Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Western]

Brandi, we found the perfect window cleaning pad. It comes with a pivoting head on a pole and the pad really does clean 20 windows in less than an hour with no streaking - simply an incredible product.

Clean outdoor windows in half the time - Windex

Don, that sounds like a handy "gadget", thanks for posting your experience with it, windows are a PITA.

We got .16 last night, not allot. but some relief. Looks like FG19 may have did pretty good in the rain department!

 

[pacerron]

Ron,
Here is the link for cornmeal algae control. I only use it in the summer months. Homemade Algaecide | eHow
The pond dye I use I get at TSC.
hugs, Brandi

Brandi,
Thanks for the info.
How much did you use on your pond and how big is your pond?

Our pond is basically a triangle with each side 300 feet long.
Solving for the distance from the dam to the common point , edge a= 260 feet
The area of half the pond surface is 19,500 sq. ft..
Total area= 39,000 sq. ft.
1 cup of regular cornmeal per 100 sq. ft = 390 cups
A cup of regular cornmeal weighs 6.75 ounces x 390 = 2633 oz = 164 pounds.
2633 oz divided by 128 oz per gallon = 26 gallon containers full.
I imagine horticultural cornmeal is not nearly as fine ground so 390 cups would not be quite as heavy
but the same volume.

Right-Angled Triangle Calculator

Ron

 

[NativeSon]

Speaking of basics. It is always said:, "you can hold a ton on a string if you apply it slow enough."
We went to the pond this morning with some old, used, nylon baling twine, a milk jug, and a rag with a little
copper sulfate in it. I got on the end of the dam and my wife unrolled the cord out to the opposite side. She tied the milk jug and bag on in about the middle. We raised it up and walked toward the other end. When we got to where the floating stuff was we let the bottle and rag down into the water and started dragging it toward the other end. It kept getting
harder to pull as the mat was being collected by the string. Finally had to go back and get leather gloves for both of us so the twine didn't cut our hands. When we got to the other end we came together and a massive amount of weed was collected along the string like collecting an oil spill. So back for rakes, pitchfork, and the tractor while she got in the edge and started throwing the stuff up on the bank. Then I put it in the loader by the pitchfork full.
She had her walkie-talkie in her well endowed T-shirt pocket and it skied out into the water. But we found it. Letting it dry in the sun but it probably is shot.
The loader bucket is 6 feet wide x 32" deep so quite a haul on a little piece of twine.
I have some 1/2" or bigger nylon rope around here somewhere. I think we will "belay" the ends, one to the tractor and one to the little green deere. She can drive the deere across the dam as I move slowly along the other side with the tractor.
Probably tie 2-3 milk jugs on the line to keep it slightly submerged. A few trips that way should get rid of a lot of the weed without using chemicals.:thumbsup:
Ron

Jim- Great idea to get that stuff out of the pond , but you have to explain "belay" to the landlubbers. When I have to pull a water hose to store it for a short time out of the way, I "flake down" the hose. Those "Seamanship & Marlin Spike" classes were many moons ago.

Charlie

 

[Bird]

Brandi, we found the perfect window cleaning pad. It comes with a pivoting head on a pole and the pad really does clean 20 windows in less than an hour with no streaking - simply an incredible product.

Clean outdoor windows in half the time - Windex

I had to go to Walmart for a couple of things this morning, so I checked on that Windex Outdoor all-in-one. Walmart has them online, but only one store within 50 miles stocks them, and that store is out. However, Lowe's price is about a dollar less than Walmart's and the Denton Lowe's had plenty of them. So, probably sometime in the next week or two, I'll give it a try.

 

[blueriver]

Jim .. They do mean live ones. To stop transporting them outside the quarantined areas.

I have fire ants all around here .. Because my hay is on pallets they found no live ants in the traps so I was certified fire ant free.

A young lady from the dept of Ag set the traps in several different places around the barn .. Peanut Butter was the bait .. She waited 30 minutes gathered the traps and gave me my farm ID and stamp.

