Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

30 high of 45 today very dry again. Deer running around hunting season here
Rutabaga good stuff have not had in a long time actually since my GrandMother died

Ed prayers for your mom

RNG beautiful pictures it does not get ant better

 

[Thomas]

30F snow flakes dancing in the air from gusty winds,couple more degrees should be daytime high.

Going to be long Monday Bad problems at work, midday funeral service,back to work.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[toppop52]

Ed, I hope your mom gets better soon. About 40 this morning and the wind has settled. 50 today, 60 tomorrow. Got a busy day ahead. Have a good day all.

 

[ronjhall]

Ed, best wishes for your Mom.

 

[daugen]

temps have dropped to 28, bye bye roses. Remarkable how durable those knockout roses are though. They shrugged off the last two
frosts, some kill off but then started blooming away. So nice to see roses blooming at Thanksgiving. You folks in Texas are spoiled, like the Floridians with the warmer average temps that allows the more exotic plants to keep blooming. The walkway coming in at my friend's home in Florida is like a botanical garden, big reds and yellows, all kinds of colors blazing away. Absolutely beautiful. And what do we have? yeah, brown and grey. Though I'm not looking for snow which would make everything look beautiful.

I bet my friend's plants took a mild beating in that hurricane recently. Which reminds me, and I'm really digressing here, of an observation of mine that no one seems to do any work themselves in Florida, they hire everyone to do everything. So much money has moved down there I wonder if it has mentally polluted the work ethic of the state.

Anyways...the landscape gardeners after a big storm just rake it in, literally and figuratively. All those palm fronds on the lawn.
There must be an army of a million Hispanic landscapers that move over early in the morning to the wealthy coasts from the poorer middle of the state, the Swamp...
I lived on a boat between Ft Lauderdale and Miami for three years. My wife and I couldn't wait to go home.
The Northerners were too often the Ugly Americans, which I guess is an older term now.
Crass, selfish and unkind. They do settle down after they've been there awhile. Some remain insufferable.
Money does really corrupt the minds of some, builds a sense of self importance that just isn't healthy.

back to regular programming

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 38˚ and they said the low was going to be 42˚ and my garden is uncovered. I hope it does not drop any lower before the sun comes out.

Ed, I hope your mom feels better.

Today my Mom and my sister-in-law's Mom will be having a tamale making party with our tamale making machine. Mom has been slow cooking a pork roast over night for the center of her tamales and of course our spicy beans will be in ours. We are taking our 3 pressure Instant Pots to quicken the cooking time after we wrap them in the corn husk.

My Mom is the expert in German cooking and my SIL's Mom Tex-Mex so we will be making German/Mexican tamales.

 

[daugen]

Ed, sorry your Mom is challenged, and hope she breathes easier and feels better. Must be hard on you.
Some where and some time in Heaven she will thank you.
Your "son" is blessed to have your love. You are walking the walk and are a good man.
You and Don and so many others that take such good care of elderly parents. You'll never get enough thanks,
but your pleasure I know is internal.

 

[wngsprd]

28 and crystal clear going to 63.

What a gorgeous evening you had, RNG...looked like a special time.

Randy, I didn't know you could get an ATV at that low a price. Enjoy!

Don, German Tex-Mex sounds yummy.

Some of you probably have your land in a lower real estate tax rate designation for ag/forest land. I spent several hours yesterday working on some tax issues for the family's farm...owned by relatives, but I manage it and get to hunt there. We leased about half of the farm to a power company to install a solar farm, and they are almost ready to "turn it on." However, Friday the county sent me a tax bill, rolling back the tax savings for the last 6 years. It is a big bill. I'm trying to work through the details to ensure accuracy, and reading over the solar lease to confirm if the power company must pay it. Plus the county also sent a reassessment notice for next year...solar land is clearly worth more than peanuts, cotton, corn, and soybeans. I plan to meet with the Board of Assessors to flesh out the details of the increase and talk about some discrepancies in their records.

I made two new bird feeders yesterday, so need to mix up some peanut butter corn meal suet to fill up the holes in the cedar logs.

 

[daugen]

so need to mix up some peanut butter corn meal suet to fill up the holes in the cedar logs.

last time I set that stuff out a bear bent my metal feeder stand like a pretzel. No more peanut butter here. Sorry birds.

Billie, I hope the utility is "on the hook" for all of it.

 

[txdon]

The temperature just dropped again and I see frost in the valley it's creeping up the hill to the garden. The sun is just rising so the race is on. Which one will reach the garden first.