My friends think I'm a ....

REDNECK! I don't care if the cows walk an extra 100yds for a while for water. Record high temperatures here, mid 90's for a week. I don't mind this on the back porch for now, Roy's hip too.View attachment 46871
Yep. We stepped up our stock tank a little. Pool was gonna be $90k. Stock tank looks a lot better. At the time, my 10 year old son said "you really are a redneck" as I was standing on my shed roof and asked him to get me a box of shells and my 12 gauge. Remington 870 pump is a great limb pruner for satellite TV.
 
Some of ya'll are hotter than we are here in Central Texas. but, I got some brahma in me...I'm heat tolerant.
When it turns cold tho, I'm a weenie...


I'm gonna jog some memories for a few of you and probably not in a good way.
1AM this morning on the dot, while I was getting done with my midnight swim, these appeared in the sky and immediately after, the gun flashes, then the 'BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,BOOM BOOM! The windows rattled, I could see the gun muzzle flashes. Must have had high elevation because usually I don't see the flashes. Tanks or arty, I don't know. The Boys in the Hood (Ft Hood) were playing big time. I get a front row seat, especially at night. I also hear every bugle call from reville to taps and since there's a Cav Division there (1st Cav Div) along with the 3rd Cav regiment, there are LOTS of bugle calls.(Cav loves their bugles)
I really remember those flare drops when my squadron did them in RVN, and too, the ones that were dropped or fired out beyond the Marble mountains and that 105 recoiless rifle would start barking from up on one the peaks. Pretty common when I was down in Guantanamo Bay too. The Marines on the fence line liked to see what was out there among the minefields.

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We brought a water trough into the house right before the Christmas 2000 ice storm. My aunt was a dispatcher for the county sheriff, so we got a heads up that power would be going down soon.
Ran a garden hose through the window to fill it. We dipped water to flush toilets for several days. When it got down to about half full, we were getting ripe, especially me and the boys.

It was a galvanized trough. We lifted it up on a couple chunks of 8"x 8" blocks, took the lid off the two burner Coleman camp stove and slid it underneath. We all had a nice hot bath, babies and ladies first. Some of my best memories are from that 11 days without electricity.
 
I had drilled a hole in the center bottom with a hole saw. Put a bathtub plug and put it up on cinderblocks so it could drain. Those tanks come with drains on the side. Kept a couple of goldfish in there to eat mosquito larvae.
 

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