What's the Point?

If you put enough people together, eventually you'll end up with somebody who knows something about everything. Well not really one somebody who knows.... more like a bunch of somebodies who each know...    you know....

Anyway, here at the Lone Star Corral, we have somebody who knows how to make bows out of PVC pipe. Not the kind of bows you put on packages, but the kind you shoot.

Using different diameters of a 48 inch piece of Schedule 40 PVC and a heat gun, (like you'd strip paint with,) you can make recurve bows of varying draw weight. According to John, (the guide for this activity,) a 1/2" pipe will produce a bow with about 30 pounds of draw weight, while a 3/4" pipe yields about 45 pounds of draw weight.

Now like all red-blooded Americans, I like to shoot. Problem for me is, I can't afford another hobby that has a high initial price tag, like buying a nice gun, and then LOTS of consumables, like bullets, and the HOW ain't no place to be reloadin' my own. So this bow thing intrigues me. Under 5 bucks for bow making materials, 3 or 4 bucks each for some Wal-Mart arrows and a couple more bucks for some target tips. AND, it's all reusable; again and again.

When I'm done, it should look similar to what you see here. Then it'll be fun until somebody's eye gets shot out!

At Home in Hondo

Yeah, yeah, I know, we were supposed to be gone already, but this place is just so darn NICE!

Like I wrote last time, we were considering this CO-OP as a potential "winter home base" for many reasons. After much discussing, plan reviewing, and heart checking, we decided to buy in.  Having a lot here will allow us to have a moderate climate to winter in while we go exploring east and west. In the summers we can head north to cooler places.

The lot is 50 feet wide and 70 feet deep. It has a 60 X14 foot concrete parking pad/ driveway with a 5 X 20 foot concrete patio adjacent to the pad. There is a 12 X 10 foot shed. The shed has electric, an attic, three windows, two closets and two work benches. Should make a nice workshop for our hobbies.

Here's some pics of the lot.

The tree you see in the pics is a Texas Live Oak. It's an oak tree, but it's evergreen. No cleanup! It's placement is perfect. In the winter, when the sun is in the south, the parking pad is sunny. In the summer, when the sun is in the northern sky, the parking pad is shaded. So, nice and toasty in the cold months, and if we find ourselves here in the summer, we'll be sittin' purdy.