Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Gary happy belated birthday!!!
63 this morning high of 80 later today with thunderstorms later more tomorrow and Monday too

 

[dave1949]

Wow, I wish they did that down here. I get a good price from one of the Dairies ($45 a dump truck) but it would be nice to support a youth group like 4-H or FFA

$3 a bag, $15 for a tractor bucket full. Don't know how big the bags are, they said two tractor scoops fills a regular pickup. Not exactly cheap but the 4H Club (Giddy-Up & Go) is working on paying for an outing to a horse event: Equine Affair in Springfield, MA in November. Got to support our ambitious youths.

 

[sseelhoff]

Morning, all. 70s and heavy overcast this morning. Finishing off the turkey coop this morning, then off to Callahan's in Austin to buy the turkey chicks. Still torn on what to get. They have five varieties of chicks.

Need to mow, but it is still very wet. More rain possible today, and 60% chance tomorrow. And Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday...

 

[Thomas]

53F showers just about done high low 70's.
Not all that much plan for today,purchase veggie plants order 6 cords of wood and do some puttering.
May flowers taken over small field,makes it look like 3" fresh fallen snow.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 0755, sunny, 73F with 88% humidity. Forecast high of 84F with 50% chance of thunderstorms this afternoon, and a low of 70F tonight. I have a little bridal shower at work today. But need to get to the garden to pick squash before I hit the shower. I got another pretty good thundershower yesterday, but managed to mow the front yard {up close to the house} before it hit. If we had about a week of these 1/4" showers it wouldn't break my heart.

Don, are you saying you can't kill the timber rattler out your way? One summer there were 8-10 eastern diamondbacks killed with a 1/4 mile of my crossroad. Since then it is only two or three a year. We don't get the really big ones anywhere there are people about. Now days even the big tracts of timber are leased out to hunt clubs, so there isn't many places they can grow undisturbed long enough to reach 6-7' like when I was a kid.

Hope everyone has a good weekend,

Larro

 

[daugen]

laws or not, if I see a poisonous snake I'm going to ask forgiveness instead of permission...

had a fine outing this morning, good trip to Lowes, got some dirt in the pickup bed which it surely needed.
Though Dave...you dump raw manure into the bed of your pickup?
what does that smell like on a hot summer day?
unlikely to be your go to dinner truck...

Don, seems that water is bringing out critters you may not have seen before. Habitats flooded, critters on the move.
I can see why one carries a gun in your area. It's a jungle out there...
I'll stick with my cute little geckos thank you.

went to the Sat morning farmer's market down by the river. Gorgeous day, maybe a dozen stands, local strawberries overflowing baskets, home made baked goods, a couple of local church booths, home made soaps. And best of all, after I snagged some strawberries and a black walnut loaf cake, there was a gardening booth where I picked up some helpful info.

And was told fruit trees "don't do well here"... lovely. Uh, why? Too hot and too many bugs.
Ok, well I can't help the heat, but I sure can spray, and will, with Uncle Bob's organic three way bug and disease spray, plus neem oil. My trees hadn't been in the ground a month when they started getting aliens on their leaves. Red mites, scale of some kind, all of which were effectively killed after the last spray. But now I see a few more newly infected trees.
Time to fill the big sprayer I guess and make a weekly run if I have to. So far, I have three apples showing. Three...
Guess it's also time I started wearing a mask while spraying; hard not to get some back in your face when the breeze picks up the fine spray. I am ready to go nonorganic if I have to, but am hoping that six or seven sprays should do it.
i remember five growing up. Probably all of them toxic by today's standards.

have a great Saturday. Just had a cup of coffee and a slice of that walnut cake.
yum
time to go work that off

 

[RedNeckGeek]

52F this morning headed for a high of 76F under partly cloudy skies with light wind later in the day. Hopefully not too windy as it'll be warm enough and dry enough to shoot some paint this afternoon, and I'd like to get that job finished so the FEL can go back on the tractor.

Gary, happy belated birthday. May you have many more!

Don, do they make hip wader snake boots? A rattler that size would seem to require a pair for adequate protection. :laughing: Consider carrying a shovel in the golf cart from here on out; they're deadly on snakes and make short work of burying the evidence of your civil disobedience.

Eric, digging holes around here, one's mind never has a chance to wander beyond the cursed rocks that lay just below the surface. I've found everything from fist size to washing machine size, almost too big to move with the tractor. The poor fella that installed the post for the satellite dish had to come back with one of those electric jack hammers before he could finish his work, and I ended up with one to complete a fence project a few years ago. There are three car sized piles of rock located equidistant around the property so I'm never far from an easy place to dump a newly discovered one. Each winter's rain brings a new crop to the surface, which I collect before starting the year's mowing. But don't get me started on rocks...

Ron, good luck with finding the leak, and hope it's an easy one to fix.

rswyan, my first house had juniper stumps all across the front of it, right next to the foundation. A friend was driving a tow truck at the time, and stopped by to help pull them. They popped right out, but a nosy neighbor called the truck's owner, and it cost my friend his job. So if you have a friend with a tow truck, make sure that stump of yours can't be seen from the street Everything's so lush and green around your property, just beautiful!

Enjoy the weekend folks!

 

[txdon]

Well, at least there were no snakes to worry about. Got get those snake boots Don before you don't live to regret it. Do they only strike below the knee ?

Don, are you saying you can't kill the timber rattler out your way?

Larro

Good morning. 74˚ had a bit of a sprinkle this morning. The yard is too wet to mow and too tall to walk in - the large snake could be hiding really close by.

This is the first Timber rattler I have seen the 20 years we have owned this place. Drew you are right the water brought him in. You cannot kill them legally. Eric good question - answer: I don't know - he looked like he could easily bite me in the throat. I'm still in shock. They climb trees too don't they? - Mikim said one fell out of tree on his place. Now I have to look up and down!

Ron I did not even have my dumb phone with me which also takes pictures and I was just wearing shorts and crocs. Three more steps and I would have stepped on him . . .Ahhhg. . .shuddder.

Snakes usually don't bother me but this one was like a copperhead . . . just sitting and waiting . . .not scared.

Snake boots (These are OK but don't look down)
http://www.incrediblethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/all-snake-cowboy-boots.jpg

 

[farmer2009]

68 this morning and headed to 75 today. Finally getting some needed rains. Been 3 weeks and got .7 inches last night with more on the way.
Back to chicken coops. You guys are probably tired of hearing me say that. But I guess you could say it's what I live for. :Laughing:. .

Don I think I'd have to kill a snake like that. If someone said something it turned on me and was giving chase. I was defending myself. Timber ratters aren't endangered here. They are our most populous rattler.

Drew. If the organic sprays don't work. Look at the Bayer fruit tree spray. Well you mix it up and pour on the roots. Don't even have to spray. I use one that's for trees and shrubs on my young maples. It works for 12 months.

 

[deerseeker001]

59 with cloudy Skies with a high of 72.We are going to pick up the plants for the Garden.