a day in Helotes at the Highland Games.
I was kidnapped by a couple of fellow McDonald Clansman and played the ppipes at an Ice House there in Helotes. We had Latinos and Texans on the beer and dancing.
Thats what wearing a kilt can do in Texas, LOL.
It was a day I will never forget. I love Texas.
My dad’s grandfather claimed Scot/Irish descent.
I have no proof of it, but suspect it is so.
Some of our farm land has been in the family 130+ years. Do you think I will give that up quietly?
This is still Texas.
Have spent the past 2-1/2 months (3rd try) making my house at the farm livable again. Think within 2-3 weeks we could move in. Have a couple of hurdles yet, but it is shaping up nice this attempt. This morning I plant to start with the Helmsman Spar Urethane varnish on the maple counter top I put together for one of the bathrooms. It looks really nice, but 4 coats of varnish will improve it. Using gloss version and it is the one that is said not to yellow.
Then I have a island cabinet to build for the kitchen. Not a large one, roughly 3’x6’, but it will have the same type of Maple counter top. existing cabinets were taken down to bare wood and refinished and new Formica top put on.
A local excavation company will be replacing another septic tank. Not scheduled yet.
It’s been vacant about 8 years.
Still a very nice home. Am selling the house in town when the restore is done.
Akila Academy is a commercial, for profit, charter school as are about 80% of post Katrina NOLA schools. This is a cultural issue, the girls seems to come from a middle class black family. Blacks as a cohort frequently display behaviors that white people of a lower socio economic level would consider depraved. Black America has become a very bad place in the last 50 years as a result of most blacks becoming full fledged converts to the Religion of Politics and in no city is it more pronounced than New Orleans where the really impressive material improvements in the the lives of black New Orleanians has been matched by a decline into true cultural depravity.
oTOH . . the bully just exposed the world to what she ( the so called bully) has to deal with everyday, a real bully who doesn't hesitate to use a gun, and a mother who let's her daughter play with guns and encourages escalation of violence.
Maybe the gun toting kid can get a some help and be taken away from her terrible mother. ..
so, just thank the so called bully for exposing this disfuntional mother and daughter.
I assume you will have a full gun cabinet out there.
Sounds beautiful.
May you have a brace of Colt .45s just to top it all off!
There is nothing like woodworking and restoration. I have done quite a bit myself, but on my 100 acres up here in Eastern Canada, I am putting up a wilderness cabin. A lot of toting and using propane generator. As an Ex Pat American, I find the place quiet and peaceful, but its a 50 mile ride to civilization, so called.
A persons gotta build.....or we don’t amount to much,LOL.
Right now, cutting firewood for winter, Just another cord and I’ll have the 5 I need.
Good that you are renovating the old place. It likely means a lot to your family.
Not 45, but a beautiful Uberti 357 mag 5-1/2”. I looked for 3-4 years for a Ruger Blackhawk 6-1/2” never found one. Then I saw the Uberti on Midway and bought it. Far better finish, absolutely perfect finish and workmanship. Pleasure to shoot.
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That sounds wonderful!
Congratulations.
My Ranch Gun is a .44 Mag Ruger Black Hawk with a 7 inch bbl.
One round will drop a moose or a bear, with a bainchi cross draw holster I can also wear as a shoulder rig. But I only have to bring it on the land during fall wild apple season. So far havn’t had to use it, those critters have aways went the other way.
But I’ve always wanted a Colt 45 but I am going to look at the Ubertis now for sure.
Short of an act of God in her life, there is little hope for that. By age 12, she’s pretty much what she’s going to be for life.
Thanks. We are looking forward to the move soon.
I don’t know. Seems like the day is coming when we will get to hunt on the asphalt and concrete too.....
Lets pray that never happens. It could.
Yep back in the day. Things have changed now. Heck I can
remember that some who drove their trucks to school had gun
racks in them with guns fully in view. But it didn’t take to
long for those guns became targets of theft. So the guns were
moved to behind the seats so to be not visible.
The nearest dealer for that beauty is in Bangor ME, and next time I am there, definitely going to look at them.
Well, I am off to do a little chain saw, work. Nice meeting you and talking!
Same here. He have crossed paths in the past. During the Syrian Kurd conflict thing.
There was a time.
“They shoot horse thieves, don’t they?”
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