Texas Spring/Summer Thread

/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #241  
Yes, sir! That that blueberry cream is my favorite!

I stayed at the beautiful Hico Inn:laughing: for a cple months while doing a pipe-line in fairy,so we ate there a many times,also a pretty good little BBQ place right out of town.
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #242  
Koffee Kup Cafe is most known for the Meringue topped pies. I have known Lynn Allen (family owned ) since about 1991, seen the place grow from one room to 3. Cant beat the pies and wont find better people (the Allens). Try the bread pudding, unbelievable and only came with a certain meal if I recall. I haven't been down there for a few years, but it is probably only better.

I like the Coconut Cream and the Blueberry "icebox":thumbsup:
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #243  
I stayed at the beautiful Hico Inn:laughing: for a cple months while doing a pipe-line in fairy,so we ate there a many times,also a pretty good little BBQ place right out of town.

:laughing: Thats funny Foreman, I know that town pretty good, that's about the only place to stay other than the roadside park or Stephenville!!:laughing: I had a farm outside of Duffua, north of Hico.
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #244  
:laughing: Thats funny Foreman, I know that town pretty good, that's about the only place to stay other than the roadside park or Stephenville!!:laughing: I had a farm outside of Duffua, north of Hico.

I got my company to finally put me up in stephenville:D Seen Aaron Watson and a few others play at City Limits:thumbsup:
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #245  
I stayed at the beautiful Hico Inn:laughing: for a cple months while doing a pipe-line in fairy,so we ate there a many times,also a pretty good little BBQ place right out of town.

:laughing: Thats funny Foreman, I know that town pretty good, that's about the only place to stay other than the roadside park or Stephenville!!:laughing: I had a farm outside of Duffua, north of Hico.

I just wish I could get my company to put me up for week so I could eat at the Koffee Kup everyday. :drool:


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/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #247  
Enough of flowers and snakes....just sayin.

A penalty flag will have to be thrown here.:D:D

#1. My flowers don't bloom till May and #2. Ever since my heart attack a thick slab of meat does not excite me.:laughing:

But I will give you as break on the flowers and snakes.
Attached Flowers and dog.:thumbsup:

(I can't believe the field recover so nicely after the drought and no flowers last year.)
 

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/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #248  
A penalty flag will have to be thrown here.:D:D

#1. My flowers don't bloom till May and #2. Ever since my heart attack a thick slab of meat does not excite me.:laughing:

But I will give you as break on the flowers and snakes.
Attached Flowers and dog.:thumbsup:

(I can't believe the field recover so nicely after the drought and no flowers last year.)
Great view.
Give the dog a treat. :D
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #249  
Seems there's 2 fires going strong in the mountains in West Texas, 24,000 acres so far. I can tell you it is allot drier here in S. Texas than it is at home, but it was drying out pretty good at my place when I left.
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #251  
This is the website that I used last year to track the fires. Hope we don't have any need for it this summer.




Fire Activity

Charlie
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #253  
txdon said:
A penalty flag will have to be thrown here.:D:D

#1. My flowers don't bloom till May and #2. Ever since my heart attack a thick slab of meat does not excite me.:laughing:

But I will give you as break on the flowers and snakes.
Attached Flowers and dog.:thumbsup:

(I can't believe the field recover so nicely after the drought and no flowers last year.)

Okay. How about this little pup, and a flower.;)
 

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/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #254  
Okay. How about this little pup, and a flower.;)

Ahh, the yellow rose of Texas. You seem to be lacking in field flowers as much as I'm lacking in grasses.:D
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #255  
Ahh, the yellow rose of Texas.

I have that bloomin' bloomin' prickly pear all over my place, or maybe I should have said that stinkin' bloomin' prickly pear. My gullies are spotted all over with prickly pear, sensitive briar, and purple coneflower. I noticed yesterday that almost every coneflower has some type of butterfly on it.
 

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/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread
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#256  
There's cultivated flowers in peoples' flower beds here and there, but it sure looks like the wildflowers are through for the year in this area, and the grass and weeds along the roads are already brown like you would expect in late summer. They've finally started mowing highway right-of-ways and some places the vegetation is about waist high and brown.
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #257  
I wait until my bluebonnet seed pods dry and open before running my rotary cutter over them. When mother nature starts to plant them, I give her a helpin' hand. I haven't seen any ROW mowing in this area yet. It often looks like a fire hazard before they mow, but the bluebonnets seem to like them waiting a bit. They also say that the seeds of indian paintbrush are so small that the wind can carry them. I hope to spread them out too. Right now, most of my yuccas are in bloom and yellow flower season is coming on strong. I think from Don's photos that his yellow flower season is already there in Lee County.:)
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #258  
Ahh, the yellow rose of Texas. You seem to be lacking in field flowers as much as I'm lacking in grasses.:D

We cut 2 5 gal buckets of the cactus leaves, and will go back for the pears later. It looks like I will have a prickly pear patch next year if my lovely wife has anyting to do with it. She didn't like wading through the grass hunting them down.
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #259  
Well I believe we got enough rain to desolve the fertilizer, we may just get that cutting of hay this time around:thumbsup:
 
/ Texas Spring/Summer Thread #260  
They've finally started mowing highway right-of-ways and some places the vegetation is about waist high and brown.

They are mowing the ROWs on I35 on the way to Okla City, but where there are thick patches of Indian blanket and Indian paintbrush, they are mowing around them.:thumbsup:
 

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