Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[sseelhoff]

What's all this wet liquidy stuff coming out of the sky?

 

[blueriver]

What's all this wet liquidy stuff coming out of the sky?

Well Scott I got to wondering so i just looked at radar and its rain over you !! You need it don't you?

 

[jinman]

Scott, it looks like some much needed rain for you.:thumbsup: It's just hot and humid here. My zucchini plants are wilting even though I watered them this morning. The yellow squash look fine but the hot temperatures are just too much for the zucs. Maybe I disturbed their roots when I stirred the soil.

I had an optical exam appointment today at the South Fort Worth VA Hospital. (Gosh! That's a nice place. I love going there.) Anyhow, I had to get out very early this morning to pick green beans. Check out my bucket of beans. We are having beans and new potatoes tonight. :licking:



I also picked some banana peppers. The two plants I have are producing nicely.



I'm getting lots of squash and cucumbers too. I have one ****** melon the size of a football. My tomato plants are loaded, but the only ones ripening are the cherry tomatoes. I have probably a hundred tomatoes that are between baseball and softball size. I wish they'd get rip so I could pick them instead of worrying that some critter will get them first.

 

[txdon]

Got the A/C working!. It was the run start capacitor for the fan. I sure am glad the compressor shuts off if the fan fails. $5,31 fix, plus a trip to town for the part. 83* in the house when she fired up:shocked:

Was it a GE capacitor made in china?

 

[Western]

Don, I didn't look, but thought about it on the way home also. I will look tomorrow, but I believe I saw "Mexico"?? This one was only 2 years old?? The new one is the same brand, with different operating temp range (whatever that's worth) Kid said it may help. We'll see

 

[NativeSon]

Yep, Charlie, it's amazing, isn't it? When I was kid in Oklahoma, we came to the State Fair of Texas every year. My Dad's best friend from the time they were kids was herdsman at a Guernsey dairy way out in the country between Dallas and Farmers Branch; right about where Walnut Hill Lane now crosses the old Denton Road in Dallas. And I remember us going down through what is now Lake Lewisville when it was under construction.

As herdsman for the dairy, Dad's friend cared for the show cattle, took them to the Fair, and always had free passes for us.

And I'll never forget the time we left the fairgrounds and got lost. So Dad saw a Dallas motorcycle police officer and asked him how to get back to U.S. 77 headed north. The officer said he was about to get off duty and he'd just show us the way; said to "follow me" and he turned on his red lights and siren and away we went, through red lights without even slowing down. I guess that would have been about 1949 and Dad was driving a 1936 Plymouth coupe. When we got out to the highway, the officer pulled over to the side of the road and waved us on.:laughing:

Bird-- Yeah Dallas was a very different place back then. Even Oak Cliff was a great place to grow up. Not that much traffic, only one Freeway (Central Expwy really wasn't much of a Freeway back then) and on a clear night you could see thousands of stars and the Milky Way even in the City Limits.

It was a "Right of Fall" to go to the State Fair in Oct. All the school kids got a free ticket and a day off from school to go. And with $10-15 in your pocket you could spend all day there and maybe still have a little change left when you got home. That's where we all developed our love for Corney Dogs. Last year at the Fair I got to buy my youngest grandson his first Dog at the Fair. He polished off 2 before the day was done.

Charlie

 

[NativeSon]

Where abouts in OC did you live native? We had a place behind wynwood shopping center. I sometimes joke with my kids that I'm the last Oak Cliff redneck.

Ron-- There is still a few Rednecks from the Cliff running around. Wynnewood.....You must have gone to Adamson.

My Great Grandfather had a small farm over in Cedar Crest before it was even in Dallas City Limits. I grew up over on Marsalis & Ledbetter (S.O.C.). Then we moved and I graduated (really.....I did) from Kimball.

Charlie

 

[jinman]

Was it a GE capacitor made in china?

Probably, but it was blown up with good ol' made in America electricity fluctuations from the power company. :laughing:

 

[Western]

Been hot guys and gals! at least it has been for me. Houston humidity was atrocious, at least this far North it is more than half. It was stifling in Galveston, sweat just standing outside in the shade!! Here, just plain A hot!

