Devonviolet Acres

[Baymule]

Your ground is so wet, holes fill up from water oozing out of the ground! Then here comes more rain to make sure that no hole is left unfilled. Take a rainy day off and cook something yummy. I think tomorrow I'm going to make some jalapeno poppers, chicken fried steak and I don't know what else. Maybe an Angel Food cake too......which leads to all those egg yolks..... and THAT leads to Crème Brulee..........

Or maybe I'll round up a bunch of receipts and do taxes.....

 

[Baymule]

There is a fish hatchery in Athens, Texas.

 

[Bruce]

Your ground is so wet, holes fill up from water oozing out of the ground!

That is what we get here. The clay is so dense water doesn't run down through it. One REALLY shouldn't hit water digging a hole on a slope when said hole is a good 10+ feet above the low area 50' away.

 

[Latestarter]

Don't know how feasible it would be to raise swordfish in a 225 gallon tote...

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Yum!

 

[Devonviolet]

That would be MY first choice! Somehow, I don't think it would fit.

 

[Devonviolet]

There is a fish hatchery in Athens, Texas.

I checked that out. It's called Texas Freahwater Fishery. It's Website is:

https://tpwd.texas.gov/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc/

and it looks like it raises fish for public waterways, not for sale.

Actually, there is a hatchery not too far from y'all, in Ben Wheeler. It is called Tyler Fish Farm: tylerfishfarm.com. The website talks about them selling quantities of fish for lakes and ponds. I would have to talk to them about smaller quantities for aquaponics. But, I'll wait until I'm closer to needing fish.

 

[Devonviolet]

Yesterday, after I finished pruning the fruit trees, I was on my way back into the house. DH was getting a bag of potting soil and some of our own compost, to plant Rugosa Roses (the ones with huge rose hips), that I ordered online.

He moved the bag, as I went by, an made a noise. I went to as what surprised him, and saw this in a hole in the dirt under the bag:

DH thought it might be a snake. I thought maybe a Skink (lizard). If you look closely, you can see a little nose peeking out in the middle.

Eventually he got a stick & scared the critter out.

Sure enough! It was a skink!!!

 

[Baymule]

I worked with a guy whose wife kept a skink as a pet in the house. It’s favorite meal was a white powdered donut. That thing got over a foot long!

 

[Devonviolet]

So far, we have gotten 3.10 inches of rain. The weather man just said we are due for three more big waves of rain and should be getting an additional 3.60 inches!!! I sure hope he is wrong!!!!! This is starting to feel like Fall of 2015!!! The farmer's field next to us is starting to flood. That's not good! In 2015, we got flooded in, from all three access roads. Not to mention the mucky ground is going to prevent us from building a goat shed addition, fencing and getting our garden started.

ETA: DH looked out the back window, and saw that the sump pump under the house, had kicked in. That is really not good. We installed the sump pump in Dec. of 2015, when we had 18" of water under our house. It took six months to dry it all out after that!