worth1 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 10:30 am At Long last highway construction going on in Oak Hill south of Austin on 290 and 71 area.
What a bottle neck traffic nightmare that area was for years.
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That’s been a horrible traffic choked drive since at least the 1980s.

karstopography wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 11:35 am

worth1 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 10:30 am At Long last highway construction going on in Oak Hill south of Austin on 290 and 71 area.
What a bottle neck traffic nightmare that area was for years.
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That’s been a horrible traffic choked drive since at least the 1980s.

There's not hardly any countryside between Oak Hill and Dripping Springs anymore.
Housing apartments fast food and strip malls.

Your usual Ugly American sprawl.

Spike wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 12:04 pm

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Looking better!!

Spike wrote: ↑Sun Jul 09, 2023 12:04 pm

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Don't look like much yet, but the rain will help it grow and I have a garden this year!!!

Looking better!!

Darn clean jobsite if you ask me.

worth1 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:07 am Darn clean jobsite if you ask me.

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I like the light bulb covers. The Styrofoam cup cover on the conduit is innovative as well.

A rare look inside the work van.
I have two jobs going on and no place to store anything.
Not normally this messed up but it was 104F and I wanted to get home.
The black milk box looking thing is packed with tools.
The yellow conduit bender on the right I've had for close to 25 years.
Im always getting pulled off a job to go do some sort of off the wall stuff.

This goes on every morning at I30 and 71 by the airport.
DPS commercial truck enforcement.
They stop random trucks and hold them for who knows how long inspecting them.
Always dumb trucks.

Not only is it blazing hot I have to sit next to tumbleweeds.

Mojo enjoying some time in the saddle. NE Oregon.

Highway 71 front and back going to Bastrop Texas at around 4:00PM.
And it only gets worse later.

More of a day in the life of Worth.
I was scheduled to do a Fire Marshall test at a church I did some time ago yesterday (Friday).
I get there at 7 and the darn panel had 2 troubles on it.
One I fixed and the other I couldn't and didn't involve me anyway.
We had to test something like 33 duct smoke detectors above the ceiling.
I knew where every one of them were and my work mate didn't or more accurately couldn't remember.
Nor did he know how to test them anyway and it would have taken forever.
So I put him at the panel to push buttons while I did all the heavy lifting.
Plus run back to the panel a couple of times to do some programming changes.
The other guy was completely lost.
The Fire Marshall suggested I put the other guy on the ladders and me at the panel so I could take a break.
I told him flat out nothing would get done.
I had to set up ladders to take ceiling tiles out so I could put taller ladders in the hole in the ceiling.
One 6.
2 8s.
1 10.
And one 12 foot ladder.
This went on all day up until 2:30 PM without a break or a lunch.
We packed up all the ladders and left the job at 3:00.
Here are all the ladders I had to use.
It's 106F in the shade but I was inside.
Needless to say I was totally wore out yesterday and only got a couple of drinks of water out of a water fountain and nothing to eat.
And there was no crying about it.

Henry Cowell.

What a way to start a week..
About a mile from the house and in front of Firestone.

Last brown-bagged "40" of the Summer of 2023, on the dock on Weber Lake-Anderson TWSP/Iron County, WESconsin: The Gotch

One more sunset, lovely.

Not very clear photos, but this animal is a very Texas sort of thing.

I'm about 32 miles from Johnson City home of LBJ and about twice that much to Fredericksburg home of Admiral Nimitz.
I'm just outside Dripping Springs facing more or less north.
Look at that beautiful sky.