Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[foreman Etexas]

I will second that on Shiner Bock.
Stopped at the parents today and checked out the garden

 

[Western]

Jim, water your yard or wax your tractor, I need rain!!!

 

[NativeSon]

Kyle, my wife and our daughter don't like sauerkraut, but our son-in-law and I certainly had some fine sausage and kraut 2 years ago. Great eating and goes well with Shiner beer, too.:laughing:

My parents said when we lived in Baltimore when I as a baby, anytime you ordered a hot dog anywhere, they asked you "with or without kraut". I've never seen that anywhere in this part of the country, but I still like hot dogs with chili and sauerkraut.

Chili or Sauerkraut for sure but it has to be "Hebrew National" dogs or good German Bratwurst or a good Polish Sausage. We did a "Hans Mueller" Polish Chili-dog topped with Cheese & onions years ago at a restaurant in Downtown Ft. Worth and we couldn't make them fast enough.

Charlie

 

[farmgirl19]

Jim, water your yard or wax your tractor, I need rain!!!

Ditto here! I plan to take my truck to the wash tomorrow morning. It never stays clean, because someone in town, before I can get home with it clean, will have a sprinkler system that has watered the streets along my way. :thumbdown:

I'll be watering the garden by hand this weekend.

 

[Bird]

Chili or Sauerkraut for sure but it has to be "Hebrew National" dogs or good German Bratwurst or a good Polish Sausage. We did a "Hans Mueller" Polish Chili-dog topped with Cheese & onions years ago at a restaurant in Downtown Ft. Worth and we couldn't make them fast enough.

Charlie

I don't know anything about Hebrew National dogs, but I do get my brats from Fischer's Meat Market in Muenster.

 

[farmgirl19]

My complaint with Hebrew National is the salt content. I am a total salf-aholic, and they are still too salty for me. If I *have* to do a plain dog, I'll go with Oscar Mayer all beef. However, I usually use brats, as they are WAY better.

 

[jinman]

Sauerkraut and chili? That has to be a Texas thing. I don't like to mix my chili with sauerkraut. I like a big ol' chili dog with mustard, chili, chopped onions, and grated cheese. I also love a hot dog with hot German mustard and sauerkraut sprinkled with chopped onions. I would NEVER mix the two hot dogs. I am forced to just compromise and have two hot dogs instead of just one.:laughing: I have noticed they are both awfully good when washed down with a cold Shiner Bock. How can you not love a beer thats brewed by a company named Spoetzl? Drink a 6-pack of Shiner and then try sayin' Spoetzl without spittin'.

Farmgirl19 and Dennis: As I type, I hear sprinkles on my roof. I was tilling my garden yesterday and got 90% done. I left my tiller in the back of the Kawasaki Mule just to help my odds of gettin' rain. I just went out and covered the tiller and the rain stopped immediately. I may have to go back out and uncover it plus roll down the windows on my car. I watered my whole garden yesterday, but I'd still love to get a little rain.

Foreman Etexas: Your garden sure looks healthy and clean. How do you keep it so nice at long distance? Are you cheatin' and having your parents help when you aren't there?

 

[Western]

""I may have to go back out and uncover it plus roll down the windows on my car. I watered my whole garden yesterday, but I'd still love to get a little rain.""

I cant believe you covered your tiller!:shocked: of all the.............................Guess we can forget rain and we know who to "thank":laughing:
I lightly watered my garden yesterday, damp 3"-4" down, but I wanted a little moisture at the sprouting seeds.

OH found some chiggers too!!!

 

[txdon]

Chiggers and ticks is the one thing I hated about the country when visiting my grandparents as a kid. For some reason, I'm suspecting an abundance of ants and ant lions, we have neither.
Washed my truck yesterday and it's misting now, .02"! I should have washed the car also.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Sauerkraut and chili? That has to be a Texas thing. I don't like to mix my chili with sauerkraut. I like a big ol' chili dog with mustard, chili, chopped onions, and grated cheese. I also love a hot dog with hot German mustard and sauerkraut sprinkled with chopped onions. I would NEVER mix the two hot dogs. I am forced to just compromise and have two hot dogs instead of just one.:laughing: I have noticed they are both awfully good when washed down with a cold Shiner Bock. How can you not love a beer thats brewed by a company named Spoetzl? Drink a 6-pack of Shiner and then try sayin' Spoetzl without spittin'.

