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Post by Coast2Coast on Nov 13, 2015 10:54:48 GMT -6
The guys were asked what players they liked playing with...
Merritt said he loved playing with Ernie Els. He said so many on tour are so into their own games, that there isn't much conversation or real interest in each other. They don't say much or really exhibit much warmth. Ernie is very interested in knowing the guys he plays with and talks about a lot of stuff. Merritt said Ernie still asks about the family, other x things they might have talked about the one time they played together. With Ernie, he is very nice, very gracious and real...and that way with everybody. Streb said he loved playing with John Daly. "Daly doesn't care. He just cracks jokes, smokes cigarettes and drinks Diet Cokes all day."
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Post by Hawg Ass on Nov 13, 2015 10:58:13 GMT -6
The guys were asked what players they liked playing with... Merritt said he loved playing with Ernie Els. He said so many on tour are so into their own games, that there isn't much conversation or real interest in each other. They don't say much or really exhibit much warmth. Ernie is very interested in knowing the guys he plays with and talks about a lot of stuff. Merritt said Ernie still asks about the family, other x things they might have talked about the one time they played together. With Ernie, he is very nice, very gracious and real...and that way with everybody. Streb said he loved playing with John Daly. "Daly doesn't care. He just cracks jokes, smokes cigarettes and drinks Diet Cokes all day." Wow, that is 2 total opposite end of the spectrum answers. Except they do have something in common, Daly and Els both married strippers.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Nov 13, 2015 12:01:46 GMT -6
Streb also was pretty funny talking about yardages. He was talking about how far he hits his 7 iron (175-185) and said his caddy will say "177, hit the 7." He said the on course reporters repeat that and lead people to think that PGA players can hit their irons that exact to within one yard or even five. He said they don't. If a caddy says 175,177,179, 181 or 183, he hits the club exactly the same. And he said most guys do too. Nobody is that exact.
Edit: He was referring to mid and long irons...for short irons, especially inside 100 yards where they are hitting their gap, sand or lob wedges, they are that exact within a few yards. In fact, if the yardage is say 83 yards, they could hit all three of those clubs to that yardage, plus or minus a few. Which club they hit of course depends on a bunch of things...lie, wind, green contours, etc.
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Post by Hawg Ass on Nov 13, 2015 12:48:31 GMT -6
Streb also was pretty funny talking about yardages. He was talking about how far he hits his 7 iron (175-185) and said his caddy will say "177, hit the 7." He said the on course reporters repeat that and lead people to think that PGA players can hit their irons that exact to within one yard or even five. He said they don't. If a caddy says 175,177,179, 181 or 183, he hits the club exactly the same. And he said most guys do too. Nobody is that exact.
Edit: He was referring to mid and long irons...for short irons, especially inside 100 yards where they are hitting their gap, sand or lob wedges, they are that exact within a few yards. In fact, if the yardage is say 83 yards, they could hit all three of those clubs to that yardage, plus or minus a few. Which club they hit of course depends on a bunch of things...lie, wind, green contours, etc. Also, what most people don't know is how delofted a lot of these guys have their irons, their 8 iron can have the loft of our 6 or 7 iron.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Nov 14, 2015 11:04:14 GMT -6
It is deer season. I know because I heard gunfire this morning from a farm that adjoins a corner of my property. In a state without gun laws, it really is the wild west. Those who support free open carry and unrestricted gun use should have hunters firing toward their yard and see how that works for them. A call to the police was met with, "people can do on their property what they like."
When there are no gun laws, anybody can be an outlaw.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Nov 14, 2015 11:16:26 GMT -6
Deer hunting here involves guys sitting in a blind and baiting the deer with corn feeders to come real close to their blind. I asked a guy how close deer are when he shoots. "About 20 yards". Yeah that's some "sport".
I have hunted...but hunting pheasant in Iowa involved walking and chasing birds, not baiting animals to come to the gun. Two very different things.
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Post by Kirkwoodref on Nov 14, 2015 11:30:33 GMT -6
It's illegal to bait in Illinois. You can plant clover patches and such. But you can't have corn feeders, salt licks, apples, etc. to bait.
Wisconsin you're able to bait. We laid down corn pile which was a pain in the ass carrying 40lb bags deep into the woods. But then I'm freezing my ass off in a tree stand and they never came anyways.
I've had best luck in Illinois with no baiting.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Nov 14, 2015 11:41:50 GMT -6
I am thinking maybe baiting is a cultural/historical thing that traces back to the days when folks needed to kill animals to eat. It was a better way to assure food. Wisconsin has a similar heritage as Texas where fishing, hunting and trapping were what kept people fed and that culture remains strong in those states today. Old cultural vestiges don't go away, they are handed down to the next generation. I just would not call that kind of hunting sport. Fishing with nets is sort of the same thing.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Dec 5, 2015 0:49:51 GMT -6
Saw a dead armadillo on the golf course today that was so torn to heck that you almost couldn't tell what it was. Also heard there was a bobcat prowling around, but I didn't see it. But it makes sense that a mad cat was responsible for that kind of destruction.
