A nice Sunday morning in May here at the Secret Hideout — Mother’s Day 2015. Weather radio just squawked. Tornado watch her for next 12 hours. It is Texas in the Spring. It is what it is. Meerschaum Carved Pipe from Turkey BFF Cait gifted me something; a new pipe this week. Her husband is in Turkey and that is where the meerschaum comes from. It is a real smoker. I dig it. Continue reading UN-Roughing It 
Try doin’ this in Austin. Cops would be there before you fair got match to paper. For those of you that ain’t guessed it yet……… Yes, I am at the Secret Hideout in Central Texas with My Bro. And yeah, we burn our paper garbage and such in the driveway if we feel like it. That is all I will be saying about that. My Bro packed up this morning to go tend Continue reading Untrammeled and At Large 
“Anything mechanical breaks eventually.” Pan seared ribeyes from HEB along with a loaded baked potato – Now THAT is good eating! I was lounging around late Friday night in my cotton flannel camo jammies and enjoying the total absence of late evening traffic on the gate when things went absolutely haywire. Power out, crap blinking and beeping, the generator sounding all funky. When Tuco the Dog runs under the Continue reading Along that Amazon Way 
No Princess Palace on station. 11/01/2014 I guess quite a few folks who visit here prefer my DIY posts over the ones where I explain the meaning of life, solve all the problems of the world or tell you how to be the world’s greatest lover. Go figure! So for those of you who like tales of living in the South Texas puckerbrush as an oilfield gate guard; this are one. These prove Continue reading Extended run fuel tank for Yamaha EF2000IS generator  |