Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Western]

BTW, Caught mole #7:thumbsup: Wife said she saw new tunnels in her flower bed. I looked in the rain yesterday while drinking my morning/ afternoon coffee, sure enough, rascal had dug from her flower bed, under the boat and into the yard. I set a trap yesterday around 5pm and he was dead when I checked at 1pm today!!! Love these Victor "out-of-sight" traps!

 

[Bird]

Dennis, if you'll come catch my moles, I'll come mow your yard. I've got lots of mole tunnels and am using my second kind of mole trap, and still haven't caught a one. I guess I'll have to buy the out-of-sight traps online because I haven't seen any in the stores here.

We had that brief downpour followed by a very light rain yesterday evening, and my wife said it was raining at 3 a.m. this morning, so all told I got another .45" overnight. That brings me up to 1.39" for the 4 days. The NWS says we've still got a 40% chance today and tonight, so I've tried to encourage it. I took both vehicles to the car wash this morning, vacuumed the inside, and got them all cleaned up. A neighbor behind me has a crew that stripped his roof this morning and put down new felt. Now they've just started putting the new shingles on.

 

[Western]

Bird, I bet they have the roof done before dark! Those boy's are pretty quick!

If you get an out-of-site trap and I get in your neck of the woods, I will sure show you what has worked for me! If you make the modification as I did, you will thin them out in hurry.

Looks like more rain headed my way, may even "clip" Jim too

 

[farmgirl19]

Raining here! I am up to 2.1 inches, since Sunday morning! :drink:

 

[Lou66]

I do believe Moses is living at the Brazoria county airport.. I got less than a tenth of inches..:confused3:Lou

 

[farmgirl19]

I do believe Moses is living at the Brazoria county airport.. I got less than a tenth of inches..:confused3:Lou

Are you getting good clouds, Lou? Maybe we could fly over and drop dry ice out, into the clouds! It would take a LOT of dry ice, but if the clouds are ripe, we can drop the ice just over your places. Now, if we can find something like a DC-3 or larger to rent, that will carry the capacity......:confused3:

 

[bindian]

Thanks Lou. I heard the storm. It was nice and short, about 8/10ths of an inch. I'm all green here for a few weeks now. What I need is about 2 days of slow steady rain, or a 3 inch downpour like I got last year when I building the island pond. The island pond (now a penisular) looks like it had some rain runoff, but the small, catfish filled pond doesn't look any different from the first of the week.
hugs, Brandi

 

[jinman]

My wife and grandson were gone all day, so I went to the garden this morning after putting on my rubber boots. I picked about 1-1/2 quarts of jalapeno peppers and a few bell peppers. Then I started picking tomatoes. After I filled two 8-quart buckets to over-full of tomatoes, I figured that was enough. I still have green ones that are water cracked, but I'll let them ripen a bit and then pick them. They make perfectly good sauce, so there's no loss. I still have plenty of slicing tomatoes and 1-1/2 gallons of ripe cherry tomatoes. I also picked a little okra and half a bucket of cucumbers. I found one more very ripe Israel melon and also an 8-qt bucket overflowing with squash. Before coming in the house, I picked half a 5-gal bucket of blackeyed peas. Boy-oh-boy, are they huge. All this water has made them fill out bigger than normal. Whew! I'm gettin' tired just talking about all this stuff.

I had to do something with all the tomatoes. Our refrigerator is full and we had then all over our counter and two cookie sheets double stacked on the floor in front of the window. I decided to make more salsa with a cooked salsa type recipe. I cut and then chopped tomatoes until I'd filled a 10 qt stew pan completely full and a 2-1/2 gallon big aluminum pan I got with a turkey roaster. I cooked the watery chopped tomatoes to reduce the fluid for about 2 hours and then added all my ingredients except for about half my onions, peppers, and cilantro that I wanted to add fresh at the end. Everything is done now and cooling. I made one pot mild and the other pot hot. I'll package them in Ziploc bags and freeze them. This winter when there's freezing temperatures outside, I'll eat salsa with a smile on my face. Right now though, I'm tired and sick of lookin' at tomatoes all day.

 

[farmgirl19]

I hear ya, jinman! Picked more okra and zucchini today, along with some tomatoes. I only get to do much "processing" in the evenings or weekends. Too tired tonight, so will begin in earnest again tomorrow, when I get home.

And yes, when it is cold and miserable outside in the winter, the home grown and frozen stuff is awesome! I love using the tomatoes in LOTS of recipes, and salsa doesn't last long around here either!

I have some standing water in the arena and a couple of pens! Can't tell any is added to the stock tank though. Still a "chance" of rain the next couple of days, and then 20% being called for, on Sunday night. Wouldn't it be great if we could get another rain event this Sunday too?

 

[Western]

That storm that blew through, added .93 to the 2.91 or so I had. We actually had some decent run-off this time. Did get windy, had a couple of limbs fall, but nothing more that I have seen, so great thing overall.