The Texan
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Don, all I can say is awesome, the black ones are rare anywhere. When are you leaving for the summer, we'll take your gate....![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/biggrin.gif "biggrin") .
Blondie, did you hear the gossip about Jimmy's good fortune at a casino out in AZ. Heard from one of his co-workers that he won a new sports car while gaming at the casino. Would be nice if it happened.
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Don/Shar
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The Texan wrote:Don, all I can say is awesome, the black ones are rare anywhere. When are you leaving for the summer, we'll take your gate.... .
Blondie, did you hear the gossip about Jimmy's good fortune at a casino out in AZ. Heard from one of his co-workers that he won a new sports car while gaming at the casino. Would be nice if it happened.
Sorry, we are not leaving until June 26. It has been a very good gate. The most log pages we have filled have been 3. Usually it's one or one and a half. Very seldom do we have any traffic after 10PM( if
the fracing crew is not here, of course)
Don / Sharon Smith
8th year fulltiming
1 high school sweetheart bride of 52 yrs. Sharon
1 long haired mini dauchound...Jake
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rudyanddebbie
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hi
we heard jimmy is doing well...no cancer in the brain..but it is in one kidney and he will have that removed.
debbie
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ChaosAgent
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Don/Shar wrote:Yesterday about 6PM driving along the back road of our ranch I found this guy sleeping in the sun. Our company man that reads the pressures called his friend a game warden out of Laredo and he said they have had several reports of black cats north of Laredo. He also said they have 19 radio collard cougars between Freer and Cotulla.
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Are sure this cat didn't escaped from a zoo or wildlife park somewhere?
According to Texas Parks & Wildlife, there are no black cougars in Texas and never have been.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/mlion/
Plus with the rounded ears that looks more like black leopard. Cougars have sharp, pointy ears.
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jimlreed
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DW & I are considering Gate Guarding next winter. I was just wondering if there is anything that we could do now (we live in MO) to smooth/expedite the process when we get to TX? I was thinking if we could do something now-getting fingerprints, etc. maybe things would go faster when we get there.
Thanks!
If you call Gate Guards S ervice, LLC in Corpus Christi, TX they will send you all the paperwork you need, You can do it all and send it in to them and they will put you to work asap when you get here. EASY
Good Luck, it's a great way to spend the cold months and make a little to spend in the summer.
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olcoon
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Thanks Jim, that is exactly what were wanting to know, and how we were hoping it would work.
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rudyanddebbie
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hi
mark confirmed...jimmy did win a car! aint that great
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OK.. So we're way up north near Muenster, and - being from California - we're starting to get quite worried about the storms up here that we keep hearing about. Particularly tornadoes - does anyone have experience with these, or recommendations for what to do while living in an RV in the oil fields if one touches down? I've never seen one before, I can deal with earthquakes just fine, but these things kinda freak me out ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/wink.gif "wink") Several of the crew guys I've talked to have suggested getting the heck out of the trailer and hiding out in/under the sand tanks since they're not going anywhere. Doesn't lightning come along with tornadoes though? Being in a big open top metal box doesn't seem like a good idea if there's lightning too - otherwise I suppose it sounds fine though *shrug*
Speaking about lightning, I'm slightly worried about it on its own too. We love lightning and have been looking forward to seeing these huge texas storms I hear about, but upon being faced with actual impending storms it now occurs to me that we've always watched from the comfort of a nice up-to-code properly grounded house. The generator trailer has a grounding spike in the ground (or as much in the ground as we could get it since the ground is like concrete on some of these pads), with a connection to our trailer frame - so I suppose a strike should theoretically be most likely to follow that path should it hit the trailer?
Hopefully in all the combined years of gate guarding experience in this thread someone has personal experience with these things and/or suggestions on best practices while living in the field. It would be great stuff for us all to review I'm sure! Thanks much
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GGup
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Check these two sites:
http://www.tornadoproject.com/safety/safety.htm
http://www.ready.gov/tornadoes
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/safety.html
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Seen some but lucky to never have been in one. Seen the damage in person...sometimes very UNbelievable.
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Don/Shar
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ChaosAgent wrote:Don/Shar wrote:Yesterday about 6PM driving along the back road of our ranch I found this guy sleeping in the sun. Our company man that reads the pressures called his friend a game warden out of Laredo and he said they have had several reports of black cats north of Laredo. He also said they have 19 radio collard cougars between Freer and Cotulla.
Are sure this cat didn't escaped from a zoo or wildlife park somewhere?
According to Texas Parks & Wildlife, there are no black cougars in Texas and never have been.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/mlion/
Plus with the rounded ears that looks more like black leopard. Cougars have sharp, pointy ears.
Game warden in Laredo said they have had 8 sightings of black cats north of Laredo. He is not what is known as a Panther, it is a mutin colored Jaguar or Mutin colored couger. Down here close to the border they said the cats came across the mountains out of mexico looking for food and water and they have plenty of food here. I have seen him 3 different times and several of the drilling team have seen him also.
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