It seems I could water the garden twice a day and it still wouldn't be "perky". I have been cutting my lawn taller and that seems to make allot of difference, at least with the St Augustine. I have only picked about 1/2 gallon of snap beans, No where near what Jim is getting. Work load starting to catch u to me now, busiest time of year for me.

Small chance of rain Saturday, so I've got my fingers crossed!

 

[foreman Etexas]

I went out and cut hay this morning,hope it helps rain chances...

 

[Lou66]

Been hot guys and gals! at least it has been for me. Houston humidity was atrocious, at least this far North it is more than half. It was stifling in Galveston, sweat just standing outside in the shade!! Here, just plain A hot!


Dennis,, Welcome to the gulf coast.. where life is a little hot and a lot of sweat.. We are the A/C capital of the world.. I can route the condensation from the A/C to my wife flower garden,, free water.. :laughing:,,Lou

 

[blueriver]

Been hot guys and gals! at least it has been for me. Houston humidity was atrocious, at least this far North it is more than half. It was stifling in Galveston, sweat just standing outside in the shade!! Here, just plain A hot!

It seems I could water the garden twice a day and it still wouldn't be "perky". I have been cutting my lawn taller and that seems to make allot of difference, at least with the St Augustine. I have only picked about 1/2 gallon of snap beans, No where near what Jim is getting. Work load starting to catch u to me now, busiest time of year for me.

Small chance of rain Saturday, so I've got my fingers crossed!

I agree hot and it seems to be hotter than I can stand .. Was welding early this morning (orders are backing up) then finished painting a unit and I quit .. Just plain wore out. All the fans do is move hot air ... Get this ...was stuck in on field just a few days ago and on the home place I'm considering irrigation starting in the morning. Forecast is showing 60% chance that it won't rain.. Maybe if I get to pumping water it will rain .. Foreman helped by cutting hay !!!

 

[blueriver]

I went out and cut hay this morning,hope it helps rain chances...

Well just maybe ... Did you do a rain dance?

 

[CowboyRon]

Ron-- There is still a few Rednecks from the Cliff running around. Wynnewood.....You must have gone to Adamson.

My Great Grandfather had a small farm over in Cedar Crest before it was even in Dallas City Limits. I grew up over on Marsalis & Ledbetter (S.O.C.). Then we moved and I graduated (really.....I did) from Kimball.

Charlie

My dad got me out of there before I got to high school, but my cousin went there and my mom went to SOC. It is still a beautiful town with the hills and large oak trees.

 

[Bird]

Yep, must have been awfully hot this morning for a truckload of hay to catch fire.:laughing:

Fire engulfs hay truck on I-35W - Dallas News | myFOXdfw.com

And that shut down I-35W northbound just as we were about to leave the courthouse in Fort Worth to go back north. Fortunately, I had a temporary chauffeur who was familiar with the back streets, even though I was not.

You can see my post "New Granddaughter" in the Family & Friends forum to see what I was doing at the courthouse.

 

[jinman]

I spent most of the morning watering my garden. If it had been in the mid-80s, it would have been fine. However, when it got to 95, things started wilting down in a hurry, especially the tomato vines. I normally don't worry about a bit of wilt, but it looked excessive and I turned on the soaker hose. Within 1/2 hour, they perked back up. I watered blackeyed peas yesterday morning and they look fine. They seem to be like okra and love the heat.

Here are some photos from this morning.

Blackeyes, beans, and tomatoes. Dennis, those rows don't look so wide anymore do they?


Tomatoes:


Onions:


Cucumbers:


****** Melons:


Spaghetti Squash:

 

[Bird]

Sure makes me jealous, Jim.

 

[Western]

Jim, all that work is looking great! Will pay nice dividends around dinner time in the near future!!

Lou We lived in Sugarland back in the mid 70's, as a young man, I dont recall the humidity. Maybe as we age, we feel it more? I mean now that I'm ah, er 30?

BlueRiver, between you and Foreman, we might just have a chance at some rain. Sure will be pull'n for both of ya:laughing: What where you welding?

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well just maybe ... Did you do a rain dance?

Got the wife too,while I was on tractor,her dancing a lot prettier than me...

 

[bindian]

We lived in Sugarland back in the mid 70's, as a young man, I dont recall the humidity. Maybe as we age, we feel it more? I mean now that I'm ah, er 30?

Dennis,
We notice humidity more as we age and it is one of those things that we try to forget.
hugs, Brandi