Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[farmgirl19]

In the cities there is no way to 'time' traffic signals accurately because the drivers texting, etc mess up any calculations.

That's why I said, come off of the light and get up to posted speeds. And when I was driving thru Amarillo, there was no such thing as texting. :confused3:

 

[Western]

Yeah, that was just about the time when they started thinking that if they just didn't build roads and infrastructure people wouldn't move there. A guy named Jeff Freidman was mayor and that was his brainstorm. I think he actually claimed the population of Austin could be capped at 40,000 or something like that.

Wouldn't surprise me if there's 40k living in just apartments !! Even grown up towards Leander and West towards 281!! Pretty country too, so I can see the draw in the earlier years, now, not so much.

 

[jinman]

It was pretty warm today as several have mentioned. I started all my tractors since I hadn't done that in a couple of weeks. It felt so good that I mowed all of my pond dams. I also had to water my garden and tomorrow morning it will be water for the yard. Foreman is right, this doesn't feel like the fall-winter thread even though the calendar says it is. Hopefully, by this weekend it will be feeling fall-ish again.

 

[two_bit_score]

That's why I said, come off of the light and get up to posted speeds. And when I was driving thru Amarillo, there was no such thing as texting. :confused3:

Oh yeah in the small towns you can actually get up to speed from a light, especially if you are the first car. Ive driven through many small towns in Texas and got in sync with the lights and never had to stop. Even today there are quite a few where it can be done. Cities are much harder except DT where the blocks are shorter and really, I think most people are trying to get out as fast as they can so they leave the phones alone until they get out aways. My experience anyway.

 

[two_bit_score]

Wouldn't surprise me if there's 40k living in just apartments !! Even grown up towards Leander and West towards 281!! Pretty country too, so I can see the draw in the earlier years, now, not so much.

Yeah everyone knew Friedman was kooky except Friedman. Austin is still suffering from traffic congestion due to refusing to build infrastructure back in the '70's - '80's.

It's sad to see such a nice town go to waste.

 

[Western]

Foreman is right, this doesn't feel like the fall-winter thread even though the calendar says it is. Hopefully, by this weekend it will be feeling fall-ish again.

Jim, I know I am a bit ostracized since I have come down here and got "Houston on my shoes", but I believe we may get some nice rain and weather over this coming weekend??

Wife says she has a "surprise" for me when I get home...hmmm maybe I will get "lucky" since I know she didn't mow the lawn, I did that before I left:thumbsup::laughing: Maybe she is letting me sleep in the house now!!!:duh::rotfl:

 

[Bird]

All this talk of Houston and Austin growing so big and people in power miscalculating traffic flows and such always reminds me of the Dallas water shortage that led to the construction of White Rock Lake, 1,254 acres, completed in 1911 and believed at the time to be all the water Dallas would need for 100 years.:laughing:

 

[two_bit_score]

All this talk of Houston and Austin growing so big and people in power miscalculating traffic flows and such always reminds me of the Dallas water shortage that led to the construction of White Rock Lake, 1,254 acres, completed in 1911 and believed at the time to be all the water Dallas would need for 100 years.:laughing:

:laughing: yep!

 

[NativeSon]

All this talk of Houston and Austin growing so big and people in power miscalculating traffic flows and such always reminds me of the Dallas water shortage that led to the construction of White Rock Lake, 1,254 acres, completed in 1911 and believed at the time to be all the water Dallas would need for 100 years.:laughing:

Yep, Bird, and now they have reservoirs built to supply the metro-plex with water all the north to Ok and east to Texarkana. They were trying to build another on out here a couple of years ago, but the locals shot it down.

When I was little back in the 50's and we had that big drought, the drinking water got kind of skanky. I remember going with my grandmother to Skillern's Drug Store in Cedar Crest Shopping Center to buy drinking water in a cardboard milk cartoon for Sunday Dinner. (During the week we just drank it out of the faucet.) This was long before we had all this bottled water that everybody is carring around. That was what started all the "Lake Building" out here in East Texas.

Charlie

 

[Bird]

Yep, Bird, and now they have reservoirs built to supply the metro-plex with water all the north to Ok and east to Texarkana. They were trying to build another on out here a couple of years ago, but the locals shot it down.

