Texas Fall/Winter thread!

bindian · Jan 31, 2014

two_bit_score said:
Don't forget those juicy Valley grapefruit!

For some reason, I never developed a taste for grapefruit.
hugs, Brandi

farmgirl19 · Jan 31, 2014

Funny, bindian. I love grapefruit! I find oranges too sweet, but can eat 5 pounds of grapefruit a day, when it is coming up from the Valley fresh! I'll eat it, to the exclusion of almost everything else! And I still prefer the original grapefruit to the Ruby Red. They tried to get a sweeter grapefruit with the RR, and almost ruined it, IMO.

Gorgeous 77* today! A great day to be hanging out in barns! I also got most of my onion patched hoed, so will finish that and get the onions in tomorrow, while topping water troughs, etc., and trying to beat the next front coming. Last I heard, chance of wintry mix here on Sunday. GO AWAY WINTER!!!!

bindian · Jan 31, 2014

Never really understood (when I was younger) why my Dad's youngest brother left the farm in Higgins and went 18 miles over to Shattuck OK. Later in life, while visiting local cemeterys for Family Tree research, I learned we had kin all over the place up there in several little communities on both sides of the state line. Also, like mentioned above, sometimes you gotta follow the jobs. My Dad's youngest brother built up the only lumber yard/concrete truck/house building company within 40 miles. Shattuck had the hospital, Higgins didn't. I had cousins and an aunt live in Higgins and work in the hospital in Shattuck.

Jim,
Oh yeah.........I don't think the wind south of the border blows northward much.
hugs, Brandi

farmgirl19 · Jan 31, 2014

bindian: Of course the wind does. Texas always gets the smoke when Mexico is burning.

bindian · Jan 31, 2014

farmgirl19 said:
bindian: Of course the wind does. Texas always gets the smoke when Mexico is burning.

But then they are only blowing smoke.:stirthepot::muttering::rotfl::applause::applause::jump::nosmoking::fan::stopsign::roadblock:
hugs, Brandi

txdon · Jan 31, 2014

bindian said:
But then they are only blowing smoke.:stirthepot::muttering::rotfl::applause::applause::jump::nosmoking::fan::stopsign::roadblock:
hugs, Brandi

Now that was funny.:laughing:

Maybe Jim was talking about Pasadena, or Galveston after a fish killing red tide.

bindian · Jan 31, 2014

txdon said:
Now that was funny.:laughing:

Maybe Jim was talking about Pasadena, or Galveston after a fish killing red tide.

So I walked into the store and saw an old friend. I said, "Crown, how would you like to come home with me and have a Royal time?"

hugs, Brandi

Lou66 · Jan 31, 2014

Well there was nine people showed up to the golf driving ranch/range today,, friends of my son and friends of his friends.. tomorrow I will be up early,, out looking for the lost balls.. My son said they would be back tomorrow afternoon to pick up the balls they missed tonight.. plus they want to shoot skeet and have a bbq,, So now we are talking about beer, bullets, balls and beef.. boy.. They come over with a five gallon bucket of balls and leave with a half of a bucket,, think they missed a few.. their lost my gain.

. Lou

sseelhoff · Jan 31, 2014

Lou66 said:
Well there was nine people showed up to the golf driving ranch/range today,, friends of my son and friends of his friends.. tomorrow I will be up early,, out looking for the lost balls.. My son said they would be back tomorrow afternoon to pick up the balls they missed tonight..

Sounds like a yuppie Easter egg hunt.

Western · Jan 31, 2014

Never shot at golf balls before, but there's an idea to "kill two birds with one stone" so to speak. Of course you'd be picking up pieces.

Lou66 · Jan 31, 2014

Not sure sseelhoff about the yuppie part :confused3: but it is like a Easter egg hunt.. plus I get a lot of exercise

walking all over the field.. and I look at them like tamales,:dance1:, three dollars a dozen.. :laughing:
Dennis that would be cutting into my tamales sells.:thumbsdown:. back off with that idea.

. Cause these are rednecks and I bet they have already been talking about it,, Throw a couple of Pro V ones out,, you ready bubba?.:laughing:. Lou

bindian · Jan 31, 2014

Lou,
Sounds like your gonna need to modify a cultipacker to pick up golf balls.
hugs, Brandi

Lou66 · Feb 1, 2014

Brandi,, They are bringing out some Zero turn mowers tomorrow and cut the field to ground level.. Then take the hay rakes and role it to the outside and burn it after dark.. Sound likes it going to be a lot of fun.. but I will leave early in case the fire dept. is called.. So I can say.. They did what?.:laughing:.

This piece of land (18teen A) is in the city limits,, anything over 10 acres is treated as if it is in the county.. shooting or burning.. Lou

Lou66 · Feb 1, 2014

I told them come the first of March.. I will disc it up and the golfing will end.. My son told me,, Dad we will be out of balls by then.. I will have a couple of 55 gal. drums of balls,, I mean tamales for sale.:laughing:.Lou

NativeSon · Feb 1, 2014

Lou66 said:
My son said they would be back tomorrow afternoon to pick up the balls they missed tonight.. plus they want to shoot skeet and have a bbq,, So now we are talking about beer, bullets, balls and beef.. boy.. They come over with a five gallon bucket of balls and leave with a half of a bucket,, think they missed a few.. their lost my gain.. Lou

Lou-They need to add a couple of chain saws to the mix for a little more excitement.........What could go wrong?

Charlie

Western · Feb 1, 2014

Well we have a chance of sleet,or snow Sunday, hmmmm don't know which to wax, the sled or the skates:confused3:

LOU, them "Tamales" would be worth $1 each at least!!

txdon · Feb 1, 2014

Lou66 said:
This piece of land (18teen A) is in the city limits,, anything over 10 acres is treated as if it is in the county.. shooting or burning.. Lou

Is that the city's law or Lou's Law?

Lou66 · Feb 1, 2014

txdon said:
Is that the city's law or Lou's Law?

Don it is a city ordinance,, if you hadn't been annexed since 1987 and not within a 100 yards of a home,, then you are father in lawed.. I also have 54 acres that is part of this same property that is in the county,, They are putting in a new county roads, four lanes concrete that on the south side of me and a four lanes on the east side.. The city wants 60 ft. easement between the city property and county land.. before long I will be out of the ranching/driving range/farming.. this area is growing too fast for me,

, Lou

jinman · Feb 1, 2014

Lou66 said:
Well there was nine people showed up to the golf driving ranch/range today,, friends of my son and friends of his friends.. tomorrow I will be up early,, out looking for the lost balls.. My son said they would be back tomorrow afternoon to pick up the balls they missed tonight.. plus they want to shoot skeet and have a bbq,, So now we are talking about beer, bullets, balls and beef.. boy.. They come over with a five gallon bucket of balls and leave with a half of a bucket,, think they missed a few.. their lost my gain.. Lou

When I was a kid, a neighbor's property backed up to a golf driving range. Often, people with severe hooks would drive their balls over the fence and onto his place. We'd go golf ball hunting and take the balls back to the driving range because they would let us hit the balls we brought back for free. I also liked to hold onto several balls because they were so much fun to hit with a baseball bat.

Lou66 · Feb 1, 2014

Don that's not grandfathered,, but father in lawed.. it's a joke.. When they annexed a 20A parcel of land that belonged to the mayor father in law who had a gun range,, to keep from shutdown the gun range the 1987 ruling came in,, his 20A was right next to my 18A at the time.. Lou