Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[Bird]

Dennis, your mention of rain washing the seed away reminded me of when we bought a new house in Dallas in 1977; moved in over the July 4 weekend. I had the yard hydromulched with common Bermuda. Back then I could have bought sod for $1.25 a yard, while the hydromulching cost me $0.45 a yard. The company that did it said they'd guarantee it and come redo it if rain should wash it off. Sure enough, just very few days later (before any seed sprouted), we had a big rain; washed dirt and seed out into the paved alley behind the house and onto the sidewalk in front. I shoveled it back into place and called the company. The guy said they'd like to wait until it sprouted, then come back and redo any bare spots, but that he'd come on back now if I really wanted him to. So I waited, and it came up so good that there was no need for him to come back. My wife was not working (outside the home) at the time, and school was out, so she and the kids hand watered the whole yard enough each day to keep it damp. The instructions said to mow and fertilize after 30 days, but the grass was so thick and about 6" tall that I mowed the 28th day.

Three neighbors who moved into that development after we did came to ask what I did to the yard, so that got the hydromulch guy 3 more customers.:laughing:

 

[NativeSon]

Concerning the Texas Oklahoma game the whole team, Coaches included, should have to walk back to Austin. And no pizza. I quit watching towards the end of the 2nd Qt same as last year.

Charlie

 

[Western]

Funny story Bird. My best food plot last year was under my blind:laughing: Water ran from the field taking the oats with it, got to watch the deer close though, sent my wife photos from my cell phone of the little yearlings laying in front of my blind maybe 3 yards. Some of the filed still came up, but having the little deer there every evening was comical to say the least, made it hard to get out of the stand, when trying not to scare them off.

Jim, your right, just the right amount (this time)..Hey, what is it with you and water in the house?

I didnt even watch the OU game, good thing I guess. After the Rangers and then The "Boy's", I am thinking about taking up knitting on Sundays

 

[jinman]

Hey, what is it with you and water in the house?

Aargh! Dennis, that made a chill go down my spine. PLEASE! No more house floods.

BTW: I saw on the news last night that they were talking about Lee County. I'm sure glad we didn't have storms like that. Just Saturday morning, I went to my neighbor's house and cleaned up some big fallen limbs from a previous storm. I don't need more of that. My neighbor has trails made for his Kawasaki Mule. My New Holland is a bunch bigger than the Mule. His wife asked me to be careful and not damage her prickly pear cactus.:confused2: So not only did I have to dodge trees with grapple buckets full of limbs, I also had to stay away from her cactus. Growing up in Texas, there are four things I don't understand anyone wanting: grass-burs, cockle-burs, bull nettles, and prickly pear cactus. Sheesh!

 

[Bird]

Growing up in Texas, there are four things I don't understand anyone wanting: grass-burs, cockle-burs, bull nettles, and prickly pear cactus.

Me, neither.:laughing:

 

[genusCastor]

Growing up in Texas, there are four things I don't understand anyone wanting: grass-burs, cockle-burs, bull nettles, and prickly pear cactus. Sheesh!

Me, neither.:laughing:

Who you two tryin' to kid?

I didn't grow up here, but what I've come to learn is that everything in Texas either scratches, stings, or bites. :laughing:

- djb

 

[Western]

Me, neither.:laughing:

I been fighting grass-burrs for 3 years now. My neighbor has them and the deer an other varmints carry the seeds around. The wife and I have dug up probably 4 FELs worth this year alone, got out of hand since I was gone so long. I keep telling the neighbor each Spring to apply some premurgent for the GB, so far no dice, just keeps mowing them

Jim, Dodging all that "stuff", should count towards track driver pay!

 

[txdon]

..... Growing up in Texas, there are four things I don't understand anyone wanting: grass-burs, cockle-burs, bull nettles, and prickly pear cactus. Sheesh!

Don't forget the mesquite.

 

[jinman]

Don't forget the mesquite.

