Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Bird]

Don, I really have no idea just what variety of blackberries those were. They were there when I bought the place and I never asked the prior owner. They were nice, big, sweet berries; made great blackberry jelly, cobblers, and blackberry syrup for the pancakes and waffles.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We had yummy dewberry cobbler last night. Used an oatmeal, brown sugar combo for the crust.

 

[Bird]

The most plentiful, and some of the biggest and best, blackberries we've ever seen were along the Oregon coast in August of 1991. We were gradually drifting south from Alaska, had spent a week at an RV park in Canon Beach, OR, then started south again. On August 18, we stopped to pick blackberries along the road right-of-way, then stopped at a grocery store for Certo (fruit pectin) and jar lids. I washed the berries and froze two bags for cobblers, then we made 4 pints of blackberry jelly (and had 3/4 cup of juice left). We could easily have gotten a lot more, but you don't have a lot of room in a 32' fifth-wheel with 6 cu. ft. refrigerator.:laughing:

 

[Bird]

We had yummy dewberry cobbler last night. Used an oatmeal, brown sugar combo for the crust.

Sure sounds good, and that would be a different kind of crust to me. I grew up eating cobblers made with regular pie crust. In later years, we used to have a recipe in which we made a rising dough, put it in the bottom of the pan, then put the berries on top and when you baked it, the crust would rise up through the berries leaving the berries on the bottom and crust on top.

 

[sseelhoff]

Heck of a storm blew through last night/this morning. Power was out and just came back on about an hour ago. 1 inch of rain in the gauge when I last checked over an hour ago, and the rain is just now winding down. Lots of wind and lightening. That makes about 4 inches in the last 24 hours. Once this clears out, should be a beautiful day, with some really nice weather coming our way this week.

 

[Bird]

We got a total of about 2.78" of rain yesterday and fortunately no wind or hail; very light breeze at most.

 

[bindian]

As if I don't have enough fences to build for myself.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/336054-my-daughters-fence.html#post4119840
hugs, Brandi

 

[sseelhoff]

Another heavy front pushed through last night. Quite the light show. Big boomers real close. .5" in the guage this morning. Our ground is saturated. As much as I appreciate the rain, we need a few days to let things dry out.

 

[houstonscott]

Another heavy front pushed through last night. Quite the light show. Big boomers real close. .5" in the guage this morning. Our ground is saturated. As much as I appreciate the rain, we need a few days to let things dry out.

Yup same here, .6 in gauge this morning. Got to get mowing as soon as it drys. HS

 

[txdon]

My ground is soaking this rain up like a wave on a sandy beach. .68" last night and monthly total at 6.59".