Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[two_bit_score]

Jack, now is when you burn your burn pile...

Light 'em up! :fiery::hot::fire:


TBS

 

[SirReal63]

It is too wet, but maybe by later this weekend.

 

[Bird]

Don't forget TTA Trans Texas Airlines or, as we called it, Tree Top Airways.

I always heard it called Teeter Totter Airlines.

 

[lostcreekranch]

I always heard it called Teeter Totter Airlines.

Yep, and "Tinker Toy Airlines".

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Texas International

 

[lostcreekranch]

Texas International

Yep, TTA became Texas International under Frank Lorenzo. They later merged with Continental. I flew on Continental's first flight from IAH to LGW (London Gatwick). Before that I flew British Caledonian to
London.

In the early 1970's the only way to get to Europe, from Houston, was to go via New York or Miami.

 

[bindian]

I always like to burn my piles about 30 minutes before a huge rain. Once that fire is going, huge piles keep going. Then feed it with the grapple. Your wet, but the pile will be gone.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

I wanted to work for Texas International. A class mate from A&P School did. But I was a little late to the party. I didn't want to work for Continental. At the time, Continental required back xrays for the pre employment physical. Which I felled back in 1984. So I got hired baby sitting Ryan's DC-9 at IAH. Ryan had the US Mail contract. Same DC-9s Texas International used. Funny thing about the photo.........Texas International also used Convair turbo props before DC-9s. Just like the one in the photo.
I loved working on DC-9s freighters. I knew them forwards and backwards. No passengers and we knew the pilots by first name. One of us met the plane at 5am and one of us departed the plane, starting at 8pm and usually left around 10:30. At the most, 4 hour mornings. But the pay was not good. Sometimes Ryan brought in a B-727, when our DC-9 was grounded. Then I learned all the tricks departing 3 holers, or bombers as we called them. Oh yeah, there were tricks for the ornery, old gal you had to know to depart them sometimes. Ryan 727s, during Desert Storm, flew bombs to Europe, then DC-8s and B-707 flew them to the middle east. I wanted to got on those bomb runs, as mx flew on all those flights, but never got the chance.

Then Ryan won the Emery Airfreight contract and we had one Postal DC-9 and two Emery B-727s a day for just three mechanics. Saturday morning (down for the weekend) mx on the Boeing took too long and I missed a few or was late to a few of my son's soccer games. Curses Wilbur and Orville!

SWAs B-737 were two engine, two pilot versions of the B-727......so not much learning curve going to SWA and their all 737 fleet.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Ran across this photo this evening. I was thinking about Mike on the 23rd of July. That was one year since we buried him. Anyway, my Dad's birthday would have been today and my Mom's birthday would have been tomorrow.
I miss all three of them.
hugs, Brandi

 

[oldballs]

I always heard it called Teeter Totter Airlines.

Around here, we called Braniff "The Largest Unscheduled Airline In The World".

 

[Bird]

Around here, we called Braniff "The Largest Unscheduled Airline In The World".

Braniff used to serve the best coffee I ever tasted. And if I knew what it was, that's what I'd buy today.

 

[bindian]

Bird and everyone.........I purify the water systems on our birds, along with all mx on all the passenger doors. Take it from someone that cleans the filter bowls................don't drink the water on an airliner. Drink water out of a can only. I don't drink coffee...............so I have no problem on flights. Even with clean water systems on board, the water comes from the airport's water pipes. Why take a chance?
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

Brandi, best I can remember, I never drank any water on an airplane that didn't have some ice and scotch in it.

 

[bindian]

Brandi, best I can remember, I never drank any water on an airplane that didn't have some ice and scotch in it.

You drank the coffee...............the coffee makers are plumbed into the a/c water system. Scotch and water? That reminds me when I went to Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche...............I didn't drink the water, but with ice in my Tequila. The worm died in the bottle, so any bugs in the ice where killed on thawing out of the ice!
hugs, Brandi

 

[oldballs]

Braniff used to serve the best coffee I ever tasted. And if I knew what it was, that's what I'd buy today.

Heck, you Texans probably think that ground up Mesquite tastes good.

 

[SirReal63]

Heck, you Texans probably think that ground up Mesquite tastes good.

Close, mesquite bean coffee does taste good, and like rich expensive coffee. ��

 

[ch1ch2]

Speaking of mesquite, It is very hard to beat a steak cooked of mesquite.

 

[txdon]

Close, mesquite bean coffee does taste good, and like rich expensive coffee. ��

I have some mesquite beans out there now. I need to try that if the cows and deer didn't eat them all. Do you have to roast them?

Does anyone else drink Youpon Tea. The indians called it the Black Drink. It's a dark green tea with a kick. It's the only caffeine plant around and the indians used it before they went to battle.
Survival Plant Profile: Yaupon Holly (The Black Drink!) - The Survival Gardener

 

[txdon]

Speaking of mesquite, It is very hard to beat a steak cooked of mesquite.

The very best is Post Oak wood. That is the coals that Snow's BBQ in Lexington uses to get their award winning flavor. SHHHH don't tell anyone.
Scroll down about half way to see the wood and the coals.
How Snow's BBQ Rose From Obscurity to Texas Barbecue Stardom - Eater

 

[SirReal63]

Go here, lots of information. The beans must still be in the tree, can't pick them up off the ground. Yes, they need to be roasted but it is easy. The waiting list for this guys product is lengthy.

http://www.michaelbunker.com/how-to-make-coffee-after-the-world-ends/