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Started by TexasTimbers, May 28, 2007, 02:09:13 PM

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TexasTimbers

We are getting so much rain in this part of Texas we are about to float down the Red River straight into the GOM.

How's about we trade some of this stuff for some good 'ol Georgia sunshine ???  8)

I had just about decided to start building an Ark when I seen a rainbow and remembered we will perish by fire this next time. Maybe you folks in Georgia and Flaorida are ushering in Armegeddon. :o

Well just pack up and come to Fannin County evidently we are the oasis amid the firestorms.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

DanG

Hey, let Florida in on the deal too!

Too bad we can't do anything about the distribution of rainfall, but a pipeline down the middle of I-10 don't sound like a bad idea.
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

TexasTimbers

Oh yes we ain't puh-ticka-ler. We like Florida sunshine as well as any. I like that pipeline idee! One pipe would have rainwater headed East and the other could be lined with solar tube and be piping photons to the West! 8)
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Sid

 Sounds good to me!!
Is this a equal trade or  is someone going to have to give  a little boot?
At this point, I might be willing to throw in a little extra ;D

customsawyer

Be careful offering those Texas folks anything extra. :D
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TexasTimbers

I dunno. I do believe we are going to float away. It's still raining. I might be will to take the short straw on this deal, just as long as the straw is dry. I have wood to cut but I am afraid by the time it quitrs raining all the logs will have floated off and there won't be nothin to cut.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

WDH

At my place, we are into the 7th straight week with no rain.  I am desperate and ready to deal :-\.
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Raider Bill

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TexasTimbers

On my way into town this morning I like to have not made it across one of the bridges over the crik. the one right by my house. Once I did get into town there were some streets closed. We have gotten so much rain here in Fannin County, Texas I figure Fannin County, Georgia ought to be getting it just from overflow.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

WDH

Kevin, as you know, I have been working some in Texas.  It is beyond amazing what is happening there with the weather......raining almost every day.  In Georgia in the area where I live (Central Georgia), this is the first May since weather records have been kept that there was no recorded rainfall in the month of May (also none in the last two weeks of April). 

But, it is raining every day in East Texas and parts of Louisianna.  A case where you are standing on a block of ice and your hair is on fire.  On average, your temperature is fine. 
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TexasTimbers

Pretty rare isn't it, for both conditions to be lasting this long, this close together. Georgia and Texas are  not that far apart. I haven't checked into it, but I wonder what is keeping our thunderstorms from penetrating the eastern corridor? Maybe all those fires have created enough of a high pressure zone that the storms hit it and just bounce off and up the the north east.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

WDH

Yes, I believe that high pressure in the Southeast is blocking the flow of gulf air causing all the rain to fall in the mid-south.
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DanG

It's so dry in Florida that 12,000 acres of the largest lake in the state has burned. :o
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

TexasTimbers

Have you Floridians or Georgians got any rain yet? We still have not had much of a break on the rain. A little, but not a whole lot. It is thundering again and still raining almost everyday.  Very discouraging. I have not put in as many roads nor poured as much concrete (still no shop aprons) as I need and this place is a mud pit.

Hope y'all have got some rain anyhow. We need a letup.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

WDH

Yes, finally a little.  About 3" over the last 2 weeks.  Y'all are getting that every couple of days :).  My garden is in poor shape, but hanging on.  Got 3 tomatoes and 4 squashes so far.  Green beans are toast.  Peppers trying to come on.  Weird weather.  Must be Solar Bifurcation.
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DanG

Still no relief here.  There have been scattered showers and storms in the area, but they all seem to go around me. :-\  One shower got within a half-mile of me yesterday, but I got zippitydoodah!  I doubt if I've had a one inch total in the last 2 months!
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Haytrader

We would be glad to share some rain with ya'all.
I had another .8 last night. Someone reported a guy about 15 miles from here had over 5 inches. The TV ticker tape has a whole bunch of counties in a flash flood watch.
Normally we would not complain but it is wheat harvest time. Custom cutters were just getting in the area and now it seems we get rain daily.
I made the statement to some farmers that if anyone was wanting to sell any land that they should now as everything is green and purdy. ;D
Haytrader

