It's funny how we all we all categorize different parts of the country

whatever it is, these young men are "in it" and it will shape their lives. To this day, I would swear that Lawton Oklahoma is the biggest hell hole on earth 

Living where I do now ( Monroe Wa, north of Seattle which is Portland Oregon lite) I'm ready to get the heck out of dodge. The political scene, and extreme liberal population is the last straw for me.

I'm ready for slow, and quiet. even though I have no delusions that life itself is just as hard, and even harder in some cases.  It's just the level of drama people want to deal with.

I'm "tribal", and tend to want to find my type of people. I'm more of live, and let live... I don't care to tell people what to do, and I appreciate the same in return. 

Sounds like you're ready to move to Texas!

This more like it - 79 degrees, clear and sunny.  And no mosquitos yet....

Its 86 and a good breeze here today, dry as a bone in the Mojave summer. Hard to acclimate to that so soon. 

93 here today, I am so not ready for that stuff yet.

101 here now!  It is way to early for this kind of heat.

We had another low 90s day yesterday.  Had troubles calving a cow the day before, it was breach and upside down, had to get a vet out to get her out. But turned out OK.  The calf was weak and didn't get up and suck so we have been working on it to get it going, finally had to get the cow in a head catch and teach the calf to nurse, what a pain that is. Then had another that was struggling because the mom is an old cow and has large teats and wouldn't suck on any but 1.  When its hot like this it doesn't take much for the babies to get dehydrated, and it was pretty pinched up.  So another cow in the head catch, all this after 3 of the neighbors cows and calves hopped the fence and got mixed with mine, and he came to sort them out so I couldn't feed until all that was done, which was almost dark by then.

Finally sometime after dark we got to come in and eat dinner wondering why we are doing this.

But today is supposed to be back in the 50s, still no rain but at least its not scorching everything, and they are hinting we may see some sprinkles next week. Never seen a winter in this region this dry and warm in my entire life.

20° with light snow this morning. Back in northwest Minnesota for a time, thought I'd snuck past the lion part of March, but not quite. Funny thing about this neck of the woods: no matter the forecast, it usually turns out a measure worse. Makes Texas mighty appealing.

I'll get back down there, just not sure quite when.

It's been beautiful here the past week.  Lows in the 60s, highs in the mid 80s.  Humidity comes and goes, but right now there isn't any!

Stetto, you are coming back to Texas, right?   

Quote from: jetmex on March 27, 2026, 08:29:58 AMStetto, you are coming back to Texas, right?   

Yes

1/2 inch of rain so far today, with more to come through the weekend.  It's keeping the temps down a bit, only 80 right now.

We had as shot of spring, cool and was actually was damp for change, but didn't even get a full tenth of rain.  They had some optimistic predictions of 1/4 to half inch or rain, but not in the cards I guess.

We got 1.2 inches last night.

Up here in glorious rural Vergas Minnesota we were forecast 5-7 inches of snow but wound up with a wet melt 2.

Then we're again forecast another 3-5 today/night and then 5-7 more on Saturday. I was sure it was supposed to be the lamb part of March, but alas!

So I'm going to hole up here for the weekend before heading back to Texas. I'll be looking for gainful employment and a meager place to call "home" (yes, I've been invited not back to the house in Pflugerville).

In the meantime I'm working on not developing a Minnesotan accent, don'chya-know 

Sorry to hear Stetto, just keep putting one foot in front of the the other brother.

Our big storm front was a bust, barely settled dust for half a day.

 All the warm weather has the cows popping out calves like crazy though and aside from a rough start has went smoothly so far.

Sorry to hear that, mi amigo.  I'm not that far from you, if you need anything, just call.

Raining again here today...