Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[txdon]

Kyle, you must have got all the rain this time.

 

[DABSGT]

Farmgirl

Stop doing your rain dance or turn the other way! It keeps raining here in the northeast!

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[farmgirl19]

Feel free to bottle it up and send it back here!

 

[robbyr]

The sun did shine today

 

[bindian]

Hold off before sending any bottled water down here. I am off tonight and have a 5 day weekend. I have rented a Bobcat E42 excavator to help my Big RED Beast widen and deepen my island pond I built last year. With the E42, I'll be able to dig the bottom of the pond at the base of the island, swing around 180 degrees and dump the spoils on the back side of the dam or on top of the dam. With the Big RED Beast only, I would be digging at the bottom and dumping on the dam water side slope. Then either back drag with the loader bucket or move the spoils higher up the slope with the BH................and that is way too much work!

Then I am gonna line all the yellow clay with good old RED clay. Maybe will need another ton of Bentonite.
hugs, Brandi

 

[jinman]

With the E42, I'll be able to dig the bottom of the pond at the base of the island, swing around 180 degrees and dump the spoils on the back side of the dam or on top of the dam.

Oh! The joys of EX over BH. Good luck with the weather. You won't need good luck with anything else to have tons of fun and git-r-done. :thumbsup:

 

[Western]

Brandi, out side of this past Monday, the weather looks good here in the Houston area. 93* here today, but 104*+ back up in Wise county:shocked:

Worked right on the Seawall the last 2 nights in Galveston, decent day's, but as expected, nighttime "rain" (humidity). By 1am, we could feel the salt on our skin:thumbdown:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Kyle, you must have got all the rain this time.

I can not tell a lie, we got about 0.9" (Thank the Lord), which is the most in months (at one time). Too bad the temps are back up to 100° + and the ground is drying back up.

 

[Western]

My fruit trees are really showing stress, so I have been out for an hour watering each one with a couple 5 gallon buckets. I haven't looked at the temp gauge because I dont want the added "depression", but I am sure the temperature is around 150*!!

It's warm gang!!!

 

[farmgirl19]

I'm not sure what the temp actually hit here today. I worked an 11 hour shift, so that I can try to have Monday off. It was plenty hot. Met a good friend for a margarita after work, but I was so tired, we didn't hang out long. Maybe we can meet up again in a couple of months. She lives north of Dallas, so we have to plan a meet up, somewhere near the halfway point.