Faron

We are getting plenty dry here in southern Indiana.  I wouldn't say it is critical yet, but a good rain would be most welcome.  You have to kind of swallow hard when it is real dry like this, and it is time to sidedress $500 per ton anhydrous ammonia.   :o  Ya got to have it to made a corn crop, but without water.......  The market is taking notice too, with some healthy jumps in the corn market in the last few days.  We started the season with high subsoil moisture due to a wet summer, fall, and winter.  I think that is a good deal of what is keeping us going right now.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.  Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. - Ben Franklin

DanG

It is way past critical here.  I dug out a big pine stump the other day, and found no moisture seven feet down.  Oaks and pecans are starting to wilt, and the lawn is toast.  The "Official" Gov't stats look like things are on the upswing, but they had a gulleywasher at the NOAA site the other day.  I got nothing. :-\

The hay cutting type folks around here haven't made the first bale this year.  They're usually well past the second cut by now.  The only positive thing I can imagine is, I might get a visit with Haytrader before long. ;D
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Faron

We sometimes forget up here that Florida is a major cattle producing state.  Some of the areas that are getting too much rain now about dried up and blew away last year. Lots of herds were sold, I was told.  Is the same thing fixing to happpen in the Southeast?
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.  Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. - Ben Franklin

DanG

I really don't know, Faron.  I think it is safe to assume that some herds will at least be thinned.  Most of the State has begun to get a little precipitation, but I seem to be the odd man out(nothing new for me :D ).  If we get ideal conditions for the rest of the year, and have a late fall, they can still make up the hay shortage, but that is a long shot, at best.  I would think some cows will be emmigrating.
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

WDH

DanG,  I commiserate with you because I know how serious the situation is for you.  It is tough to have to stand back and see the trees start to die :-\.
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TexasTimbers

 

This is what it looks like fellas. That rain stuff. I have a carppy camera so you can't see the individual droips but trust me they are there. Just thought I would post a picture so you south easterners don't forget what a rain cloud looks like.

Look at my avatar. I was thinking about changing it but I figured I will trust that the sun still *is* coming up even though I can't see it anymore. I caught a glimpse looky here 8)

The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

WDH

I see one little peek of blue sky right in the middle of the last pic.........

Thanks for the memories, Kevjay ;D.
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DanG

I must report that we got 1½ inches of rain a couple of days ago.  What a blessing!  That was more than the aggregate total we've had since the first of April.  This has gone on record as the worst drought since they've been keeping records!  Weather guesser says it's gonna be a while before we get anymore, but E. Texas is gonna get some.  Congrats, Kevjay. ::)
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

WDH

DanG, get ready for the weeds in the garden ;D.
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DanG

Already got those, right down the row where the soaker hoses are.  The middles have been looking good, though. ::) :D :D
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

TexasTimbers

Dubya, I hope y'all have your raincoats and rowboats handy. Y'all have a 20% chance of thunderboomers Thursday! :o

O'l DanG might be out dancin in the rain as we speak. Chattahoochie (love that name fer a town) has a 30% all day today. 8)
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

WDH

I came into East Texas today.  Well, you guessed it, raining again :-\.  Thunder is booming even as I post :).
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TexasTimbers

Shucks I forgot you were coming west. I was talking about your home20 in Perry. You have a 120% chance there in Texas Ranger Territory.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

WDH

The Texas Ranger Territory has been re-named to Wet Texas.  I hope to see the old codger tomorrow, and I will blame it all on him ::).
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TexasTimbers

You'll do well to mention that he hasn't treated you to proper East Texas hospitality lest he cooks you up a big mess O' chili. From scratch. No kits.