Our neighbor walks her dog carrying a big stick. I asked her why and she said a bobcat attacked a neighbor's dog a few years ago. She is going to fend off a bobcat attacking her dog with a stick? Not a chance. My wife walks our dogs every day without a stick. She wants a gun to kill snakes and whatever else threatens her or the puppies. I think I will still get her jewelry rather than a pistol for Christmas.
Yep. This is the wild west.
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Post by Danny Busch on Dec 5, 2015 0:57:57 GMT -6
Shooting a bobcat....i can see that. Shooting a snake? By the time you lined that up you would miss it. Machete for snakes and bobcats. You also won't ever panic use it on the wrong thing as you have to think...remove...line up...strike. You could skip most of those checks with a gun.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Dec 5, 2015 1:05:40 GMT -6
I have killed several snakes with a shovel. That's all I need.
She doesn't want to get that close and I think she would not want to engage in machete combat with anything either. She wants to carry a pistol with her. I would prefer not but I don't want to lose our dogs either.
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Post by All Drop In on Dec 5, 2015 11:41:00 GMT -6
We started to get a coyote outbreak in my area around 2011. It freaked everyone out, because you aren't really used to that in my part of the burbs. I was on the board of my townhome association at the time. People were talking about sticks at meetings. Next thing you know, there are eighty-year-old's walking their poodle with a Gandalf staff. I politely asked someone how quick they could turn that thing on a coyote. "I guess I didn't think this all the way through?"
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Post by Kirkwoodref on Dec 5, 2015 12:01:00 GMT -6
Perhaps Bernstein could give them a few pointers?
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Post by Terry's Peeps on Dec 5, 2015 13:15:20 GMT -6
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Post by Coast2Coast on Dec 6, 2015 6:41:24 GMT -6
The greens are getting faster. Pro said they were 13 yesterday. I guess as the Bermuda dies out, they get harder and faster. Rolling true though.
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Post by Hawg Ass on Dec 6, 2015 8:59:11 GMT -6
The greens are getting faster. Pro said they were 13 yesterday. I guess as the Bermuda dies out, they get harder and faster. Rolling true though. Bermuda this time of year down are the best.
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Post by All Drop In on Dec 22, 2015 18:25:39 GMT -6
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Post by Terry's Peeps on Dec 22, 2015 19:20:39 GMT -6
Rich people are just inherently better.
We should be thankful they allow us to live.
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Post by All Drop In on Dec 22, 2015 19:32:20 GMT -6
Rich people are just inherently better. We should be thankful they allow us to live. That's what I was thinking.
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Post by Terry's Peeps on Dec 22, 2015 19:53:59 GMT -6
I mean sure unions and middle class workers spent years being abused, and they had to literally fight to be able to gain workers protections. But no one ever thinks about the other side. The poor millionaires and billionaires.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Dec 23, 2015 11:12:27 GMT -6
Yes the ultra rich are very special people. It takes a special kind of person to earn millions and billions and then be angry at poor people who want to earn a higher minimum wage.
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Post by Terry's Peeps on Dec 23, 2015 12:02:35 GMT -6
I mean think of the logic.
"Man this is bullshit. We keep getting money taken from our pockets. We should just start buying politicians."
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"WE SHOULD TOTALLY START BUYING POLITICIANS!"
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Post by Coast2Coast on Feb 17, 2016 19:29:03 GMT -6
Middle of February and weather has been 70s every day for 2 weeks and even 80s on a few. I spent the past week getting the garden ready. Fenced in a 25x75 plot, tilled it several times, worked in turkey compost most places, some aluminum sulfate (ph is high here ~8), especially around the potato bed. Planted spinach, lettuce, chard, carrots, kale, beets, brussel sprouts, snap peas, taters, herbs. Onions, garlic and carrots planted in Nov. looking good. This will be a natural food garden, no chemicals but I will use animal-based fertilzer like manure and bone meal. I made my own fertilizer out of cut grass, and so far so good. Planted at least a dozen different flowers to attract beneficial insects that will eat the bad guys. Bugs, heat and disease will be my foes and I will fight them with nature herself, a few brains and lots of water.
About March 10, in will go the tomatoes, cukes, squash, peppers and whatever else summer crops. This is about 2 months + ahead of Chicago. Most of these will produce before July, when the heat comes and many veggies wither. Should be interesting..
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Post by Danny Busch on Feb 17, 2016 19:34:51 GMT -6
Hows the weed growing?
