I traveled to Houston a few times on business and always dined at Pappasito's . Excellent TexMex. I think they have several locations throughout the state. Didn't find one in San Antonio but that was 20 years ago.
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My Darling, the BB, and I ate at Smokey Bones for supper yesterday. It wasn't what My Darling remembered in South Carolina so I doubt we go back for a good long while. Got me craving some Bill Millers though as the pulled pork sandwich just didn't do it.
Here's a Lindsey Stirling post to show her amazing skillset. Enjoy!
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I would laugh at all you old farts and your aches and pains, but I have my share to, so I best shut up.
The better half wanted to set up at the 400 mile yard sale thing this long weekend. Sales, crowds slow so far. All vendors very disappointed. Maybe high gas prices causing it, don't know.
The better half wanted to set up at the 400 mile yard sale thing this long weekend. Sales, crowds slow so far. All vendors very disappointed. Maybe high gas prices causing it, don't know.
Yet you can go to Morehead and Lexington and it will be around $.15 cheaper on the gallon.
Pappasito's here in ATX off I-35 near us. Heard about it, but never been there. Might hit it up later.
Back in 1991, I returned back to SE KY. My former First Sergeant met up with me back there. He really wanted to invest in a restaurant or food truck with me at the time. We even looked at a couple places across from Lincoln Memorial University and in Middlesboro. He's Latino, originally from San Antonio, and has numerous connections. Said, "son, open up a food truck serving TexMex and watch the money roll in. I'll get you the labor".
Most popular restaurant currently open in Middlesboro is Pelancho's. Two other TexMex restaurants also on US-25 in town. Sigh, what might have been. Saw him several times since then. He still reminds me about that offer.
Ha not quite food but I went swimming in that LMU pool a few times when Virgil and I were younger. Me and My Darling loaded down with chestnuts a couple years from some huge chestnut trees we found on campus. When younger I never had the vision to make dough in Middlesboro, it is there to be made for sure.
Yes sir. LMU purchased the old Holiday Inn and turned into student housing. Expanded. Founded an osteopathic college. Ha ha, they even purchased the old trailer park up Forge Ridge Road near where my daughter, granddaughter and ex live. After demolition, they are turning it into student housing or some facility. Crazy.
Back around 96 I had a friend whose father had a hot dog cart in Louisville down at the square by the courthouse. He told me his father had made $80,000 the previous year.
If I was going to start a joint, it would be a beer joint. I would sell 3 kinds of beer and that would be it. Bottle beer, can beer, and draft beer. Keep it simple.
Speaking of beer...I like it. However, I'm drinking bourbon at the moment. I was at the golf course from 1400 til 2030 and didn't have a single brew. I also didn't have any coffee today. Forgot to make any and by the time I got to the course, there was no coffee even if I wanted it.
I am a terrible addict.
Feeling jazzy . . . Eddie has a fix for that.
There's a new mechanic in town. I stopped by to chat with him yesterday. He has set up shop in an old building that used to be bustling back in the day. I knew the owner and his sons and this is going back to the 60's. It was a gas station/mechanic shop from probably the time there were cars.
He quoted me a price of $220 to replace the spark plugs if I provided the plugs. They run a tad over $100. I asked a neighbor, who I see constantly messing with his truck, if he would be interested in helping me change these plugs. As I suspected, he was my huckleberry.
I'll flip him a hundred when we get done and he will be very happy.
I don't trust 100,000 mile spark plugs. I know I should, but it's that particular threshold that hangs me up. Used to be, back in the day, 100,000 miles meant the ride was over. That car was done, unless it had a major overhaul.
Anyway, I'm going to spend the extra money I'm saving, to put new coil packs on as well. Win Win. Except for the dude who will not be installing my spark plugs. He was at a disadvantage from the start. I have never paid a person to put spark plugs in any vehicle I have ever owned. I've put spark plugs in nearly all of them.
He quoted me a price of $220 to replace the spark plugs if I provided the plugs. They run a tad over $100. I asked a neighbor, who I see constantly messing with his truck, if he would be interested in helping me change these plugs. As I suspected, he was my huckleberry.
I'll flip him a hundred when we get done and he will be very happy.
I don't trust 100,000 mile spark plugs. I know I should, but it's that particular threshold that hangs me up. Used to be, back in the day, 100,000 miles meant the ride was over. That car was done, unless it had a major overhaul.
Anyway, I'm going to spend the extra money I'm saving, to put new coil packs on as well. Win Win. Except for the dude who will not be installing my spark plugs. He was at a disadvantage from the start. I have never paid a person to put spark plugs in any vehicle I have ever owned. I've put spark plugs in nearly all of them.
Cumberland River, Burnside, Ky.
I have a wooden snake in my bag. You can articulate it about any way you want. Can't tell you how many times I've put that snake next to the cart while unsuspecting victim was concentrating on his slice.
Wooden snake $7.99. Green fees with cart, $member. Hearing a grown man scream. Priceless.
Yep, I do most of my auto work myself as well. I have my darlings front bumper cover in my garage boxed up. I need to get it painted and installed. I did all the repairing of the undercarriage from a little mistake My Darling had our last snow.
Going to try changing the oil on My darlings car tomorrow. Need to change it on my car as well but I will wait a bit longer on it. I have the stuff in the garage so I can do it any time. I have ten quarts of old oil though and I want to take it to the recycle center soon. I guess when I make the trip there will be twenty quarts...
It WAS you in that video...(Who planted the snake...) 🤣 jk jk
I'll be changing my oil from here on out as well. I was amazed at the cost the last time I had it changed. It was so much, I put it on the black card instead of my card. Figured I could call it an OUR expense rather than a MY expense. I have a friend to help change the oil. He also has a ram and changes his own oil.
That wasn't me, but it could have been. I've worked construction in nuclear power going back to 1979. Hanging tails on people was a common practice. Duct taping conical drinking cups on top of hardhats was referred to as "coning".
I was diagnosed as having chronic arthritis when I was 45 yrs old.............my real problems are spinal stenosis and spondylosis...........bad genetics yes..........bad choice by me to pick construction as a career..........I told the Director last week that the mule's ears are drooping........I used the power washer for about 5 hrs......my back was killing me so I put it up.......the Director just couldn't undertstand why I didn't finish......I told her to go push against a 3,800 lb pressure washer........L2 - L4 herniated disc start talking to you after a while....
Good morning from ATX. Currently 72°F and partly cloudy. Chance for showers within next couple hours. Today's high predicted around 97°F. Much hotter days ahead next week.
Group of UTexas students are riding 4000 miles to Alaska. Be careful and good luck.
Taking pup to the vet around 9:30 am for a check-up. Fingers crossed. She seems much better lately.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Group of UTexas students are riding 4000 miles to Alaska. Be careful and good luck.
Taking pup to the vet around 9:30 am for a check-up. Fingers crossed. She seems much better lately.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
I did the same thing back in my working days. I would fly into Houston and always found me a Pappasito's. They are hard to beat. Also I believe the same company owns Pappadeaux Seafood and Pappas BBQ. They are super good.
One of the best meals of my life was somewhere in Texas about 200 miles West of Austin. I have no idea where we were. I was driving to a remote ranch that had a pipeline on it and the turbine had crashed. My turbine consultant and I decided to drive to it and rented a pick up. There was nothing but wide open spaces and we must have gone 50 miles seeing only cattle and barbed wire fence. We spotted smoke at a distance and the closer we got we realized somebody was cooking a lot of food. An old church house congregation was having a BBQ to raise some funds to do church repairs. It was a black congregation and I told my buddy there has to be some good eating there. So we stopped and gorged ourselves on beef brisket with all the trimmings. I think they were charging $10 for all you could eat.
As we got up off of the bench to go (open air) an old black lady said "you didn't get a piece of my sweet potato pie". And she handed me a big piece. Lord have mercy it was goooood. Best I have had in my life, sorry grandma. I handed the man in charge a $50 bill and told him to keep the change. My buddy wrote them a check for $250 as a donation and we left with our best wishes and prayers for a fine bunch of people. I have never seen such hospitality. I love Texas and Texas people.
They have good reason to brag. If you visit Texas and come back home hungry it is your own fault.
Good Morning D
I am about to finish up a pot of coffee and must say it is nice and strong. My doctor told me to drink plenty of coffee as it was good for my kidneys. I can handle that. Around 18 months ago they took out a kidney that was cancerous and I am trying to live out the rest of my days with the one left. My goal in life is to stay off of dialysis. My dad died of kidney failure and hated dialysis. It made him miserable and limited his traveling.
Now to our weather. We have 73° and winds are out of the NE at 11 mph. Clouds will be with us most of the day and by late afternoon there is a 25% chance of rain. A disturbance in the Gulf is bringing heavy rain South of us but it doesn't look like we will get much of it. I live in the brown area of the map. Our high today will be in the mid 80's. We do have a small craft advisory so be careful when you see those white caps.
I trust all are well and have a good day.
I am about to finish up a pot of coffee and must say it is nice and strong. My doctor told me to drink plenty of coffee as it was good for my kidneys. I can handle that. Around 18 months ago they took out a kidney that was cancerous and I am trying to live out the rest of my days with the one left. My goal in life is to stay off of dialysis. My dad died of kidney failure and hated dialysis. It made him miserable and limited his traveling.
Now to our weather. We have 73° and winds are out of the NE at 11 mph. Clouds will be with us most of the day and by late afternoon there is a 25% chance of rain. A disturbance in the Gulf is bringing heavy rain South of us but it doesn't look like we will get much of it. I live in the brown area of the map. Our high today will be in the mid 80's. We do have a small craft advisory so be careful when you see those white caps.
I trust all are well and have a good day.
