Texas Spring/Summer Thread

Bird · Jun 9, 2012

My yard is green and in need of mowing this morning without my having to put a drop of water onto it.

I had intended to wait until Monday, but Monday is supposed to be even hotter than today, and the yards really needed mowing. So nearly 2 hours with the string trimmer and almost an hour on the ZTR this morning just to do our yard and the one next door. Just about wore me out.

Western · Jun 9, 2012

Mowed mine yesterday:thumbsup: I still have the road frontage to do, then "on the road again"

Jim, Not dragging hoses around this summer must have you "looking" for things to do with all your "free" time

:laughing: Is is a different summer so far and thankful for it too.

bindian · Jun 9, 2012

Thursday nights storm left us with 4.5 inches in the rain gage. The pond was down over 3 feet and when I got home Friday morning, it was in overflow. By the looks of the the debris downstream of the overflow pipe, it was severe overflow, but all is good. No seeps around the dam at all today. Yippee. Darn I forgot to take photos. Maybe tomorrow.
hugs, Brandi

Western · Jun 10, 2012

bindian said:
Thursday nights storm left us with 4.5 inches in the rain gage. The pond was down over 3 feet and when I got home Friday morning, it was in overflow. By the looks of the the debris downstream of the overflow pipe, it was severe overflow, but all is good. No seeps around the dam at all today. Yippee. Darn I forgot to take photos. Maybe tomorrow.
hugs, Brandi

:thumbsup:Home run!! Ours came in over a 2-3 day period, so run off was there just marginal for me, kind of like a good soaker.

bindian · Jun 10, 2012

Western said:
:thumbsup:Home run!! Ours came in over a 2-3 day period, so run off was there just marginal for me, kind of like a good soaker.

Jim,
Sure thing. I can hook up a toll $$$ pipe at this end.
hugs, Brandi

bindian · Jun 10, 2012

Western said:
:thumbsup:Home run!! Ours came in over a 2-3 day period, so run off was there just marginal for me, kind of like a good soaker.

Dennis,
That is what I though we were suppose to get.
hugs, Brandi

jinman · Jun 12, 2012

We had a nice cooling rain shower last night after a day when our temperature got up to 104F. Whew! It was hot. Anyhow, we picked up 1/10" overnight and it was 68F this morning. The next round of storms seems to be way out in Childress, so I should have time today to get more outside work done.

Western · Jun 12, 2012

We got 3/10ths and your right Jim, the temperature yesterday was awful combined with the humidity.

I head out tonight to Hereford Texas, hopefully it will be dry when I get there. Then on to Colorado and N. Mexico. Hoping the wildfires they are experiencing doesn't interfere with my schedule.

I remember when the space shuttle crashed over East Texas, you couldn't find a motel room for miles since guvment employees took them all. Incidentally at one motel we found, they had raised their price for the searchers from $55 per night to over $100. Clerk told me this himself, I told him that was gouging the taxpayer and was BS to take advantage of a tragedy like that.

Bird · Jun 12, 2012

jinman said:
We had a nice cooling rain shower last night after a day when our temperature got up to 104F. Whew! It was hot. Anyhow, we picked up 1/10" overnight and it was 68F this morning. The next round of storms seems to be way out in Childress, so I should have time today to get more outside work done.

I also got 1/10" overnight. I noticed the Channel 4 weatherman this morning mentioned that yesterday was the hottest day so far this year. And yesterday afternoon, I went outside with my infrared thermometer and found 95 to 98 degrees around my patio in the shade, 125 degree concrete on the driveway, and 133 degrees on the bricks on the west side of the house.

And it's still 8 more days until Summer officially begins.