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Staying at home trying to keep some lunatic from catching the house on fire. With no significant rain for 2 months now the place is a tinderbox.
Yeah, I like fireworks but not in these conditions.
Ill be working making triple pay. Im pretty excited about my paycheck.
Staying at home trying to keep some lunatic from catching the house on fire. With no significant rain for 2 months now the place is a tinderbox.
Yeah, I like fireworks but not in these conditions.
HaHa.. I thought you said strippers.
We're supposed to go tubing somewhere on the Guadalupe with some friends if there's still any water in it on Sunday.
They have anorexic 40 lb strippers on the Guadalupe?
We may be in the same area...Water is painfully slow and low...If you do the horseshoe below canyon you will put in at the second bridge and go downriver and I will put the yaks in at the same place and go upriver towards the dam...HaHa.. I thought you said strippers.
We're supposed to go tubing somewhere on the Guadalupe with some friends if there's still any water in it on Sunday.
I have no idea. I have never been tubing down here before. Actually I haven't been tubing or rafting since I was a teenager back in Oklahoma in the Dust Bowl Days.
hehehe...well if the fish aren't biting I may go back downriver through the horseshoe looking for strippers...LOL
Heres a pic of a 25 pound STRIPER I found on the internet...the record on the Guadalupe is 50 pounds...those suckers just love those rainbow trout that parks and wildlife stocks for them...LOL
My hubby and I are going to be on vacation all next week, therefore we will be spending a few days in Cancun and then come home and clean, clean, clean...
That, too. Every year, my idiot neighbors all around (two doors down on each side and across the street, too) shoot fireworks like there's no tomorrow. I wind up with bottle rockets on my roof and all kinds of crap in my bone-dry yard. I usually come straight home from the fireworks show, that's usually just when those idiots are getting fired up (pun intended). I know I couldn't stop any fire they started, or keep it from burning my house down, but I figure at least I could slow it down with my garden hose long enough for the volunteer fire department to get there.
IMHO, fireworks belong only in the hands of professionals at organized shows...with a fleet of fire trucks standing by on the ready.
I think I shall climb Mount Sneffels on the 4th.
If your friends know the rivers around here they will know that the tubing options are limited right now...the upper guadalupe is probably too low to tube now...flows at the 281 bridge are only about 50cfs and the lower section of the lower guadalupe is butt dragging low as well...the Horseshoe area on the lower guadalupe is probably your best bet...I have no idea. I have never been tubing down here before. Actually I haven't been tubing or rafting since I was a teenager back in Oklahoma in the Dust Bowl Days.
And, please be careful. You can really get hurt in the Guadalupe when the water is low. There are so many rocks, and they HURT when your butt hits them. If you are renting tubes, get the kind with the plywood bottoms! They are worth the extra couple of bucks.
Guadalupe River flow in Comal county is only 52 cfs. That's below my idea of minimum flow there.
How do stripers taste anyway? Better than strippers?
I trust Chris 100%. Some of those freaks at the designated set-off areas? Oh, no.
Water at the horseshoe below Canyon Dam is fine to go tubing on. (as of 6-28-2006) There will be tons of people there for the 4th though, so be warned.
I'm much more afraid of smokers, people who BBQ and catalytic converters than fireworks. Especially since each one of those cause more fire related damage and deaths each year than fireworks. If you're truly worried about fire, simply put out the lawn sprinkler on the 3rd for a few hours. If you're finding bottle rockets or missles on your property you should report it. There is a good chance those items are already banned in your county.
Yeah, I have reported it and it's not banned. I live in Guadalupe County, and both times I had someone come out (once 7-8 years ago and last year), they told me there was nothing they could do about it. The guy actually had the nerve to tell me that this is the reason people moved out in the county, so they could shoot fireworks (yeah, right, buddy); I told him I had as much right NOT to have them land in my yard and on my roof as those morons had to shoot them in the first place. He just smiled and shook his head sympathetically and got back his his car and drove down the road really slowly...like that was gonna scare somebody.
I should not have to do that to keep someone from burning my house down.
(and, it takes about 10-12 hours to thoroughly wet down my 1/2 acre)
1. The chances of your house being damaged by fireworks is less than that of being damaged by you yourself BBQing on your back porch. So unless you water your 1/2 acre every time you BBQ, then I wouldn't worry.
2. You could go and politely ask your neighbors to show extra care into setting off their fireworks, so they would not land on your property.
3. Go buy your own and aim them at your neighbors' house.
not doing anything...... life sucks
1. The chances of your house being damaged by fireworks is less than that of being damaged by you yourself BBQing on your back porch. So unless you water your 1/2 acre every time you BBQ, then I wouldn't worry.
I don't barbecue at my house. And I don't think smoldering bottle rockets on my roof is a safe situation at any time. I do worry. I don't have any other place to live.
2. You could go and politely ask your neighbors to show extra care into setting off their fireworks, so they would not land on your property.
No, I couldn't. I tried that one time, and the guy who answered the door scared the out of me; he started screaming at his wife while I was standing right there and he shut the door in my face and I could hear blows and screaming through the door (apparently the kids who were shooting the fireworks belong to her and not him and he warned her they were gonna get in trouble with those @##$! fireworks). I high-tailed it home and never went back. The other people, up the street the other way are also a little scary. They have teen-age boys, too, and they cause some mischief in the neighborhood. I have never had anyone bother anything at my place (except the fireworks, of course) in the 13 years I have lived there. I don't want to get them started doing stuff in retaliation; I'm away from my house a lot.
3. Go buy your own and aim them at your neighbors' house.
No thanks. As I said, generally speaking, I think fireworks belong in the hands of professionals in a controlled environment with fire-fighters and equipment handy.
I do know there are people who handle fireworks responsibly. Unfortunately, they don't discriminate in who they sell to.
Or their goats.
I vote for shooting back. Get those that look like a tennis ball with a fuse...you drop them down the tube and they shoot out and explode in a big star cluster...set your tube at an angle and lob a few mortar rounds at them...
Of course, I posted this before I heard all about their little testing session last night.
What are you doing for the 4th this year?
Probably put on a “Swanson’s” TV dinner, Watch the Game Show Network...Or be a wild-man & watch a DVD...Maybe the 40-year old virgin or something....
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