Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[bindian]

Sure can understand your "not wanting to trade", but I bet the residence in Arlington may even throw in a new stadium too

My daughter and I, along with George Strait and Reba, held the first "party" in that stadium. It is big, you couldn't get from some sections to the section where your seat was..............the concessions were a mess and ran out of cups................and well..............you can keep it with that expensive parking price.
hugs, Brandi

 

[NativeSon]

61* this morning. Too warm for this time of year. Looking at a 20% chance of rain......we can only hope. We sure need some rain.

Charlie

 

[texasjohn]

Those of us looking for rain....it's gonna be a bummer Texans, You May Be Done with the Drought But It's Not Done with You

One run-off rain all year. Caught every drop, no overflow into last down stream tank. Tanks nearly all dry now.

 

[Western]

Bet we hit 80* this weekend:confused3: Better break out the sunblock and the sun tea jug! This is crazy, I can already see Jim thinking about "garden time":laughing: Looks like winter with all the dry vegetation, but it feels more like the end of March.

 

[Bird]

DRY is sure right. I see the NWS is forecasting 80 Monday with a 10% chance of rain. So for the month of November, I figure I got 0.03" of rain.

 

[jinman]

This is crazy, I can already see Jim thinking about "garden time":laughing: Looks like winter with all the dry vegetation, but it feels more like the end of March.

Actually, it's much too dry to garden. The cold snaps have turned my asparagus forest yellow, so it's time to trim off the ferns and add compost over the beds. That's the only gardening I'm doing. However, I'm cutting a lot of firewood just in case we have a couple of days of winter in December and January.

 

[texasjohn]

My two grown sons and I went deer hunting the entire weekend before and week of Thanksgiving. One dressed in shorts every day (plus lightweight gillie suit when hunting). Idyllic weather in the hill country. Most comfortable/enjoyable/best hunt in years. Between us, we saw a few axis does, nubbin buck. Saw 3 roadrunners, two whitetail does had a fight standing on their hind legs, red fox, game cam caught hogs, fox, coyote at night. We shot 5 whitetail bucks. Each dropped immediately.

Most recent "cold" front brought clouds, lightening, less that .1 inches rain:thumbdown:

 

[Western]

John, that does sound like a great weekend! I got my buck earlier this year and my neighbor took a decent 8 pnt last Sunday evening.

Jim, I have about a cord of wood cut from my shop slab install last summer, I split it as I need it since my back has been "hit and miss". I had a great plan, was going to have the "younger" crowd show off their splitting skills on Thanksgiving, but we all got caught up visiting with the FIL that had came to spend the week at our house from FT. Bragg. Soooo I still have a cord of wood I need to split:laughing:


I cant recall any significant rain/moisture in November I dont think we have had 1 drop!!. I did change the new style wipers on my daughters truck this morning after work (3am, I better check they snapped in place) also filled the reservoir (sp), so now it probably wont rain for another month, it may be time for Jim to try and do some more digging in the pond, seems it rained a few times he was trying to get some work done:laughing:

 

[bindian]

John

I cant recall any significant rain/moisture in November I dont think we have had 1 drop!!. I did change the new style wipers on my daughters truck this morning after work (3am, I better check they snapped in place) also filled the reservoir (sp), so now it probably wont rain for another month, it may be time for Jim to try and do some more digging in the pond, seems it rained a few times he was trying to get some work done:laughing:

Dennis,
Last November the rains filled up my small pond in one day, breaking the drought here. But it is back now. My new pond lost it's island status today. It is now a peninsular. I'm thinking if it stays dry until Christmas vacation, I'll get another ton of Bentonite and put it in and reslope the banks while removing silt. I might even take out a cedar and make the pond bigger on the uphill side. All in the name of saving water. Well, that is my excuse for more seat time. Will be renting a mini excavator also.
Let the fun begin.:cool2::dance1::drink: hugs, Brandi

 

[Lou66]

I was reading ya'll post today,, well just a few minutes ago.. I live south of Houston,, Lake Jackson but I have land in Angleton,, just thought I would let you know I got rain today.. yes real rain.. had one and half inches when I left the land headed back to Lake Jackson,, I noticed more rain on the way.. the only place I could tell it had rain was on the roadway going to the barn.. I swear the hay fields look dry,, no running water in the ditches,, if my rain gauges didn't show it I wouldn't have believed it.. Lou

 

[Western]

Brandi, I remember that! Your where in a bind (ian) to get done, remember you had to wait!! Why cant are weather be "normal":laughing: I would settle for a median amount of wet/dry.

