Texas

[AllenK RGV]

Current Models animated here:
https://www.krgv.com/videos/monday-s-weather-5-p-m--64145

 

[AllenK RGV]

Woohoo looks like nobody in Texas needs to be rushing to the store to buy supplies nor do they need to be going into the attic to get down the emergency toilet paper any time soon. Modeling is calling for this to be a Louisiana thing and doubtful it gets close to Cat1.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Back to a coin toss @Texas Kiki @RUNuts Models are showing Cat1 landfalls this am:

Oh well bleeding heart went back to bed so I am on Silkie duty this chicken o'clock. Silly silkies need doors opened for em an wrangling back into the coop each evening. I might order more SumatraOh yeah did some yard work last night looking for my lost Broody under a heat advisory, then got smart and had my neighbor 2 doors down loan me a yard crew! Silly kids fell asleep on the job, but will be back at 10AM.

 

[RUNuts]

Oh yeah did some yard work last night looking for my lost Broody under a heat advisory, then got smart and had my neighbor 2 doors down loan me a yard crew! Silly kids fell asleep on the job, but will be back at 10AM.

I see a yard crew in your future. Once you fall in love with the smell, you've got to get your own.

New Orleans is already getting all the rain. We need a spot of rain. Only a spot. And will get a bit Saturday. yeah, weekend. Not amused. Prayers and best wishes for the east.

Gorgeous sunrise this morning. Red all over the east.

And another thing, the roosters you blessed me with, one attempted a crow this gorgeous sunrise. 7 weeks old and he's stretching his vocal cords. A strangled, dry, coarse crow barely above a whisper, but a crow none the less. I'm almost at a point I can separate the sexes and start integrating the girls with the ladies.

A leghorn went broody so she got 9 eggs yesterday.

 

[Kiki]

A leghorn went broody so she got 9 eggs yesterday

Eggs from the farmer man?
Or duck eggs?

 

[RUNuts]

Eggs from the farmer man?
Or duck eggs?

Chicken Rancher eggs. Same flock as the chicks and last year's broody hatch.

Duck eggs

 

[AllenK RGV]

I see a yard crew in your future. Once you fall in love with the smell, you've got to get your own.

New Orleans is already getting all the rain. We need a spot of rain. Only a spot. And will get a bit Saturday. yeah, weekend. Not amused. Prayers and best wishes for the east.

Gorgeous sunrise this morning. Red all over the east.

And another thing, the roosters you blessed me with, one attempted a crow this gorgeous sunrise. 7 weeks old and he's stretching his vocal cords. A strangled, dry, coarse crow barely above a whisper, but a crow none the less. I'm almost at a point I can separate the sexes and start integrating the girls with the ladies.

A leghorn went broody so she got 9 eggs yesterday.

I love the mellow morning picture you painted. Calm beautiful mornings like this make chickeneering so rewarding.

Did some dawdling around the coop while it is still only 81F and 99% humidity, finished out the pagoda inspired gate frame. Thinking I am going to go with some leaner bars and plant passionflower on the exterior fence line to bring in tasty caterpillars for the youngins and hopefully some fruit for us. This project never ends so happy I can still do the light duty and am not paying anyone including myself by the hour for this.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Passion flower inspired non toxic caterpillar target species native to the Gulf coast and the RGV.

My Cheap Texan interpretation of a pagoda gate:

 

[RUNuts]

Lowe's has passion vines. I should go buy them this year. I missed last year's. Never finished my pagoda.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Lowe's has passion vines. I should go buy them this year. I missed last year's. Never finished my pagoda.

Already ordered 15 seeds from Walmart for $4.50 Bleeding Heart approved of my plan. It is holistic enough for her tastes, the chicken get something, the Green Jays get fruit, thew mockingbirds and Curve Billed Thrashers will be all over the caterpillars, and at the end of the line we humans might get a taste of the fruit!

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Everwild...MI-46y0Yet4wIVA__jBx1nyQdbEAQYASABEgJMHfD_BwE

I R good with seed start skills. It is the Texas heat and poor soil that kills off 66% of the rest!