Upon arriving to feed them recently, two wild dogs were discovered on the island. They were told that they either had to buy the lot or move out. We passed by Goat Island on Saturday and saw them also. We need to have the MP's round up these people and get them off our lake. What can we do about the predators with the water dropping?
Animals and Pets Anime Art Cars and Motor Vehicles Crafts and DIY Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Ethics and Philosophy Fashion Food and Drink History Hobbies Law Learning and Education Military Movies Music Place Podcasts and Streamers Politics Programming Reading, Writing, and Literature Religion and Spirituality Science Tabletop Games Technology Travel. That running around and peeing on trees is not all it is cracked up to be. I would like to put " " on my ignore list, but it will not allow me to click on " "... Meeting more lake friends and neighbors. We bring weed-eaters to cut grass, sweep up the grass and pine straw, clean up trash already there, sweep the beach area and old fireplaces with broken bottles and glass. Didn't see them Saturday but they were all gathered in one spot near some folks parked on the bank Sunday afternoon. I know I may get dissed for saying this, but putting defenseless animals on that island is just not humane in my opinion. 12/29/2008 2:24:36 PM. 8/25/2009 12:51:31 PM. Coley Point that is west of Kowaliga Bridge in Elmore Co. My best guess is that is a typo because all of the roads and other landmarks around there are CoLLey not Coley. Goat island high rock lake park. Created in 1929, High Rock Lake covers an impressive 15, 180 acres (61 km2) and boasts 365 miles (587 km) of shoreline. Come visit me sometime. Please don't disregard the threat that Ivan presents to us. But there have been some local efforts to improve the Rowan side of High Rock.
UPDATE ON THE GOATS - THEY ARE CURRNETLY BEING FED AND CHECKED ON ON A MULTI-WEEKLY BASIS. As for the no body believe that goats are Gods trash compactors!!! Let us know how we can help. The seemed pretty hungry. For example Goat Island as it is referred to by the locals (I think every lake has a Goat island and some mythical story about how it got its name). Those of us in the Birmingham area can also help – Mayor Langford has said that the digital divide is responsible for most of the goats' ills, and has started a non-profit organization to help. We're so glad everyone is thrilled by the return of the goats! How about an address so we can mail a donation? People would never tolerate it on their city streets. Im a vet of hard drinking and late night you mean veterinarian??? High rock lake goat island. I'll stand corrected & eat crow... I'm really glad we got that cleared up!
It seems someone is doing this for human enjoyment and not because it will be good for the goats. Many people feed him during the summer, but when the water goes down and the lake is freezing, no one but a few of us feed him. GoneFishin, a caribou hunting trip with Sarah Palin. It seems you must of obtained your approval from a different office.
It aint about money or greed. 6/12/2009 9:06:37 AM. At one time, the island became a residence for several families of goats for as long as lake dwellers can remember. 12/23/2008 10:20:02 PM. Glad to see the goats are back. But the donkey is not going to voluntari;y swim over by himself. 8/13/2009 12:55:05 AM. 7/2/2008 9:39:38 PM. Goat Island High Rock Lake. Sorry, I couldn't resist. There are 2 organizataions in alex city that could possibley help, the ala. horse council and the lake martin shelter, a lot of other shelters in different parts of ala. might also be able to help. I guess that I assume that anyone who enjoys our wonderful lake would try to keep it clean. If the floating dock is to be built with a walkway instead of a stationary pier, the dimensions will fall under the stationary pier category. My spouse and I have done as much as we can to make our Lake place (our full-time home) fit in with the setting of the Lake.
Because they like the atmosphere at lake martin. When we leave it's always much cleaner than when we arrived. I haven't been to the island in years since I no longer have a pontoon boat but it was a highlight to show visitors seeing them for the first time.
The boys are back, and just in time for Season 3 o…. 'Don't act coy with me, ' she said. LANSDALE: Without a doubt. DAVIES: Joe R. " The Sundance channel's series based on his characters, Hap and Leonard, premieres next Wednesday. Once I start, it's hard to stop. There's not much else, but read on If you feel so inclined. A major motion picture based on Lansdale's crime thriller Cold in July was released in May 2014, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), and Don Johnson (Miami Vice). Everything to the right and the left of you is a black wall. Cold Cotton – A Hap and Leonard Novella that can be found in Born For Trouble: The Further Adventures of Hap and Leonard. For long-time admirers of the author like me, Blood and Lemonade is a delightful addition to the novels and a much welcome answer to the mystery of how their friendship developed.
Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the investigating the good ol' boy cops can't--or won't--do themselves. Veil's Visit, an ori…. Leonard Pine is many things Hap is not: black, gay, and surprisingly conservative. His crime novels about two East Texas characters named Hap and Leonard are the basis of new Sundance channel series. DAVIES: Well, just to clarify, you actually - you didn't actually get into the theater. They end up stranded in Playa del Carmen with muggers, a mysterious old fisherman and his daughter, and a sticky web of intrigue and violence. You can distil it down to two things, character and heart (possibly three if you throw in East Texas). LANSDALE: When I was a kid, comic books were the first thing. They're people who try to be heroes, and they screw up a lot. With his Hap and Leonard series, East Texas author Joe R. Lansdale has created one of the most indelible crime-solving duos since Holmes and Watson. Things only get more complicated when Leonard's ex also shows up dead.
