The Lunatic Fringe (Part 2)

Willie G · Post by **Willie G** » Thu Apr 24, 2025 4:41 am

Vacation - Day #1

Off to Tulsa today, Little Rock tomorrow.

Willie G · Post by **Willie G** » Thu Apr 24, 2025 4:47 am

Ooops! Belay that. Just looked at the radar.

I-70 is covered in rain and thunderboomers.

Headed south & east cross country to OKC tonight.

Always wanted to see Ulysses, KS. anyway.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Thu Apr 24, 2025 5:33 am

Willie G wrote:Ooops! Belay that. Just looked at the radar.

I-70 is covered in rain and thunderboomers.

Headed south & east cross country to OKC tonight.

Always wanted to see Ulysses, KS. anyway.

Here a thunderboomer, there a thunderboomer, everywhere a thunderboomer. Ive been through Ulysses but never stopped nor did I expect anything cool to be found there but maybe. I do go through Dodge City every time i go to the sand dunes and have always wanted to stop there and check out the museums n such but never wanted to try to drag the camper around through town trying to find a place to park, etc. Now that im just throwing a 4-wheeler in the back of the peeckup since im renting a camper so i dont have to drag a trailer anywhere from nine to fourty-eleventh hours one way, I'm hoping to do that this year on one of the trips.

Have a safe trip.

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:04 am

R0CKET wrote:Where in Texas did you grow up?

Well, most would say that I never actually grew up....

Born in Dallas
Early school was in Mabank while living in a town actually called Gun Barrel City
Went to High school in Trinidad off Hwy 31 between Corsicana and Athens.... not too far from Palestine and family campouts were often in Davey Crockett National forest.
Graduated from Trinidad High School Valedictorian of a class of 24. I only had to be smarter than 23 other people, but there was a girl who made it close.
Lived in Irving by Cowboys stadium through college
Recruited by Denver company and moved the day after graduating college.

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:06 am

R0CKET wrote:I’ve got fresh never used OEM heads from a 460 if you need ‘em.

Glad you got that time with your dad

Thanks... I'll see where he lands with that thing. I'm currently thinking heads are OK and hoping that is the situation..... Car has 58K original miles, but things go wrong all the time.

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Thu Apr 24, 2025 10:16 am

Willie G wrote:Ooops! Belay that. Just looked at the radar.

I-70 is covered in rain and thunderboomers.

Headed south & east cross country to OKC tonight.

Always wanted to see Ulysses, KS. anyway.

Taking Court & Jodi to the airport at around 4am tomorrow so they can go enjoy the lovely KC .... I was going but after hearing details that changed around this basketball tournament, I banked my SW airfare in the event I need to return to TX on behalf of Dad. It all sucks and just when you think it can't suck anymore ..... it does.

... guess I got stuff to do at home this weekend anyway....

Willie G · Post by **Willie G** » Thu Apr 24, 2025 4:43 pm

Once I got out of Colorado the sun came out and the clouds broke up.

Beautiful drive to Yukon. I hadn't been through Woodward, Watonga, and Kingfisher in 20 years.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Fri Apr 25, 2025 4:34 am

Its finally fridee. 64 to a partly something 82 and todays thunderboomer has already come and gone.

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Fri Apr 25, 2025 5:26 am

Light rain for the round trip to DIA .... Got back home around 5:10am .... Jodi always puts too much shit in the carry-on bag and gets flagged at security every time .... Neeners!

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Sat Apr 26, 2025 4:47 am

Sadurdee is here. 58 to 80 with afternoon thunderboomers.

I guess ill break down and make all of the steel brake lines for the car today. It is not my favorite thing to do so i have been putting it off but thats all i lack to finish up the brake system.

I will be trying my hand at building smash burgers on the Blackstone for lunch n stuff.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Sun Apr 27, 2025 4:48 am

68 to a partly something 83 for this mundee eve. The place i work at just bought the 47 acres that joins its land which has a house, a good sized barn and a nice shop along with a small pond on it. I may go see if a fish lives in said pond this afternoon.

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Sun Apr 27, 2025 8:37 am

creepycrawler wrote:68 to a partly something 83 for this mundee eve. The place i work at just bought the 47 acres that joins its land which has a house, a good sized barn and a nice shop along with a small pond on it. I may go see if a fish lives in said pond this afternoon.

None of my business, but I'm very curious what price a place like that would fetch...

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Sun Apr 27, 2025 6:40 pm

$650,000ish i think.

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creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:32 am

70 to a cloudy 80 for mundee. Is it over yet?

Willie G · Post by **Willie G** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 12:20 pm

That house needs work. Rex can handle it!

Back from an all-too-brief vacation. But I did cover about 2300 miles...so there's that.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 2:33 pm

Willie G wrote:That house needs work. Rex can handle it!

Back from an all-too-brief vacation. But I did cover about 2300 miles...so there's that.

Yeah, the house does need work. They are trying to decide if they want to fix it up or tear it down.

Willie G · Post by **Willie G** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:13 pm

creepycrawler wrote:Yeah, the house does need work. They are trying to decide if they want to fix it up or tear it down.

Fix it up, sell it to you so you can be the caretaker for the hunting preserve.

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:54 pm

creepycrawler wrote:Yeah, the house does need work. They are trying to decide if they want to fix it up or tear it down.

