Texas Spring/Summer Thread

sseelhoff · Jul 26, 2015

CowboyRon said:
I would think San Marcos would be a good location that way they could get Austin involved too

It's already under discussion. Nelson Wolff (Bexar County Judge) has been on the news the last few weeks talking about it. (They are also still pursuing the Raiders of the NFL). The first obstacle was lack of commuter rail. There is a proposal now pending in the Austin and San Antonio councils to create one. The tracks are already in place. They need to obtain their own rail cars.

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bindian · Jul 27, 2015

houstonscott said:
Never liked the AL, can't complain about the team right now though, get the DH out of AL and it would improve. HS

Ditto. It ain't the same.
hugs, Brandi

NativeSon · Jul 27, 2015

Ditto here too, Brandi.

Charlie

houstonscott · Jul 27, 2015

Loved to see a real baseball player get into Hall of Fame. Play any position, infield, out field, catcher, run, hit, steal, bat, clutch player. Biggio is the quint-essential baseball player. He's the guy very player wanted to be, when you picked teams he went first, right to the Hall of Fame. HS

C4Ranch · Jul 27, 2015

Twins?

txdon · Jul 27, 2015

C4Ranch said:
Twins?

Or babysitting.

Either way - awwhhh.

lostcreekranch · Aug 4, 2015

Time for some rain dancing? No rain here since last day of June.

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houstonscott · Aug 4, 2015

rlgustafson said:
Time for some rain dancing? No rain here since last day of June. Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet

Second that.... HS

bindian · Aug 4, 2015

We got 1/4 inch of rain last Thursday. First rain since Memorial Day weekend's floods. So I had 1/4 inch of mud in my rain guage.
hugs, Brandi

Bird · Aug 4, 2015

We got our annual quota of rain, plus some, in the first 6 months of the year. Last month I got 1" on the 8th and .05" on the 22nd; been mighty dry ever since. I did run two sprinklers on the lawn for about 6 hours on the 24th. The NWS forecast a 10% chance of rain today, and we had a little cloud cover when I got our lawn and one next door mowed, edged, and trimmed, but then the cloud cover disappeared without giving us a drop of rain.

txdon · Aug 4, 2015

I'm seeing 4" cracks in my black land and cracks are forming on my gravel drive and the gravel is falling in and going someplace far far away. . .Oh well, at least we had nice spring rains to fill the ponds. I see one bad grass fire season coming. . .

Last rain, 1/3" July 4th.

foreman Etexas · Aug 4, 2015

They have put burn ban up around here last week.

txdon · Aug 4, 2015

foreman Etexas said:
They have put burn ban up around here last week.

Here, they usually wait till AFTER a few big fires. I just hope the fire happens in the evening or on weekends when there is more than one volunteer (me) in the area.

I'm the farthest away from the fire station at 10 minutes. If no one is there by the time I get there I call dispatch for back-up grab a truck and head out. Back-up is about 7-9 miles away.

foreman Etexas · Aug 4, 2015

txdon said:
Here, they usually wait till AFTER a few big fires. I just hope the fire happens in the evening or on weekends when there is more than one volunteer (me) in the area.

I'm the farthest away from the fire station at 10 minutes. If no one is there by the time I get there I call dispatch for back-up grab a truck and head out. Back-up is about 7-9 miles away.

They are pretty quick around here to get the ban on before it gets out of control,especially after few years ago when everything was on fire.

sseelhoff · Aug 4, 2015

Still no ban in our county, but every county around us has the signs up.

And to Foreman, those Bastrop fires were pretty intense. Turns out they were caused by utility lines falling and hitting the dried up grass. Cost some companies multiple millions (pole installers, pole inspectors, utility companies-electric and telecon).

NativeSon · Aug 5, 2015

It looks like they will put a burn ban on this week. None to soon.

Charlie

Bird · Aug 5, 2015

txdon said:
I'm seeing 4" cracks in my black land and cracks are forming on my gravel drive and the gravel is falling in and going someplace far far away.

Don, when we lived down in Navarro County, I put up a new fence, using wooden posts, around what was going to be my garden. Somewhere I heard or read that if you put pea gravel around the posts instead of dirt, they'd stay tight and upright. So I got a load of pea gravel and did that. Total waste of time and money. The pea gravel disappeared into the bowels of the earth and I had to go back and pack dirt around each post. I had some cracks in that black land that you could lose a golf club in.

txdon · Aug 5, 2015

sseelhoff said:
Still no ban in our county, but every county around us has the signs up.

And to Foreman, those Bastrop fires were pretty intense. Turns out they were caused by utility lines falling and hitting the dried up grass. Cost some companies multiple millions (pole installers, pole inspectors, utility companies-electric and telecon).

I don't know the specific of the settlements but fire departments in the BlueBonnet area have been advised that they can apply for a 20K grant for each station. We will apply for some new pumps.

Lou66 · Aug 6, 2015

Will this rain ever stop?.. .everyday.. Wait,, it hasn’t rain in a month or so.. never mind.. But I got my fair share the first six months.. Thank you Lord.. Lou