Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[sseelhoff]

What's all this wet liquidy stuff coming out of the sky?

 

[blueriver]

What's all this wet liquidy stuff coming out of the sky?

Well Scott I got to wondering so i just looked at radar and its rain over you !! You need it don't you?

 

[jinman]

Scott, it looks like some much needed rain for you.:thumbsup: It's just hot and humid here. My zucchini plants are wilting even though I watered them this morning. The yellow squash look fine but the hot temperatures are just too much for the zucs. Maybe I disturbed their roots when I stirred the soil.

I had an optical exam appointment today at the South Fort Worth VA Hospital. (Gosh! That's a nice place. I love going there.) Anyhow, I had to get out very early this morning to pick green beans. Check out my bucket of beans. We are having beans and new potatoes tonight. :licking:



I also picked some banana peppers. The two plants I have are producing nicely.



I'm getting lots of squash and cucumbers too. I have one Israel melon the size of a football. My tomato plants are loaded, but the only ones ripening are the cherry tomatoes. I have probably a hundred tomatoes that are between baseball and softball size. I wish they'd get rip so I could pick them instead of worrying that some critter will get them first.

 

[txdon]

Got the A/C working!. It was the run start capacitor for the fan. I sure am glad the compressor shuts off if the fan fails. $5,31 fix, plus a trip to town for the part. 83* in the house when she fired up:shocked:

Was it a GE capacitor made in china?

 

[Western]

Don, I didn't look, but thought about it on the way home also. I will look tomorrow, but I believe I saw "Mexico"?? This one was only 2 years old?? The new one is the same brand, with different operating temp range (whatever that's worth) Kid said it may help. We'll see

 

[NativeSon]

Yep, Charlie, it's amazing, isn't it? When I was kid in Oklahoma, we came to the State Fair of Texas every year. My Dad's best friend from the time they were kids was herdsman at a Guernsey dairy way out in the country between Dallas and Farmers Branch; right about where Walnut Hill Lane now crosses the old Denton Road in Dallas. And I remember us going down through what is now Lake Lewisville when it was under construction.

As herdsman for the dairy, Dad's friend cared for the show cattle, took them to the Fair, and always had free passes for us.

And I'll never forget the time we left the fairgrounds and got lost. So Dad saw a Dallas motorcycle police officer and asked him how to get back to U.S. 77 headed north. The officer said he was about to get off duty and he'd just show us the way; said to "follow me" and he turned on his red lights and siren and away we went, through red lights without even slowing down. I guess that would have been about 1949 and Dad was driving a 1936 Plymouth coupe. When we got out to the highway, the officer pulled over to the side of the road and waved us on.:laughing:

Bird-- Yeah Dallas was a very different place back then. Even Oak Cliff was a great place to grow up. Not that much traffic, only one Freeway (Central Expwy really wasn't much of a Freeway back then) and on a clear night you could see thousands of stars and the Milky Way even in the City Limits.

It was a "Right of Fall" to go to the State Fair in Oct. All the school kids got a free ticket and a day off from school to go. And with $10-15 in your pocket you could spend all day there and maybe still have a little change left when you got home. That's where we all developed our love for Corney Dogs. Last year at the Fair I got to buy my youngest grandson his first Dog at the Fair. He polished off 2 before the day was done.

Charlie

 

[NativeSon]

Where abouts in OC did you live native? We had a place behind wynwood shopping center. I sometimes joke with my kids that I'm the last Oak Cliff redneck.

Ron-- There is still a few Rednecks from the Cliff running around. Wynnewood.....You must have gone to Adamson.

My Great Grandfather had a small farm over in Cedar Crest before it was even in Dallas City Limits. I grew up over on Marsalis & Ledbetter (S.O.C.). Then we moved and I graduated (really.....I did) from Kimball.

Charlie

 

[jinman]

Was it a GE capacitor made in china?

Probably, but it was blown up with good ol' made in America electricity fluctuations from the power company. :laughing:

 

[Western]

Been hot guys and gals! at least it has been for me. Houston humidity was atrocious, at least this far North it is more than half. It was stifling in Galveston, sweat just standing outside in the shade!! Here, just plain A hot!

It seems I could water the garden twice a day and it still wouldn't be "perky". I have been cutting my lawn taller and that seems to make allot of difference, at least with the St Augustine. I have only picked about 1/2 gallon of snap beans, No where near what Jim is getting. Work load starting to catch u to me now, busiest time of year for me.

Small chance of rain Saturday, so I've got my fingers crossed!

 

[foreman Etexas]

I went out and cut hay this morning,hope it helps rain chances...