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[mikim]

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:

Well, if we all get together and pray, we might get a tropical storm to bring us some rain this weekend. T.S. Don
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Don, how much did you have to pay to get them to name a storm after you???

Bernice asked the Director of the hurricane center (my old boss) if they were afraid to name one Bernice ....might be a real b_tch of a storm. He said he'd see what he could do - I think he chaired the WMO naming committee last yr.

 

[sseelhoff]

Hoping we get some rain from Don. Having seen the forecast for the weekend, I have set up my new rain guage:

 

[Bird]

Here, any grass that is not watered is dry with no green.

Ain't it the truth? I've just not been able to get my lawn to look like I want, but I've noticed in the last week or so that I just may have the best looking lawn in my neighborhood. This year I've been mowing the lawns on either side of ours, but the last couple of times I mowed (including yesterday) those 2 didn't need mowing anymore; they've just turned brown and quit growing.

 

[pacerron]

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.

Jim,
Trying to figure out the reply with a quote. Hope this works right...

Up here the only difference between green or red bell peppers is the maturity. The green ones turn color and are sweeter as they get red. Red doesn't keep as well though. Many years ago we had a ton of green bell peppers and put them in plastic bags in the chest freezer. Big mistake... everything in the freezer tasted like green peppers.
The green you see around the garden is just mowed weeds. In the fields it is just hay that I have mowed a couple times since taking the hay off in May. Over the winter it rots in and makes fertilizer for the next spring. We only take one cutting of hay as the artificial fertilizer, fuel, equipment wear and time required to get more from this heavy clay soil costs more than it is worth.
Attached is a quick handheld 4 shot pan I took from the porch this morning.
The "lawn"? goes out to the white fence. It is just natural clover, a little grass seed years ago, and a yearly dose of fertilizer/weedkiller. We tend to cut it too short which isn't smart this time of year and haven't watered it yet.
You can see the fields beyond which are cut much higher and less often look much better than the lawn.
When too many leaves on our tomatoes fall off they tend to get sunburned and some turn an ugly white color. We normally only get 90 days a year of clear sunshine, according to the weather people, but last year and this we have had many more. The garden has been watered regularly and dusted for bugs so I think too much sun has been the main culprit last year and this.
Ron

 

[Western]

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:

Bernice asked the Director of the hurricane center (my old boss) if they were afraid to name one Bernice ....might be a real b_tch of a storm. He said he'd see what he could do - I think he chaired the WMO naming committee last yr.

:laughing::laughing::laughing: Do those to quotes require a "collective bargaining" agreement!!

Weather man said we are headed to our hottest days of the year next week, we should approach 110!!

If the Trinity Aquifer is as low as they say, that is not very bueno amigo's

Jim, I "threw in the towel" on my few veggie plants, like you said, I couldn't water them enough or underwater some enough. Melons would perk up in the am after being watered, by the afternoon you wouldn't know I had hosed them.

 

[jinman]

If the Trinity Aquifer is as low as they say, that is not very bueno amigo's

That's absolutely true. I have not monitored my well's level, but it seems to be fine; at least for now. The neighbor said that one day he had gray water in his commode, but he recently had some work done on his well and his filtration/treatment system. That could have stirred up some sediment. My water has been clear and perfect so far.

Last week, I saw my well driller's service truck come and go two days in a row. I was really starting to be concerned when I remembered somebody just moved in a mobile home onto a lot that has been unoccupied for three years. I'm sure the well guy was going there to service their well and get it back online. They didn't ever come around with a drilling rig, so I'm pretty confident that pump service is all that was required.

Ron: I think you forgot to end your quote properly. You have to end the quote by putting [/quote] at the end when you trim a quotation.

 

[jinman]

Hoping we get some rain from Don. Having seen the forecast for the weekend, I have set up my new rain guage:

Always the eternal optimist, eh? We're just getting into our dry season. When August rolls around, I always think we're likely to not see rain until mid-September. I guess that's the same as me flipping your bottle cap and saying that's the rain gauge for what I expect.

 

[Western]

Jim, they said the aquifer is between 20-80' low depending where and the structure underneath, lowest ever recorded.

Also said there was a big push for well drillers to extend existing wells. I am probably, or most likely in the Paluxy not sure. The wells where here when I bought the place, I would hope one is at least in the Trinity though.


I wonder how long till they find that guy they where looking for in Sunset Tx that is using all the water?:laughing::laughing:

 

[pacerron]

Dennis,
Probably not long. Google appears to crawl this site almost instantly!

Jim,
I just ran a 4 hour test on the I .R. Nelson sprinkler. Amazingly even coverage for such a cheap unit.
The test would have to be repeated many times for any real accuracy but this was enough to show me
that, as they say, is just a p... in the wind compared to the water needed for a 1 soak per week.
After 4 hours there was 3/16 inch of water measured on a level surface in each of the 3 butter bowls.
That would require 21.2 hours to get 1 inch of water applied. It is said on the card to cover an 85 foot circle at 40 psi. My well goes from 30 to 50 so the average is 40. The tank is 35 gallon with a bladder that I charge with 30 pounds of air pre-charge. It takes 3 minutes for the pressure to drop from 50 to 30 with the sprinkler going and 1 minute of the pump running to get back to 50 psi while the sprinkler is on. The circle diameter isn't effected by running the DW or flushing the toilet so I have capacity to run more than one sprinkler at a time.
Regardless of that this sprinkler head covers 5,542 square feet. The part we mow as yard is 31,950 sq. ft. or about .73 acre. I would have to run this guy 21 hours per day for 6 days per week or some combination of multiple sprinklers up to the capacity of my well, without any overlap of pattern to cover the area with an inch soak.
I think we will continue watering the garden and flowers and let the grass brown out along with the fields in August and September as usual.
It was a good drill for my brain figuring it out. If you see any errors let me know. Only 97 degrees here today.
Ron

 

[Western]

I found the round one (Nelson) at Wal-mart, it is Green but look's identical to the one Jim referred to on Amazon. Well actually Jim was talking about the square model.

Looks like TS Don wont do us much good, hopefully we can get some spin-off, but unlikely this far North.