Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[Kyle_in_Tex]

keep your heads down folks in those storms. More to come. I hate tornadoes.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Charlie,
Oh........I'm already window shopping for them in Tractor House magazine. Looking for older 2 WD with cab and at least 105 hp. Loader or no loader. Case is big in this area.
hugs, Brandi

Well I just thought would stop across the road and get a pic of the neighbors NH with mine,boy does it make it look little:laughing:

 

[RDrancher]

keep your heads down folks in those storms. More to come. I hate tornadoes.

You bet we will! If we get any more rain, flooding will be a problem again. We took a drive North of here after lunch today. Clear Creek, which is just a couple miles from us is 20 feet or so higher than normal going under the bridge and has closed 455 West of Boliver. We could see where it crosses from another road and it looks like a lake. North from where our friends dodged the bullet last night we could see where Duck Creek had crested 5 feet or more over the road and literally hundreds of feet wide. If anyone saw the flooded pond on the news this morning at the Porter Sports Complex in Sanger at I35, that's right where Duck Creek intersects with Clear Creek.

 

[NativeSon]

Well I just thought would stop across the road and get a pic of the neighbors NH with mine,boy does it make it look little:laughing:
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foreman--Good looking tractors all, and bigger isn't always better(although I do like BIG Tractors). My M7040 is probably bigger that I need, I do love that tractor. It's done anything that I asked it to do without a hiccup.

Charlie

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I tilled the weeds in the garden and got my 5 year old to help me plant some black eyed peas. He was really helpful. His tiny little fingers could more easily reach into the bag of seeds and drop 1 into the hole I made. I know its late to the party for them, but I've just been so busy and the rains have ruined the gardening schedule this year. I even threw about 10 red potatoes (that I had forgotten about in a sack in the barn) in the dirt, just for fun.

 

[Bird]

Glad you were finally able to till and plant, Kyle. I can't even mow this swamp that I usually call a lawn. We drove down to Greenville today to meet some family members for lunch and I found another more than two-thirds of an inch of rain in the gauge when I got back.

 

[Bird]

We had a line of frog stranglin' gulley washers pass through about 12 minutes before 7 a.m., thunder, lightning, the city's tornado warning sirens blaring, etc. But it didn't last long before settling down to a light rain. So far not much more than a half inch.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We had a line of frog stranglin' gulley washers pass through about 12 minutes before 7 a.m., thunder, lightning, the city's tornado warning sirens blaring, etc. But it didn't last long before settling down to a light rain. So far not much more than a half inch.

The national weather folks are really reporting on how bad the storms are in the DFW / OK City region. Blizzard up north, tropical storm off the Carolinas. Crazy weather.

Bird, I had to first shred part of my front yard, then mow it a couple days later. I really need to put out some weed killer, but the rains and my schedule are keeping me from doing it yet.

 

[Bird]

The national weather folks are really reporting on how bad the storms are in the DFW / OK City region. Blizzard up north, tropical storm off the Carolinas. Crazy weather.

Bird, I had to first shred part of my front yard, then mow it a couple days later. I really need to put out some weed killer, but the rains and my schedule are keeping me from doing it yet.

The grass in my yard was taller than I've ever allowed in any of our yards to grow when I mowed it on 5/1/2015. It was still too wet to use the bagger; would just clog up the chute. So I went over it again on 5/3/2015 with the bagger and had it looking pretty good. On 5/4/2015, I mowed next door where some of it was knee high in the back yard.

And now my own yard is in dire need of mowing again, but it'll be a few days before it's dry enough to do. And I, too, have some broad leaf weed killer I need to apply to a few spots, whenever we have some sunny weather again.

 

[blueriver]

Folks its been a rough week ... a little over 14" total rain fall. Driveway has completely washed out ... today I'll take out a section of fence hoping to gain access to the road.....however I'm afraid the ground is so saturated I won't make it.

Stay safe ... looks like 2 days of no rain and then get hammered again.