A farmer works in acres not hours.
This 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 […]
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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 ReadingWith a day of vacation and the July 4th holiday we got a lot done. Bush hogged the area between the ditch and the peanuts. The new muffler installed by Gordon McClinton was nice change from no muffler. Hopefully killed a lot of Chinese Tallow and Yupon with the herbicide Clear Pasture in the area […]
Continue ReadingThis was an abnormal Thanksgiving as Mary and I spent Thanksgiving day in Houston with Kelley, Rocky and Rocky Sr. Jeff joined us later in the day. A nice day but not the same as this day has been for the past 38+ years: i.e. I have always been in Mobile But, this year we […]
Continue Reading“We have 3 inches in rain gauge for the last 7 days!!!!! It has rained for 2 days–slow easy rain. Nice! I see trees dying everywhere [from Tom spraying Remedy last trip]. Noticed those in midfield in low area dying. Grass is growing.” It has been over four months since the farm had such a […]
Continue ReadingWhen we were here last month the figs were just forming and the blueberries were light green hard balls. By the time we left on July 4th we had about 15 or so figs, after eating some, and a quart of blue berries.
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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