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Post by Hawg Ass on Feb 19, 2016 8:29:14 GMT -6
Middle of February and weather has been 70s every day for 2 weeks and even 80s on a few. I spent the past week getting the garden ready. Fenced in a 25x75 plot, tilled it several times, worked in turkey compost most places, some aluminum sulfate (ph is high here ~8), especially around the potato bed. Planted spinach, lettuce, chard, carrots, kale, beets, brussel sprouts, snap peas, taters, herbs. Onions, garlic and carrots planted in Nov. looking good. This will be a natural food garden, no chemicals but I will use animal-based fertilzer like manure and bone meal. I made my own fertilizer out of cut grass, and so far so good. Planted at least a dozen different flowers to attract beneficial insects that will eat the bad guys. Bugs, heat and disease will be my foes and I will fight them with nature herself, a few brains and lots of water. About March 10, in will go the tomatoes, cukes, squash, peppers and whatever else summer crops. This is about 2 months + ahead of Chicago. Most of these will produce before July, when the heat comes and many veggies wither. Should be interesting.. Important question, how is the golf game with all of that beautiful weather?
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Post by Kirkwoodref on Feb 19, 2016 9:07:33 GMT -6
Also, what brushfire defenses have been installed on the Coast homestead??? This would look preeeeetttyy good.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Feb 19, 2016 17:33:33 GMT -6
Golf game is ok, but the course I play is really hard. No room to miss, a lot of deep bunkers and treacherous greens. So I tend to give my strokes away in lost balls, bunker shots and 3 putt greens. Feels like I am playing better than I am scoring. Have not broken 90 yet, but a friend of mine, who is a 5 hcp. shot 86-84. So I don't feel too bad. If it doesn't kill me, should make me a better player. Going to play at least 54 holes this weekend so we will see if I can break through.
I think I am prepared for fire, but who knows really. I have hoses all around the house that will cover almost all of the property. And a pump to throw in the pool if needed.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Mar 1, 2016 13:41:30 GMT -6
Voted in the Texas Primary Election today. This is the sixth state in which I have voted and it was like a step back in time...paper and pencil filling in the dots as we did in college entrance exams. I voted at a church and there were dozens of signs in the church parking lot, but the signs stopped 100 feet from the door (per the law). There were all kinds of people standing at the 100 feet line passing out literature. The literature said nothing...just VOTE FOR X. I guess they know people aren't going to read anything at that point, so they just want the people want go into the polls with their name in their hand.
There was a sign at the door: "If you cannot read the ballot, someone will read it to you". But if someone can't read, they won't be able to read the sign!
WTF
I got to vote among four people for "Railroad Commissioner" though. So I have that going for me, which is nice. I don't think I have ever had the honor of choosing who would be the best railroad commissioner. I actually looked at their credentials prior to voting. One was a good ole boy. Bragged about who he knew named Bubba, Tex or Handlebar. The other was a good ole boy with a cowboy hat. The third guy was a redneck who said the railroad had to stop trying to take good hunting land. The fourth guy was....hell I don't know what he was. In the document where the candidates said why they sought the office, he said he "knew how to railroad things".
There were four propositions, though I don't know what happens with these things after this vote.
The first was whether Texas should get rid of the property tax and replace it with something else, as long as it wasn't an income tax. Like what would they replace funding of the schools and local governments with? Bake sales? I think the bake sale lobby might win this one. (By the way, just remember for context...if you lived in Texas, you would get twice the house for half the price and 1/3 the property taxes. Which means there are people living in million dollar houses here that pay property taxes that are about what somebody who lives in a $200k house in Cook County pays ).
The second was whether Texas should have to follow Federal immigration rules and be subject to losing Federal money if it didn't. NO WAY! Texas ought to be its own country and to hell with Federal rules. Break Federal law! Yeah! That's the ticket. This one will probably be defeated..to hell with the Feds and their laws and their money. We don't need to follow no stinkin Federal laws. We're TEXAS damnit.
The third one was a variation of that...Should Texas insist that our Federal government follow the tenth amendment and anything which is not specifically granted to the Federal govt in the Constitution, then the state can do what it wants. This is a big issue here. STATES RIGHTS...which of course is the argument for why the South opposed slavery and civil rights, to name two of a bunch of things that southern states like to thump as "states rights". Read another way, it means, should Texas be allowed to pass its own laws... like banning black people or gays or pick your minority, or moving poor people out of state with one-way bus tickets (they are doing that in North Carolina quietly), or letting insurance companies charge you whatever it wants for your medicines. You know, those things are not specifically stated in the Constitution, so states rights says states can do what they want! This one will probably pass too.
The fourth one was about union dues...should unions have the right to collect dues from public employees...you know, school teachers, street workers, all the other public employees who might choose to be in a union. Should their union be able to deduct dues from their paycheck. Damn straight yee haw unions should not be able to do that. They should get their money from bake sales like everybody else. Yeah, let's deny people their collective bargaining rights! Yeah that'll fix everything. Damn unions the root of all evil. This one will probably pass too.
WTF.
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Post by Kirkwoodref on Mar 2, 2016 11:35:27 GMT -6
Hmmmmm, railroad commissioner sounds like a very comfortable job to have. An excellent 2nd salary or kickbacks to fund the lakehouse.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Mar 15, 2016 15:10:42 GMT -6
March 14 and 15: 91 degrees. Worked in the yard a little and sweating my ass off. The puppies ran out in the yard and walked straight into the pool. They know the deal.
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