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[300UGUY]

Wow! That Bing photo must have been taken just a couple of months ago. I can even see where I tilled around the outside of my garden. Of course, all my junk also shows up too. :ashamed:

I just looked up Bing maps and looked at my place. Pic is a few years old, but some of my junk shows up anyway!!! )

 

[Alan L.]

We managed to get about .3 inches Saturday morning, the ground stayed damp and the sky was overcast all day - only got up to 89. Right now though its 105

 

[jinman]

I guess that is an affirmative about you owning that area then. What is the shape near the back; looks like a couple little ponds?
Nothing to be ashamed of.. "the only difference between a man and a boy, is the price of his toys." I keep everything, even broken. What the wife calls junk, I call spare parts.
Ron

Well, this thread is probably not the place to discuss this in great detail, but yes. The two ponds are mine as well as the peninsula running out into the soil conservation lake and including the slough across the dam road from the ponds.

I'm not only holding out for some cooler weather, but also some rain so I can compact the soil to continue my pond. Thankfully, there's no deadline on this pond building project, so we'll just find other things to do. Yesterday I dug out about 20 yards of sand out of the mouth of the creek where it dumps into the lake. I have a neighbor to whom I take sand in my dump trailer, and he lets me load up with mule poo for my garden.:thumbsup:

 

[pacerron]

The two ponds are mine as well as the peninsula running out into the soil conservation lake and including the slough across the dam road from the ponds.

Jim,
I am familiar with your "Silt Happens" thread about the ponds and downloaded the entire thread and pictures some time back. Very interesting and well done.
My question earlier today about possibly 2 other ponds on the right of your drive and to the back was from a quick look at the Bing map capture. After looking at it again larger and color edited I think the area in question is your garden and perhaps greenhouse running through the center of it. I think I see part of the deer fence.
Ron

 

[Bartcephus]

McCurtain County (SE Oklahoma) received some rain in areas, But Bowie County (NE Texas) missed most of the rain. We got "spit" at for about 5 minutes from Mother Nature. Spent most of my weekend at my deer lease. Ladies and Gents, we need some RAIN in a bad way. My beautiful St. Aug. lawn is about gone. Some of the smaller trees in the yard are so stressed they have shed nearly all their leaves. Yard is covered in leaves. I'm leaving them to shade the grass that might live under them. We have had no break in triple digit daily temperatures. I'm so used to the heat, that 78 degrees feels cool. (Except in the house then it is almost comfortable. When I came home this evening, my digital thermometer on the front patio said 125 degrees.

The ground is so dry. Driving on the dirt roads even at 5 mph and the dust will still fly. Saw a doe that looked poor. She looked absolutely pitiful. I hope she gets better, I hate that she is suffering. Of course she ran off, but I put out a trough of water for her and threw a bag of corn on the ground. Perhaps she will find it. I haven't mowed for three/four weeks now. I'm afraid a spark will ignite the lawn. Fires are popping up everywhere. Seems like this is a broken recording of a bad newscast. I'm thinking west Texas has moved to the east. :laughing: At least I have a coupon for a free sundae at Sonic drive-in. :licking:

Regards...

 

[chad22]

I guess that is an affirmative about you owning that area then. What is the shape near the back; looks like a couple little ponds?
Nothing to be ashamed of.. "the only difference between a man and a boy, is the price of his toys." I keep everything, even broken. What the wife calls junk, I call spare parts.
Ron

Wow someones stalking. :laughing: I'm just kidding. Anyway don't be ashamed. Our junky yard showed up on google street view. :ashamed:

Okay I'm a bit embarrassed too. lol

Chad

 

[jinman]

After looking at it again larger and color edited I think the area in question is your garden and perhaps greenhouse running through the center of it. I think I see part of the deer fence.
Ron

Actually, the center of the garden is the only place we planted anything this year and I tilled around it for weed control. I don't have a greenhouse yet, but plan to build one somewhere between the garden and my container barn. This is a photo of the garden BEFORE it started burning up with consecutive 105+ days. You can see the container in this photo. It has a false roof where I extended the lean-to barn galvalume metal over the top. That's why it looks like a large white square from above. You can't see the brown container. With the heat like it has been, I'm thrilled to have the container covered. Otherwise it would be 140 to 150 F in there every day. As it is, it probably rises only 5-10 degrees above outside temperature during the hottest part of the day. If I ever get my wood crib built on the exposed side, it will be even cooler. I think I should paint the front white also because it faces the west.

 

[blueriver]

Bing maps is amazing thanks for that ...

 

[pacerron]

Actually, the center of the garden is the only place we planted anything this year and I tilled around it for weed control. I don't have a greenhouse yet. QUOTE]
Jim,
Thanks for the explanation about your garden. What I thought might be a greenhouse was a reflection from your garden fabric. The angle from space and the digital interpretation of their software made black look white. I stumbled across your thread on 2007 gardens. What a difference rain and a little lower temperature makes. I'll have to check my pictures of our 2007 garden to compare with this year. For such a lousy year our 4 dozen Fantastic VFN tomatoes gave us luscious fruit to eat morning noon and night raw and in great receipts plus have kept my wife busy all day for the past 2 weeks canning dozens of jars of Salsa, whole tomatoes, V-8 type juice, and tomato relish. A couple dozen quarts of dill pickle spears to boot.
BTW you know from our private conversations that for someone to say I am stalking you is idiotic.... " Ignorance is bliss", I guess.
You have generously donated your time to helping me and dozens of others figure out good solutions to our challenges by openly offering your experiences and photographs. You can never be thanked enough.
Ron

 

[jinman]

BTW you know from our private conversations that for someone to say I am stalking you is idiotic.... " Ignorance is bliss", I guess.

Well, he did put a laughing icon after that remark. I just think he was surprised how somebody from Ohio could locate my place on Bing maps and know such details. You know that I don't mind you showing those photos, so all is good.:thumbsup: Thanks for your kind words.