I know that's changing the subject a bit but, not really. You boys from Georgia deserve the best. Y'all were " . . . . stalwarts in '62 but '63  espeshuly . . . "

You tell him if he don't know how then to quit callin hisself a Texan and let a real Native Texan such as myself do the honor. ;D
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

WDH

Looks like I might be eatin' some good chili if this keeps up ;D.
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Texas Ranger

You eat that stuff they call chilli up in south Oklahoma and you'll go away hungry.  Need to have some that puts fire in your belly. 8) ;D  Good ol' fashioned Texas red.
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

TexasTimbers

I prefer a good red too. I bet you Easterners put beans in it. That ain't chili that's a casserole. I have even heard of people putting tomato products in their "Chili". :o That's a sin right there.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

TexasTimbers

Hey Dubya how ya making out in the East Texas Swamplands? Just lookin at the radar looks like y'all are gettin hammered.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Raider Bill

Man I hate to ask this but what DO YOU Texans put in it?
Quote from: kevjay on June 26, 2007, 04:50:06 PM
I prefer a good red too. I bet you Easterners put beans in it. That ain't chili that's a casserole. I have even heard of people putting tomato products in their "Chili". :o That's a sin right there.
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

TexasTimbers

Quote from: Raider Bill on June 26, 2007, 04:59:13 PM
Man I hate to ask this but what DO YOU Texans put in it?

Only the stuff that's supposed to be in there. Base, meat, and seasoning. Anything else makes it non-chili. Onions can barely slide by but that's it and they must be minced. Not sliced and no big chunks of it.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Raider Bill

What's the base? I suppose seasoning is the chili?
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

TexasTimbers

You don't hafta add a base necessarily. Most real chili's make their own by the meat drain off or just adding water. I use one recipe that uses suet. It's really good. My late grandma's (dad's side) chili which tastes better than any i have ever eat, was passed to her from her pappy. He was a trailman and I think was trail boss eventually. He probably got the recipe from the trail cook who could have easily been Mexican or Black.

When you have Texans who have had a chili recipe in the family for generations you understand the secrecy. My mom only gave it to me when I was in my thirties and had proved myself trustworhty and wouldn't tell it. ;D

It is a "red" chili like which TR refers and in fact I need to get some in my belly think I'll whip up a batch this weekend. All this rain makes it seem like wintertime.

We successfully turned another non-food related thread into food. Of course everything is food related in the end. :)
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

beenthere

Sorry kevjay.  Chili 'roun here has tomato sauce/paste in it, beef, and beans, along with seasoning. Not sayin your Texas tomatoless chili isn't good eatin.......... ::) ::)
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Raider Bill

yepper, meat, beans, tomato's and whatever else is lurking in the fridge that needs to be used. Mines more of a stew. Throw in some saltines!
Actually, not to make your ancestors do fin pivots in their graves but I also like to dump a couple spoonfuls on top of pasta noodles! :o ;D 8)
Why no beans? Figured all those western movies I've watched all centered around beans and biscuts, remember Blazing saddles?
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

TexasTimbers

I am well aware of the state of confusion which exists in the realm of chili and chili casserole fellas. :)
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Raider Bill

Just trying to get this thing figured out. You got to admit our way tastes pretty DanG Good whatever it's called over there.
Gotta have beans Brother.
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

TexasTimbers

No one likes a good bowl of beans and ham hocks better than me. And I like a bowl of Grandma's chili even better. But I don't like to put them in the same bowl. It just don't make no sense to me. It takes away from the chili. It's like puttin a steak sauce on a good steak. It ruins it. If you ever have a good bowl of my Grandma's chili you won't want to put no DanGed beans in it.
If I was having to eat that acidic tomato-ee gunk I would want beans in it too so I understand your desire to mask the putrid taste completely brutha. ;) Just like reachin for the A1 to help out a piece of cheap meat. Cheap meat ain't good and good meat ain't cheap. Same goes for chili. Good chili don't need no beans and beans don't make bad chili, good chili.

