Texas Spring/Summer Thread

   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,261  
True love red, of course. I found a couple dozen really nice ones to fill the vase like she fills my heart.:cloud9:

:laughing: Jim, sounds like your "twitterpated" (as in the movie "Bambi") :laughing: Keep talking like that and the guys here will ask you out (providing you come with the TLB):D

EDIT: Don't hve to worry about me though, I think you come with too much "hose array" baggage:rotfl:
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,262  
Rain North, South, East,West of me over last week or so...but NONE on me. Gonna write a book about the donut hole drought of Jarrell, 2013! Radar shows big rain area heading my way...wonder if it rains when the stars shine? Plenty of stars outside now. I have left the ultimate rain lure in the pasture...the tractor with all windows open!

We'll see... 10% is today's prediction.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,263  
I got 0.6" of rain today. Some places that I traveled received more than an inch. I was hoping it was falling at home too. I guess it was, just not as hard.

Kyle; The story was hilarious! You should write that stuff down and keep to hand down to your son. Then it could be told and laughed about, all over again! And yes, you really should have done the naked rain dance. Sometimes, they work really well!

Thanks FG! Next time the Firework stands are open, I'm gonna buy me some more smoke bombs. :)
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,264  
Hurray for the naked rain dance! Another 1.1 inches of rain overnight! That makes it 1.7 for the last 24 hours!!!! Maybe I'll have pastures, that last the season, and get some hay too! :cool2:
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,265  
Thanks FG! Next time the Firework stands are open, I'm gonna buy me some more smoke bombs. :)

After reading your story, I may do the same. I had one that took up residence in my garage a couple of winters ago. I knew I had one near, but wasn't sure where. One morning really early, I went out to load the truck, and as I was walking around it, I came almost nose to nose with the skunk, coming home for the morning. Didn't have time to deal with it, before work, and was hoping it would be gone when I got home. Nope, was under my tinder box, sleeping. I tried everything I knew. I even blasted the thing with cold well water, and the temps were about 34*! I finally gave up and went indoors to dry and thaw myself. I guess he wandered out into the cold night, soaking wet, while I was warming up. I always hoped he caught pneumonia, and became buzzard food! At least he didn't come back in the garage, after that!
 
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Hurray for the naked rain dance! Another 1.1 inches of rain overnight! That makes it 1.7 for the last 24 hours!!!! Maybe I'll have pastures, that last the season, and get some hay too! :cool2:

We may be pretty close on the amount of rain. I woke at 5 a.m. this morning to the loudest and most spectacular thunder and lightning show I've seen in a long time. It lasted about 45 minutes. And the best part was that it was pouring rain, too. We're still getting a light sprinkle of rain, but I think the gauge has more than an inch and a quarter in it, so with a little more than a half inch yesterday morning, it's wonderful.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,267  
Just went out to gauge. I thought it would be more but .80in. Rained hard at 4:30 here, lots of runoff. Rained hard for an hour. Was expecting a lot more to be measured, but it was one of the best rains we have had for a month or more. :).

HS
 
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Looks like it's over for now, and I guess my old eyes fooled me in the dim light earlier. I just went out and found only about .93" of rain in my gauge.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,269  
.36" here, but with yesterdays rain, I'm over 1". Add Saturdays rain and I'm pushing 2".:thumbsup:

Not usual for late June, but most welcome. There will be "chorus" of lawn mowers over the next few days:laughing:
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,271  
Well, I got another 1/2" of rain and a full two inches of thunder and lightning. I still can't get into my bean rows without sinking up to my ankles. I'll have bigger beans than the Jolly Green Giant before this is all over.:D With the very hot days, I've noticed my beans vines are starting to show stress. This cooler weather and rain may have extended my beans for an additional two weeks. I think beans are like winter rye grass, when the temperature gets into the high 90s, they go away. Maybe I could extend the season by shading my beans, but I have not built any shade for them yet. I got my tomato shade cloth in right before it rained and haven't had a chance to get it up either. All my 'roun tuits are buried in the mud right now.:laughing:
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,272  
Jim, send the boy out on a "bean pick'n" field day in high-top rubber boots!

Your supposed to be chase'n the bride around anyhow!!!
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,273  
Talking about traffic,, I was in the back pasture the other day right after it had rained,, field were wet and soft,, so I had to stay on the roadway,, not much of a road at all,, just a good solid packed ground with grass growing in the middle,, anyway I was headed back to the house,, Of course I was late,, when I rounded a clump of tallow trees and right there in the middle of the road was a mother skunk and three babies,, Now there is no way I am going to honk at them or try to pull around them,, mother skunks don’t like to be bullied,, So all I could do was slow down to their level of speed and hope they would find an exit ramp,, After about 100 yards or so she decided to leave the road with her followers,, I kicked it up a notch and head right to the house,, My wife said “you are later..” I said “yep traffic,,”

This old way of life, as we know it, will change and the new way of life will become others old way of life..
That life,, But there is nothing stopping us from smiling as we watch the changes,, Lou
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,274  
, But there is nothing stopping us from smiling as we watch the changes,, Lou

Lou, that is exactly how I felt when I was 6 or 7 and I would be drug into the ladies changing room at the mall!:laughing:

Glad someone understands, mom sure as H3LL didn't!!:shocked:
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,276  
More than likely most have read this but I found it interesting,, the Chinese has built the fastest supercomputer,, it is capable of computing 33.86 petaflops per second,, that's equivalent of 33,860 trillion calculations per second.. We can only do about half that per second at 17.59 petaflops,, :shocked:
I will be glad when they come on the market so I can buy one for my wife,, so she can balance her check book.. I think the supercomputer will be able to keep up with her spending,, I could be wrong tho.:). Lou
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,277  
Lou, we didn't have the "net" and all this TV when we where kids:laughing: We had "Cowboys and Indians", "Tonka toys" and imagination..... And I used mine:rotfl:
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,278  
When I was a kid, gimme a piece of bacon wrapped in a small piece of cloth tied to the end of a string and I'd "fish" for crawdads for hours. There's nothing quite as entertaining as a big ol' red crawdad to play with and test his pincer strength.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #2,279  
Jim, we did that too!!, Mostly to catch them for bait though. They where excellent for catching Walleye in the river. Hooked so they could still swim/paddle, , dropped them down in front of a rocky bank and they swim right into the rocks where the Walleye hide. Worked good on Black bass and perch too!! Extra fun if there was one of them "girls" around to throw it on!
 
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When I was a kid, gimme a piece of bacon wrapped in a small piece of cloth tied to the end of a string and I'd "fish" for crawdads for hours. There's nothing quite as entertaining as a big ol' red crawdad to play with and test his pincer strength.

Yep, I've done that, but I quit testing pincer strength after one brought blood from my finger.:laughing:
 

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