May I suggest Dr. McCoy?Good Morning D
I am about to finish up a pot of coffee and must say it is nice and strong. My doctor told me to drink plenty of coffee as it was good for my kidneys. I can handle that. Around 18 months ago they took out a kidney that was cancerous and I am trying to live out the rest of my days with the one left. My goal in life is to stay off of dialysis. My dad died of kidney failure and hated dialysis. It made him miserable and limited his traveling.
Now to our weather. We have 73° and winds are out of the NE at 11 mph. Clouds will be with us most of the day and by late afternoon there is a 25% chance of rain. A disturbance in the Gulf is bringing heavy rain South of us but it doesn't look like we will get much of it. I live in the brown area of the map. Our high today will be in the mid 80's. We do have a small craft advisory so be careful when you see those white caps.
I trust all are well and have a good day.
Here's to hoping you stay healthy and off of dialysis.Wife had a co-worker who died of kidney failure after the covid shot.
Right out of the garden hose folks, spiders and chameleons would spray out as soon as you turned on the spicket but who cared. It was cool water in a blazing sun. Ahhhh
Yes Sir, I find a lot more pains lately. I have osteoarthritis and CAD but I think I learned how to manage the CAD. The thing is, without the exercise the CAD is harder to manage and with too much "exercise" the osteoarthritis flares up with some serious pains. Won't go into the pains but what do you do .. It seems one is fighting the other as far as the general longevity goes...
It is a sunny 69.8°F on our way to 85°F, no chance for rain.
I lived in Houston, TX once. Some of the best food on earth. Some of our best ever neighbors. But man it gets hot, but we lived on the northwest side and the humidity in the afternoon would be low.
I lived in Houston, TX once. Some of the best food on earth. Some of our best ever neighbors. But man it gets hot, but we lived on the northwest side and the humidity in the afternoon would be low.
Yes Sir,
We lived in San Antonio for 7 years but My Darling and I would drive up to Houston at least 4 or 5 times a year just to eat and shop at oriental grocery stores. The 185 mile trip wasn't that long to where we tired of it.
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Good afternoon! Only been awake for 2 hours and I've already spent $5000. Could be a banner day. Having my gutters cleaned and a new protection system installed. Leaf Filter. Supposed to be good with a lifetime transferable warranty. They'll be here next Tuesday morning to get started.
According to my phone, 80 years ago today was the beginning of the Battle of Midway.
We're going to Kroger afterwhile to get some coffee beans. No way we go there and just get coffee. Whatever, I'll take her over there and push the cart around for her like a good worker bee should.
Beautiful day here today, hope it is where you are as well.
According to my phone, 80 years ago today was the beginning of the Battle of Midway.
We're going to Kroger afterwhile to get some coffee beans. No way we go there and just get coffee. Whatever, I'll take her over there and push the cart around for her like a good worker bee should.
Beautiful day here today, hope it is where you are as well.
I drove across Texas one month. On my way back from Cali.
One of the longest drives imaginable... I got a job in El Paso and drove from E'Town.
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I would have to take out a loan to drive across Texas with these gas prices. I need to plan ahead for a trip to the next county over.
I am sure getting close to that here. $4.55 and rising... COMPELETELY CRIMINAL (That is at the closest CASH gas station.)
$5.35/gal today. Up 67¢ since May 4th.
Back in the 1970's when we were having all of those gas issues the Federal Government lowered the speed limit to 55 MPH. Probably one of the dumbest things a government could do but some egg head politician from up North in a crowded city probably thought nobody drives over 55.
Well we were driving from Florida to Arizona to visit a dying uncle. He moved out there after getting black lung working in the Kentucky coal mines. I had a 1968 Mercury Cougar that would flat out fly. One of the fast cars I have owned. So somewhere in the middle of Texas with nobody in sight I eased her up to 90 mph and put on the cruise control. On up the road was a Texas State Trooper parked in a little park area with picnic tables. I just flew by him knowing any minute he was coming after me.
A few miles down the road I saw him in my rear view mirror but he did not have on his lights or siren. So I kept going and he pulled up beside of me and tipped his hat with a smile. I guess he saw my Florida plates and thought that boy ain't go no sense so no use in telling him to slow down.
But there is more to the story. I pulled into a truck stop and there he was again. He came up to me and said 55 is a dumb law isn't it and I said I reckon it is. Then he gave me a valuable tip. He said if I was going through San Angelo to watch out because their sheriff has speed traps set up. I thanked him and I did hold it under 55. I always want to support the local sheriff.
Speaking of Texas. Ole' Ernest Tubb would waltz across Texas with you
Smiling Jimmy says hey, Sir...(On the speed limit...)
On the other, there are a whole lot of good cops. Most of them....
Ernest Tubb used to do a whistle and stated dental work made him lose his whistle. I wanted to hear it but could not find it during a Google search ..
I remember after I transferred from UK in 1973 to Fork U and drinking age was 19, if you had to much to drink, the Tempe police would simply take your drunk ass home unless you were disturbing the peace like shooting out street lights. Then they would toss you in the slammer until you dried out and went before the judge. You could expect a fine for " Disturbing the Peace" and released after agreeing to a restitution pay plan for the repair cost of your naughty behavior.
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