Texas Prayer

[Bird]

Don't know where this one originated, but it does seem appropriate.

TEXAS PRAYER
Bless this house, oh Lord, we cry, Please keep it cool in mid-July.
Bless the walls where termites dine, While ants and roaches march in time.
Bless our yard where spiders pass, Fire ant castles in the grass.
Bless the garage, a home to please Carpenter beetles, ticks and fleas.
Bless the love bugs, two by two, The gnats and mosquitoes that feed on you.
Millions of creatures that fly or crawl, In Texas, Lord, you've put them all!
But this is home, and here we'll stay, So thank you Lord for
INSECT SPRAY!!!

Bird

 

[toddler]

Amen.

 

[ERNIEB]

It sure does, Bird. The only thing missing are the grasshoppers./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie

 

[JATO_RaT]

An old man had this above his fireplace. It was in Maine.

If its warmth that you desire
Poke your wife and not the fire
If its fun you want from life, poke some other fellas wife
Poke his or poke your own, but leave the god damm fire alone


Rat...

 

[kubmech]

Bird been to TX plenty of times, but I don't think you guys got S. Carolina beat for BUGS/w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

 

[Bird]

kubmech, you have my sympathy then./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I've passed through some parts of S. Carolina a few times, but never at this time of year and was never there long enough to notice bugs, except maybe on the windshield./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[Tdog]

Bird,

When I used to travel back to central Texas when my family lived there, I commented more than once that I picked up more windshield splatters in McClendon & Coryell counties than I did the rest of the trip [from New Orleans]. Of course, there's no control there for time of day - - maybe it was dusk or dark when I got that far down the trail and it was time of day that increase the frequency of splats - - - or maybe it was geography.

Grasshoppers still bugging you?

 

[kubmech]

Spent 6 years their, holy cow, "palmeto bugs" (flying cockroaches), chiggers, got fire ants too, mosqitoes? you could read their T-shirts.....Man I was glad to get outta their,
lets not even talk about sidewalks and vehicles yellow with pollen, and the HUMIDITY, sheesh!! I like Texas way more better.........Get to San Antonio 'bout once a month, Mi tierras, for tex-mex, county seat on the river walk for ribs, Good stuff, easy on the Bugs........

 

[Bird]

Tdog, we still have quite a few grasshoppers around all right, but I guess they're no problem (for me personally) anymore since I've plowed the garden under and the grass is either dead or dormant from lack of water./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif The farmers have been harvesting the corn, milo, etc. and I understand they've suffered a lot of damage from the grasshoppers. And I haven't talked to anyone who really knows, but I've noticed they're grinding up more silage than I've ever seen before. Don't know whether it's because the stuff was unfit for other use or whether it was planned and planted for that purpose.

Bird

 

[Tdog]

Bird,

It's a shame that you're still not getting any rain, although my memories of Texas in August are mostly in brown. Not much green except where people water their lawns.

Here in SE Louisiana we've gotten back to a more normal summer weather pattern here. I just checked out the 'drought monitor' [http://enso.unl.edu/monitor/monitor.html] & I see where most of Texas in in some form of an official drought condition, although you probably don't need a map to tell. Back in March-April I was bellyaching about another dry year, but since then we've been getting some good rains. And central Florida was really impacted earlier this summer, but has been chalking up some pretty good rains, & is mostly out of drought conditions.

Hope it rains for you soon.

 

[ERNIEB]

Tdog, Interesting web site. I see we are only in a moderate drought area, not as bad as I thought. It clouded up this afternoon, but was only a tease. I just watched the weather and they say we have a really good chance thursday./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Looks like Bird will get some too.

Ernie

 

[ERNIEB]

Kubmech, you must be staying in the downtown area. As far as bugs, no place I've ever been has been equal to Viet Nam. Not only was there a quantity, but some of the biggest darn things I have ever seen/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Ernie

 

[kubmech]

Fly into Kelley AFB. Sometimes we get lucky and stay down town. Most of the time there's room on base and the shuttle runs us downtown for dinner. But since Kelley is pretty much closed now, may not get their as often, too bad, always enjoyed it. Have'nt been to Vietnam yet, We do have a mission their from time to time to "repatriate" remains. I personnaly have'nt had the <font color=blue>honor</font color=blue> yet.

 

[ERNIEB]

Yea, Last week, or maybe it was the week before. I saw the offical closing ceremony on the news. So I guess Kelly is no more. I grew up near there in Southwest Bexar County, back in the days when jets didn't have to go so high to break the sound barrier. Lots of booms in those days/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Knew alot of people who worked or were stationed there. Hard to beleave it's gone.
It's Academic, but I have wondered if I had the chance would I go back to Viet Nam. Really, I had it pretty good there, some of the country is very scenic. Might be interesting to visit the places where we lived and worked. See what it looks like now.

Ernie

 

[kubmech]

Well Ernie, if/when I get their , I'll let ya know.

 

[Bird]

Ernie, I didn't know, until I saw that closing ceremony on the TV news, that Kelly was the longest continuously operating base in the country.

Bird

 

[ERNIEB]

I figured it was either Kelly or Brooks. I know the first Army aircraft were at Fort Sam, and I guess as the planes got bigger they needed more room to land and take off. The only thing Brooks has left is the Aerospace Medical Center. It's been on the hit list a couple of times, but somehow survived.

Ernie