Lou, your one of the lucky few, we have a couple of chances over the next week, but only 20% right now, so who knows. I'm think'n Santa better put some pneumatic wheels on that slay this year!!!

 

[bindian]

Brandi, I remember that! Your where in a bind (ian) to get done, remember you had to wait!! Why cant are weather be "normal":laughing: I would settle for a median amount of wet/dry.

Lou, your one of the lucky few, we have a couple of chances over the next week, but only 20% right now, so who knows. I'm think'n Santa better put some pneumatic wheels on that slay this year!!!

Dennis,
I would love to have good old fashion June thunderstorms that sweep across the state with blue clouds and Januarys with drizzly, wet cold 40 degree weather. Those wet, cold days make good hog hunting weather here.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Lou66]

just to poke you harder in the eye,, after all the rain yesterday,, total showed to be,, drum roll please,, little less than 3 inches,, 2 and 7/8st inches,, it did closed up a few cayons in the pasture,, I feel safe driving the JD gator back there now.. lol..gumbo cracks big time when it's get dry,, I had some 3 to 4" cracks/gaps,, Lou

 

[mikim]

Lou66 ----lived in Angleton from 92 - 2009 ....had 6" snow Christmas 2004 and 10" rain in 2 hrs labor day of 2006. Flooded the house. Retired and moved home to Bastrop county. 77 deg this a.m. while I was putting up Christmas lights. Just finished a rain collection system of 5k gallons .....now need rain!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I lived in Manvel during the floods of 1979. (But I left town on both weekends)

30" in 24 hour period the 1st weekend. 24" in 24 hours the 2nd weekend.

Brother lived in Lake Jackson, cousin lived in Angleton. Always got frustrated waiting on the trains... Nicknamed it Anglepound cuz it wasn't worth a "ton".

Welcome to the board!

 

[Lou66]

I lived on Bastrop Bayou cr687 from 78 to 2007,, never got flooded,, I remember the one of 78/79 then about ten years later we had another hundred year flood.. I believe they quit using the term hundred year flood about that time..lol,, our house burned down in Feb. 2007 from a new heating unit,,Now I live in Lake Jackson,, own land in Angleton this side of the tracks..lol..Lou

 

[jinman]

Wow! Can anyone believe this weather? What's up with these temperatures in December?:confused3: I have my Christmas lights up on my house and almost feel silly turning them on. Except for all the sales and emails telling me to spend my money, this seems more like spring weather without the rain. I watered my yard heavily on Saturday because it was so dry. On Sunday, I see there are new green sprouts of bermuda popping up. My St. Augustine has never turned yet. It's still green and my wife was up in the middle of the night and noticed five does in the green yard having a midnight snack. For the last week, we've had the house open during the daytime and a window open at night with the ceiling fan going. If I could go hijack a storm from the northwest US, I'd do it. We sure need rain and I'd take a cool/cold snap along with it happily. To make matters worse, my grandson and I split over a cord of wood on Saturday. We haven't had a single fire in the fireplace this year. At least my ugly pile of trees waiting to be firewood is a lot smaller.

Yesterday, our neighbor called to say that they had lots of minnows. They had expected company to go fish on their dock, but plans changed and fishing didn't get done. My wife and grandson went over and fished for about 2 hours while I was doing tractor work along our shoreline. The grandson caught a mess of crappie. One of them was huge. My neighbor said it's the biggest crappie they've ever seen taken out of our lake. My wife has pictures on her cell phone, so I'll try to get them and post later.

 

[Bird]

Yep, I just got back from taking our little dog for a walk in the woods in the park. I figured it was light enough at 7 a.m. and 65 degrees with a nice strong south breeze was nice. I figured it might be warmer than I preferred later. But the drought is getting serious; 1.7" for the month of Oct. and .03" for Nov. Sure hope it rains soon.

 

[Lou66]

Jim: I was just reading your post about the grass growing,, I raise jiggs hay and my fields are green,, I got right at three inches of rain this week,, the first for Nov.. if this keeps up I will be baling in Jan., I just had a friend bale 20 A. of King ranch blue stem,, little dry only got about two 4x5 bales pre acre,,
My son and his wife own a bail camp here on the coast,, they always let us know when the flounder run starts,, this is when the flounders leaves the bays because of the cool water, headed back to the gulf warm water.. (late oct. early nov.) may not have a real run this year.. wonder how that will effect the bays.. Lou

 

[bindian]

I was kinda glad we had warmer temps this weekend. I was pressure washing Cedar posts.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/169916-cedar-post-fence.html
hugs, Brandi