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The wife and I had some business to take care of in Portland, TX, across the bay from Corpus Christi, TX. Today is day two of the opening of the new longest cable stayed bridge in the US. Several years late and over budget. Built by the same company that had a few of their bridges collapse in the last few years. Anyway, we made it over ok...this time. The bridge on the left is the old harbor bridge, and the new one is on the right. The other lane will open up in a few days.View attachment 87286View attachment 87285
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Old & new are impressive, good photos.
 
coffeee,
big dog got her morning pills
now she thinks she is magical after she took them, runs around faking being a new dog
rolled the bulldog
the bulldog does not forget and will late until later when big dog jetta is sleeping then shelby will pounce and get her revenge its hilarious
 
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Sitting outside a fabric store while Mrs Gofer loads up on quilting stuff…can’t complain since I just came home with a new 1911 the other day.
I got caught in Bella’s storm Saturday night. Staying in a hotel on the top floor and the tornado alert goes off around midnight. Realizing that I can’t get in the elevator, the tv doesn’t get local channels to follow the storm and the phone doesnt connect to the front office to see if the place has a storm shelter. Smack in the bullseye for projected tornado path…puckered up pretty good. As usual the storm passed with a lot of noise and next morning was bright and shiny.
Should have just slept through it!
 
writing an argument against the group of "less informed persons" that think they can use texas business code to remove our hoa board of directors in oone fell swoop.

while i was a director 2x and i have no love loss for current directors...it still does not change texas law

we had a group( 2 current directors at the time, that were chicken to bring up with the board) go to a woman in may that is easily manipulated and she filed a case in court to get a TRO to stop the annual meeting and stop a vote for new directors on expired terms.

she was told, ballots coming in via mail or email were unsecured and the lady in the office was counting to see what results would be in favor of her husband or not

all of course were false as ballot via mail come in 2 envelopes the inner one states its a ballot and is sealed so it all gets dropped into a secured locked mini vault
no way she could see the ballots
email ballots go to a secured account that has only one access point and its not accessed until the day of the meeting and all are printed off, it takes FOREVER to verify those votes as most also mail or vote in person, even the acces records are printed and filed in the record.

tex law requires in hoa and pao, with exception of condo hoa poa
that ALL ballots can only be cast by members.. and ballots have to be verified agaisnt the master list , so there is no secret vote . as it is.. each ballot must be signed and listed property etc. then those are verified by 5 random people chosen at the annual meeting the day of the vote via lottery ticket given to each person as they enter the building
this is overseen by the president and witnesses for each candidate.. so cheating is impossible
proxy votes are allowed, provide teh proxy is signed by the member and is verified the person is an actual member.
easy peazy

but this crazy woman failed to follow notification of poa that there was an emergency court date only hours before the annual meeting, she cited she sent an email to an employee and posted on facebook :)
thats one.

the other is the judge issued a tro to halt the vote until such time a formal hearing could be held in 2 weeks time. thats OK
he also stated 2 diretors be placed in tempoarily as the 2 were about to exspire.. this is WRONG and he cannot change our by laws or section 209. where as directors are elected a 3 year term and will remain in office until all votes are tallied and new directors are certified.... that makes small delays or unforseen meetign reschedules easier to manage

but he also ordered the vote to be rescheduled 14 days in future..which he has not the cause to change section 209 of property code as notification to members is 10 days to give notice so people can add their names to ballots
plus no sooner than 45 or later than 60 ballots have to be mailed out and all the members must be notified via thier email if on file and address of record and posted at the main poa building entrance
the court does not have authority to re write state law section 209 of property code.

so the day of the meeting the board decided in good cause to postpone the annual meeting and vote until after the next real hearing in 21 days
the ballots were preserved and locked in a vault with security tape over all openings and each director signed over the tape. and it was then locked in a gun cabinet at an officers home. the annual meeting covered evey thing but the vote.
but the outrage was plenty..for some kept insisting the judge ordered the ballots destroyed.. which he did not.

so fast forward 3 days the judge over turned his own TRO citing he had no cause to change section 209 , when the POA attorney outlined quite well the law and how its designed.
he also at the 21 day hearing tossed her case out, because the poa is a corporation and she sued the named members and a few employees vice the agent and the agent was never notified by a process server etc
and he had no cause in a case of corporate law where as the plantiff failed to follow the law and procedures to file such a case, and propery notifiy the agent and prove any malfeasence

now the turkeys are running around stating the poa board denied or refused to follow the judges initial TRO. they state, but not CITE the TRO stated to destroy the ballots in the vault.. judge never put that in his TRO.. i have the certified copy of the clerk
plus NO JUDGE woul dever or could tell an entity to destroy EVIDENCE or records, poa hoa are requred to keep all records at least 7 years in detail...even cast ballots and elections
we do this quite well as its alwasy being requested for review by conspiracy nuts in mor nieghborhood

so tomorrows meetign of the crazies should be fun, as the guy running it likes to file harrassment suits agaisnt people that disagree with him or prove him wrong in public... ENTER poweboatr
i cant wait to read the courts tro and ask him in public where it states to destroy records....which he keeps stating on his facebook and posted bills around the village.
 