 

[bindian]

Brandi,
Thanks for the info.
How much did you use on your pond and how big is your pond?

Our pond is basically a triangle with each side 300 feet long.
Solving for the distance from the dam to the common point , edge a= 260 feet
The area of half the pond surface is 19,500 sq. ft..
Total area= 39,000 sq. ft.
1 cup of regular cornmeal per 100 sq. ft = 390 cups
A cup of regular cornmeal weighs 6.75 ounces x 390 = 2633 oz = 164 pounds.
2633 oz divided by 128 oz per gallon = 26 gallon containers full.
I imagine horticultural cornmeal is not nearly as fine ground so 390 cups would not be quite as heavy
but the same volume.

Ron

Ron,
I use 22 cups. I got tired of measuring out cups and just pour two pounds in the panti hose. On the larger pond, which is almost dry, I use two pounds in two separate panti hose in two different places. I use grocery store cornmeal and the fish don't mind at all.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Here is a photo of where I worked on the frieghter ramp at IAH.....in the corner. FG might be swooning right now over the plane that is parked next to "my" DC-9. Which Convair is it FG?
hugs, Brandi

 

[farmgirl19]

Looks like a 640, bindian, but maybe a 600. And I was flying them, under that name and paint scheme, back then. Holy Cow! Didn't figure I'd see one of those around.

We all said the SMB stood for Sadists, Masochists and B*stards! I was the first female pilot with that company. We can share stories over some drinks, sometime.

 

[robbyr]

Speaking of basics. It is always said:, "you can hold a ton on a string if you apply it slow enough."
We went to the pond this morning with some old, used, nylon baling twine, a milk jug, and a rag with a little
copper sulfate in it. I got on the end of the dam and my wife unrolled the cord out to the opposite side. She tied the milk jug and bag on in about the middle. We raised it up and walked toward the other end. When we got to where the floating stuff was we let the bottle and rag down into the water and started dragging it toward the other end. It kept getting
harder to pull as the mat was being collected by the string. Finally had to go back and get leather gloves for both of us so the twine didn't cut our hands. When we got to the other end we came together and a massive amount of weed was collected along the string like collecting an oil spill. So back for rakes, pitchfork, and the tractor while she got in the edge and started throwing the stuff up on the bank. Then I put it in the loader by the pitchfork full.
She had her walkie-talkie in her well endowed T-shirt pocket and it skied out into the water. But we found it. Letting it dry in the sun but it probably is shot.
The loader bucket is 6 feet wide x 32" deep so quite a haul on a little piece of twine.
I have some 1/2" or bigger nylon rope around here somewhere. I think we will "belay" the ends, one to the tractor and one to the little green deere. She can drive the deere across the dam as I move slowly along the other side with the tractor.
Probably tie 2-3 milk jugs on the line to keep it slightly submerged. A few trips that way should get rid of a lot of the weed without using chemicals.:thumbsup:
Ron

Wonder how much trouble you'll be in if you pull her in the drink.

 

[pacerron]

Wonder how much trouble you'll be in if you pull her in the drink.

I'd be in a deep crock of Kimchi
I would anticipate the rope breaking first but you never know about lateral forces.
If we see any movement that way we may have to use the Ford 3910 on the dam side.
It is quite heavy with a FEL, loaded tires, and backhoe on it.
Of course she might run it in the drink.

 

[farmgirl19]

robby; If she didn't try to wring his neck afterwards, I'll bet she'd never be willing to help again!

 

[pacerron]

Here is a photo of where I worked on the frieghter ramp at IAH.....in the corner. FG might be swooning right now over the plane that is parked next to "my" DC-9. Which Convair is it FG?
hugs, Brandi

Looks like that old frame was still airworthy in 1995.

 

[bindian]

She had her walkie-talkie in her well endowed T-shirt pocket and it skied out into the water. But we found it. Letting it dry in the sun but it probably is shot.
Ron

Ron,
Put the walkie talkie in a container of rice for a couple of days.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Looks like that old frame was still airworthy in 1995.

