Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[pacerron]

My parents and both brothers lived a number of years in Anchorage. My parents bought a little house with no garage; just parked in the drive beside the house, and plugged in the power cord. In the kitchen a regular wall switch turned the power on and off to that outside power cord. So they had it turned off, and plugged it in when they came in, in the evening, then when they first got up in the morning and went into the kitchen to start the coffee pot, they'd also flip that switch on. They said their Olds always started easily by the time breakfast was over and it was time to go to work. And one of my brothers lived in an apartment and each assigned parking space had the same kind of arrangement.

And southern US visitors forget to unplug the heater cord before pulling away from the store

 

[farmgirl19]

With chili, I always want cornbread, Lou! Of course, I always want cornbread when I make pinto beans too! Crackers with soup, cornbread for EVERYTHING else! How can you go wrong with cornbread? :confused3:

 

[jinman]

I like a few crackers with my salad. However, cornbread is my no.1 choice for soups, chili, beans, and crumbled in fresh milk.:licking:

 

[Bird]

Yep, crackers (we keep 3 kinds on hand;saltines, club crackers, & ritz crackers) are for salads, cheese, Vienna sausage, and sardines. Cornbread is for everything else, including the pot of soup I'll make tomorrow.

 

[sseelhoff]

Dang it's cold. Just spent the last 8 hours repairing fence line. Wild night last night. Had a sheriff's deputy pull intothe driveway, then back out screeching tires at midnight. We did not know it was a deputy or what was going on at the time. Two hours later, we awake to a spotlight shining in our bedroom window. It's the deputy. They pulled over avehicle down the road from us. They ran the plates and they did not match the vehicle. Chase ensued. The truck left the road and went through the neighbor's fence, through his pasture, through our fence, then another 2 sets of fences dividing our pastures, then the fence with out neighbor on the other side (cutting through our backyard), then back out two more fence lines to the highway.

High speed chase, crash and two life flights later-they were retracing the truck's path looking for bodies. Yikes. The official advice from the deputy-don't let anyone in your house, call us immediately, and if you have "anything" for personal protection, you might want to keep it handy and carry it with you if you go outside. Double Yikes.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Dang it's cold. Just spent the last 8 hours repairing fence line. Wild night last night. Had a sheriff's deputy pull intothe driveway, then back out screeching tires at midnight. We did not know it was a deputy or what was going on at the time. Two hours later, we awake to a spotlight shining in our bedroom window. It's the deputy. They pulled over avehicle down the road from us. They ran the plates and they did not match the vehicle. Chase ensued. The truck left the road and went through the neighbor's fence, through his pasture, through our fence, then another 2 sets of fences dividing our pastures, then the fence with out neighbor on the other side (cutting through our backyard), then back out two more fence lines to the highway.
High speed chase, crash and two life flights later-they were retracing the truck's path looking for bodies. Yikes. The official advice from the deputy-don't let anyone in your house, call us immediately, and if you have "anything" for personal protection, you might want to keep it handy and carry it with you if you go outside. Double Yikes.

Was it illegal's getting unloaded? Or just criminals looking to thieve? Times like this make me wish I had a few more motion activated lights on my home.

 

[sseelhoff]

Was it illegal's getting unloaded? Or just criminals looking to thieve? Times like this make me wish I had a few more motion activated lights on my home.

I think the politically correct term is undocumented visitors. But they were also car thieves. They had removed the license plate from the truck they had "borrowed without permission", and the police found 9 license plates inside the truck, including the plate for the vehicle they were operating at the time of this episode of police harassment. The deputy told us they like Dodge Rams, and take a lot of them down south of the border. So I guess they were importer/exporters?

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Sounds like they were professionals to me, and he!! bent on getting caught.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I think the politically correct term is undocumented visitors. But they were also car thieves. They had removed the license plate from the truck they had "borrowed without permission", and the police found 9 license plates inside the truck, including the plate for the vehicle they were operating at the time of this episode of police harassment. The deputy told us they like Dodge Rams, and take a lot of them down south of the border. So I guess they were importer/exporters?

Was this outside of Yoakum?

 

[two_bit_score]

I think the politically correct term is undocumented visitors. But they were also car thieves. They had removed the license plate from the truck they had "borrowed without permission", and the police found 9 license plates inside the truck, including the plate for the vehicle they were operating at the time of this episode of police harassment. The deputy told us they like Dodge Rams, and take a lot of them down south of the border. So I guess they were importer/exporters?

I always switch to my 'Front Tamps' license plates when I go toward the border.