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Jim,
For even more fun, try Google Earth. Many areas now have a timeline scale so you can choose various dates. Also day view and night view. Google Earth and Bing each have advantages and competition is good so each keep coming up with new things. I started using Earth back in my genealogy research. A number of different land surveys were used across the U.S.
In states that have townships and sections in their counties there is an overlay template for that. In conjunction with the BLM Glo records available online Home - BLM GLO Records you can often find who the original land owners were and when they purchased the land from the government or when it was Granted to them. Even your ancestors signature on the documents.
The Street view in Earth is great for looking at places you may have lived in the past to see how if any they have changed as well as for ancestors if they lived in a city area. Street addresses are usually off a few blocks ( on purpose) but you can go up and down the streets until you find the properties you recognize. A caution.... if you save locations, pin them, note them, etc. be sure to save copies of your locations as seperate KMZ files in a folder outside Earth. When a major update of Google Earth is available you will lose your saved sites during the update. After the update just copy the KMZ files form your other folder and import them into the updated version of Earth.
Ron
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Yeah, I only sweated through one t-shirt today. It was cooler, but very humid. Even so, it was markedly less searing than the 105+ temperatures of the last couple of weeks.
Ron, I'm very familiar with Google Earth and Street View. It's been discussed here several years ago. I haven't used every feature or anywhere near it.
Ron,
Bing's been around awhile on TBN, several guy's have used it, or Google to show property outlines or drainage, but not usually a long thread.
There are threads on here that would take months to "dig" out:laughing: Usually if someone ask a similar question to another thread, someone recalls it and will place it for consideration, which is a big help.
One thing I have noticed is similar to this. Well Problems for instance, get allot of post on this one, but each well so different (depth, pump size, head ect, tra.) outside of the normal stuff, that a new thread is almost a given.
Sometimes I do better by asking, since the search function doesn't work near as good as the memory of some of the guy's on here.
Thanks for your information.
I just did a search test of the TBN Engine.
I see there are a lot of references spread all over the posts, probably because most of us folks tend to drift off the subject, or cute titles of the posts. Using a "Search for Titles Only" weeds it down to more about the subject, at least title wise. These posts probably drift also.
Really, that is part of what makes the forum enjoyable to me.
Ron
Drifting off subject a bit, back to gardens.
The animals always seem to know when it is time...
My wife had taken the charger back to the high tensile fence around the horse pasture last night for a little retraining lesson;
"the grass always looks greener on the other side"
This morning we found that a raccoon had pulled down some just ready to pick ears of corn in the garden where the charger had previously been doing night duty
to keep the deer out with a 4 inch wire and a 3 foot wire. The coon would have gotten his nose stung had the charger been on but he seemed to know it was safe.
There were also four deer in the orchard next to the garden picking fruit and eating leaves off the trees.
They will all be in for a surprise tonight as the charger will be back on around the garden and a live trap with a fish head awaits the coon if he makes it past the wire.
Isn't gardening fun!
Ron
The animals always seem to know when it is time...
My wife had taken the charger back to the high tensile fence around the horse pasture last night for a little retraining lesson;
"the grass always looks greener on the other side"
This morning we found that a raccoon had pulled down some just ready to pick ears of corn in the garden where the charger had previously been doing night duty
to keep the deer out with a 4 inch wire and a 3 foot wire. The coon would have gotten his nose stung had the charger been on but he seemed to know it was safe.
There were also four deer in the orchard next to the garden picking fruit and eating leaves off the trees.
They will all be in for a surprise tonight as the charger will be back on around the garden and a live trap with a fish head awaits the coon if he makes it past the wire.
Isn't gardening fun!
Ron
I gave up on my garden early, just to dry and to much effort this time around. What I did have, either got to dry or to wet. even the weeds have mostly died, if I think about it, I will try to get a photo of the under brush.
Noticed while out walking the fence the neighbor lost a huge oak tree, I have gave him some fire wood and he has cut a little, but he is like me in the sense we hate to cut a good tree. I guess he should get most of what he needs out of that big one. I have lost about 10 oaks, a few Live Oaks and all the 60 trees I planted last year.
Noticed while out walking the fence the neighbor lost a huge oak tree, I have gave him some fire wood and he has cut a little, but he is like me in the sense we hate to cut a good tree. I guess he should get most of what he needs out of that big one. I have lost about 10 oaks, a few Live Oaks and all the 60 trees I planted last year.
