Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[jinman]

No rain here yesterday, so no reprieve from the mowing.

I thought you got slighted on the rain. I was watching the radar for you, but yesterday's storm wanted to be mostly east of me and it didn't drop down into Parker County. 3/10ths doesn't sound like much, but it is huge for the end of July.

My wife just made several loaves of zucchini bread (I think 4 of them). She also made zucchini bread muffins that my grandson loves. My zucs and squash are growing so fast that they are tender even when bigger than ideal, but the monster zuc may just be too tough and have big seeds. To celebrate, we watched Jack the Giant Killer last night with my grandson. It seemed appropriate.

BTW: I loved that STOL video. That's definitely a 'dance' between success and landing on your nose. Those bush pilots have nerves of steel and brains of mush.:laughing:

 

[txdon]

Wow, we had a quick unexpected shower from the north at midnight. 1/10"! Thanks for sending it down! I squeezed it pretty good so I don't know if sseelhoff, kyle, or Mike got any.

 

[sseelhoff]

Wow, we had a quick unexpected shower from the north at midnight. 1/10"! Thanks for sending it down! I squeezed it pretty good so I don't know if sseelhoff, kyle, or Mike got any.

We got some rain, but I have not checked the gauge yet this morning. I suspect you took the brunt of the flooding rains.

eta: Just checked-.05.

 

[txdon]

If you think showing an ID to vote in Texas is cumbersome (ha ha) wait till you see what you need to park at the new non-meterd parking on the seawall in Galveston.

Cell phone
App
Credit card

Complaints, confusion arise as Galveston launches paid parking | khou.com Houston

 

[mikim]

I got about .20 here.....lots of lightning .....was gonna mow this a.m......guess it'll wait.

 

[jinman]

Speaking of IDs. . . I have to go in and get my DL renewed before my birthday in September. The last license photo was 12 years ago and that guy looks awful old. What is the next one gonna look like? Maybe I could get one of those "Lifestyle Lifts" that Debbie Boone hawks in the TV commercial.:laughing:

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Wow, we had a quick unexpected shower from the north at midnight. 1/10"! Thanks for sending it down! I squeezed it pretty good so I don't know if sseelhoff, kyle, or Mike got any.

you must've ran that storm through a ringer Don. We got diddley squat.

 

[pacerron]

Speaking of IDs. . . I have to go in and get my DL renewed before my birthday in September. The last license photo was 12 years ago and that guy looks awful old. What is the next one gonna look like? Maybe I could get one of those "Lifestyle Lifts" that Debbie Boone hawks in the TV commercial.:laughing:

Just wear your famous skull cap and no one will ask for your ID.

 

[jinman]

Just wear your famous skull cap and no one will ask for your ID.

Yep, it matches the pattern on my skivvies.:laughing:

 

[bindian]

Before, many times! I used to fly a Cessna 185 on PK Amphib floats. I could leave FTW from dry land, and come into Conroe and land on the water they had for float planes.

Fun story. When I was flying that seaplane, I would take off in FTW and then go land on Eagle Mountain Lake. I'd climb up and sun bathe on top of the fuselage for a few minutes, then go land on Grapevine Lake. There was an eating place called Catfish Hut. I'd water taxi to the boat ramp, then drop the gear out and taxi up the boat ramp, and park in the parking lot. I'd go in and eat, then come out and climb in the plane and taxi across the parking lot, back to the boat ramp, and taxi down it, suck the gear up, and take off of the water! Always drew a crowd!

Landing on water is even less forgiving than a plain taildragger. If you don't keep the yoke back on landing, you flip.

I got the float flying "bug" in Alaska, when riding with some Bush Pilots. Now, those guys can fly!

FG,
Are you referring to Montgomery County airport (CXO) having water for float planes? Maybe you are thinking David Wayne Hooks Airport just southwest about 40-50 miles in Harris County. Hooks had a seaplane water way. The outfit I worked for at Hooks had the "pinkish" two hangars just across the taxiway from the seaplane turn around. Hooks had a very delicious restaurant.:licking: I'd eat there at least once a week. Irma Hooks ran the place. CXO had no restaurant.

Our boss at Hooks, Phillips Avaition, had a 1964 Falcon pickup we would ski behind on the roadway besides the waterway. I skied it a few times. You had to get up out of the water fast or you would eat cattails and the bank. The roadway when down to Lake Aircraft, where they finished out their amphibians. We also tested out aircraft engined airboats in the waterway after working on the mags.:thumbsup:

We had a flour bombing target on the west side of the seaplane waterway. We would practice in the cool mornings with the bosses Cessna 150.

Oh yeah..............if I didn't live in Texas..............I'd live in Alaska. Been there twice working helicopters. Fairbanks in Dec. and Anchorage and Nome in Ausgust. Loved every minute of it. If only had I went to Alaska BEFORE getting married
hugs, Brandi