A farmer works in acres not hours.
Following yesterday’s 27 degree sunrise, this morning it only got down to 30.5 degrees–but we had a moderate frost. A lot of new buds were bitten by the 27-degree temps and others were kicked by the frost. The wind was in the 10-15 MPH range and made it bitter cold on top of the low […]
Continue ReadingThis week had three major purposes: to haul the Lexus from Houston; to see the gutters installed just before the patios were installed; start the patios completing the one outside the kitchen. Sunday – Arrived and unloaded putting the car in the carport for the first time. Monday – Returned the UHaul Car Transport and […]
Continue ReadingAfter a cold wet week between Christmas 2017 and New Year’s Eve, New Year’s day began with 10-20 MPH winds whistling through the pecan trees and frozen pipes and no heat in the house. The pond had a thin ice layer when we left at 9 AM. January 2, 2018, saw a low temp that morning of […]
Continue ReadingThis work week was to be the week of Labor Day but that was the week before Hurricane Harvey happened. Houston flooded. Postponed this work until recovery was underway and no new surprises should arise. In the meantime, Hurricane Irma hit Florida and came up the west coast but died down before it went very […]
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Since the last winter storm the temperature has dropped into the 20’s and there was even a snow day on January 28. Then on the morning of January 30 it got down to 17 degrees.
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January 7, 2014 By late afternoon on the 7th the temperature rose to a high of 34 degrees. January 8, 2014Afterwards Ted said: ” All ok, [pump not damaged] we let couple lines drip and disconnected automatic waters, No issues, sure was some cold nights. I ran springlers on my fruit trees, iced them […]
Continue ReadingPeggy sent photos and reported that lighting struck and fence posts are on fire along the west fence line and the field is on fire. The VFD showed up as someone must have called them that saw the fire before Peg and Frank saw it.
Continue ReadingThe area is very drying and grass is dying along the roads in many places. Everyone is praying for rain except for the construction contractors. Today we had several showers and a lot of thunder all around
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