How is your weather there? It is finally starting to act like Fall out here. I guess you already know that Joe is going to turn Farmer on us. I wish him the best of luck and wish I could go back to the simpler times when you worked for what you got and appreciated it.
Well out Winter is about to get here. Temperature was 48° at my place last night and I think the high yesterday was only around 58°, so that is quite a drop from the triple digit stuff.
Had a few cool nights here too. Mostly getting a lot of much needed rain, but lake levels are still low. Finally starting to see depressions in the ground holding water for a few days so the ground is finally getting saturated. Hopefully more rain that is expected tomorrow results in a lot of runoff to the lakes.
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We got some rain and some isolated local flooding. I have to clean out a culvert and clean up some downed tree branches, but nothing too bad. Some areas lost power lines due to the storms.
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Why do they call it "Common Sense" when it is so rare?
This whole area fared pretty well. We had some flooded underpasses and a few creeks that flooded over their banks, but that is about it. My duck hunting was hurt this weekend as we could not get to the spot because the water was too deep where we had to cross.
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Why do they call it "Common Sense" when it is so rare?
Late as this is, I am moving in with Joe. He hunts all the time!
Hi GUYS!!!
I see we are showing our version of dooms day preppers...good one Ron.
OPening day is in a couple of days, so I will be doing the hunting thing. Winter is upon us with temps in the 20s, the farm is all set and the cobra is in storage.
How is everything?? I mean other than the hunting.
Tru
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Down to the 20s here tonight for the first time this year. Only for a few days, but my Habenero's never fully matured, so it looks like a bust crop this year. Have about 40-50 green right now, but no orange. Jalepenos and Eggplant did good this year, so I have a lot put up for the winter. Hunting has been down as recent, but you are always welcome to come on down. I need to find a good deer lease that isn't a fortune, but no luck so far.
Ran into a snag with my trailer over the weekend. Hauling a load of sand to fill in some holes on the farm and broke an axle just around the corner from my house. Trailer slid off the road and into the ditch. Luckily I just bought an F250 6.7L turbo diesel and it pulled it and my F150 out of the ditch no problem. Got everything home and now to figure out if I am going to repair or go ahead and get the bigger trailer now.
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Why do they call it "Common Sense" when it is so rare?
To bad about the trailer but at least you weren't hurt. Our weather is just weird. Down into the 40s some nights and in the mid 70s during the day. Then all of a sudden it will drop almost into the 30s and the high may just be in the mid 50s. Right now it is back in the 70s cycle. We should have had around 15 inches of rain by this time and the official report is 2 1/2 inches, but that can't be correct. All we have had is a couple of days of showers and they were spotted all over the county. Some places never got a drop of rain.
Tru,
Nice to hear from you. Hope that everything is going well.
I watched a TV show last night called so you think you know Dixie. It was a combination of history and comedy. When they asked what the main resource of the South was I thought Cotton. It is neither cotton or moonshine but Junk. Many of our so called modern conveniences came from things they cobbled together for junk. It showed many places with from 8 to 20+ old cars and pickups in their fields and they are there because they know that sometime they may use a part off one of them on one of their convention. And they had a hard time naming just what makes up the south. Texas was the easiest to agree on. Florida isn't part of the South, it is just a state that happens to be in the South.
Just read this article and thought that some of you might want to upgrade your bathrooms with this toilet. If you do get the fully automatic one that raises and lowers the seat and had heaters and does away with having to use toilet paper. Tru, this should work great for you in that cold area.
That is what is so hard for my wife to understand with people having all the junk in their yards around here. She likes a nice orderly clean and would rather get rid of it. I try to explain why they keep it, but she just does not get it.
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Why do they call it "Common Sense" when it is so rare?
My cousin in Arkansas told me about a man and his wife that bought an old farm back there and moved onto it. It had two or three old barns and a lot of junk. Ruchie said every month he would make a trip to Florida for a week or so and after 2 years he sold the farm. He said he asked him why they had sold out so fast and the guy told him the trips to Florida he was hauling junk he had dug out of the old barns and field and selling to to people down there as antique equipment. He had made enough they were going to retire to Hawaii. So what is junk can be worth a lot to another person. I remember as a kid the old milk cans we sued on the farms. I found one on this place here when I was cleaning it up and was going to throw it away and some guy saw it and offered me $100 for it. I told him it was his and to feel free to look through the rest of the junk I had piled up to haul away. I would up getting all of the brush and trees cut and cleared and all of the old car bodies and parts hauled away free for giving some of the people parts they wanted to restore old cars with.
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