Texas Heat!

[Western]

Ive got room too!!!:thumbsup:

He!!, I'd take the storms MIL even

 

[txdon]

Don, how much did you have to pay to get them to name a storm after you???

They said no rain no pay. But it will rain, I guarantee it! Go throw out your fertilizer now. :thumbsup:

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well my friend lives 30 miles from me and they said it rained an hr and 45mins,there.

Is a MIL 1/1000 of an inch? You gotta forgive me!!

 

[Western]

They said no rain no pay. But it will rain, I guarantee it! Go throw out your fertilizer now. :thumbsup:

Whew! I feel better, I'm going to call my buddy and tell him to spend the 7k for fertilizer now, Don whats your phone number? just incase..:laughing:

 

[Western]

Well my friend lives 30 miles from me and they said it rained an hr and 45mins,there.

Is a MIL 1/1000 of an inch? You gotta forgive me!!

What part of E Tex. are you? There seemed to be a good amount of t-storms moving SE of the DFW mess.

I had to change my answer on the Mil part it is 1000th, we put paint down at 14 mils to end up with 7-8 mils dry.

 

[foreman Etexas]

What part of E Tex. are you? There seemed to be a good amount of t-storms moving SE of the DFW mess.

I think it is 1/100, but don't honestly know.

Well aslong as i was close:laughing:
Right between dallas and houston just outside Buffalo,texas

 

[Bird]

I can tell you without hesitation, if you have never been to the Smithsonian in DC, you really haven't been to a Museum.

Dennis, in the Spring of 1986, I only spent a couple of hours in the Air and Space Museum one Saturday, then went back on another Saturday and spent all day at the Museum of Natural History, so I know what you mean. I went through it too fast and still didn't see it all in one day. I'd love to go back and spend a week or more there.

And the first time we visited the Air Force Museum in Dayon, OH, we only had about half a day. So we went back later and spent 2 days in that one.

 

[jinman]

Since it is a hybrid we can't save the seeds; we have to trust the labels at the greenhouse and our experience of what the plant looks like when young,
but who knows.. in today's world you get what you get.

That's sure true Ron. Where we buy plants, they have flats of plant sets with labels on each flat. If somebody switches around sets to a different flat, then you just get a roll of the dice. I bought green bell peppers and red bell peppers plus some pimento sets this year. All the peppers so far have been red bell peppers (two varieties) and pimentos; no green bell peppers.

Ron, your grass around your garden looks lush and green. Here, any grass that is not watered is dry with no green. Maybe I'll take a picture of my lawn next to the unwatered area and post it just for the contrast.

In my recent travels, I've only seen one plant growing and looking happy in anybody's garden, okra. Okra seems to love hot weather and thrives in 100+ temperatures. I saw some beautiful gardens with several rows of okra. Everything else is in decline. One fellow had two acres of blackeyed peas and was watering about 1/4 of it with impulse sprinklers. That part of the garden looked like is was producing a little, but the rest of his crop was just yellow and dying.

My early girl tomatoes have produced the best tasting tomatoes I've ever produced this year. Everyone raves about the flavor. Although the plants are wilting at the bottom and just have green curling leaves at the top, the bottoms of the plants have begun to sprout new green leaves. I've found that if/when the tops of the plants die, I can prune back and the lower growth will sprout and produce a good fall crop. It's too darn hot to fool with building a cover at this point. I'll just keep watering a bit every other day and hope to carry the plants through until the weather gets milder. My cucumbers are suddenly declining quickly and the determinate tomatoes are really going down quickly, but my little garden will still have peppers and the Early Girl tomatoes struggling along.

My thermometer showed 109.5 yesterday afternoon about 5:45 pm. By 6:15, it was 108.4 and dropped to 108.0 at 7 pm. It seems that the heat is peaking later in the day than it used to. As a kid, we used to come in from working out of the heat between 2 and 3 pm, but that's not siesta time anymore.:confused2:

EDIT: Here are a couple of photos of the watered/unwatered contrast around my yard. Notice the dust cloud behind the car going down the co. road in the one photo.

 

[pacerron]

A "MIL"= 0.001 inch but rainfall is usually measured in millimeters or inches.

A millimeter = 0.039 inches.

Big difference

 

[jinman]

Don, how much did you have to pay to get them to name a storm after you???

I've heard they pay the big bucks if you get a storm named after you. It's 3 times as much as a TBN moderator's pay and twice as much as Member of the Month.:laughing: