Texas

[AllenK RGV]

The In-laws have given us the 1 week warning. As the Magic Eight Ball says, chances are good. It looks like we will be on the dry side again, but the models are still discussing the speed and direction.

I may need a place to hide. Do you have an open room? I'd like to make a reservation.

Always have a room free for a chicken nerd. 2 tanks of gas and you should be about here. Just remember to tank up in Kingsville because there is no gas until Harlingen. Yep we have a no gas for 76 miles sign down here.

 

[RUNuts]

Always have a room free for a chicken nerd. 2 tanks of gas and you should be about here.

2 tanks of gas and 6 potty stops then. Hope this one doesn't blow over the bananas.

 

[electrycmonk]

Well, looks as though it's still gonna miss *hitting* the island but, collateral "backhanded" stuff is still very much in the forecast for Galveston.....

 

[AllenK RGV]

Still it is the side of the storm I want to be on. I'll take the SE side any day.

 

[electrycmonk]

Still it is the side of the storm I want to be on. I'll take the SE side any day.

Typo? Perhaps you meant SW side? I'm visualizing the face of a clock over the storm and the 7-8 o'clock area would be the best as it will have the slowest winds and most tired part for traveling across the landmass and finally returning over the gulf to recharge?

That make sense?

 

[AllenK RGV]

Sorry I like the calmer wind fields and you are right SW not SE. Anything but NE. I spent the last hour looking at my snake photos and surfing the internet for stories. Man they are impressive little carnivores.

BTW does Houston have land crabs too @RUNuts ? They spook me often enough at my gate. This is Texas and things usually bite. Nothing scares a grown man like a speeding little crustacean that shouldn't be there. Of course tiny fish in the ocean scare me too. On Sardinia I had a large grouper wanting to be my pal not like that isn't off.

 

[electrycmonk]

Sorry I like the calmer wind fields and you are right SW not SE. Anything but NE. I spent the last hour looking at my snake photos and surfing the internet for stories. Man they are impressive little carnivores.

BTW does Houston have land crabs too @RUNuts ? They spook me often enough at my gate. This is Texas and things usually bite. Nothing scares a grown man like a speeding little crustacean that shouldn't be there. Of course tiny fish in the ocean scare me too. On Sardinia I had a large grouper wanting to be my pal not like that isn't off.

(Giggles)
Or like the "mudbugs" we have up here around Denton in the gutters & drainage ditches.

Just have not seen any "land crabs" on Galveston island yet....

 

[AllenK RGV]

(Giggles)
Or like the "mudbugs" we have up here around Denton in the gutters & drainage ditches.

Just have not seen any "land crabs" on Galveston island yet....

Yeah I didn't think they were a thing either until I bought this plot. We really have little 2-3 inch land crabs they make little burrows just like our lizards. The lizards don't spook me. Crabs 20 miles inland do.

 

[RUNuts]

BTW does Houston have land crabs too @RUNuts ? They spook me often enough at my gate. This is Texas and things usually bite.

Land crabs, no. Picture of what you are referring to, please. Will the chickens eat them?

Crawfish all over the place. The chickens love them. The shells from a good boil are put in the freezer and doled out a cup or so at a time to the flock and turns the yolks into a gorgeous orange color. Good source of calcium too. They go nuts over them, the corn cobs and garlic skins. Shrimp heads are another treat.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I have tried one time to get the chicken to go after them. They said "meh" I did my best roosterish too to point it out as it was a small one. Some day I will get a photo of one I see them about every other month.

Pretty sad to have a flock of hens staring at you as if you are a tweaked out crackhead. With perfectly good food crawling away.