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    Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 8:55am
My oldest is going home to Houston today.  Glad to know she will be greeted by some nice warm weather.  She's not enjoyed the cooler air we have had here in Georgia.
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Posts: 22209 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 9:08am
I was surprised to see that Houston has a lower high forecast for today than we have.
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Posts: 11106 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 4:34pm
I just went down to the greenhouse and bought a dozen or 18 tomato plants.  I got Early Girls - I've never tried them but they have a markedly shorter time to maturity (52-54 days) than the usual.  I usually stick to Celebrity but we'll see.  I think that little Jack Russell I'm boarding has been selectively digging up the potatoes I planted, the little *&%#!
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Posts: 22209 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Mar 2012 at 4:40pm
I've finally decided on Roma. I've done both Celebrity and Early Girls, both are great, but the Roma's come up very well from seed.
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Posts: 11106 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 2012 at 7:20pm
I was sitting on the porch late this afternoon and there is a plant (wildflower or weed depending on your point of view) that is prolific here for about two or three weeks - view: http://www2.snapfish.com/snapfish/slideshow/AlbumID=8266271009/PictureID=447935151009/a=30990010_30990010/otsc=SHR/otsi=SPIClink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/
It's called Texas Squaw Weed.  When I was much younger and my Dad was living and here on the place and if ever here during this time on leave I'd frantically rig up the brush cutter to the tractor and mow 'em down.  My thinking was that they would impede the pasture grass from growing.  Dad gently told me "Forget it.  They will be gone in a couple of weeks".  I paid no attention at the time and mowed away but now I say "Forget it.  They will be gone in a couple of weeks."  En masse in a field they are actually pretty and remind me in a small way of Rape fields (no offense, it's a plant grown for Canola oil) in England.  Now those really were impressive.
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Posts: 22209 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 2012 at 7:39pm
Is it that vine thing that has a pinkflower? I've always wondered what that is.
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Posts: 11106 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 2012 at 8:13pm
Rape plant flower?  Texas Squaw weed flower?  Both quite yellow flowers.  Rape plant - http://www.fourcowfarm.com/blog?tag=canola
Pink flowering vine - two come to mind and one is a possible pest, the Coral vine, the other one I do like is Mandevilla.
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Posts: 29273 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Mar 2012 at 10:47pm
Sure is a picture perfect view!
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Posts: 22209 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 6:41am
A bit more fragile than that. I call them "wild sweetpea".
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Posts: 22209 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 7:03am

We already have a flash flood warning Monday night through Tuesday morning.

Rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are expected...with isolated amounts of 4 to 6 inches possible.

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The winter period from December to February was the 4th wettest December to February at San Antonio...the 2nd wettest at Austin Bergstrom.

Yee haw.
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Posts: 29273 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 9:01am
This is somewhere between animals thread and maybe weather related (or polyticks LOL) but since I'm here:

YUCK!!
Stink bugs devastate fruit crops in South | The Journal Gazette
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Posts: 22209 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 9:05am
Interesting. I haven't seen one in years as far as I can recall.
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Posts: 11106 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 9:26am
Don't need no stinking new kind of stink bug!  I have plenty of stink bugs and other kinds of pests that keep me busy or keep me discouraged depending upon who's winning the war.
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Posts: 29273 		  Quote Karl_db Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 11:33am
I've seen a few here...not that particular type though. I steer pretty clear away as the first one I saw up close quite a few years back I wasn't sure what it was. So I leaned it and took off my glasses for an up-close look. Not going to do that again. (I swear it spit right in my eye. Maybe coincidence...but it sure burned.)
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Posts: 11106 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 11:33pm
So encouraging - most lakes over here in East Texas are filling nicely.  Lake Palestine is less than a foot below full and the others are slowly filling.  As mentioned earlier most of the small lakes are full and the biggies are filling.  My little stream is just below the surface ... my grandaughter went down to her favorite spot  and dug down an inch or two and there was water.  A few more rains and the little stream will be running at the headwaters again.  (It never quit down stream, it just retreated slightly under the surface up this end.)
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Posts: 22209 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Mar 2012 at 5:30am
Excellent! Plus it looks like you're in the flash flood warning as well. Might do the trick.
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Posts: 22209 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Mar 2012 at 6:33am
Drilling down into our forecast a bit I see that both Bob and I have a 100% chance of rain tonight. Kinda rare to see that, guess they think it's going to be big.
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Posts: 11106 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Mar 2012 at 8:10am
Yep, they seem to be pretty confidant.  Forecast for here for Today/Tonight/Tomorrow/Wed. is 60%/70%/100%/70%. Viva El Nino .... or whatever pattern we're in now.
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Posts: 22209 		  Quote Don Watkins Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Mar 2012 at 8:13am
Nothing but brief showers yesterday and overnight. We did have an interesting one yesterday coming back from Austin; a good shower for probably 7-10 miles with the sun shining.
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Posts: 11106 		  Quote Bob Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Mar 2012 at 8:24am
Heehee - I don't know where this came from but my childhood lore was that when the sun shone while it was raining meant "The Devil is beating his wife".  ??  Whatever, when it happens it will always get your attention.  Nothing here as yet, just enough humidity that it might as well be raining.  There is activity north and into Ok and Ar.
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