texasjohn
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Total for today/yesterday is .45 inches...It's so dry that wasps were building a nest INSIDE my rain gauge...water was just at bottom of wasp nest...a new measurement standard:shocked:
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Western
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It appears that the rain is over and our 2 day (or was it 2 nights and 1 day?) total is three-quarters of an inch.
txdon
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Bird that about all we got also. Officially .82 for the 36 hours.
Kyle_in_Tex
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I'll have to pay attention to the mesquite. I haven't seen the temp drop below 32 here for some time, close but not quite. My young pecan trees are budding out fast.
I live right by the airport which has a weather station. Showed about a 1/2" of rain total. Just 15 miles below us, Smithville got over 5"!!! I'm jealous.
jinman
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I had 0.85" yesterday morning and this morning there's 0.35" in my gage, so I've totaled 1.2" for the entire event. It's not as much as I'd hoped for, but I'm thrilled to get that much. The fact that it's only 39 F this morning with no frost is just icing on the cake. I was afraid the temperature here might dip down to freezing and get some of my tomatoes. Instead, I think this is gonna kick-start all the seeds I planted as it warms up over the next few days.
Frost and hail are the two things I worry the most about this time of year.
Frost and hail are the two things I worry the most about this time of year.
txdon
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Had a good time with Mikim and family last night. We had, of course, a very healthy veggie meal and he got to sample my modified carrot cake muffins. I proved you can have a moist deliciousness carrot cake without dairy, sugar, oil, eggs. (apple and date sauce were the substitutes.) I got to use 3 cups of my freshly picked organic carrots! Of course I threw the ingredients together by sight and texture so there is no exact recipe - only guidelines.
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Glad you live close enough together to do that. And experimenting with recipes is always fun.
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Well Don, I didn't really intend for my dinner to be vegan, but I had a big salad with lettuce, cherry tomatoes, chopped green onions, and chopped fresh asparagus from my garden. I topped it with a tablespoon of low-fat 25 calorie dressing. I also had a bowl of Progresso light southwestern veggie soup and a side dish of fresh celery sticks. I washed it all down with a small glass of iced tea sweetened with Splenda. It was a very satisfying and delicious meal. I'm pretty sure that the Progresso soup has some chicken broth in it, but otherwise, I wasn't too far off your regimen. . . at least for dinner. The tuna salad sandwich and bowl of beans I had for lunch was my halfy-half healthy lunch, but certainly not vegan.
mikim
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OK Kyle -- you, me & Bwana just identified where that line of storm was at. His place is south and just a little west of me (closer to Smithville) I'm exactly 4 mi due S of Paige, and You're near the Giddings airport on 290. He got over 6", I got just barely over 1" and you got 1/2. Now all we gotta do is draw the line that bisects our positions. .....Next we hire out to NWS....
....NOT ....BTDT.
mikim
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Don -- there was a time we would provide our "co-op observers" (a program that went away with modernization) with any of our official equipment they would agree to keep records on. We'd do the maintenance on the equipment and they would do several daily observations and call it in. -- you know -- on one of those old wired communication thingys the "telephone". That would then be manually input into our 2400 baud network computer system. With the advent of automatic equipment and reporting - the systems at co-op sites were abandoned or removed. The system you are reporting into is the replacement to the old co-op and fills in locations where there is a lack of data. Besides a rain gauge did they give you a temp / dew point set? They typically don't cause the little wood boxes the thermometers are housed in are so darn expensive. I have one - next time you're here, I'll show you.
Western
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1.26" here for the 3 day event, I'd say it was a decent "soaker" type rain, even though we did seem to have some good runoff.
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I guess I'm going to have to buy a can of Progresso soup again some day. Quite a few years ago, I bought a can; don't remember just which one it was, but it was so bad, compared to Campbell's that I've never bought any of their soups again.
txdon
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They gave us a web site to buy the rain gauge, no dew point set was offered. They did give us free instructions on how to read it and report it! Just the opportunity and prestige of being "Special" and "Official" is all they give us.:jump:
jinman
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Some are better than others. I like the light potato and bacon and also the chicken and rotini noodles. I've had regular pea soup too that I liked. Several of the other light varieties are okay, but not my favorites like the ones above. I like all soups so much that I can't remember when I've had any soup I didn't like.
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About the only canned soups I eat, and not often at that, is tomato, chicken noodle, and vegetable/beef. But homemade soup is another matter. I do want that pretty often, along with cornbread. But I may have to try the ones you listed.
Western
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36.3* right now, wonder where it will be at sun up?? going to be close in the outlying (sp) areas.
NativeSon
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I don't eat canned soups anymore, too much sodium, so I will make home-made soups on occassion. Mostly when I have some good leftovers.
Sunday I roasted a pork loin, putting carrots, onions, garlic cloves and celery in the bottom of the pan, and some chicken broth. When it was done pulled it out of the oven and let it rest while I made some pan gravy saving the vegetables that were cooked with the loin. Served the pork with Parsleyed New Potatos and Asparagus.
For wife's Monday lunch I took the leftover gravy, vegetables, and potatos and added some of the pork loin diced up and she had enough for 2 days lunch. And with the weather being chilly is was a great day for soup.
I think soups & stews are really better after a couple of days in the Ice box.
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That lets the flavors blend better. Perhaps the most used containers in our kitchen are Anchor Hocking glass with glass lids. This is the 20 oz. bowl. We have 6 of them, in addition to one of the 2 quart size and 3 of the 12 oz. size. I don't understand why every store that sells kitchen stuff doesn't have them, but we have to go to the Kitchen Collection store in the outlet mall on the north side of Gainesville to get them. We use them for lots of different leftovers, but especially homemade soups and chili. They'll go directly from the refrigerator to the microwave. The glass lid prevents any splatter. I fill them with soup or chili, leaving enough room to crumble up a cornbread muffin in each one when it comes out of the microwave and it's ready to eat.:laughing:
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Yikes!!! The temperature dropped to 32 here overnight and my tomatoes are unprotected. I put pots around them with the bottoms cut out, so they have some protection, but I'm sure the leaves may get a little frost-bitten from this cool snap. The weather forecast didn't call for it to be quite this cold, and I let it slip up on me.
