Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[txdon]

Brandi, thanks for posting the pic of you and Mike.

 

[Bird]

I think this is the first time I ever heard of making a drink from mesquite. I thought the only thing mesquite was good for was to use for barbecuing. Incidentally, some of my early experience with mesquite was using it in my fireplace in the early '70s. It burned so hot that it cooked the mortar out from between the fire bricks in the fireplace and I had to replace that mortar. I learned to not make such a hot fire.

 

[txdon]

Heck, you Texans probably think that ground up Mesquite tastes good.

I didn't till you posted. So I went out and gathered some mesquite pods, roasted them, ground the and put them in the Keurig and WOW that is good coffee!!! Bird you would like the roasting part, the aroma is of roasting peanuts.
Thanks for the suggestion, pics provided.

 

[txdon]

Also on the holiday menu - Beet chips. They are grilling as I'm posting.

 

[oldballs]

I just dug about 15 lbs of nice beets today. My neighbor lady friend has been making pickled beets for me. But she might be tired of it by now.
Looks like I might me grilling some beets myself...........Thanx for the tip.
Cheers,
Mike

 

[bindian]

Brandi, thanks for posting the pic of you and Mike.

Don,
It's good from time to time to remember. Your welcome!
hugs, Brandi

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Don,
It's good from time to time to remember. Your welcome!
hugs, Brandi

Yep, I hear his adopted son/grandson is going to an advanced learning academy.

Don, shouldn't you strip the beans out of the hulls?

 

[Bird]

Something else new to me. I like pickled beets and hot buttered beets, but never heard of grilling beets or beet chips.

 

[txdon]

Yep, I hear his adopted son/grandson is going to an advanced learning academy.

Don, shouldn't you strip the beans out of the hulls?

No, The link said not to, that that is where the sweetness comes from.

 

[blueriver]

Finally had a chance to read and catch up with my Texas neighbors !! Great reading, Thanks !!!

Our county is listed in "Moderate Drought" conditions, Bermuda grass pastures are brown ... Bahia is holding on !! Started feeding hay at the home place.

Shop has been extremely busy and taking up alot of time ... not a bad thing. Been burning alot of rods, using alot of wire and plasma cutting alot of parts.

Everyone have a great Holiday !!! I'll be in the shop ... 2 units to finish and ship this week !!

 

[bindian]

Finally had a chance to read and catch up with my Texas neighbors !! Great reading, Thanks !!!

Our county is listed in "Moderate Drought" conditions, Bermuda grass pastures are brown ... Bahia is holding on !! Started feeding hay at the home place.

Shop has been extremely busy and taking up alot of time ... not a bad thing. Been burning alot of rods, using alot of wire and plasma cutting alot of parts.

Everyone have a great Holiday !!! I'll be in the shop ... 2 units to finish and ship this week !!

BR,
Glad to hear your doing well. Wish I could send you some of my rain. I'm digging out my pond and right now, the rains are are shooting holes in my time off.
Some dumb bird dumped a lot of mud catfish eggs into both ponds. I have thousands of them about 1.75 inches long. So now I have drained the island pond while digging it out. I put a dog bisquit in my minnow trap and overnight the trap was completely full with the little devils. Please tell the white cranes to come see me and have a feast.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Happy Labor Day Y'all!
hugs, Brandi

 

[lostcreekranch]

Getting a lot of "Labor" in this weekend. With 2 weeks of rain, our 8 acres of "yard" around the house got completely out of hand. It's even too high for my 84" rear finish mower so, hooked up the 6' cutter behind the LS. It looks like crap but at least not 18" high now. Will have to recut with the RFM next week.





Got shutdown by more rain just after noon.

 

[Thall303]

Getting a lot of "Labor" in this weekend. With 2 weeks of rain, our 8 acres of "yard" around the house got completely out of hand. It's even too high for my 84" rear finish mower so, hooked up the 6' cutter behind the LS. It looks like crap but at least not 18" high now. Will have to recut with the RFM next week.

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Got shutdown by more rain just after noon.

Pretty pasture.

 

[two_bit_score]

Getting a lot of "Labor" in this weekend. With 2 weeks of rain, our 8 acres of "yard" around the house got completely out of hand. It's even too high for my 84" rear finish mower so, hooked up the 6' cutter behind the LS. It looks like crap but at least not 18" high now. Will have to recut with the RFM next week.



Got shutdown by more rain just after noon.

I would call that a lush hay meadow.. How many bales can you get each year?

Still a lot of people who would like to have a pasture that nice!


TBS

 

[lostcreekranch]

I would call that a lush hay meadow.. How many bales can you get each year?

Still a lot of people who would like to have a pasture that nice!


TBS

Thanks, we built the Ranch House in the middle of a former pasture. Managed to place house with no tree removal.

Too many post oak and live trees to mess with hay. It's a PIA even to mow. Have to use the ZT under most trees.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Pretty pasture.

Thanks very much!

 

[SirReal63]

I am highly jealous of the beauty. Our place still looks like a nuclear blast site.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Rick, we are in the same boat. My 25 hp PTO won't hardly touch it with a shredder. Waiting to get the 6' bushhog repaired for the bigger tractor. The stuff I knocked down last weekend has already sprouted up 10". Well at least the weeds have come up that much...

 

[txdon]

I have found if you don't mow it will only get about 4-5' tall and then stop. Then when it's all tall it looks uniform, like it's mowed if you have a good imagination like I do, but the trees look shorter and I keep loosing Whipper.

The deer seem shorter also.