Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[jinman]

I also have been dragging out the hoses, been so windy, the ground is drying out quick. If I had any brains, I would mulch the whole yard and call it a BIG flower pot and be done with it.

The grandson and I mowed the grass this morning. Mowed is a relative term. We used a mower, but it looked like we were dustin'. I mowed out next to the county road and it looked like smoke from a bonfire all around me. The grass there was covered with limestone powder. I got my yard watered pretty well this week, but if we aren't lucky enough for that 20% rain tomorrow, I'll be dragging the hoses back out to do it all over again. Have I mentioned this year how lucky I am to have a great well?

 

[NativeSon]

This wind is really drying out the garden. I'm watering everyday. Small chances of rain for the next week. We sure could use a good rain and some more April like Temps.

Charlie

 

[Western]

You guys got that right! While watching the weather in Houston, I think it was Wed. they said Lubbock hit 102* already. We have been warm and Houston has been running 10* above normal. Seems like the trend from last summer as some predicted.

If it gets like last year, all I'm going to try to save are some trees and the St Augustine. Watering became a near full time job last summer!!

 

[Bird]

Yep, Dennis, I'm not sure I could afford the water bill to water like I did last year, in addition to being limited to watering Thursday and Sunday. Yesterday, I got my soaker hoses laid out and hooked up around the house for a test run for a couple of hours this morning. And while that was running, I got out my ladder, Makita reciprocating saw, manual pole saw, and loppers to prune that danged Live Oak that our power line goes right through. I only worked less than 2 hours, and even with temperature about 70 when I started, although humidity over 80, I was sweating before I got through.

 

[Western]

Well Bird, I just found out I have to pick-up paint in San Antonio tomorrow and work in Victoria, then down to Harlingen for the week Maybe this trip will be like last week in Houston with great weather. Usually the humidity that far south and close to the coast gets me real good, but maybe I'll get lucky this time around. Yard will be a foot tall by the time I get to mow

They let you trim your own tree with power lines?? When I lived in Springtown, the TU guys told me it was illegal for me to trim the branches from the power lines. They had rubbed 1/4" into some limbs and branches. Took a month for them to come out and trim it.

 

[Bird]

Well Bird, I just found out I have to pick-up paint in San Antonio tomorrow and work in Victoria, then down to Harlingen for the week Maybe this trip will be like last week in Houston with great weather. Usually the humidity that far south and close to the coast gets me real good, but maybe I'll get lucky this time around. Yard will be a foot tall by the time I get to mow

They let you trim your own tree with power lines?? When I lived in Springtown, the TU guys told me it was illegal for me to trim the branches from the power lines. They had rubbed 1/4" into some limbs and branches. Took a month for them to come out and trim it.

Dennis, the Oncor power line runs north and south along the back side of my lot. In fact, there's one pole in the NW corner of my lot. Then the power line comes east from the pole to the house and that's the one that goes through my Live Oak tree. If my Bradford Pear trees across the back get high enough to get into the main power line, Oncor's contractor does that trimming.

 

[Bird]

Maybe this trip will be like last week in Houston with great weather.

I've been to Houston a few times, but the last time I was in Houston, just passing through, was on January 24, 1991. We were in Port Aransas when my wife got a call about her dad being in the hospital and didn't know whether he was going to live, so of course she wanted to go and quickly. We left Port Aransas about 3 p.m., left the fifth-wheel trailer there, and I drove just that one ton Chevy dually straight through 1,365 miles to Princeton, WV, in 24.5 hours. Traffic was terrible going through Houston that evening, then I drove in a drizzling rain most of the night, and then we had quite a snowstorm from Birmingham, AL, north for about 100 miles. In fact, I stopped just north of Birmingham and bought tire chains because it was looking like I'd need them. However, I never used them.

I hope to never have to make a trip like that again. And I'd really prefer never going to Houston again, too.:laughing:

 

[two_bit_score]

If I am around that area next time (and awake) I'll give it a go! Thanks. BTW Have you tried the "Smokestack" on I-20 in Thurber TX? Great CFS and good pies.Thurber, Texas's SmokeStack Restaurant: A Comfort-Food Restaurant in Thurber, Texas, a Ghost Town on I-20 between Abilene & Dallas / Fort Worth Koffee Kup Cafe in Hico TX. has stellar pies and GREAT food too. I've talked to folks from NY who go there when they visit TX.
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I do know the Koffee Kup in Hico. All their food is good. Wish I went through there more often.

Never heard of the Smokestack in Thurber but I guess I've driven past it on the way to or from Midland from Ft. Worth.

Be in Ft. Worth in June so probably have a chance to try it or hit the KK on the way back.



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[foreman Etexas]

I do know the Koffee Kup in Hico. All their food is good. Wish I went through there more often.

Never heard of the Smokestack in Thurber but I guess I've driven past it on the way to or from Midland from Ft. Worth.

Be in Ft. Worth in June so probably have a chance to try it or hit the KK on the way back.



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KoffeeKup got some good pies too:thumbsup:

 

[two_bit_score]

KoffeeKup got some good pies too:thumbsup:

Yes, sir! That that blueberry cream is my favorite!