Senile Texas Aggie - comic relief for the rest of you

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Congrats STA!! Youu have 100 pages on your journal! You are officially a blabberfingers! (so are we)

Thanks. I didn't realize I was that far along. I guess I have provided more comic relief than I realized.

Pretty soon he'll catch up to @Latestarter !

No way. Mr @Latestarter is the master and everyone else is an imitation!

We love dogwoods and red bud trees as well. When we resided in Georgia, one of our favorite short vacations was to drive up to North Carolina or Tennessee to see the fall colors in the Appalachians. It was SO BEAUTIFUL! I think my two favorites are sweetgum trees (for the fall colors and shape of the leaves) and pine trees. We had a lot of pines in our yard at our house in Georgia, and I absolutely loved them. When we first bought the house, the previous owner had planted holly bushes. I HATE holly bushes, or just about any plant with thorns -- except roses. So I dug them up and planted big growing azaleas. They were absolutely beautiful and thrived under the pine trees. When we moved to McKinney, we planted a sweetgum tree on our anniversary. There were holly bushes there, too, but I didn't dig them up, because the homeowner's association had to approve changes to outside landscaping. There was no way I was going to the expense of amending the soil to change it from alkaline to acidic and plant azaleas only to have the homeowner's association tell me that it didn't match their approved landscape plans. I endured those holly bushes for 17 years. Now we live where there is no $%@&! homeowner's association and I can plan what I d*** well please!

Yesterday when we first got up at 5:15, it was 70 on the front porch and the winds were calm. By 7 it was 43 with strong winds and rain. By 8 it was 34, with wind and rain. The tractor dealer called at 12:00 yesterday, saying that they were finished servicing the tractor, so I left right away. It was 28 with snow flakes falling occasionally. When I got back from Fort Smith I noticed that was a dusting of snow on the Flood mountains (elevation ~2400 ft) and on Mount Magazine (elevation 2700+ ft):


Senile Texas Aggie

 

[RollingAcres]

because the homeowner's association had to approve changes to outside landscaping.

No thank you. I don't need someone to tell me what I can or can't do on my own property.

 

[greybeard]

What are your favorite trees and why?

dead burned ones

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Acorn Trees


There’s a story. I’ll let everyone digest on that concept for a bit then come back and fill y’all in.

 

[Rammy]

I love cliffhangers!

 

[greybeard]

Yeah, I just love 'em..goodbye chainlink fence...



This one came very close to killing me. When I completed the 2nd cut, the tension in the powerlines came within an inch of taking my head off as they sprang back up..the powerline poles on both ends had just bent in toward the fallen tree like a bow with the lines being the bowstring. That slung Part A about 20 yards up and over and missed my pickup by just a few feet.

 

[Baymule]

GB, you are real talented when it comes to trees!

 

[greybeard]

GB, you are real talented when it comes to trees!

Yep, but...Note the dates on the photos. "I" didn't cause that damage..

 

[Bruce]

Aren't we supposed to let the power company deal with downed lines?

 

[greybeard]

Aren't we supposed to let the power company deal with downed lines?

Ike hit overnight on the 13th. Took the picture on the 14th. I figured 11 days was long enough to wait, and when I called again 10 days later, they said it might be 2 more weeks & I decided I had enough, as I was tired of carrying 50lb sacks of feed 1/4 mile.