Farmgirl19 and Dennis: As I type, I hear sprinkles on my roof. I was tilling my garden yesterday and got 90% done. I left my tiller in the back of the Kawasaki Mule just to help my odds of gettin' rain. I just went out and covered the tiller and the rain stopped immediately. I may have to go back out and uncover it plus roll down the windows on my car. I watered my whole garden yesterday, but I'd still love to get a little rain.

Foreman Etexas: Your garden sure looks healthy and clean. How do you keep it so nice at long distance? Are you cheatin' and having your parents help when you aren't there?

My place is just couple miles from parents and I have 4yr and 11yr old boys that love to garden,so there are plenty of us,we have had alittle loss from the weather as can see in the picture but not bad. The garden was moved this year and down sized some.

 

[sseelhoff]

Did someone say Shiner? I thought I heard someone say Shiner.

 

[Western]

Did someone say Shiner? I thought I heard someone say Shiner.

Yeah, I think they where talking "bait":laughing:

Now the % chance of rain has dropped from 50%-20% for tonight in North Texas???? We can likely blame whomever covered their tiller!

 

[GreenWannabe]

When I was at A&M back in 65-67, my first choice was Lone Star - still miss it. Guess I never acquired a taste for Shiner.

Jim, last year I was out in KS, and we were having an issue with coons. My friend didn't want to put up a trap, because all he caught was the local cats. I had the bright idea of using bird seed as bait, caught the critter just after daybreak the next morning. Hope you can get rid of yours soon.

Fred

 

[sseelhoff]

Yeah, I think they where talking "bait":laughing:

Now the % chance of rain has dropped from 50%-20% for tonight in North Texas???? We can likely blame whomever covered their tiller!

They keep promising us rain. Still have not delivered on the promise. Getting annoyed with our "forecasters."

 

[Bird]

When I was at A&M back in 65-67, my first choice was Lone Star - still miss it.

Did you ever visit the Lone Star Brewery in San Antonio? The Hall of Horns, and later the Hall of Fins, was a great museum of mounted animals and fish, besides the free beer at the old cherrywood bar from the Buckhorn Saloon. Of course now a lot of that stuff is in downtown San Antonio at the current Buckhorn Saloon & Museum and it's worth visiting, but it was free when it was out at the brewery.

 

[Bird]

They keep promising us rain. Still have not delivered on the promise. Getting annoyed with our "forecasters."

All day we've had a 20% forecast. The NWS doesn't show Denton to have received any rain, but we had enough mist that when driving about 10 miles, I had to let the wipers hit the windshield once about every 2 miles. And now they've lowered our forecast for tonight and tomorrow from 50% to 30%. And I think that's being very optimistic.

 

[Western]

When I was at A&M back in 65-67, my first choice was Lone Star - still miss it.
Fred

I tried it a few times back in the late 70's early 80's. I found I liked it MUCH better when getting biscuits made with it at the state fair. Best biscuits I have ever had too!

 

[farmgirl19]

Now the % chance of rain has dropped from 50%-20% for tonight in North Texas???? We can likely blame whomever covered their tiller!

Well, we *have* to blame somebody!

In college, Texas Pride was my beer of choice, but to try to save calories, I drank a lot of Pearl Light too!

 

[jinman]

Well, it's not MY fault.:talktothehand: Honest! I went out and took my little 'gas-a-hoe' cultivator out of my Mule and started tilling flower beds. Surely, that would bring a downpour, right? It started sprinkling and almost connected dots before stopping. I kept tilling and even tilled a spot to plant a new rose bush my wife bought. . . still no rain.:confused3: I went to my garden and cultivated all around my tomatoes, peppers, sweet peas, and beans. So, you can't blame me for no rain.:gloomy: I was doing my best to make it rain. Now. . . I'm convinced it is Bird's fault. He made God mad at us when he said he mixed chili and sauerkraut on his hot dogs. That just ain't right.:yuck: Yep! It's Bird's fault for sure.:laughing:

 

[Bird]

Well, I took the little dog to the park this morning; stayed longer than we have in a long time, watching those clouds and daring them to get me wet. I thought sure that would do it, but obviously I was wrong again.

And I thought chili and sauerkraut in the hot dogs was the best thing my parents learned living up there in the north in the early 40s.:laughing: