Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[pacerron]

Lou,
Here's one you might like.
I wanted to try out the digital zoom on the moon last night but it was grayed out.
Today I figured it was probably because I was shooting RAW + jpg.
Put it on jpg only and it works.
Usually in the past years digital zoom was just a noisy joke that I never bothered with
since the results were lousy to say the least.
My widest angle is 34 mm without digital zoom added.
Longest is 2400 mm with 2X digital zoom added.
Name under pics explains if you download.
Shot them from the front porch, using a tripod of course.

I'll have to try it on the moon. Maybe somebody up there doing a moon dance :cool2:
Ron

 

[bindian]

I met Farm Girl today. I took some photos. Here they are.............
It was a "Chamber of Commerce" day. These were taken on the road between Montgomery and Willis. Lake Conroe is about 5 feet down. I think the cattle are Longhorns and not Watusi
hugs, Brandi

 

[txdon]

That's exactly how I pictured ........ hey the photos were there a second ago.

 

[NativeSon]

Ugh Oh, Now my wife wants to come to Jinman's.
She loves sausage gravy on homemade Cat Head biscuits.
In fact, that's what we had for supper Friday night.
Have you ever made Cat Head Biscuits?

1.5 cups flour
1.5 cups cake flour
1 T baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1 t salt
8 T stick butter
4 T shortening
1.25 cups buttermilk ( she makes the buttermilk from powdered buttermilk since it keeps so great )
Oven 425
Place rack in upper middle
Mix all except buttermilk
Mix with a pastry cutter
Add buttermilk
Mix with spoon
Use 1/2 cup of mix for each biscuit. Measure with a 1/2 cup measuring cup sprayed with pam.
Coat 9" cake pan with pam
Makes 6 very large biscuits
Bake 25 minutes test with toothpick

Break open on plate ( not cut because they are so soft and light a knife crushes them)
Smother with sausage gravy and enjoy.:licking::licking::licking:
Recipe from Carolina
Best buscuits we have ever had. Does not have a bisquick taste.

I thought you were on a diet?

"That was then; and this is now":laughing:

Ron

Thanks for the recipe Ron. I'm going to try it out the next time the grandkids are here for breakfast. Biscuits & Gravy for Breakfast has been a tradition in our family for as long as I can remember.

Charlie

 

[pacerron]

That's exactly how I pictured ........ hey the photos were there a second ago.

Don,
That's a good one! You are helping her :stirthepot::stirthepot:

 

[txdon]

8 T stick butter
4 T shortening
1.25 cups buttermilk ( she makes the buttermilk from powdered buttermilk since it keeps so great )

I thought you were on a diet?

Ron

Ron you get the pot stirring prize with your blue ribbon recipe! SHORTENING!!!! I thought they outlawed that stuff, just clog up my other artery.... :stirthepot::stirthepot::stirthepot:
Even the cave man diet (which I do not endorse for heart disease) can't use shortening - they didn't realized how to hydrogenate fat till the 1900's.

 

[pacerron]

Ron you get the pot stirring prize with your blue ribbon recipe! SHORTENING!!!! I thought they outlawed that stuff, just clog up my other artery.... :stirthepot::stirthepot::stirthepot:
Even the cave man diet (which I do not endorse for heart disease) can't use shortening - they didn't realized how to hydrogenate fat till the 1900's.

Don,
For sure hydrogenated fat for anyone that has a heart problem or even sausage gravy would be very questionable.
You live with the problem every day and I think you have made tremendous effort in your diet and exercise program to control it,
as all your current tests point out. Sorry to hear about your knees giving out. Swimming is really the best exercise to protect your joints
while giving you a good workout.

Do you have a favorite recipe for biscuits that you consider healthy? Be interested in you posting it.

As far as the term "shortening", that covers a broad spectrum..
We use butter flavored all vegetable shortening (Crisco)
Serving size 1 T = 110 calories
Total fat = 12 g
Saturated fat= 3 g
Transfat ( hydrogenated )= 0
Polyunsaturated= 6 g
Monounsaturated = 2.5 g
Cholesterol = 0
Sodium = 0
Total Carbohydrates = 0
Protein = 0

Percent of daily allowance based on 2000 calorie diet
Total fat less than 65 grams
Saturated fat less than 20 grams

One of the full recipe size biscuits has about 8 g of fat so you would have to eat 8 biscuits to
get the fat allowance for a day.

The hydrogenated fat process was used to make shortening hard.
This stuff is so soft it needs to be kept in the refrigerator for baking purposes.

The comparable processed foods from a grocery are loaded with salt and fat.

