Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Chili or Sauerkraut for sure but it has to be "Hebrew National" dogs or good German Bratwurst or a good Polish Sausage. We did a "Hans Mueller" Polish Chili-dog topped with Cheese & onions years ago at a restaurant in Downtown Ft. Worth and we couldn't make them fast enough.

Charlie

Charlie, I ONLY buy Hebrew National franks. Not lowfat, but "Reduced Fat" for my frank eating kids. I'd like to think the Kosher police keep 'em honest.

When I was at A&M back in 65-67, my first choice was Lone Star - still miss it. Guess I never acquired a taste for Shiner.

Jim, last year I was out in KS, and we were having an issue with coons. My friend didn't want to put up a trap, because all he caught was the local cats. I had the bright idea of using bird seed as bait, caught the critter just after daybreak the next morning. Hope you can get rid of yours soon.

Fred

Fred, BIG, BIG difference between plain ole shiner and shiner Bock. Are you an Aggie? Displaced to Alabama? I didn't know Hwy 21 went that far...

 

[Western]

Well, I slept all day, so it wasn't my fault there was no rain. I guess since there is only "circumstantial" evidence against Jim, we may have to look closer at Birds relationship with trying to clone a dog and Kruat! Further more, I dont think the word "sourkruat" meets todays PC anyhoo and to top that, I'm sure we dealt with that in the 40's

Wonder if we can take tonight's 20% chance and add it with tomorrows 20% for a 40% chance?? That seems to be how the weathermen have been running things around here lately?

 

[bindian]

It's gonna pour somewhere. I am loaded up to go disc 7 acres late in the morning.:dance1:
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

Wonder if we can take tonight's 20% chance and add it with tomorrows 20% for a 40% chance?? That seems to be how the weathermen have been running things around here lately?

I didn't think they did any adding; just subtracting. That 50% chance yesterday went down to 30% yesterday evening and now down to 10% and still no rain at all.

 

[jinman]

Yep, no rain here either. It was nice sleeping with the window open last night. All night long I kept wakening to whippoorwills and owls hooting close to my house (I drank too much tea before bedtime.). This morning, the sounds changed to a woodpecker hammering on a tree while trilling and crows at my deer feeder. They all got quiet though when two honkers below showed up. They were here yesterday afternoon and seem to have taken a liking to my deer feeder, green grass, and little shallow ponds.



Oh yes, as I was taking the photos of the geese off my camera, I found this one of me doing my "bucket brigade" dance to cover my tomatoes earlier this year. Aren't my buckets colorful?

 

[Bird]

Yep, you certainly do have an assortment of buckets there.

 

[jinman]

Yep, most of the plants have outgrown the small covers like coffee cans. Maybe the cold weather is over and I won't have to cover them again. I'm also hoping we don't get another big hail storm. That was the toughest thing on my tomatoes. That one oversight and leaving them exposed was a huge mistake on my part.

 

[Western]

Looks like someone was trying to "corner" the market on Folgers:laughing: And I thought it was AG reasons the price of Folgers had risen In honesty, I have about 10 of the same Folgers cans, saving up for "stuff" storage in my shop.

I guess one good thing about this weather, there has been enough humidity that watering has gone a long way, but it's hard to beat the efficiency of mother natures rain.

 

[GreenWannabe]

Did you ever visit the Lone Star Brewery in San Antonio? The Hall of Horns, and later the Hall of Fins, was a great museum of mounted animals and fish, besides the free beer at the old cherrywood bar from the Buckhorn Saloon. Of course now a lot of that stuff is in downtown San Antonio at the current Buckhorn Saloon & Museum and it's worth visiting, but it was free when it was out at the brewery.

Yes, I did, back in '63 on a Grey Line tour while I was at Lackland AFB. Been so long that I don't remember a lot of it now, but the total tour was great!

Fred, BIG, BIG difference between plain ole shiner and shiner Bock. Are you an Aggie? Displaced to Alabama? I didn't know Hwy 21 went that far...

Got my Masters at A&M in Jan '67, thanks to Uncle Sam. But then he decided I was going to Georgia, just like he decided I was going to A&M, so....

I spent three months in Texas in '63, 19 months getting my Masters, and made any number of trips back and forth to Nacogdoches with my motor home in the early 2000s. I really like Texas, the further west the better. Favorites are Big Bend NP and the Davis Mountains. But I really enjoyed Texas while I was there, got to see a lot of it, and it is one of the places I would really like to live, given a chance. My DD, living in Huntsville, AL, has other ideas....

Fred

 

[texasjohn]

wetness...not enough to call rain...but enough to
1. get wife wet loading groceries into pickup, getting her aggrivated

2. she somehow bumped another vehicle in rain in parking lot, small dent, dunno if lady will be upset about it or not
3. back at house she drove pickup into only mud puddle, got out and slipped

4. I was at TSC for supplies, FFA chapter was having a car wash, got my pickup washed, first time in 2 years, tipped them handsomely and drove home hitting slushy mist half way there. Thus new mud and dirt on pickup. Wash lasted not 10 minutes.

It doesn't rain during a drought but the wetness really messes things up!