frustratedearthmother
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Geeze - I was looking for a long eared critter dragging a rope.....sigh
Baymule's Pigs 2018 HEREFORDS!
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baymule
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Thanks! The rope usually hangs out behind the back seat in the truck. DH must have used it for something. We've carried that rope around in the truck for probably 7-8 years. LOL I tie down like a spider web.
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baymule
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Yesterday and today we worked on the Hawg Hut and pen. I put together more boards and got ready to put tin up. DH and Robert built H braces and stretched a span of wire.
I squared up the corners with slightly used 2x6’s.
I got my jigsaw puzzle assembled of scraps ready to run tin tomorrow.
Time to pound T-Posts.
I squared up the corners with slightly used 2x6’s.
I got my jigsaw puzzle assembled of scraps ready to run tin tomorrow.
Time to pound T-Posts.
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That hut is the bee's knees
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Thanks. It's kinda low ceiling, but what the heck, pigs have short legs.
Notice the extra flap of tin hanging off the roof? My husband asked me why I did that and I told him that's poor peoples edge trim. After I put up the sides, I'll fold it over the edge and screw it down.
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Tah Dah!! That hawg hut is gonna last forever!
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Thanks. It's kinda low ceiling, but what the heck, pigs have short legs.
Notice the extra flap of tin hanging off the roof? My husband asked me why I did that and I told him that's poor peoples edge trim. After I put up the sides, I'll fold it over the edge and screw it down.
Actually a low roof is probably better for pigs than a tall one. More shade with a lower roof. And here I thought you planned it that way.
You could turn your circular saw balde around (backwards) and it becomes a tin cutting saw. Running the blade backwards cuts tin like a butter knife cuts room temperature butter.
You don't have any unexpected fedex packages there do you? If so don't open it / leave it be and call 911 You guys got some nut job sending bombs in packages running around in Texas. But I'm sure you already knew that... I hope they catch who is doing it soon, lock em up and throw away the key. Freaking nut jobs!
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That really is some scary stuff for us Texicans. One of them went off on a road about a half-mile from where my daughter used to live and a little bit further from where DH lived for awhile.
Austin is such a cool town...it's a shame what's happening there. Of course, it's a shame that it would be happening anywhere.
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Your 100% right - all I can say is a lot of nut jobs out there nowadays please be careful.
I used to contract with in both Huston and Austin. Fly down there Monday morning, fly back home Friday afternoon. I agree Austin is a neat city. I don't remember the street but it is lined with pubs with live music. There was one pub I used to like to go to, it had a dirt floor and the best live blues I've heard play live. The pub also sold cans of beer sold out of ice packed trash cans 2 of $1.00. One night there was a band playing with out a bass player, the bass was on the stand but the player didn't show. So I walked up on stage during mid set grabbed the bass, plugged it in and played with the band - It was pretty cool... No real words were spoken between us because playing music is a unerversal language all to it's own.
That was a long time ago... I don't even remember the street name or the pub name anymore but if I seen it I would know it by sight.
The street also had a dual stage jazz club that I also frequented. There was one group of jazz musicians that played every Thursday evening. The called themselves the hill country boys. These guys were real musicians, they we're stuck in the way back machine and played mainly 40s and 50s jazz numbers. I remember the guitarist (an amazing techinally sufficient musician) had strings of beeds hanging of his guitar. it was not only flashy but it most definitely made a statement
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