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Also, do not follow all the hype about BBQ joints. People wait in line for hours at Franklin's when there are a million mom and pop Q's that are about as good. Avoid the chains. Do some exploring on your own.
Luby's cafeterias have outstanding chicken fried steak, the Texas state dish I'd imagine.
Taco Cabana is a fun place to go for breakfast tacos and burritos. First place I ever saw with garage doors that open up.
wrote on 1 Oct 2022, 20:20 last edited by@Mik said in Bad timing:
Also, do not follow all the hype about BBQ joints. People wait in line for hours at Franklin's when there are a million mom and pop Q's that are about as good. Avoid the chains. Do some exploring on your own.
Luby's cafeterias have outstanding chicken fried steak, the Texas state dish I'd imagine.
Taco Cabana is a fun place to go for breakfast tacos and burritos. First place I ever saw with garage doors that open up.
Actually...Maybe Horace might want to become a pitmaster in his own right. Smoking meat is therapeutic...
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wrote on 1 Oct 2022, 20:24 last edited by
He'll surely have the space.
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wrote on 1 Oct 2022, 23:09 last edited by
Thanks everybody for the well wishes and recommendations. I think I lucked out with the internet service. It has been horrible broadband for years in this area, but in the past few months a company called Fidium has introduced fiber. The Fidium guy came over today and installed it. 930 megabits download and over half that upload, for 70 a month. Got a router centrally placed and a free extender for my office.
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wrote on 2 Oct 2022, 00:27 last edited by
Nice.
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wrote on 2 Oct 2022, 01:20 last edited by
@Horace Happy for you that things seemed to work out in the end!! I am sure you and your wife will be happy!!
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@Horace Happy for you that things seemed to work out in the end!! I am sure you and your wife will be happy!!
wrote on 2 Oct 2022, 14:10 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Bad timing:
@Horace Happy for you that things seemed to work out in the end!! I am sure you and your wife will be happy!!
Thanks TG! I am sure we will be happy too.
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wrote on 3 Oct 2022, 00:43 last edited by
Congrats on the closing for your new home! May you have many happy years there!
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wrote on 3 Oct 2022, 01:49 last edited by
@brenda said in Bad timing:
Congrats on the closing for your new home! May you have many happy years there!
Thanks Brenda! I’m looking forward to a time when it’s presentable to post some pictures. If ever that may be.
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wrote on 3 Oct 2022, 18:06 last edited by
Congrats man! That view is hard to beat in that area.
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wrote on 3 Oct 2022, 18:45 last edited by
So when are you hosting the get together?
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So when are you hosting the get together?
wrote on 3 Oct 2022, 21:54 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Bad timing:
So when are you hosting the get together?
If anybody is in the Houston area and they can play piano well, I suspect our acoustics here in the living room are fantastic. Even if the piano is less so.
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wrote on 3 Oct 2022, 22:14 last edited by
Remember the "Where do you live?" TNCR Map?
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wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 01:22 last edited by
I’m spending my first night in our new place tonight. We’re going to be camping in the basement until the floors and walls are done upstairs, although my office should be usable tomorrow if Verizon come through.
Movers came today - most of our stuff is temporarily in the garage. I have a garage again! In fact, I’ve got two! Inconceivable!
Closing on our current place was pushed back to the 14th, which reduces the pressure, as long as it goes through….
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wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 02:49 last edited by
Roomy is good.
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I’m spending my first night in our new place tonight. We’re going to be camping in the basement until the floors and walls are done upstairs, although my office should be usable tomorrow if Verizon come through.
Movers came today - most of our stuff is temporarily in the garage. I have a garage again! In fact, I’ve got two! Inconceivable!
Closing on our current place was pushed back to the 14th, which reduces the pressure, as long as it goes through….
wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 03:04 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Bad timing:
I’m spending my first night in our new place tonight. We’re going to be camping in the basement until the floors and walls are done upstairs, although my office should be usable tomorrow if Verizon come through.
Movers came today - most of our stuff is temporarily in the garage. I have a garage again! In fact, I’ve got two! Inconceivable!
Closing on our current place was pushed back to the 14th, which reduces the pressure, as long as it goes through….
Glad it’s worked out well, especially compared to how things were looking a month ago.
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wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 11:10 last edited by
Sadly, we don’t have anything like Horace’s view, but as Canadians we do have a couple of maple trees which are going to briefly look gorgeous in a week or two
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Sadly, we don’t have anything like Horace’s view, but as Canadians we do have a couple of maple trees which are going to briefly look gorgeous in a week or two
wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 12:03 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Bad timing:
Sadly, we don’t have anything like Horace’s view, but as Canadians we do have a couple of maple trees which are going to briefly look gorgeous in a week or two
Congrats, and if your current place doesn't close until 10/14 you could always go back there and sleep on the floor, for old time's sake. We have a few maples as well...I think they are called flame maple or blaze maple or something...anyway they turn ridiculously bright orange/red in mid/late October. So much so that it gives a nice orange hue throughout the house, LOL.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Bad timing:
Sadly, we don’t have anything like Horace’s view, but as Canadians we do have a couple of maple trees which are going to briefly look gorgeous in a week or two
Congrats, and if your current place doesn't close until 10/14 you could always go back there and sleep on the floor, for old time's sake. We have a few maples as well...I think they are called flame maple or blaze maple or something...anyway they turn ridiculously bright orange/red in mid/late October. So much so that it gives a nice orange hue throughout the house, LOL.
wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 14:11 last edited byTo go with the maples, we have an Eastern black walnut, which drops hard, hand grenade size fruit unexpectedly. It’s going to need to come down as it touches the house and also because it drops hard, hand grenade sized fruit unexpectedly.
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wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 16:09 last edited by
Black walnut makes some awful pretty wood...Even makes good gunstocks.
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wrote on 4 Oct 2022, 17:22 last edited by
@Jolly said in Bad timing:
Black walnut makes some awful pretty wood...Even makes good gunstocks.
Yes, we thought we might keep some and see what we could do with it