Don, I should have said small plants. There are plenty of large plants and vines I'm not crazy about. Greenbriars and Poison Ivy come to mind. I do like mesquite chips to use in my smoker. I have two mesquite trees on my whole place and still have managed to get two tractor flats from the thorns.

 

[NativeSon]

Who you two tryin' to kid?

I didn't grow up here, but what I've come to learn is that everything in Texas either scratches, stings, or bites. :laughing:

- djb

That's what I told my Yankee Sister-in-law when they came to visit and she asked "You don't have a lot of insects here, do you?"

Charlie

 

[NativeSon]

Don, I should have said small plants. There are plenty of large plants and vines I'm not crazy about. Greenbriars and Poison Ivy come to mind. I do like mesquite chips to use in my smoker. I have two mesquite trees on my whole place and still have managed to get two tractor flats from the thorns.

Jim, no mesquite out here in East Texas, but I have a big Honey Locust that I can't get within a 100 feet of. It's not going to give me another flat tire on the tractor if I can help it.

Charlie

 

[Western]

While out clearing some brush yesterday, I was surprised to find an old bee hive that had been abandoned 2 years ago, was active and open for business:thumbsup: It's in a cavity in a large Oak, all summer we have seen exactly 3 honey bee's, actually quite alarming, especially with the decline they're reporting. This colony will get the "kid glove" treatment I know they aren't Africanized, My tractor tire scraped bark off the opening, while I was "hugging" the tree to push off a 3' dead limb that blocks a view from my deer stand, they buzzed up, I backed off, life goes on. I like those bees!!!

 

[Bird]

I have two mesquite trees on my whole place and still have managed to get two tractor flats from the thorns.

I guess I was lucky in that I never got a flat on my tractor, inspite of the mesquite. However, one day I was helping a neighbor load so cattle in a trailer to go to auction when I stepped on a mesquite limb I didn't see and a thorn went right through the bottom of my shoe and into my foot. Since it was in a messy cow lot, I went by a doctor's office and got a tetanus shot.

 

[txdon]

Big Tex. RIP
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

 

[txdon]

Big Tex. RIP
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com


pictures here:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/item/Big-Tex-burns-12124.php

 

[bindian]

Big Tex. RIP
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com


pictures here:
Big Tex burns - Houston Chronicle

Oh no! Not Big Tex. I got to see him once back in high school. We had a marching band contest in the Cotton Bowl. Yes, I played in the Cotton Bowl! That place is awesome. News I googled on Big Tex says he will be back next year..........better than ever!!! Don't Mess with Texas.
hugs, Brandi

 

[jinman]

Dadgummit!!! They can fry Twinkies, and they can fry butter, but now they've gone too far.

RIP Big Tex.

 

[Bird]

Oh no! Not Big Tex. I got to see him once back in high school. We had a marching band contest in the Cotton Bowl. Yes, I played in the Cotton Bowl! That place is awesome. News I googled on Big Tex says he will be back next year..........better than ever!!! Don't Mess with Texas.
hugs, Brandi

And we (my wife, her sister, and myself) just saw him yesterday. Wonder when we'll find out what caused the fire.

 

[jinman]

And we (my wife, her sister, and myself) just saw him yesterday. Wonder when we'll find out what caused the fire.

Bird, they are saying it was an overload or short in the electrical junction box in his boot area. You'd have thought somebody would smell something getting hot, but maybe not with all the smells around the fair. The heat went right up inside the open frame body and flames exploded around his neck.

I'm thinking it was a conspiracy to keep him from becoming old enough to draw Social Security. Big Tex was a Boomer, you know?

 

[Bird]

Yeah, Jim, Big Tex was gettin' up in years, but he still looked pretty good yesterday. By the way, we probably should have taken your advice and ridden the trains yesterday, but I drove down there instead, as usual. And I don't guess I've ever seen any more traffic, so it was slow going, but at least no accidents to shut down the roads anywhere, so no problems other than just being slow.