Kitty Hawk...........Connie (or was it Ronnie) Kalita owned Kitty Hawk. I got to work on one of their DC-8s once. A Kitty Hawk DC-9 would sub for our mail plane when she was grounded. Which was not very often. I think twice in the two years I was there.

Ron,
Which outfit did you fly for?
FG,
Have you ever heard the old saying.................."Real airplanes have 4 engines"? I heard it every day down at Batch Air in MIA when we were flying for Air Puerto Rico and the Batch Air mechanics razed us on our plane only having two engines. Their work was mainly 707s and DC-8s.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

What snake is red and yellow? A corn snake? Booger found one in the tall grass on the pond bank. I got a shovel and moved the grass around and hit it's tail. It moved so fast for the water...........I just knew it was a water moc. and took off for my Dad's old 22. I got one shot at what looked like a head out of the water at about 20 yards. This was Sunday afternoon. Sunday night...........no dead snake.....yesterday I didn't check. This morning I found a dead red and yellow snake in the water (what's left) and the mouth was blown off and the body was swollen, except aft of were I hit it's tail with the shovel.

This one shot kill amazes me, as Dad's old 22 had the barrel sawed off years ago when my uncle got it plugged (don't know how). Anyway, the front sight was reinstalled off to the left a hair. I guess years of plinking with it got me used to it's off sight shots.
hugs, Brandi

 

[foreman Etexas]

We suprised my son with a trip to try and meet his favorite folks

 

[jinman]

Kitty Hawk...........Connie (or was it Ronnie) Kalita owned Kitty Hawk. I got to work on one of their DC-8s once. A Kitty Hawk DC-9 would sub for our mail plane when she was grounded. Which was not very often. I think twice in the two years I was there.

Brandi, the best years at SimuFlite Training International were the years we were owned by Southern Air Transport. James Bastian was the CEO of Southern Air and SimuFlite was one of his favorite companies. The guy made sure all the employees knew how much we were appreciated. He was extremely generous and made sure all employees got bonuses when he made a lucrative deal to sell SimuFlite to GE Capital in 1998. I don't think he really wanted to sell us, but after the sale, we found out he was suffering from terminal cancer. I'll always think highly of Mr. Bastian and what he did for us. Our years with GE were also good as they built value into the company and then sold it to CAE, the simulator manufacturer from Canada. Our CEO, Charlie Carson II, during the SAT years left and was President of Kitty Hawk for two years in 1998-2000.

 

[farmgirl19]

This one shot kill amazes me, as Dad's old 22 had the barrel sawed off years ago when my uncle got it plugged (don't know how). Anyway, the front sight was reinstalled off to the left a hair. I guess years of plinking with it got me used to it's off sight shots.
hugs, BrandiView attachment 331955

Mine isn't sawed off, but I have my dad's old .22 pump, that was his birthday present when he was a young kid. I also have my Rossi replica of that same .22, that did bought me as a birthday gift, one year. Both are accurate, and lethal, but then, my sights are not off. If you are doing that will with your .22, that is some really nice shooting!

I remember the saying:

Red touch Yellow, Kill the Fellow
Red touch Black, a Freind of Jack.

 

[farmgirl19]

bindian; I used to date a guy that flew DC-8s for Evergreen, and also later worked for Kitty Hawk. Yes, they were proud of having 4 engines!

 

[farmgirl19]

Looks like that old frame was still airworthy in 1995.

Neat pics, pacerron! The paint scheme from 1979 was a holdover from when they got them from TIA, and just changed the emblem on the tail. The one from 1987 was not too long before SMB's demise. When I was flying for them, we were sub-contracted to Emory Air Freight, which also is no more.

Deregulation actually became more of a REregulation. In the beginning, lots of new start ups and all, but then many were put out of business, and others were taken over by larger carriers, so ended up with fewer options for flying or shipping. It was being upheld as giving more options, but ultimately, gave the public less.