Texas Spring/Summer Thread

two_bit_score · Jul 31, 2014

robbyr said:
As of July 16, I became a grandpa. Daughter had my first grand baby on her own birthday. I have Mahindra and son in law has Kubota but what about this?

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Congrats +++! Being a grandpa is the greatest thing in the world! :thumbsup:

Bird · Jul 31, 2014

Officially 73 degrees, overcast, 16 mph NORTH breeze this afternoon. And I've gotten about 2/3 inch of rain since midnight last night. Unbelievable for the last day of July. I love it!

lostcreekranch · Jul 31, 2014

Bird said:
Officially 73 degrees, overcast, 16 mph NORTH breeze this afternoon. And I've gotten about 2/3 inch of rain since midnight last night. Unbelievable for the last day of July. I love it!

Mr. Bird;

Please send some of that rain south to Colorado County. Getting a bit dry and dusty here.

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sseelhoff · Jul 31, 2014

rlgustafson said:
Mr. Bird;

Please send some of that rain south to Colorado County. Getting a bit dry and dusty here.

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I'm west of you straight out I-10. It started raining her about an hour ago. It's off and on, but it's something.

lostcreekranch · Jul 31, 2014

sseelhoff said:
I'm west of you straight out I-10. It started raining her about an hour ago. It's off and on, but it's something.

Scott;

Seeing thunderheads building to my west so .......... waiting, waiting, waiting.

Think the the big rain up by College Station will go SE and miss us and go towards Houston. Have a great sprinkler system at our Houston town house so need no rain there. Need it here!

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lostcreekranch · Jul 31, 2014

FarmGirl has been MIA lately. Maybe she has given up on rain dancin' and is now perfecting cloud seeding? Anyone check on increased dry ice sales in her area?

:-D. Hope so and hope it works for all of us!

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wroughtn_harv · Jul 31, 2014

I got up this morning and per usual turned on the puter and the tv in the office. I heard something on the news about last night's storm and peeked outside at the deck to see if it was wet. It was. I almost fell over when I looked up at the rain gauge over the arbor and it read almost three inches.

Wylie Texas, 2.8 inches this storm. Farmersville, 3.6". Garland, 1.6"

We were blessed.

NativeSon · Aug 1, 2014

We got a nice 1 5/8" rain yesterday and it has been very dry so it really soaked in. They're predicting 20% chance today so that means scattered. At 0530 it's 68* and the high today will be 81*.......My kind of August day.

Charlie

bindian · Aug 1, 2014

It poured at Hobby Airport between midnight and 2am. We had 4 inches of water flowing across the ramp. I know, cause I got stuck out in an aircraft on the ramp!

Only 1/4 inch when I got home, in the rain gage.
hugs, Brandi

blueriver · Aug 1, 2014

My gauge showed 1.6 from the rain event .. Cool mornings have been great .. Sure an glad to see rain in several areas !!

Congrats grandpa!!!

mikim · Aug 1, 2014

robb--congrats on the grandbaby!...We have 6 + 1 step ... The oldest is old enough to have kids too....but not yet thank goodness.

Rain...????...whats dat?...we got lots to do about nuttin'. lightning, thunder, dark clouds...and a sprinkle. Not enough to even settle the dust.

C4Ranch · Aug 1, 2014

I got a rock. Tanks are lowest they've been in 12 mths. I must have a dome over my place, maybe it's the elevation changes. Many times a line of thunderstorms head right for me, as the get closer it's like Moses parting the Red Sea....

lostcreekranch · Aug 1, 2014

Not quite 0.2". Got a big light show though.

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bindian · Aug 1, 2014

I got my truck back today. It was only the lift pump and only cost $968. Yippee!
hugs, Brandi

two_bit_score · Aug 1, 2014

bindian said:
I got my truck back today. It was only the lift pump and only $968. Yippee!
hugs, Brandi

It's good it was 'only' that! If you're happy, we're happy! :drink:

bindian · Aug 1, 2014

two_bit_score said:
It's good it was 'only' that! If you're happy, we're happy! :drink:

Definitey, it could have been the injector pump starved for fuel also. That would be $$$$ more.
hugs, Brandi

bindian · Aug 1, 2014

robbyr said:
As of July 16, I became a grandpa. Daughter had my first grand baby on her own birthday. I have Mahindra and son in law has Kubota but what about this?

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Robb,
Congratulations! My first and only grand child will be 1 year old next Thursday.
hugs, Brandi

NativeSon · Aug 2, 2014

bindian said:
Robb,
Congratulations! My first and only grand child will be 1 year old next Thursday.
hugs, Brandi

bindian- Wow is it a year already. Time do fly don't it. We want a picture of the dive into the Birthday cake. One year olds are just too cute and the first birthday is special.

We're headed to Dallas this morning for our 4 yo grand daughters Party. It doesn't seem like she can be 4 and she's not even the youngest anymore. Denise left work early yesterday to go shopping and came home with a bunch of clothes for her presents. All the Grand daughters seem to be "Clothes Horses" at an early age, but they also have a little Tom Boy in them too.

Other than the Birthday the next best thing is we'll stop for lunch at my favorite Tex-Mex place, my old partner Matt Martinez's Rancho Martinez there on the G.W. Bush. I can already taste the Chicken Enchiladas Verde. Then we'll go to "Oldest Son's" place in Sachse and he'll try to get me to drink one of his "Beer Snob" Beers, but I'll just try to run him out of Bud Lite.

Charlie

robbyr · Aug 2, 2014

Anyone else's tastes change and do a 180? For 30ish years I've liked Budweiser and have never liked Miller Lite. Really like the Budweiser Select. Also Coors. But in the last year I've developed the taste for Miller Lite and also some of the fancier brands. My son in law mixed a Blue Moon with a Guiness (I had never had either one) and called it a Black n Blue. Was very good. Either my tastes are changing or they've altered their recipes.

mikim · Aug 2, 2014

robbyr said:
Anyone else's tastes change and do a 180? For 30ish years I've liked Budweiser and have never liked Miller Lite. Really like the Budweiser Select. Also Coors. But in the last year I've developed the taste for Miller Lite and also some of the fancier brands. My son in law mixed a Blue Moon with a Guiness (I had never had either one) and called it a Black n Blue. Was very good. Either my tastes are changing or they've altered their recipes.

I discovered Shiner bock in the 80s before it went mainstream and have stuck with it. Used to be only a few grocery stores and not many bars carried it. Now you can get it on draft all over. They make other flavors, but the only other one I like is "wild hare" pale ale. Never did care for light beer - runs right through me.