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hotel3alpha

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All,

This one has been marinating in my mind for quite some time but I have not got to it. So, here it is...in all its glory...the "Meanwhile in Texas" thread started by a bona fide Texan. Let us Texans have it! I know you have been itching for this one and I look forward to one you all starting your own "Meanwhile in..." thread. So, let me start they honors:

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Have fun with this one y'all!

John from Texas
 
hotel3alpha said:
All,

This one has been marinating in my mind for quite some time but I have not got to it. So, here it is...in all its glory...the "Meanwhile in Texas" thread started by a bona fide Texan. Let us Texans have it! I know you have been itching for this one and I look forward to one you all starting your own "Meanwhile in..." thread. So, let me start they honors:

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Have fun with this one y'all!

John from Texas
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That's a might larger than my .45, but it is ported so recoil should be manageable. Nice grill.{sm4} -- Al
 
hotel3alpha said:
All,

This one has been marinating in my mind for quite some time but I have not got to it. So, here it is...in all its glory...the "Meanwhile in Texas" thread started by a bona fide Texan. Let us Texans have it! I know you have been itching for this one and I look forward to one you all starting your own "Meanwhile in..." thread. So, let me start they honors:

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Have fun with this one y'all!

John from Texas
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I hope that barby (barbeque) doesn't go off in a "bang" when lit! {eek3}^&grin Yeah, yeah, my poor humour I know...:rolleyes2:

Tom
 
All,

A little update from my friends at Texas Monthly in the Feb 17 Magazine issue:

A couple from The Woodlands got married after dating for 41 years.

The Duncanville High School women’s basketball team beat Grand Prairie High School 91–1.

Two Midlanders returned a Purple Heart to the family of its late owner after it was found in a dumpster.

A 15-year-old was caught near Los Indios driving a vehicle carrying $1.1 million worth of marijuana.

Some families who waited more than two hours to see Santa in Fort Worth’s Sundance Square were turned away shortly before closing time.

A 20-year-old in Dallas drove his dad’s Aston Martin into a lake.

A white man in Denton claimed vandals painted a racial slur on his garage and burned his motorcycle, and then later admitted that he’d done it himself.

Seventy-two bronze vases were stolen from grave markers at a McLennan County cemetery.

Police evacuated a Walmart in Forney because of a suspected explosive device, only to discover that it was a toy confetti bomb.

Waco’s Cameron Park Zoo created a baby registry and held a baby shower for two expecting orangutans.

A fourth grader in Georgetown won $1,000 for growing a twenty-pound cabbage.

An El Paso man was chosen to compete in a Food Network show called Worst Cooks in America.

John from Texas
 
It has just been brutal these last few weeks. We have already had as many 100+ degree days as we had in all of 2016 and we still have August to go. And now with water restrictions I am just watching my lawn(s) die a slow death.

I am counting the days until Friday, September 22 which is the first day of Fall.
 
Panzer ace said:
It has just been brutal these last few weeks. We have already had as many 100+ degree days as we had in all of 2016 and we still have August to go. And now with water restrictions I am just watching my lawn(s) die a slow death.

I am counting the days until Friday, September 22 which is the first day of Fall.
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Brother,

I have made a command decision...I am installing artificial turf in my front yard project. I have been cutting grass since I was 8, and I have no desire to water what may die in the summer. Nope.

John from Texas

PS: I remember a few years back we were in 100's through out October.
 
hotel3alpha said:
Brother,

I have made a command decision...I am installing artificial turf in my front yard project. I have been cutting grass since I was 8, and I have no desire to water what may die in the summer. Nope.

John from Texas

PS: I remember a few years back we were in 100's through out October.
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John:

Cold front coming in tomorrow, it might only be 98!

Please let me know how the artificial turf turns out, I am thinking about doing that as well.

-Jason
 
hotel3alpha said:
Brother,

I have made a command decision...I am installing artificial turf in my front yard project. I have been cutting grass since I was 8, and I have no desire to water what may die in the summer. Nope.

John from Texas

PS: I remember a few years back we were in 100's through out October.
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John...I remember a few years back...
children coming to my door on Halloween...
dressed in bulky costumes...bears...Darth Vadar...etc...
with sweat pouring off them...
hahaha...
anything for some candy...
 
Been a very mild Summer up here in Yankee country, have had a handful of days this summer where it was over 90 degrees, maybe three or four.

Been in the high 70's/low 80's for about a week now, supposed to be in the high 70's this weekend, mild days and cool nights.

So there you go.
 
All, from yesterday...

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Bring on the heat!

Hey George come down and will drain some COLD, COLD Margaritas!!!

John from Texas
 
All,

Per "Meanwhile in Texas" by Texas Monthly July 2017:

A Cypress woman underwent plastic surgery so she would look like Melania Trump.

A woman in Waco called 911 from a fast-food drive-through because her order of chicken nuggets was taking too long.

Harris County sheriff’s deputies discovered six hundred pounds of methamphetamine lollipops in a Houston-area home, worth nearly $1 million.

Aid worker and Texas A&M grad David Eubank rescued a young Iraqi girl by carrying her through gunfire on the streets of Mosul.

When Dallas police responded to a call from a woman who thought someone was breaking into her car, they found two loose cows by the vehicle instead of a burglar.

An Austin man sitting in the passenger seat of a friend’s car seriously wounded a bicyclist when he allegedly fired a shotgun at him just to “blow off steam.”

A Euless woman was surprised to receive a letter from her health insurer claiming that she had passed away.

After their wedding was postponed because the groom required surgery, an Amarillo couple decided to get married in the hospital room.

A man in Odessa legally changed his name from Ernesto Acosta to Ernesto Trump.

John from Texas
 
hotel3alpha said:
All,

Per "Meanwhile in Texas" by Texas Monthly July 2017:

A Cypress woman underwent plastic surgery so she would look like Melania Trump.

A woman in Waco called 911 from a fast-food drive-through because her order of chicken nuggets was taking too long.

Harris County sheriff’s deputies discovered six hundred pounds of methamphetamine lollipops in a Houston-area home, worth nearly $1 million.

Aid worker and Texas A&M grad David Eubank rescued a young Iraqi girl by carrying her through gunfire on the streets of Mosul.

When Dallas police responded to a call from a woman who thought someone was breaking into her car, they found two loose cows by the vehicle instead of a burglar.

An Austin man sitting in the passenger seat of a friend’s car seriously wounded a bicyclist when he allegedly fired a shotgun at him just to “blow off steam.”

A Euless woman was surprised to receive a letter from her health insurer claiming that she had passed away.

After their wedding was postponed because the groom required surgery, an Amarillo couple decided to get married in the hospital room.

A man in Odessa legally changed his name from Ernesto Acosta to Ernesto Trump.

John from Texas
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#2 on the list makes me wish that the death penalty could be applied to being 'terminally stupid'. Just unbelievable. -- Al
 
Since I live in both Texas and the Bay Area I like to compare the two on many different levels. So just as John has listed some "news" from the Texas Monthly I found this information from the Atherton Dispatch (a local free paper in Menlo Park and Atherton CA) interesting:

Police Blotter:

July 7: A garbage receptacle was left in front of a residence overnight.

Please note that was the only thing listed in the police blotter for July.
 
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