Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[robbyr]

Still warm and dry here.

 

[bindian]

Still warm and dry here.

Yep, warm and dry here too. Was 104 yesterday in Huntsville.
Had to go 10 miles north of Huntsville, to pick up 4 new 16.9-28 rear tractor tires on new rims.

I won the Big Iron bid at $1300. I needed two for the Mahindra and was quoted $1580 for tires, mounting and disposal.

The new rims will fit my tractor, but all 4 are mounted for the left side and the hub to rim bolt up spacing is backwards to mine. So I gotta take my two rears and the bid won tires and get my rims swapped onto them. Wonder how much that will be? Removing 4 tires and installing two, plus disposal. ASAP, I will auction the other 2 tires on a Big Iron auction.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Torvy]

I cannot wait to move out of the city. This time next year we will definitely be in the new house. Garage should be up before Halloween.

The weather on our land is consistently 5-10 degrees cooler and gets more moisture, too.

Right now at 10:30p +/- it is still 91 degrees here near FtW.

 

[two_bit_score]

Is anyone getting rain?

Wildfires all around: public-viewer

 

[Torvy]

Is anyone getting rain?

Wildfires all around: public-viewer

Only the kind from a sprinkler.

 

[two_bit_score]

We just can’t water enough to keep everything green. We have St. Augustine in East Texas and on the coast - they have been ok. In Central Texas we are just crunchy and dry except for right by the house.

Sure have been a lot of fires. I hope everyone here has and will be spared from any fire loss.

 

[bindian]

Saw a grass fire in the median of I-45, yesterday, just south of Huntsville. Little hatch back in front of me got my air horn blown at them for rubbernecking longer than a heartbeat.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

I cannot wait to move out of the city. This time next year we will definitely be in the new house. Garage should be up before Halloween.

The weather on our land is consistently 5-10 degrees cooler and gets more moisture, too.

Right now at 10:30p +/- it is still 91 degrees here near FtW.

I understand about city temps. Downtown Houston, at 8pm, was always about 9-10 degrees warmer than my place. Once I would get out to Hobby, the temp was about 7-8 degrees warmer than my place.
Where will your new place be? I remember you live near Wylie now.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Torvy]

We are building our final place between Longview and Texarkana. The nearest town is 7 miles away. We are actually on the Fort Worth side of DFW. I've got a kid closer to Wylie.

 

[Bearsixty7]

I understand about city temps. Downtown Houston, at 8pm, was always about 9-10 degrees warmer than my place. Once I would get out to Hobby, the temp was about 7-8 degrees warmer than my place.
Where will your new place be? I remember you live near Wylie now.
hugs, Brandi

You may have been thinking of me, We are next to Wylie, same Zip code.

 

[robbyr]

Nice rain yesterday evening. Broke my new rain gauge mounting it to fence post so don't know how much.

 

[Bearsixty7]

Finally ended our 67 day stretch without rain, we had 1.1" here yesterday evening. Now the cracks in the yard are only 1.5" wide

 

[bindian]

Nice rain yesterday evening. Broke my new rain gauge mounting it to fence post so don't know how much.

Guess you can go over Bird's house and get a new bottle cap from him!
We got a inch and a quarter. The big pond looks the same.
hugs, Brandi

 

[robbyr]

Guess you can go over Bird's house and get a new bottle cap from him!
We got a inch and a quarter. The big pond looks the same.
hugs, Brandi

I think he's 150 or so miles north of me. It would be closer to come steal yours.

 

[bindian]

I think he's 150 or so miles north of me. It would be closer to come steal yours.

I didn't empty mine in last (year) July's every day nuisance rains and a hole rusted in the it.
Gotta go buy some Dad's Root Beer in bottles.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

Guess you can go over Bird's house and get a new bottle cap from him!
We got a inch and a quarter. The big pond looks the same.
hugs, Brandi

And it's a pretty dry one, too.

 

[Tinhack]

I watched a big hole open up over us on radar. We didn't get a drop. My bottle cap was dry as a bone. Spent Wednesday grading the driveway and was hoping for a light rain to settle the dust and bind the dirt.

 

[bindian]

The last few rains had been raising the pond a few inches here and there. As of yesterdy our gully was still bone dry, as it all soaked in. Today we got around 5 inches of rain. The short, wide tree on the right in the photo is a Cypress tree and full elevation is usually at it's trunk. It is the shallow, inlet end. All the green grass in front of the ducks is the end of the dam. The tree on the left is in my disabled friend's yard with the flooded driveway right behind it. He said he caught 3 catfish with a net there, today. No telling how many went over the spillway.

hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Took a road trip down to Galveston yesterday. I arrived a few minutes before the Texas did. I didn't see the fire boat leading her, but saw it's water cannon salute above the roof of Fisherman's Wharf. Here she is all her glory, after surviving WWI and WWII. Launched 110 years ago. A Texas Shrine.

I got choked up when I saw her, thinking back to past times on her with my family. First time was in 1965 with my cousins from Oklahoma.
Here she is zoomed in with her stern almost in position over the drydock.

hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

Good pictures, Brandi. And we didn't get as much rain as you did, but we sure enjoyed the end of the drought around here. I got more than an inch and a half of rain and a 40% chance forecast for today.