Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Looks like Kyle is getting soaked now and if the clouds hang together I should get some rain within the hour!!!! Yea!!!!

Got near an inch! WOOOOOHOOOOO! The small creek in front is actually flowing a bit. Our pond is still down about 2 or 3 feet.

If it rains another hard inch (or more) tomorrow, It might fill my pond up a bit.

 

[NativeSon]

Charlie,
What is a good quality............that I am fat or sassy or I resemble that remark?:laughing:
hugs, Brandi

It's a good quality for me cause if you don't like that, around here you get old and cranky.

Just trying to get a smile on my face.

Charlie

 

[farmgirl19]

Got near an inch! WOOOOOHOOOOO! The small creek in front is actually flowing a bit. Our pond is still down about 2 or 3 feet.

If it rains another hard inch (or more) tomorrow, It might fill my pond up a bit.

Good news, Kyle! I hope others received some much needed rain, as well. Not a drop here, but after Thursday, maybe I will have time to do some more rain dancing! I didn't get home for the day, until almost 2030 yesterday. Great day at work, just long and tiring. I think Thursday is the next day scheduled to kick my behind.

 

[NativeSon]

The small tank I dug 2 years ago is the lowest it's been since it first filled up. It looks to be about 2 feet low. We're really getting desperate for some rain. Had some roll thru last week, and for some it was a pretty good shower (about 2 in) but we only got about 1/2 in. Bearly enough to cut the dust.

Little cooler yesterday(95*) and last night and it looks like it will get seriously cooler(85*...?) next week with a better chance of rain. So far this has been the hottest Sept. that I remember in quite a while. I'm seriously ready for some Fall weather and a change of attitude.

Charlie

 

[farmgirl19]

I've got you beat, Native! My pond is 10-12 feet low! Lou might beat me in the biggest tomatoes contest, but I win the lowest pond contest. I noticed this past weekend, my neighor, who has his tank across the road from mine, has no pond. Might find mud of one dug, but it is dry as a bone, on top. Not the sort of contest I'd like to win. And I'll be watering the garden again this evening.

 

[Lou66]

I cut my hay fields last Wed. it has rained every day,, not a lot but enough to keep my fields wet.. grass on the ground,, Well there is always next year.. Lou

 

[jinman]

I've got you beat, Native! My pond is 10-12 feet low! Lou might beat me in the biggest tomatoes contest, but I win the lowest pond contest.

FG, I might say one of my new ponds is 10 feet low, but since the darn thing has never filled up, how can I say it is "low"? I also used to have frontage on a soil conservation lake. My property extended 25' out into the water. Now the lake is so low that it has receded 25' from my shoreline and there's a bunch of 3' high weeds growing there in the mud. I'd guess that the water level is down 6' below overflow.

 

[NativeSon]

I've got you beat, Native! My pond is 10-12 feet low! Lou might beat me in the biggest toa matoes contest, but I win the lowest pond contest. I noticed this past weekend, my neighor, who has his tank across the road from mine, has no pond. Might find mud of one dug, but it is dry as a bone, on top. Not the sort of contest I'd like to win. And I'll be watering the garden again this evening.

FG- 2 years ago I remember there were lots of people who were dregging their tanks and ponds because they had the opportunity........they were bone dry. I had just got my tractor and there were no pastures to shred and very little else to do with my new toy....erh I mean machine, so I had a place that I always wanted a pond, so wha-laa.......playtime.....I mean time to go to work. So that kept me occupied for a while and improved my FEL and Box Blade skills. I just don't want to go thru a drought like that anytime soon and I'm ready for this one to break.

Maybe we could work together......at the same time(not the same place) you do that dance that you do for rain, and I'll do my Indian Rain Dance and hopefully we'll break this drought once and for all.

I have to warn you though, the last time that I did that dance there was major flooding. My Great-grandmother never taught me the dance to turn it off.

Charlie

 

[pacerron]

I might say one of my new ponds is 10 feet low, but since the darn thing has never filled up, how can I say it is "low"? I also used to have frontage on a soil conservation lake. My property extended 25' out into the water. Now the lake is so low that it has receded 25' from my shoreline and there's a bunch of 3' high weeds growing there in the mud. I'd guess that the water level is down 6' below overflow.

At least you don't have any algae to mess with.
I was down at the Mart and they had a big box of "Pool Noodles" on sale for 1.88 so I bought one.
Stuck it over an old garden rake handle, put an old screw eye bolt in the handle from the junk can, added a piece of rope, and it really works great for grabbing hunks of algae out as far as you can throw.
It always lands on the water, tines down.
Now my wife can stay in the kitchen baking sweet stuff to keep me happy too.
Ron

 

[lostcreekranch]

Ron;

Saw another thread on TBN (can't find it now) where a guy built what looked like a giant garden rake, with a quick attach plate for his FEL. He could reach way out into his tank and drag out algae in big clumps. I guess best description would be similar to a 3-point boom with giant rake on end of boom and QA plate on other end.

Rick