We had many HOA'S in the city where I worked in the PD. Tempers often boiled over and that was how we got involved. Listening to the acrid rhetoric of HOA boards and members, I had never seen such Lilliputian, obstinate, petty political actors as with HOA's. Almost 100% of the time the feuds I encountered were longstanding and could be tracked back to old, perceived personal affronts. I could never live in a HOA community. That's the view from my saddle, out here on the ranch.😉
 
HayesGreener said:
We had many HOA'S in the city where I worked in the PD. Tempers often boiled over and that was how we got involved. Listening to the acrid rhetoric of HOA boards and members, I had never seen such Lilliputian, obstinate, petty political actors as with HOA's. Almost 100% of the time the feuds I encountered were longstanding and could be tracked back to old, perceived personal affronts. I could never live in a HOA community. That's the view from my saddle, out here on the ranch.😉
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yup.
we pretty much now have all the original people on same sheet of music
developer did only what was required in 1996 by the county
so our roads are a constant source of displeasure, of course asphalt is pricey and we have 11 miles
and not 8 million dollars so of course it must have been stolen......yep 50 bucks a month x aprox 1300. members... and 8 million is not in savings :ROFLMAO:
but dont dare raise assessment and all employees shall work for free

our biggest problems now are transplants from, and i am sure there are good people in these places, but for some reason we get the the asssshats from CA, DC, WA, CO and IL

i have had the pleasure or punishment of being a director for 2 terms, non sequential and have been an advocate for following the state law (think...stereo instructions) so even if i like a director, it does not get them a pass for screwing the pooch or over reach
and consequently i have had my share of they will take me to court issues over their Bologna

i am amazed people seek me out when crap is has hit the fan at warp speed..because despite being an older hard headed sailor ..i default to the side of truth no matter who gets skewered. its easier that way


i educate where to read the law and our instruments, let them figure it out

so now i am asked again to try to quell the bulll,
this turkey is a DC transplant and of course he threatens everyone with law suits, thinks he knows everything, yet cant event tell you the correct statute that guides us so it will be fun
never mind his property has lots of violations awaiting to be resolved.


i would add i made mistakes on my terms, we are human
nothing humbles you like having to stand in front of the community and say hmm we screwed a duck ..but here is the solution.. :ROFLMAO:
and the last few boards had made some dooozies
but we usually resolve and move on...
but this guy is worse than a tick
 
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closet is done
well the floor any ways
now to go buy a few feet of trim boards and take back a few boxes of flooring 10% waste my eye
i only ruined one piece and i used it after a a guide for the saw to undercut door frames
i do my best thinking doing labor...and at range but its 96 and humid so work inside it was
lots of stuff to go back in after trim is la down
i think can beat surgery day to get everything done and new furniture mrs boatr is looking at
 

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Spent a good part of the day digging up a 12” steel main that was 3’ deep when it was installed in 1961 but is 7.5’ deep now. Tried to dig it where I wouldn’t need shoring but I don’t know. We’ll see tomorrow. I gotta shut it down at the tee and hook a new 1” service with an excess flow valve to it. Anything over 5’ has to be shored. I kept most of the 4x8 hole right about 5’ and just dug a little 30” hole over the tee with a shovel. Legally I gotta go by the deepest part of the hole though. I’ll ruminate on it overnight and make the decision at game time tomorrow.
 
Bassbob said:
Spent a good part of the day digging up a 12” steel main that was 3’ deep when it was installed in 1961 but is 7.5’ deep now. Tried to dig it where I wouldn’t need shoring but I don’t know. We’ll see tomorrow. I gotta shut it down at the tee and hook a new 1” service with an excess flow valve to it. Anything over 5’ has to be shored. I kept most of the 4x8 hole right about 5’ and just dug a little 30” hole over the tee with a shovel. Legally I gotta go by the deepest part of the hole though. I’ll ruminate on it overnight and make the decision at game time tomorrow.
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thats alot of earth growing since the 60s:eek:
be careful that stuff, at least around here will fold in
unless you hit the STICKY clay
then the back hoe gets stuck :ROFLMAO:
 
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