So I was curious about that. I don't know the zoning rules there, but I assume your boss just wants additional land. Wonder about being able to carve out some acreage (15-20?) and then sell the house, barn, shop, etc with a descent footprint of land and then sell it as-is.. It's kind of a cool place. If you get into the house, sneak some interior pics!

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 4:59 pm

Also square footage of house.

See, you go to work and then people like me ask you to do some more work

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:24 pm

Willie G wrote:Fix it up, sell it to you so you can be the caretaker for the hunting preserve.

Well i could walk to work at least and i could really use the shop.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:28 pm

Rex Ashton wrote:So I was curious about that. I don't know the zoning rules there, but I assume your boss just wants additional land. Wonder about being able to carve out some acreage (15-20?) and then sell the house, barn, shop, etc with a descent footprint of land and then sell it as-is.. It's kind of a cool place. If you get into the house, sneak some interior pics!

Ill look at it sometime. From what i heard, the main problem is that it it had a leaky roof so it has considerable water damage. It actually would be a pretty neat place since its a ways off of the road etc.

Willie G · Post by **Willie G** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:59 pm

221 W. Mockingbird Lane?

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:27 pm

Willie G wrote:221 W. Mockingbird Lane?

Ehhh, i have no idea but sounds rightish.

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:03 pm

Interesting...

If that is the addy, it shows to be a 4bd/3ba 3617 sf ranch on 5 acres .... Some states include the attached garage space under "living area", so not sure there. Wonder if the additional acreage is other parcels. If so, wonder about the outbuildings being on same as house.

Listed in Jan @ $525K and listed March 27 @ $525K

2024 Tax assessment just over $12K with the actual taxes @ $955 ... crazy.

Intriguing ... Is Silo high school basketball team any good? lulz

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:18 pm

creepycrawler wrote:Ill look at it sometime. From what i heard, the main problem is that it it had a leaky roof so it has considerable water damage. It actually would be a pretty neat place since its a ways off of the road etc.

Shit man, walk over there with your ham sammich at lunchtime and take some damn pics!

... I'll wait a bit about asking if your boss needs a new Kubota test driver that aligns with the Willie G Saturday schedule. lol

Willie G · Post by **Willie G** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 4:27 am

Thank goodness it's Saturday!

Being gone for 5 days means there's a lot to catch up on.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 4:33 am

Rex Ashton wrote:Interesting...

If that is the addy, it shows to be a 4bd/3ba 3617 sf ranch on 5 acres .... Some states include the attached garage space under "living area", so not sure there. Wonder if the additional acreage is other parcels. If so, wonder about the outbuildings being on same as house.

Listed in Jan @ $525K and listed March 27 @ $525K

2024 Tax assessment just over $12K with the actual taxes @ $955 ... crazy.

Intriguing ... Is Silo high school basketball team any good? lulz

I don't know about their basketball team but their baseball team wins state pretty much every year i think. Im not sure how its broken up. I just assumed it was all the same lot. The property goes all the way to the west past the pond basically to the tree line.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 4:37 am

73 to a partly something 80 with maybe evening thunderboomers.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 4:38 am

Willie G wrote:Thank goodness it's Saturday!

Being gone for 5 days means there's a lot to catch up on.

Lulz.

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Tue Apr 29, 2025 9:15 am

Nice weather for a couple of days, but reluctant to wash vehicles…. Hand washing cars season has returned but too many days on fone forecast threatens rain

Willie G · Post by **Willie G** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:29 am

Another cool day, mid 50s, with rain tonight and tomorrow.

I learned yesterday that there is a donut gasket under the front of my intake manifold that can leak coolant after 20 years or so. I'll also change the EGR cooler that I've had for 10+ years, since I'm finally that far inside the motor. A busy weekend awaits.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:35 am

Willie G wrote:A busy weekend awaits.

Does that "weekend" start today?

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:36 am

This hump day can be summed up pretty quickly. 70° and thunderboomery.

Willie G · Post by **Willie G** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 4:48 am

creepycrawler wrote:Does that "weekend" start today?

No, unfortunately. They're providing a company truck while mine is down - so I'll be working today and tomorrow.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:28 am

Willie G wrote:No, unfortunately. They're providing a company truck while mine is down - so I'll be working today and tomorrow.

Oh no. That's gonna make for a long week for ya.

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 7:53 am

We got your basic torrential rainfall along with some boomers going. It may be July before I can mow the lawn again.

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 12:42 pm

creepycrawler wrote:We got your basic torrential rainfall along with some boomers going. It may be July before I can mow the lawn again.

Based on that, the thing on Mockingbird Ln sounding less attractive, lol

Rex Ashton · Post by **Rex Ashton** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 12:46 pm

sunny, breezy, and 67 .... Ok with that right now. Still washing zero vehicles with a chance of skywater in the near future

creepycrawler · Post by **creepycrawler** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:50 pm

Rex Ashton wrote:Based on that, the thing on Mockingbird Ln sounding less attractive, lol

My problem is that i have a low area in my front yard that holds water so it takes a while to dry out enough to mow. It's definitely green here though. Looks like we have had over 25 inches of rain in the last 180 days.

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R0CKET · Post by **R0CKET** » Wed Apr 30, 2025 5:29 pm

Put a little lift on the van

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