When I was little back in the 50's and we had that big drought, the drinking water got kind of skanky. I remember going with my grandmother to Skillern's Drug Store in Cedar Crest Shopping Center to buy drinking water in a cardboard milk cartoon for Sunday Dinner. (During the week we just drank it out of the faucet.) This was long before we had all this bottled water that everybody is carring around. That was what started all the "Lake Building" out here in East Texas.

Charlie

Charlie, I'm sure I'll always remember the drought of the '50s. My Dad bought a Texaco service station across the street from the courthouse in Marietta, OK, in June, 1956. A propane truck had blown up on a bridge on U.S. 77 between Marietta and Ardmore, so all the highway traffic was detoured through Marietta and up through Lake Murray State Park, then back to U.S. 77. So we did a booming business that summer; could hardly keep up. However, the drought was so bad that local farmers were hurting, the Chevrolet dealership next door to the station went under and closed up. And that Fall, they got the bridge rebuilt and re-opened the highway and our business fell to nearly nothing.

But we got lucky, a big city retiree who wanted to move to a little town and have just a little something to do showed up and even after going over the books, bought that Texaco station and we moved to Plano, TX, where Dad bought a Mobil service station.

You know it was quite common for people to add tap water to their battery when needed, instead of distilled water, and that skanky water you mentioned supposedly ruined a lot of car batteries. Dallas was getting water all the way from Lake Texoma and that Red River water wasn't the best for drinking or car batteries.:laughing:

And even now, everyone agrees that we need more reservoirs, but not in my backyard. So it takes longer and costs more to get one built.

 

[Western]

All they need to do for more water is tap into Jim's "hose array"

 

[NativeSon]

All they need to do for more water is tap into Jim's "hose array"

Dennis- I think you're right, that's Dallas Backup Plan.........they just haven't told Jim.

Charlie

 

[jinman]

If they come to me, I'm gonna suggest they steal the water from Oklahoma. That's what they want to do anyhow. Maybe they'll set up a toll booth on the Red River and charge a toll to all the Okies commuting to Dallas/Ft Worth to work. A couple of gallons of water apiece should do it. I understand that Dallas has sent civil engineers down to the border to check out the Mexican drug runner tunnels just in case they have to dig under the Red River and smuggle water into Texas.:laughing:

 

[two_bit_score]

If they come to me, I'm gonna suggest they steal the water from Oklahoma. That's what they want to do anyhow. Maybe they'll set up a toll booth on the Red River and charge a toll to all the Okies commuting to Dallas/Ft Worth to work. A couple of gallons of water apiece should do it. I understand that Dallas has sent civil engineers down to the border to check out the Mexican drug runner tunnels just in case they have to dig under the Red River and smuggle water into Texas.:laughing:

Please take a serious look at voting YES on Amendment 6 in November. SJR1 will allow the state to lend money from the Rainy Day Fund to fund water resources infrastructure which as we all know is needed.

Texas State Water Fund Amendment, Proposition 6 (2013) - Ballotpedia

Here is some info and there is a lot more out there. Thus is a very good amendment and hopefully will pass.

 

[txdon]

Who who did this?

 

[two_bit_score]

Who who did this?

Red Cockaded woodpecker. Protected habitat under federal law.

 

[txdon]

The hole is about 6"-7" in diameter. A woodpecker was my 4th guess.
1. squirrel
2. raccoon
3. owl
4. woodpecker

 

[Western]

Don, I vote #1, looks almost identical to one done on our place behind the house. I took the tree out for the shop, but it would almost be the same photo evidence as you're s. I saw the squirrels working on mine, but the larger "shaved" looking chips in you're photo seem like further evidence.

 

[jinman]

If it's an owl, you will soon have evidence where it regurgitates bone and hair from the critters it eats, owl puke.

Oh yes, if it's a squirrel, it will soon be full of pecans, hulls, and acorns.

 

[Western]

If it's an owl, you will soon have evidence where it regurgitates bone and hair from the critters it eats, owl puke.

Oh yes, if it's a squirrel, it will soon be full of pecans, hulls, and acorns.

Jim, what if it was done by proctologist?:shocked: