My new Texas rain gauge...

[ol' geeser]

step son's house burned a couple of weeks ago....had a guy come out with a track loader (CAT 920 or 950 series, can't remember) and he dug a hole about 9 feet deep to bury the trash in.....at the bottom of the hole the clay was so dry and hard he could hook the clay with the bucket teeth and lift the back of the tractor off the ground AND the clay would not break.... and the dust was and still is like talc.....

 

[OFT II]

For some reason, I thought I was going to see a thimble when I opened this thread.

Nope. We use a thimble during the wet years.

 

[mastertech]

All kiddin aside, Texas is in trouble.
Gotta have some rain.
It's gonna take a tropical storm maybe two catch us up.

oh my word! thats disturbingly funny!

 

[fem]

My new Texas rain gauge

Liberty Hill, 62 + days of 100+ degrees(105, 107 etc,etc.) today it's 104.

1/2 inch of rain since last Oct. There is no grass. We're gettin' hay from Mo. and Okla...It ain't cheap.

The oak trees are really suffering. But would you believe the Cedar trees are drying up as well?

Speaking of Cedar trees my cows are starting to eat them (never saw that, ever) They eat the leaves from low lying Oak limbs, that's normal (keeps your land pretty clear) But Cedar? Damn...

We're all just hunkered down and waitin' for rain and SEPTEMBER

And speaking of the heat my Dog was chasing a cat today, and they wuz both walkin' Come on rain

Frank