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I'm seeing lots of leaf-shed by my postoaks and blackjack oaks. Of course, there's a lot of this in my woods, but the trees in my yard also are in stress. However, postoaks don't particularly like being in yards and getting watered on a regular basis. I have several trees that rebel because they refuse to be "domesticated" and don't like having their shallow roots wet when I water the grass. Only the bigger and more mature trees seem to be unfazed. I have three small trees that are mostly dead and several 12" to 14" diameter trees in serious stess.
Dennis,
Sorry to hear about your trees. Planting oaks is an investment for future generations and the climate that we can only hope will be used wisley. Sad to say around here you often see truckloads of 12-18" diameter 40' oak logs
on the way to sawmills that cut them up for shipping pallets. I guess that is one of the factors that makes a red oak project board at Lowes $6 a board foot nowadays. Attached is a picture of an old oak on a field line of mine. I took the picture in 2006. It is actually a vertical sew/pan of 6 exposures from standing near the bottom of the tree. It has been estimated to be close to 150 years old. I don't know if TBN will allow it to load this size but if they do, download it and view it full size on your monitor to get the massiveness.
Looks like they accepted it at 972kb. I think they have a 1MB limit.
Ron
Jim,
Check this solution. The article was written in 2000. It would be interesting for someone living in or near Denton to see if these post oaks thrived.
Botanist extends life of post oaks - University of North Texas News Service
Ron
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Never trust an article written by somebody who spells "post oak" as two words.
:laughing:I'm very familiar with UNT and the campus. I can tell you that the soils and conditions are very different from where I live. While the trees growing there share the same characteristics (heat tolerant, low water needs, hate change) they were grown in different soils and different circumstances. Like people, they adapt. Once adapted, they don't like change. The happiest postoaks I have are in my woods and are surrounded by underbrush, poison oak, and green briars. Those types of trees are rarely over 30' tall. Others growing along creek banks or in creek bottoms will be 50' tall and have large diameter trunks. I've seen many suggestions for improving tree health, but the most honest arborists will tell you that at best, it's a roll of the dice.
Where I grew up in Denton, Tx, we had a big postoak in the corner of our yard. The dirt road made a 90 degree turn at that tree. What started out as a sandy lane turned into a gravel road and then a paved street. The only thing that kept the street and people from cutting the corner and driving in our yard was this big postoak. The soil there was deep and sandy with a water table down around 25 feet. My guess is the roots went so deep that anything on the surface didn't matter. The tree was healthy until it was pushed over during excavation after I sold the property. My current house is on a rocky shelf of hard caliche. Topsoil is very thin and water penetrates it and then disperses quickly due to the hard caliche. Water cannot soak in deep because of the rock just below the surface. The trees have found footholds in this soil, but their roots are shallow. My fat behind on a riding mower is probably more than they like.:ashamed::laughing:
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None of my trees are dead yet, but the 3 Bradford Pears and the one big Crepe Myrtle are really showing the stress more than the 2 live oaks.
Bird,
I was wondering if the "Oak Wilt disease" has been correlated to be spreading more rapidly in summers that are extremely hot and dry in Texas?
Ron
Here are a few photos I took while out checking my feeder this morning. You can see the undergrowth has been severely effected and the Oak tree's are starting to decline in some areas. I am loosing more than I thought.
You can see my dry pond and the trees in the background, at least I have been able to dig out some silt, but now it is almost to hard. Wife's Cactus "patch" is doing ok, but needs water every week which is unusual. even the cactus growing else where on the place is drying out.
You can see my dry pond and the trees in the background, at least I have been able to dig out some silt, but now it is almost to hard. Wife's Cactus "patch" is doing ok, but needs water every week which is unusual. even the cactus growing else where on the place is drying out.
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Very nice cactus garden Dennis. It looks great! Your trees look just like mine. I think some of my trees where I've cleared underbrush look much worse than the others because the sun can penetrate and dry up the ground. The wooded goat pasture across the road from me looks very healthy with a lot less stress.
Goats are used to clear the brush up here. Saves diesel!
The coon hasn't been back or maybe he was and got his nose stung.
Thanks Jim, All but one of the cactus are native and most from my property here. One I got while Turkey hunting in West Texas about 6 years ago and has been dug up and moved twice.
Place wher I have removed the underbrush and allowed native grasses to return, look little different. It is either dead /dormant grass, or dead dormant underbrush:laughing:
Place wher I have removed the underbrush and allowed native grasses to return, look little different. It is either dead /dormant grass, or dead dormant underbrush:laughing:
Larry Caldwell
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That might be bugs. Stressed plants are particularly susceptible to insect damage, and insects love warm temperatures. Check with your local extension agent. It may be that watering in some diazanon would help.
