Cary...I would bemore then happy to send you a quart of rain...What's your address?

The way the mail man finds me is to go about 30 miles south of San Antonio on IH-37, turn right and go about 3.5 miles back in the brush. My mail box is behind the prickly pear cactus that is behind the big mesquite tree that is losing it leaves due to the drought. It's the mail box with a big "1" painted on it with a 6 foot rattler coiled up at the base. It's easy to find. Now, if I could just get the mail man to quite tossing my packages in the cactus bush as he drives by, I'll have it made. Oh yes, just ignore the javilinas, they're harmless....most of the time.

Cary

OntheLasGallinas wrote:

Oh yes, just ignore the javilinas, they're harmless....most of the time. Cary

Walking arrow holders. 'Bout all their good for.

The piglets are super cute!
Me no likey the adults.

Ooooh Kaaay...I write all that down on the jar and send it...

Theres no denyin that anything over 100 is hot. But it's amazing that just a little bit of humidity makes it so much worse. I think the hottest actual air temp I ever experienced was about 117 in Arizona. But honestly I'd take that over 90 and humid in Louisiana.

Lord there's just to much heat. It's only been in the 80's here but with the monsoons it's felt a lot hotter. A person should not sweat in the rain.

Last year a radio station did cookies on the hood of the car in Sacramento. Somewhere in California there's one that takes a roast the size a baby and puts in a car seat and locks it in the car to show why not to leave kids in the car. After a few hours it's cooked.

Wish I could send all thr drought people some of this rain, green is not the color of summer, I miss my brown plants of summer. And dry heat.

After two weeks in late June with temperatures in the high 70's, it's now struggling to reach 60 here some days.
Roll on October & a month in the US when it'll no doubt be warmer (well it was last year & that was 9,000' up in the San Juan mountains...).

It has been 97 to 106 here, and dry

I can take the heat (ain't AC wonderful), but the drought, along with the suffering of all livestock and wildlife is the part that I hate. Currently, most of the cattle tanks are either dry or almost dry. I've got one that I'm filling with a well. I'm not using that pasture for grazing, because of the lack of grass, but I'm keeping it full for the wildlife. I went down there last Friday afternoon to do some surface Indian-artifact hunting (due to the lack of vegetative cover) and found wildlife trails (resembling cattle trails) coming from all directions, like spokes on a wagon wheel, to the only water source for a couple of miles or so. The scene reminds me of the documentaries about the depleting water holes in sub-Sahara Africa, and the hardship is places on wildlife. We don’t have crocs, but an occasional alligator might show up.

Cary

I looked at a map that charted the dry areas around the country this summer. WOW!! you're right in the middle of the dark red area. In fact half of Texas is in a major drought. Everyone else is just thursty except Missouri and it's still raining (off and on) here...

Maybe someone could talk to our wonderful leaders and see about getting some imported for ya !!!

Cham,

Obama's already stated that there would be no drought relief funding for agriculture. I think it's a minority thing. Not enough minorities are involved in farming and ranching to get any stimulus money!

Bushy,

This is the worst drought that I've ever seen. All of the cactus plants on the place are dying from the lack of rainfall. I've never seen that before. This is the first time in my life (almost 60 years) that we haven't had any green grass on the ranch for over a year and a half. I’m glad that my grazing fields are "Coastal Bermuda" grass. It will go dormant, look dead, then come out after a rain and act like it was nothing. I’m sure that there’s a point where it will die, I just don’t know what that is.

Cary

Holy..... when cactus dies?

It's hot enough.

Wow.

Cary the stimulus money is only for frivolous BS not actually to be used in any legitimate form. I.E. expensive vacations, lavish hotels, you know the kid of things the American public wants corporate giants to engage in with out any kind of accountability.

111,

Oh yea, I forgot.

The government looks at farmers and ranchers as votes. There's not many of us left, and that translates into very few votes......and they normally (almost 100 percent) vote conservative.

Cary