Miscellaneous Stuff

VIDEO ! ----My little Phantom II. Fun....
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New phone/video cam... had not found setting for vid stabilization... but never the less... these guys are gettin' it on....hahah
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Jen Evelyn came to visit me.. to just tell me she's looking over me.. this was very near the anniversary of her trip to Heaven... she is with us.....This is some strain of "flycatcher" Or Wren, very close to "Bewicks Wren", but without the light colored "eyebrows".. There are lots of very small variations of them. Just not sure which one. Two of them had built a nest on the top of a 6" diameter cardboard tube that was leaning up next to my back door, and I guess they got used to me coming and going... there were eggs in the nest when....well.... I guess a cat got up there and whacked the nest... But my cats are "indoor types", so it must have been one of those roving neighborhood cats....really...but they still hang around anyway....
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VIDEO - This is the SECOND TIME she landed on my hand. I didn't have my phone ready the first time... She has come to say hello...........I haven't been able to find any software yet that will allow rotating a video... This is just toooo cute... He/she landed on my hand TWICE, but I didn't have my phone / camera the first time...
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Lake Travis, storm rolling in from the south in about 2004. Jen was with me....
Taken in Dallas waaay back in about 2000...
Kinda looks like a drum hanging down out of the clouds....
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Storm's coming in near Four Points, off hwy. 2222, Austin
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Went to get my oil changed the other day, it got real dark, and I looked up and there was this hole in the storm clouds above me...strange...
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Eyebrowed Moon........Austin, Early July 2015
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Squint your eyes...........Polar Bear
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Cloud in the shade...........
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Bowler Hat ???
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Taken in Cuchara, Colorado one evening....
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Galveston has the strangest spring storms that form in very high columns. The next few pictures were all taken before 2006.
Patched together 4 or 5 pictures
Galveston storm 2002
JFK with a bubble nose.
Galveston storm 2002
Galveston 2002
Winter of 2015 - strange cloud near sunset
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A couple of geese headed South.
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August 11, 2015 - Lakeway.. top of the hill near the hospital off RM 620
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Southwest Airlines?
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No, that is NOT a penis..........ahahahah
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My brother's house in Dallas right after they bought it probably around 1972. A bit of yard work was in order. When he was done with the yard, it was beautiful.
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Note the date....I was 10....Sacred Heart Elementary School art class, Sinton, Texas - greatest little town to grow up in!
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Not bad for a ten year old...ahahaha
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920 East Market Street, Sinton, Texas, Christmas Day, 2004, The home where Steve and I grew up. SNOW? SINTON? Craaazy.....It was built in 1939 by my dad, Hilary Paul Gerdes, and a bunch of "hispanic" helpers. GREAT place to grow up.
I happened to mention to Sweety Girl that I had put a Stroker under the hood. Now she just sits there and looks at it.
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There's nothing as good as home made pizza !
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MMMMMM ! ! ! !
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Rain moving in from the North.....
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LCRA opened one gate at Mansfield Dam which feeds Lake Austin.
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Lots of water.......
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VIDEO ! ! Four gates open now....
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VIDEO ! - Meanwhile on Lake Austin, downstream about 1/4 mile, windy, noisy - - - water flow at a neighbor's dock. Water level up about two feet. 4/25/2016
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VIDEO ! Four gates open on Mansfield Dam, on a neighbor's dock/deck with Phil Han, my neighbor buddy. Water nearly over the low water bridge (at the first of this vid)/ Lake Austin if flowing pretty good.
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This isn't me or any of my friends, but it is a picture of what Larry Gingrich and I did to a 48 Ford Sedan with hammer and cold chisels in high school. When we went out on the highway, driving back and forth from the cotton gin that my Dad owned, we used to marvel at how the out of balance tires would jump clear off the road if we went fast enough. We cut the legs off of some old steel lawn furniture and bolted the seats to the floor. Had the exhaust "stacks" coming through the floor and shooting up behind the seats..What a great time we had at 15.................
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