Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[Lou66]

Nice looking ponds Brandi.. Lou

 

[farmgirl19]

bindian; Wish I could get your overflow for my pond! Your ponds look really good!

 

[pacerron]

With the extra rain you folks have been getting this year, compared to last, have you seen an increased presence of the "Asian Lady Bugs"?

Last year we had a very dry summer up here and hardly any Asian lady bugs in the fall. Plenty of rain this year, actually too much for a decent garden, and if you step outside in the late afternoon or try to do much work, even on the tractor, you are soon covered with the little stinking pincher bugs.
South and west sides of building surfaces are a crawling mass of them.
They were imported into Michigan in the 1980's to give a "natural control" to the aphids by the Dept of Agriculture. Now there is nothing to control them. A few years ago a bunch were brought into Louisiana on cargo vessels and are now spreading across the south.
Do you have them all over Texas yet?
Ron

 

[farmgirl19]

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You've just been Harvest Mooned!

 

[foreman Etexas]

Alittle over 4inches so far today

 

[txdon]

Nice Brandi! Are you bottle fishing in your island pond? It looks like bottles floating around your island.

I though it look more like Lou had been there.....

 

[jinman]

With the extra rain you folks have been getting this year, compared to last, have you seen an increased presence of the "Asian Lady Bugs"?

Watcha talkin' about, Willis? You sure aren't talking about any place around here. However, we do have the Asian lady beetles, but this year they have not appeared. Our trees have not dropped their leaves either. When they do, then the beetles show up on our houses.

 

[DABSGT]

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You've just been Harvest Mooned!

Farmgirl what happened to all your blond hair?

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[bindian]

Nice Brandi! Are you bottle fishing in your island pond? It looks like bottles floating around your island.

Thanks Jim. The bottles come with runoff from the road ditch. I have not figured out how to stop then, while letting small limbs and leaves go through.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Brandi, kinda think I like the Blue color better

Dennis,
I think you need your eye prescription checked. I have never put in enough Aqua shade to take it to blue in either pond. It was a slight green before the rains. No more pond dye needed until next summer.

Been some major flash flooding around here today. Several roads were under I'm told. While I was walking around the ponds taking photos, I had the flash thought:mur: of building another pond to catch all that runoff I was watching go downhill.
hugs, Brandi