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   / Texas Heat! #261  
We have had a few sprinkles. I watch those big rains coming this way, get all excited and they dump all the water before they get here.:(

I have a bird bath and the squirrels hit it plus all kinds of birds. We even have a big pileated woodpecker that is coming there to drink, he hangs off it he is so big.

My garden is 99% gone. I think I'm going to throw a bunch of flower seeds out there and set up 2 sprinklers on my timer and see if I can grow a bunch of pretty flowers for a couple months. We can till them in later.

I bet if we get a hurricane its going to be a humdinger. With this heat and the water heat how could it be otherwise.
 
   / Texas Heat! #262  
Dennis-- Great pictures!! The owl is neat. We have one that starts hooting a couple of times a week. I love hearing that lonesome call.

Charlie
 
   / Texas Heat! #263  
Here on the east side of Houston we have gotten a fair amout of rain over the last several days. Yesterday we got about 2 inches and was raining when I left for work today.
 
   / Texas Heat! #264  
Well, I have been in Houston since Sunday. Amazingly it is greener and cooler than home, 5 1/2 hours NE of here. Drive in was beautiful. More green than I've seen in SE Oklahoma too. Other amazing things were noticing that the ponds did not seem as low as I expected. Sure, there were some brown spots and a few low ponds, but overall, it was a beautiful drive to Houston. The heat has terminated my garden prematurely. I know that our wildlife needs some supplemental feeding as well but with deer feed corn at $10 for 40# bag it is twice the price that I am used to spending.

Hay prices have gone up dramatically. Wow. Glad I don't have cattle. I'll be in Houston till Thursday.
 
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Dennis-- Great pictures!! The owl is neat. We have one that starts hooting a couple of times a week. I love hearing that lonesome call.

Charlie

Thanks , Having the "wildlife" around for me one of the reasons I'm a "country boy".:thumbsup:

You guys in Houston have been finally getting some decent rain too! Gets to much drier and it will be worth more than the oil traded there:laughing:

Several of our area lakes are to the point of closing the boat ramps, I have noticed fewer and fewer cattle as Jim pointed out in his post above. If I had the grass and $$, I wouldn't mind buying a couple of long bred cows, don't know why? I guess I miss messing with my cows.

I'm think it will take a week or two of nasty drizzle to even come close to breaking this, but at least we arent getting the heat index from the humidity they are getting in the North central plains. 131 with heat index in Iowa?? are you serious!!!
 
   / Texas Heat! #266  
Hay prices have gone up dramatically. Wow. Glad I don't have cattle. I'll be in Houston till Thursday.

Good round bales are $110 or more here. I'm sure glad I don't have any cattle to feed. I did almost spit out my dentures when I bought four bags of deer corn and it was $42.:shocked::confused2:

Dennis: About 5 years ago, I had this barred owl show up along our lake's shoreline and then it starting coming and sitting on the deck railing around my house where it could easily spot rodents on the ground. It was here for a long time and then just disappeared. No other owl has ever let me get that close to them, but I see them flying low under my trees in the woods quite often.
 

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   / Texas Heat! #267  
We are somewhere between 25 and 30 days in a row over 100 in central Kansas I am sure its a record and my area has only had 1.750 moisture since last year its dry.

Even our bermuda grass has gone dormant we haven't mowed but 2-3 times all summer.

My temp gage at the house regularly shows 114-117 in the shade at 5 PM when I get home and then I water the garden for 4 hours every nite its doing great only because of that.

Dryland crops are a total disaster even irrigated crops are doing poorly by the time the sprinkler gets around its all dry and stressed still.

This is the worst drought/heat wave I ever saw in 28 years of living here or anywhere for that matter.
 
   / Texas Heat! #268  
Ouch! Poor Kansas! and I thought we were hit bad. This drought is so widespread. When I was in SE Oklahoma the un-irrigated corn and cotten crops were all brown as my st. augustine grass in the back yard that doesn't get watered.

Jim... yes the corn prices are killer. I am going to try some partially irrigated food plots and supplement with feed and corn as I might be able to afford. Pecan trees are loosing thier mast unless they had supplemental water. I can only think the the oak trees are the same.

Activity at food plots should be good this year for hunting.... assuming they lived throught the summer.....


Regards,

Bart
 
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Nice photos Jim!! They sure are nea5t to have around, we get 2-3 every night Hooting in the yard, they nested in the creek about 50 yards from the house, but I think they have finished. I'd rather have 10 Owls catching mice than 1 cat.:thumbsup:

I wish I could afford to hunt Kansas! I bet this drought will also effect the antler growth there as they are projecting here.

I see on some hunting forums , some guy's still paying under 10 bucks for corn, but if you look at some of the bags, some are as small as 30#
 
   / Texas Heat! #270  
Nice photos Jim!! They sure are nea5t to have around, we get 2-3 every night Hooting in the yard, they nested in the creek about 50 yards from the house, but I think they have finished. I'd rather have 10 Owls catching mice than 1 cat.:thumbsup:

I wish I could afford to hunt Kansas! I bet this drought will also effect the antler growth there as they are projecting here.

I see on some hunting forums , some guy's still paying under 10 bucks for corn, but if you look at some of the bags, some are as small as 30#

Not filling feeders up this year(corn prices to high)going to put in bigger food plots and keep feeding them little alfalfa every now and then(alfalfa #60lbs bales $8.00).
 

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