Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Good afternoon all. 71F and rain this morning, forecast for 80F up to 3 inches of rain before rain ending. Haven't found rain gauge yet, new one on shopping list. Inside work today.

Now that you are in TX. Get the txdon recommended one. :thumbsup:

 

[txdon]

Now that you are in TX. Get the txdon recommended one. :thumbsup:

And join CoCoRaHS - Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network once you have the official rain gauge.

 

[Larro Darro]

Correct. That's the title of the first book of 15 (so far in the series). I'm on #7 my wife is on #10. I managed to round up all the books from used book stores - very cheap entertainment for summer reading.

RNG- Roobios - that is the correct tea. Has anyone tried it? It looks pretty healthy - in the book they just drink it hot to cool off - I have not quite figured that out, but one person in the book said it made you sweat and the sweat evaporating cooled the body.

I haven't read any of them, but I've heard good things about them. I stopped reading anything but westerns about 8 years ago. After two years of reading westerns non-stop, I wrote some stories of my own for the next four years, trying not to read anything published after 1725 unless it was a history book aimed at the early 1700's. Now for the last two years I have been deep into the westerns again. But on Monday when I was at the library {it's beside the Civic Center, so I walk over everyday I'm working}, I was standing in the stacks talking to one of the ladies, and we were in the B's. I saw the Nevada Barr novels, and decided to start over with the Anna Pigeon series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/40958-anna-pigeon The lady is a cop in the National Park Service and travels from park to park solving murders. It a pretty good series.

And I drink hot coffee to cool down, to warm up, to relax, to pep up or whatever I'm in the need of. I drink a lot of coffee.

 

[Larro Darro]

I worked in the garden all morning, then walked over to feed BIL's biddies. I ate lunch and got my fishing tackle loaded in the truck and came in to change cloths. Now a thunderstorm has blown up. If it doesn't last too long, I'm still going down to the pond.

 

[daugen]

Roobios - that is the correct tea. Has anyone tried it? It looks pretty healthy

Vitamin C in tea?:

As a fresh leaf, rooibos has a high content of ascorbic acid.[3]

Rooibos tea does not contain caffeine and has low tannin levels compared to black tea or green tea.[3]

well, a good cure early on for scurvy...

 

[farmer2009]

62F @ 6AM. Farmer, when do your horse drawn lessons start?

That was KevT. Not me.

I'm on the beach. Currently watching a lightning show from the hotel.

 

[dave1949]

High was 75F today, breezy and sunny after the morning rain cleared out.

Made a grocery run. Farmer2009 they had fresh whole young chickens for $1.29/lb so I bought three. You need to get home and get those barns full again. :laughing:. Stopped at the local strawberry farm stand. $5.50/qt for fresh strawberries. They have been expensive the past few years. Trucked in strawberries at the grocery were $1.99 for a small container which probably works out to ~$3/qt.

Mowed the yard and went around with the string trimmer this afternoon. I need to prepare those chickens for cooking yet this evening.

 

[Larro Darro]

It was after supper before I had a chance to drag out the old square stern canoe. It was in great shape for having been propped up behind a shed for 15 years. The truth is, I had forgot about it being there until I was looking for some plow points a few weeks ago, and I stumbled across it. It was too late to get in much fishing, but the view made it worthwhile.

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Saw this doe when I pulled out to the road headed over to the pond. She was just past the graveyard. She stood there until I got about a quarter way down to her.

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[Larro Darro]

Let me do that again.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

It was after supper before I had a chance to drag out the old square stern canoe. It was in great shape for having been propped up behind a shed for 15 years. The truth is, I had forgot about it being there until I was looking for some plow points a few weeks ago, and I stumbled across it. It was too late to get in much fishing, but the view made it worthwhile.

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Saw this doe when I pulled out to the road headed over to the pond. She was just past the graveyard. She stood there until I got about a quarter way down to her.

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Are you telling us you went fishing instead of fixing the plow???