Good morning!!!!

toppop52 · Jul 8, 2013

Great lookin veggies Drew! Looks like the rainy weather is slipping back in for a few days, oh well, keeps the grass green.

deerseeker001 · Jul 8, 2013

we had a big thunder storm go through this morning dropped 2 inches of rain.its 68 now going up to 87 today.i might have to cut the grass.

Larro Darro · Jul 8, 2013

Overcast, 74 degrees, 95% humidity with only a 50% chance of rain today. High is forecast as 88. Yesterday there was a strange yellow disc in the sky giving off light. I even saw my shadow. It rained all around us, but it was the first day in a long time it didn't rain here.
County tractors fired up at 7:35, started mowing the right of way. Two nice cabbed Massey's with the big three deck bush hogs were parked on the corner of my property through the long 4th of July weekend. If Margie wasn't such a stickler about legality and all, I would have tried to 'borrow' one of them long enough to mow my front yard.
My sister gave me four Denver Daisy's to go in Margie's flowerbed. I need to get those in before that yellow disc shows itself again. Then maybe I will cut some brush. And of course, check the garden for worms.
Have any of y'all men noticed it is your wife's flowerbed even though you do all the work? Maybe they are paying us back for calling grilling the meat cooking dinner.

jmurray01 · Jul 8, 2013

Well how wrong was I! The rain I mentioned this morning never did materialise and the day has turned out warm and sunny, albeit still cloudy.

I took a hayfever relief tablet earlier but it's doing barely anything as usual.

Then again, I don't know how I'd be without it so can't really say it does nothing.

Hopefully the blades for the mower will arrive tomorrow and I'll get the lawn mowed as it is badly needing it.

txdon · Jul 8, 2013

daugen said:
I have the cure for the Texas desert blues...
Now buckle up for this one.

At the designated time, we all go out on our tractors, and
put the biggest plow or subsoiler we've got on the back.
Then we drop those plows and with all of us facing due West,
we give it all its got, pulling the earth in the other direction.
Then our rainy weather will blow backwards onto Texas, and
TxDon will have all the water he needs.

Now there might be a physics rule, something about opposite reactions,
but then this is all in fun...

And it's ok if you don't have a plow. Just tie your biggest chain on a big tree and head West.
We can make this happen. Next Saturday, at noon.

perhaps someone could do the math...

I think the most we could hope for is adjusting the rotation to cancel out daylight savings time, oh well at least someone out there is trying to think of a solution.:thumbsup:

sixdogs · Jul 8, 2013

Woke up to the 18th consecutive day that has had rain in it. Lawn is too wet to mow and it's already mostly 8" to 10" high in many spots. I'm afraid when I finally do get the chance to mow it will look like a hay field that's been mowed and develop a brown stubble look to it. As surely as some of us are desperate for rain, and rain is always better than no rain, I wish it would take a break.

On the flip side, the garden looks great. Sweet corn is already 5' or 6' tall and fully tasseled. It won't be long now.

Let's hope it rains for the people that need it.

sodamo · Jul 8, 2013

73F sunny

Have a great day

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RoyJackson · Jul 8, 2013

RoyJackson said:
2013-07-08, 0730
I reckon I'll work on the tractor today and see if I can get that pin back in the reverser linkage. Per the service manual, this is a universal joint...might end up having to replace the joint.

Well, I must replace the universal. The problem is a connector piece between the upper and lower yokes is missing...I'm guessing the pin that retained it (on one of the yokes) had been missing for some time (years, maybe) and the other pin finally gave it up.
80 bucks (love them Deeres!!), but in the scheme of things, it's a pretty straightforward repair (of course, I should NEVER say that until I'm finish and the tractor is running!)

jinman · Jul 8, 2013

txdon said:
I think the most we could hope for is adjusting the rotation to cancel out daylight savings time, oh well at least someone out there is trying to think of a solution.:thumbsup:

Don, you know it was a bad omen when Big Tex burned up at the State Fair last year.

Considering the Bastrop fires not long ago, it seems that what didn't burn up in CenTex is now drying up. Keep your fingers crossed for the tropical system to come up out of the Gulf as it is driven by the flow around this cool front moving down out of Canada. I don't know if it will make it this far north, but you folks in CenTex need this a lot more than we do at the moment. That's not to say that we aren't in drought, but we aren't in severe drought like you.

Larro Darro, tell us about your pepper varieties. I see what looks like nice jalapenos and poblanos (or large chili peppers), maybe even green habaneros. Your jalapenos grow longer than mine. Mine tend to be very fat, but not as long as yours. I've never grown poblanos, but I think I'd really like them.

In general, my garden is going nuts (Or maybe I'm just going nuts trying to keep up with it.:confused2). I picked a 5-gal bucket of blackeyed peas this morning and I'm getting a full 8-qt bucket of yellow squash and zucchinis every day. I also am getting 1-1/2 buckets of big tomatoes and a gallon of cherry tomatoes every other day. My okra is nearing hip-high and starting to bloom, so it won't be long until I have to warm up the frying pan. My cucumbers are also doing very well. I'm getting an 8-quart bucket of cucs every other day. I have Israel melons (sometimes called ogen or galia melons) that look like watermelons, but still are not ripe. My house smells like sweet basil today because we loaded the dehydrator with basil leaves and they go for 20-24 hours before they are dry.