Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

2016-04-17, 1845

Very pleasant day...weather couldn't have been better!
Spent a few hours picking up limbs and such that dropped over the winter....had the chipper/shredder humming right along. Also pulled out an old steel pole that had been used for a satellite dish years ago (when those dishes were considerably larger then they are today). The pole wasn't that deep (30"), but had been erected with a concrete base about 18" in diameter by about 18" tall. Pretty sturdy! It was always something I had to mow around...but not any longer!
Got about half a bucket load of dirt to fill the hole and smoothed it all out with the loader.
Stepdaughter cooked a few steaks for a late lunch...very tasty!

Altogether, this has been a very nice weekend!

Roy, glad you are doing much better.

Drew, your guess is as good as mine. I would say that most fertilizers would stay in the organic "frameworks", but pesticides and herbicides are the big no no's.

My garden is full of nutsedge coming out in almost a full covering. I need to till them in but with the rain, it's a no go. I want to make a broomstick with a wick on the bottom to apply something but sedgehammer in a vegetable garden is a no no.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

On tiny phone internet down
Went to store six hours ago just got home
Five inches in an hour
Had to turn around and wait for water to receed
The car coming toward me did not make the crossing
Saw the person abandon the car as watercovered his emergency flashers

What a difference 20 miles makes. So far, we have had about 0.1" of rain and a lot of wind.

 

[lostcreekranch]

The excrement hath starting smiting my fan!

 

[aTexasYankee]

TexasYankee. I have a close friend who just last March bought a place in the Springtown area. Somewhat southeast of town. Wonder how his place is????

Wet! We got just over 5 inches (and the majority of the bad stuff STOPPED around 14:30 so ~5 inches in ~7 hours). It's a light rain now, but the weatherman says more on the way. In the city we had sewers, here there is no where for it to go. I have a small river running through the crawl space, yikes!

 

[Redneck in training]

that sounds wonderful Roy. Hope the good weather continues, going to be in the eighties here the next two days.

I have a question for our organic food experts.
If I plant seeds or plants marked organic, and then fertilize with a dilute solution of Miraclegro,
does that fertilizer do any damage to the organic status? Or does it have to be organic fertilizer?
The top layer of premix garden soil is fertilized also with long release fertilizer. Wondering what the rules are here.
My guess is I've long since gone over the line.

Is that electric fence on the top of the garden? Our garden is close to forested area so rabbits are problem there. Strategically placed owl perch doesn't completely eliminate the rabbit problem but minimizes it to acceptable level. I bolt or weld two tall T posts together and attach about 20 -25" long round piece of wood (1 - 1.5" or so in diameter) horizontally to the top so the owl has something to sit on. Then I use a chain with slip hook and FEL to push it about 2ft in the ground or if possible screw it to a fence post.
Deer problem is another story though. Your electric fence will not stop them for long.

 

[lostcreekranch]

The excrement hath starting smiting my fan!

Now it hath begun smiting my satellite internet and TV.

Sitting on patio, watching this go down. Continuous lightning and thunder. iPad on cellular and listening to Sirrius Radio with cell phone.

 

[txdon]

It gets worse
Called out for water rescue
Just got back in
One braricade runner saved but lost car
Raining again

 

[lostcreekranch]

It gets worse
Called out for water rescue
Just got back in
One braricade runner saved but lost car
Raining again

Good work Don. Rain seems to bring out the dumb a$$es.

We're getting a break in rain now so, I'm headed to check / dump rain gauges.

Was pretty intense here for last 2 hours.

 

[lostcreekranch]

A bit over 2 1/2" so far.

 

[RoyJackson]

2016-04-18, 0315

39 right now...high of 69 today.

Great weekend...now back to the grind (which is how we pay for those great weekends!)

Boy, you guys in Texas are really getting slammed...be safe!