Posted on Friday 20 May 2011
May 2011 Hail
Big snowflakes have yielded to sleet pellets this morning. Hunters in the fields are sure to be cold and wet… .02 in the rain bucket so far today…
Posted on Tuesday 29 December 2009
Posted on Wednesday 2 December 2009
Forcasters are calling for our first freeze of the season as early as this evening. It is the first time that I recall a 70% chance of snow in our forecast.
Posted on Thursday 22 October 2009
The ranch has received over 6 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Water is running and all of the stock tanks are overflowing. The grass is green and everything looks great. Is the drought over for Central Texas?
Rain Totals for Central Texas October 22, 2009
Posted on Tuesday 29 September 2009
We are about to begin spraying for pricklypear (cactus) in some strategic areas on the ranch. Over the last few seasons we experimented with top removal as well as shredding over our cactus with mixed results. Conventional wisdom says that it takes about 3 passes over a mature cactus plant to kill it. My expereince says that that is just about right. With the top removal method I’ve observed that if left where the pad touches the ground it will reroot and grow anew…
http://texnat.tamu.edu/BrushBusters/PricklypearPadStemSpray.htm
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