They're not too happy to see Leonard, and no one is happy to see them, but they have a problem and only Hap and Leonard will take the case. LANSDALE: Well, we went fishing. LANSDALE: Well, I was born in the '50s - 1951. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. And when I started writing, this guy Leonard showed up. Introductions by both authors. Inheriting one hundred thousand dollars and a smal…. These guys have a center they maintain as they get older and have different life experiences. Audience Reviews for Hap and Leonard: The Two-Bear Mambo. DAVIES: Joe R. Lansdale's new book is "Honky Tonk Samurai. " About the Hap and Leonard short story series. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. 10 New Books Coming Out This Week February 13, 2023.
And he was a - very, very racist in his speech and whatever, but you know, I was just - my mother was just the opposite. 'I just got naked, " I said. "The Hap and Leonard books explore questions of race, sexuality and religion in modern red-state America. All while cracking jokes with each other and munching on copious helpings of vanilla wafer cookies. But I owe all of that to my father because he was the first one to introduce me to that kind of stuff through the boxing and the wrestling. Same goes for the film Son of Batman, which Lansdale penned. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. And that's what we did.
DAVIES: What were the positives? And then one day for whatever reason, he just decided that he was going to grab me and punch me. Some of us are quite comfortable with our bodies, our nudity. What is Hap and Leonard about? Of Mice and Minestrone – A collection of five short stories taking us from Hap and Leonard's teen years to Leonard returns from Vietnam – The Kitchen, Of Mice and Minestrone, The Watering Shed, Sparring Partner, and The Sabine Was High. I had done these comic book stories.
With the help of the Sundance TV show, help came in the form of a new book and more surprises will come next year! But it also makes you less stupid because after you've had these kind of things happen to you, you know better how to avoid them. Hap and Leonard wasn't Lansdale's first rodeo with film and television. So I grew up during that part of the '50s when everything was supposed to be at its best in America, they claimed, and then eased into the '60s. What Hap and Leonard has that gives it an edge is it two titular characters. "Not Our Kind" is set against the backdrop of the late 1960s, when a teenage Hap first befriends Leonard and faces the racism and intolerance of his peers up close. Hap & Leonard are properly funny. In the case of Hap and Leonard, I came at it ass about-face. Hapless chicken-plant guard Hap Collins gets into …. Lansdale isn't sure how much the pandemic has affected his writing, however. 'I'm reading, you know. Character is key and when you see how well these two to play on screen, you have to ask why the hell hasn't Peter Dinklage gotten funding for The Thicket?
I'm particularly happy because the two novellas, Hyenas and Dead Aim, are considered #'s nine and ten in the progression and were hard to find at a reasonable price. He went down and got the dog. She loved nonfiction in particular, but she was always getting books somewhere and bringing them home, and I read anything I could get my hands on because it was like I was born to it. And when I read that, I thought, hey, I can do this. You are there to be in the moment. I saw the TV show and then discovered the books. Ryan Murphy's Dahmer Equates Queerness with Monstrosity January 6, 2023 by John Copenhaver. DAVIES: So you grew up poor in east Texas in the country, and your mom got you into books early. Adaptation is attempting to capture lightning in a bottle and then to try to make it strike twice. When you have read the books and watched the show, you can only marvel at the way they have pulled off the transition.
LANSDALE: Looking out the windows, had no sound, so she just made up the stories. But it is feasible to collect the odd and ends created over the years, the short stories and novellas. Despite some rather large differences between the show and the source novels, that magical element that Joe R. Lansdale deftly weaves throughout his novels is transferred to the small screen perfectly.
Hap is white, liberal, straight and a Vietnam War resister, while Leonard is black, conservative, gay and a war veteran. In Lansdale's books, Hap tells us the story in rather rueful reminisce. He's published more than 40 novels and 30 short story collections. Like Hap, I was a Vietnam War resister. He was also phenomenally strong and not a very big man. He knows life has passed him by and while not totally happy with the situation, Hap has, perhaps, come to terms with it. And of course, you know, there's a long history of racial issues there, and you have been called the conscience of east Texas. The image of a red devil's head painted on a tree is just the beginning-a little research turns up a slew of murders with that same fiendish signature. I had no idea I was doing a series. Filled with breakneck action, gut-busting laughs, and one gigantic crocodile, this hilarious novel is as hot as a habanero pepper.
So, thank get five shorts in this collection too. It wasn't like a - one of those moments where everything just comes together, but it was certainly somewhat euphoric in the back of my mind like somebody had lit a candle or turned on a light. They should do the fourth season. "The best crime novel I've read in years. " DAVIES: Well, describe one of those cousins for us. Season three seems entirely self righteous with very simple characters. Two of you hanging outside with shotguns trained and hoping you can get in and rescue this person without getting, you know - well, just being able to get out alive.
They couldn't be more different. We follow Hap Collins, a white working-class laborer who spent time in federal prison for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War, and his best friend, Leonard Pine, a gay, black Vietnam vet with anger issues. Paste: How important is it that the show really captures that brotherhood? I grew up on a lot of private-eye fiction, and I never really wrote about that except for some short stories.
A long-lost bookmobile opens a wild new chapter in….