My lonely neighborhood Next month will mark the start of my seventh year as an oil field gate guard in the Texas oilfields. From The Barnett Shale north of DFW to the Wolfcamp of West Texas to the puckerbrush of the Eagle Ford; I guess I been there and done that. Some people got the grit to be here and some don’t. I have known more than one RVer who fell off down Continue reading Gate Guarding in South Texas – The Finer Points 
Cotulla is about 35 miles northeast of where Miss and I have been hangin’ out for the last several months. Want a better than average look at life in the Eagle Ford Shale? And Cotulla, Tx in particular? Ralph Ayala pulls up to the Brush Country Museum, parks his truck, and hops out, leaving the engine running. It’s 100 degrees outside and he doesn’t want to come back to a baking vehicle. Easy Continue reading Cotulla, TX and the Eagle Ford Shale Oil Boom 
Digging in the guts of the machine Another day and the scenery remains the same. A South Texas Brush Country summer; Weatherbug is saying 109, Miss K says 111 on the Suburban thermometer driving to town, my meter outside the Old Girl in the shade says 117 and I say it is damned hot. So I am pretty smug sitting here in the Old Girl with 3 air conditioner units humming away. The Continue reading Hero to Zero  |