The gully to pond project

[jinman]

Today, I had to get a haircut, buy fuel, water my lawn, and put fuel into and lube my tractor before starting to work on my pond dam. It was noon before I got started. By 2 PM it was stuffy, but by 4 PM, it was dusty and hot. I decided to knock off and start again early in the morning when I have almost no other chores. I came into the house and looked at my thermometer. It was 95F.:shocked: It's too darn early in the year to have those kinds of temperatures and be hot and dusty already. I don't like it when it's that hot and the quality of my work suffers. I'm retired; I'll wait 'til tommorrow.

 

[ben2go]

Texas is gonna completely dry up this year and I fear that we are not far behind.We get rain and frequently but water levels continue to fall.

 

[pacerron]

Today, I had to get a haircut, buy fuel, water my lawn, and put fuel into and lube my tractor before starting to work on my pond dam. It was noon before I got started. By 2 PM it was stuffy, but by 4 PM, it was dusty and hot. I decided to knock off and start again early in the morning when I have almost no other chores. I came into the house and looked at my thermometer. It was 95F.:shocked: It's too darn early in the year to have those kinds of temperatures and be hot and dusty already. I don't like it when it's that hot and the quality of my work suffers. I'm retired; I'll wait 'til tommorrow.

Know what you mean
We had to go 60 miles round trip this morning to get our favorite Super Fantastic VFN tomato plants, other garden veggy plants and the usual 8 flats of flowers.
The temp got to 88 deg this afternoon with high humidity. This is crazy for OH
and always results in bad thunderstorms and/or tornados.
I'm thinking I should have got a tractor with a cab and AC...

 

[beppington]

Texas is gonna completely dry up this year and I fear that we are not far behind.We get rain and frequently but water levels continue to fall.

FL is a dryninsula right now, soon to be a dustninsula. We might just blow right off the map.

 

[dcyrilc]

Still water-logged and swimming here in Western Washington. We reached a balmy 48 degrees on Friday.

 

[Bdavis]

Texas is gonna completely dry up this year and I fear that we are not far behind.We get rain and frequently but water levels continue to fall.

Hot is heck for this time of year (southwest Ms) but we have had the wetist winter and early spring I can recall in years. Starting to dry out now, we had a bad drought last summer and I am paying the price this year . I did not water the top of my levee last year during the drought so some of my grass died and it eroded during the wet winter.

Spent about a day bring over some dirt and smoothing it out , now trying to
get some grass to grow.

I want make that mistake this year , just brought a little pump yesterday, I have not decided exactly what I am going to do but I will do something to keep the top of the levee wet enough so the grass will not die.

My pond is only about 1 acre so it is not that big of an area compared to some of the lakes/ponds I have seen in this forum.

 

[jinman]

Still water-logged and swimming here in Western Washington. We reached a balmy 48 degrees on Friday.

Cyril, I sure envy you all that rain, but spring-time in Washington seems to never end with one storm after another and some of them are downright COLD. We were in Oklahoma this weekend and drove through a really heavy rainstorm near the Arbuckle Mountains. It reminded me of what rain looks like for the next time I see it here.

 

[ronjhall]

Weathermen are calling for rain at your place today. Could they be right.

 

[jinman]

Weathermen are calling for rain at your place today. Could they be right.

Well. . .there's rain and then there's RAIN! All we've had is a quarter inch since you guys left. I'm hoping for some decent run-off type rain, but so far it's just been dust settlers.

EDIT: Oh yes, it's cooler too. When I got up this morning it was 60F and now it's down to 58F. Woohoo!

 

[pacerron]

Jim,
I came across an interesting post in the New Holland group.
Your dash in Sep 06.
How many hours have you added since then on your blue tractor?
I bet it is a bunch:thumbsup:
Ron