Gotta go.. even though the garden is done, the deer destroyed the fence netting last night, in spite for not getting in there all summer.
Deer season starts soon.
Ron

 

[Lou66]

Nice pictures Ron and Brandi,, makes be think dar R greener pastures else where.. I do like biscuit,, home made and with gravy and butter,, hot coffee,, strong and black.. bacon fried straight and crisp,, hummmm.. Little Timmy.. may I have another helping?.:laughing:.Lou

 

[Lou66]

Hey on another note.. I only got one and three quarters inches of rain at the land.. I know we got more here at the house.. but I have no way to proof it:confused3:.. unless you just want to tell my word for it.. I wouldn't but ya'll might.:laughing:. Lou

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

You guys are gonna give Don a heart attack if you don't stop talking about that yummy food. My hat is off to him, I'm sure his diet has brought about numerous life style changes. I just imagine travelling or whatever and needing to eat. I guess he packs his meals. Don, is there anything you can stop and get (on the go) if you are hungry?

Brandi, first you talk of you and FG meeting then you show pics of cows???? LOLOL

 

[jinman]

Since this is a schoolday for my grandson, we had leftovers for breakfast. We had three big biscuits, three sausage patties, and some gravy. That was enough for each of us to have split biscuit covered in gravy with a sausage on the side. Funny thing. . . nobody said they weren't hungry.

I went to the garden this morning and removed my shade cloth. I have a fall tomato crop coming back (lots of golf ball and tennis ball size tomatoes), so I don't think I need the shade cloth when most temps will be in the 80s and low 90s for the remainder of this month. We also used up my remaining Amdro on about 20 fire ant mounds on my pond dams. A couple of the mounds were 18" in diameter and 4" high. The mounds I treated in my yard are already dead.:thumbsup: The Maximilian sunflowers are really in high gear since the rain and we've seen blue sage and purple gayfeather in full bloom.

I strung a fence charger wire over my wife's rose bushes about a week ago and added peanut butter smeared tinfoil. Several of the pieces of tinfoil are on the ground from either deer or raccoons. Suddenly, the rosebushes have little leaves on them that aren't being eaten. I set up a game cam set to video, but it hasn't triggered yet and may be too far away. I would love to have seen the reactions of the 'coons and does.

 

[Lou66]

Here is a picture of one of my horse shot just before sunset.. This horse name is "smoke" sure miss him.. but the old saying.. money speaks louder than feeding a horse all winter.. or something like that.. Lou


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[jinman]

You guys are gonna give Don a heart attack if you don't stop talking about that yummy food.

Yep! Lou and Farmgirl have already made me an alcoholic from talking about all that good booze.:laughing:

 

[Lou66]

Jim,, FG and myself more than like don't drink as much as we say.. I would bet maybe no more than 5 to 6 inches a night from a five gallon bucket..each.:laughing:. Lou

 

[jinman]

Jim,, FG and myself more than like don't drink as much as we say.. I would bet maybe no more than 5 to 6 inches a night from a five gallon bucket..each.:laughing:. Lou

It's only a drinkin' problem when the bottle is empty, right Lou?

 

[Lou66]

:laughing:I think you maybe on to something Jim.. I need to stock up so I won't get an addition.. once you get that, then you got to make meetings.. Lou

 

[Lou66]

Does anyone stock trade/ day trade,, if so I have some real good tips on how to lose your money..free.. Lou

 

[jinman]

Does anyone stock trade/ day trade,, if so I have some real good tips on how to lose your money..free.. Lou

Lou, I don't day trade, but I learned my lesson back in 2001. When I have a stock that goes on a run upwards and there's annual unrealized gain of 20% or more, I sell that stock and then dollar cost average back into the market. I want to make sure I keep my gains stashed away rather than make them victims of a volatile market. These days, I make sure I keep plenty of cash reserves. I do most of my investing in Vanguard ETFs and Mutual Funds.

 

[pacerron]

Here is a picture of one of my horse shot just before sunset.. This horse name is "smoke" sure miss him.. but the old saying.. money speaks louder than feeding a horse all winter.. or something like that.. Lou

Lou,
Isn't Smoke the same horse as your current avatar?

My wife and I call her paint horse "Blondie" because of her mane and tail, when it is clean.
Her real registered name is "R U Kidden Keely" because a Bay paint was expected from the breeding and they got a
solid chestnut with flaxen mane and tail, instead.
The first lady to see her after birth, named "Keely" called the owner to describe what popped out.
The owner replied, "Are You Kidden Keely?" So that became the registered name.

We have had a few registered horses with long weird names, but we always give them a short "barn" nickname.
They don't really care, as long as we don't call them late for supper, same as me....
Ron

 

[farmgirl19]

Yep! Lou and Farmgirl have already made me an alcoholic from talking about all that good booze.:laughing:

GOOD BOOZE?!?! Only Lou drinks the good stuff. I drink the cheap stuff. Lou and I agree on one thing though, have to stay stocked up, so they don't send us to meetings! :laughing: