Texas Spring/Summer Thread

   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #151  
You're smarter than me, I told my wife when she complained about the "pies", " Your jealous because they are more efficient at pie making than you are", that didn't come across as a joke to her, not one bit. Odd thing is, she blamed the cows because the calves are to "cute"! what the?? In the end she is right, even when she may be wrong,,right:laughing:

You want to see a 5'9" 125 lb storm? Just let any animal besides my wifes dog or cat into the yard ... the "manicured" yard ... last fall my 1/4 horse got out and left "divits" ... my grandson and I spent hours filling in hoof prints with the bull whip snapping overhead ... darn horse.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #152  
You want to see a 5'9" 125 lb storm? Just let any animal besides my wifes dog or cat into the yard ... the "manicured" yard ... last fall my 1/4 horse got out and left "divits" ... my grandson and I spent hours filling in hoof prints with the bull whip snapping overhead ... darn horse.

Okay, here's my anecdote. If you have a bunch of goats and they get out of their pasture, they will sample every nice flower or shrub you have. They are particularly fond of red tip photinias. They can reduce them to just branches in one afternoon.:mad:
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #153  
Okay, here's my anecdote. If you have a bunch of goats and they get out of their pasture, they will sample every nice flower or shrub you have. They are particularly fond of red tip photinias. They can reduce them to just branches in one afternoon.:mad:

They leave sticks ... I don't much care for goats. I know a good goat joke !! (not fit for a family site)

I had goats ... years ago a real estate agent stopped by the old farm to talk about some land for sale next to me ... looked up and 4-5 goats on top of his caddy !!!!
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #154  
Okay, here's my anecdote. If you have a bunch of goats and they get out of their pasture, they will sample every nice flower or shrub you have. They are particularly fond of red tip photinias. They can reduce them to just branches in one afternoon.:mad:

Up here the Deer pull up the wife's flowers around the house, eat the fruit off the trees, and have a fiest in the garden. A little early in the season for that yet but they are marching through the new onions comming up in the onion patch now. 17 deer in a group here these days and hunting season isn't till fall. The wife is already spraying her garlic, hot pepper, milk, rotten egg mix in the beds that have bulbs in bloom, but they get used to that in a while.
It might be easier to control goats:D
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #155  
Up here the Deer pull up the wife's flowers around the house, eat the fruit off the trees, and have a fiest in the garden. A little early in the season for that yet but they are marching through the new onions comming up in the onion patch now. 17 deer in a group here these days and hunting season isn't till fall. The wife is already spraying her garlic, hot pepper, milk, rotten egg mix in the beds that have bulbs in bloom, but they get used to that in a while.
It might be easier to control goats:D

We have BEEE-autiful onions inside our 7' deer netting. I thought you were gonna getcha some of that.:confused:
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #156  
Did anyone watch Pete Delcus last night, channel 8? He was saying that a hail storm north of Amarillo, dropped 2-4' of hail!! They had to use plows on HWY 287. Guess I missed it other than his comments about it, wish he would have showed some photos. Thats allot of hail!!

We are supposed to be getting a heck of a storm this weekend (N Texas) Mr Delcus says this one could be a "critically serious threat" for severe weather.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #157  
The news is predicting another round of tornadoes to hit the DFW area Saturday. Not sure how reliable they are in these things, but it's that time of the year and there does seem to be quite a few of them lately.

Eddie
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #158  
We have BEEE-autiful onions inside our 7' deer netting. I thought you were gonna getcha some of that.:confused:

You thought right.:thumbsup: The onion box is not part of or near the regular garden. It is made from old railroad ties and is filled with the flower pot dirt my wife mixes up fresh every year and then throws in there at the end of the flower season, peat, topsoil, vermiculite, perlite and fertilizer. A great place to plant fresh green onions, radishes and other early stuff before I plow the garden. It looks like the "TV garden show dirt":)
We have had a cold spell here this week after abnormally high temps before that made some things bloom before they should. We have had to cover the blueberry bushes with old sheets every night this week as it frosts out here in the country when the city boys are just getting within range.

Garden plowing is in the near future if it doesn't rain too much.
As soon as I finish disking it we will drive in the T-posts and put up the netting you reccommended. We have had it since last fall.
We could still get light snow here and have learned from many years experience that planting tomato plants, pepper plants, etc has too much risk of frost before May 20.
Even trying to plant sweet corn with 2 weeks staggering to extend the harvest/eating time is usually folly. Until the ground gets good and warm, the early planted stuff doesn't mature any sooner than the stuff planted later.
 
   / Texas Spring/Summer Thread #159  
Well they came and put out fertilizer today on hay meadow,I sure hope we get some of that rain:thumbsup:
 

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