Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[mikim]

CoCoRaHS - Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network

Mike, This is the site where I report. Just change the county for any county in Texas.

My station is the closest one to the north county line.

Don -- there was a time we would provide our "co-op observers" (a program that went away with modernization) with any of our official equipment they would agree to keep records on. We'd do the maintenance on the equipment and they would do several daily observations and call it in. -- you know -- on one of those old wired communication thingys the "telephone". That would then be manually input into our 2400 baud network computer system. With the advent of automatic equipment and reporting - the systems at co-op sites were abandoned or removed. The system you are reporting into is the replacement to the old co-op and fills in locations where there is a lack of data. Besides a rain gauge did they give you a temp / dew point set? They typically don't cause the little wood boxes the thermometers are housed in are so darn expensive. I have one - next time you're here, I'll show you.

 

[Western]

1.26" here for the 3 day event, I'd say it was a decent "soaker" type rain, even though we did seem to have some good runoff.

 

[Bird]

I also had a bowl of Progresso light southwestern veggie soup and a side dish of fresh celery sticks.

I guess I'm going to have to buy a can of Progresso soup again some day. Quite a few years ago, I bought a can; don't remember just which one it was, but it was so bad, compared to Campbell's that I've never bought any of their soups again.

 

[txdon]

Besides a rain gauge did they give you a temp / dew point set?

They gave us a web site to buy the rain gauge, no dew point set was offered. They did give us free instructions on how to read it and report it! Just the opportunity and prestige of being "Special" and "Official" is all they give us.:jump:

 

[jinman]

I guess I'm going to have to buy a can of Progresso soup again some day. Quite a few years ago, I bought a can; don't remember just which one it was, but it was so bad, compared to Campbell's that I've never bought any of their soups again.

Some are better than others. I like the light potato and bacon and also the chicken and rotini noodles. I've had regular pea soup too that I liked. Several of the other light varieties are okay, but not my favorites like the ones above. I like all soups so much that I can't remember when I've had any soup I didn't like.

 

[Bird]

About the only canned soups I eat, and not often at that, is tomato, chicken noodle, and vegetable/beef. But homemade soup is another matter. I do want that pretty often, along with cornbread. But I may have to try the ones you listed.

 

[Western]

36.3* right now, wonder where it will be at sun up?? going to be close in the outlying (sp) areas.

 

[NativeSon]

About the only canned soups I eat, and not often at that, is tomato, chicken noodle, and vegetable/beef. But homemade soup is another matter. I do want that pretty often, along with cornbread. But I may have to try the ones you listed.

I don't eat canned soups anymore, too much sodium, so I will make home-made soups on occassion. Mostly when I have some good leftovers.

Sunday I roasted a pork loin, putting carrots, onions, garlic cloves and celery in the bottom of the pan, and some chicken broth. When it was done pulled it out of the oven and let it rest while I made some pan gravy saving the vegetables that were cooked with the loin. Served the pork with Parsleyed New Potatos and Asparagus.

For wife's Monday lunch I took the leftover gravy, vegetables, and potatos and added some of the pork loin diced up and she had enough for 2 days lunch. And with the weather being chilly is was a great day for soup.

I think soups & stews are really better after a couple of days in the Ice box.

Charlie

 

[Bird]

I think soups & stews are really better after a couple of days in the Ice box.

That lets the flavors blend better. Perhaps the most used containers in our kitchen are Anchor Hocking glass with glass lids. This is the 20 oz. bowl. We have 6 of them, in addition to one of the 2 quart size and 3 of the 12 oz. size. I don't understand why every store that sells kitchen stuff doesn't have them, but we have to go to the Kitchen Collection store in the outlet mall on the north side of Gainesville to get them. We use them for lots of different leftovers, but especially homemade soups and chili. They'll go directly from the refrigerator to the microwave. The glass lid prevents any splatter. I fill them with soup or chili, leaving enough room to crumble up a cornbread muffin in each one when it comes out of the microwave and it's ready to eat.:laughing:

 

[jinman]

Yikes!!! The temperature dropped to 32 here overnight and my tomatoes are unprotected. I put pots around them with the bottoms cut out, so they have some protection, but I'm sure the leaves may get a little frost-bitten from this cool snap. The weather forecast didn't call for it to be quite this cold, and I let it slip up on me.