In Texas, outdoor grilling, smoking, and barbeque is a religion, so naturally there is a large assortment of woods you can add to your coals for flavor:. This is a Texas grackle — a noble bird, for more civilized times. They inhabit the parking lots of Corpus Christi, working hard to scrounge for their food and keep the parking lots clean:. And these are fat, lazy supermarket seagulls — not the proud, respectable seagulls that fly along the beaches and hunt for fish, but rather fat seagulls that sit on the roofs of supermarkets in Texas — on their fat bird-asses — waiting until they see something to eat:.
I started a DDoS — a Distributed Denial of Seagull Attack — in which I sprinkled some potato chips underneath the shopping carts, where the grackles could easily get to them — but the seagulls were just too big! These are caused by the hexagonal nature of the ice crystals in the atmosphere, and they are VERY rare to see! Continuing the series , here is a snap of an old pumpjack I took somewhere between Corpus Christi and San Antonio:. Continuing the series, what is 50 miles wide, miles long, and delivers 1.
The Eagle Ford Shale in Texas! First, since Texas is a very mature oil area, how could there be NEW pumpjacks? Does this mean they carried out fracking somewhere nearby? My guess after doing a bit of research — YES! And second — I looked up the company: Murphy Exploration and Production.
Interestingly, the senior leadership teams has financial leaders, HR leaders, legal leaders — but nary an operations leader! A Guest Blog, by Arlene Ritley. I was in the bedroom reading and got up to go into the front room to turn the light off when I noticed this huge creature on the wall above the lamp, black with legs and a silver black back with tentacles and furry legs. It was still — not moving, just frozen in time.
Quietly on Catholic feet, I moved into the kitchen, open the cabinet under the sink and looked for something to spray him with.
