Eric,

Looks like the weather balloons are dropping in your area between yesterday, and today..

This one came down 3 hours ago, and is in a field.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B001'39.5%22N+104%C2%B044'42.8%22W/@42.0265287,-104.746756,1798m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d42.02763!4d-104.74522?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Too close!

We had a thunderstorm build up and come through, little dampness, nothing to be excited about, though we may get some measurable stuff tonight through Monday night.

 But we did get this - About 5 or 6 miles due west of us. Looks like probably a cold air funnel, but do not want regardless.

 
My wife has decided to take an extra day or 2 a week off  to burn up some vacation time, I forgot what its like to have to look busy so I don't get put to work.

We already know we have one for the record books.  I have had years in the past I could have cut hay about now, and turned cows out on grass at tie end of April.  This year I'm holding them in just let anything grow so they have something to eat.

 Hay is struggling and only about a foot tall, and sparse.  Grass is still just a couple inches and almost dormant despite the 90s for temps and a near half inch of rain we had. 

I'm not alone. Normally this time of year the cattle auction will get 500 to 700 on sale days being a slow time of year, bred cow and cow/calf pairs will sell early in the year but by now will be slow.  They had a "back to grass" special bred cow sale yesterday and had 9000 go through.  That's just one sale, and they are having those every other week with feeder specials in between that are also seeing larger numbers of feeder cattle, which are year old, and weaned calves that normally end up on pastures for the summer, being sold off and shipped elsewhere. Not sure where since there is drought from ID and Utah all the way across to FL and GA.  The central Rockies in CO and southern WY are in severe with some areas less than 30% snow this year, and some with none like our mountains to the west of us that any snow they did get after the 1st of the year had melted and never stayed, runoff was non existent, hopefully because they were storing any that did come. 

Its bad, worse I have ever seen or been through for sure.

Yep, bee-yoo-tee-full day in Luling Texas!

Sun is finally out!  After a couple of weeks of gray and rain, the sun is shining.  Severe clear and 76 right now.  I'll enjoy it as much as I can before the humidity comes back.

I gotta stop and think about things before I do them now.  Stuff we used to do routinely with no trouble isn't that way any more!  What a time for the kids to be grown and gone....

Quote from: MrGoodwreck on May 11, 2026, 10:05:39 AM

Quote from: stetto on May 11, 2026, 09:36:56 AMIt doesn't take much to feel like you just shot yourself.

I hope you are not speaking from experience 

Glad to hear you are on the mend

One year I was doing my annual clearing of hunting trails behind Thee Olde Man's house and tried to pick up a dead fall ash trunk, around 2' round at the stump, to move it off the trail. I didn't know it was frozen to the ground. Yes, I lifted with my legs, but my arms were fully extended. I did a jerk maneuver and ruptured my distal bicep tendon. THAT felt like what I would equate to being shot. My vision literally went black for 5 seconds and my bicep immediately went up to my shoulder. A rough 6 months of reattachment and ensuing rehab later it was fine, but yeah, it felt like a round hit me in the arm.

Story for reference purposes only...

Quote from: stetto on May 11, 2026, 09:36:56 AMIt doesn't take much to feel like you just shot yourself.

I hope you are not speaking from experience 

Glad to hear you are on the mend