Quote from: Raider Bill on June 26, 2007, 06:48:43 PMYou got to admit our way tastes pretty DanG Good whatever it's called over there.
Nope I just can't admit that because it is not true for me. I have had it the way you describe and I really don't care for it. That doesn't mean my chili is better than your chili nosireebob. I grew up eatin it this way. You grew up eatin it that way.
I can't for the life of me figger out how them NCers call that vinergary stuff they make "Barbeque" cause it sure ain't barbecue where I come from.  :o

Real Barbeque has got to have been cooked or smoked (preferably in an offset firebox cooker) and basted or wrapped in foil in some kind of sauce. Now that right there is where your tomato-ee products can come in real handy, but leave it out of my chili pretty please.  ;)

Now these are my subjective observations and preferences they sure as heck don't mean I am right and you are wrong. :)
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

WDH

Quote from: kevjay on June 26, 2007, 04:54:58 PM
Hey Dubya how ya making out in the East Texas Swamplands? Just lookin at the radar looks like y'all are gettin hammered.

Kevjay, well, I had a fine breakfast with the Texas Ranger.  Then paid a short visit to the philosophical Tcsmpsi where we discussed weighty matters.  Then, with the best intentions of mice and men, I struck out for the wet, hot, humid, tick infested, snake infested, spider infested, and much muddy East Texas thickets.  But alas, a saving phone call arrived in the nick of time with a bureaucratical nightmare that needed corporate attention and my able assistance.  Spent most of the day at the computer problem solving.  Saved from the heat, rain, heat, and rain.  In that order ;D.

Oh well, tomorrow is another day :-\.
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Texas Ranger

Talking about bar-b-que, friend of mine moved to the Philippians where he picked up a new (young) wife.  Being bored, he opened up  a bar-b-que stand, pork on a stick with real Texas sauce.  Sold the thing for about 8 cents each he said, made a killing, them folks loved that old fashioned Texas taste,  till the meat man he bought his meat from saw how much money he was making, and doubled the price of his pork.  Put him out of business, so, the point being, good bar-b-que, like a good steak, costs, and sometimes you just cannot make ends meet.  Now for chili?  I like it all, cept for the really hot stuff, leave that to folks with a Hispanic background.
The Ranger, home of Texas Forestry

Raider Bill

Rub and smoke your meat right and you shouldn't need sauce. Same goes with steak.
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

TexasTimbers

I can't handle it too hot either. When it gets so hot it don't taste anymore I don't get the appeal of that. I ate a pepper so hot one time I thought for real I was gonna die. My wife just nearly called an ambulance. I had some kind of reaction to it. Since then, the hottest thing I will eat is horseradish or wusabi.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

tcsmpsi

Quote from: Raider Bill on June 27, 2007, 03:02:04 PM
Rub and smoke your meat right and you shouldn't need sauce. Same goes with steak.

It's not a matter of need.  One doesn't need gravy on mashed potatoes.   One doesn't need butter on bread. 

Some sauce is just plumb good, and the meat serves only as a carrier.   :D
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Raider Bill

Hate to see a good brisket ruined with sause, Even Rudy's sause from San Antonio or my own. Pulled pork ok, pass on the NC water sause, not crazy about the mustard based ones either. Love chicken dipped in a white BBq sause, browned then dipped again!
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

TexasTimbers

I never heard of a white barby sauce. I with tpmsics tho, gotta have the sauce for da barbeque.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Raider Bill

Alabama White Barbecue Sauce

Should be applied at the last moments of cooking or it will break down. Great for dipping.

1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup cider vinegar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 1/2 tablespoons black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne

Mix ingredients together and refrigerate.
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

TexasTimbers

Sounds delicious. Tell you why I know I will like it. Don't know if it's an Alabama thing or not, when I was stationed in Mobile, a guy in the metal shop who was born and bred in Alabama (was always trying to get me to "join the Sons") cooked up a mess of chicken where he mixed together mayo, white vinegar, and tons of course ground black pepper. That was it. He basted it on the chicken on the grill. Man is that stuff good. Sounds like it's not but it is yummy. Your sauce sounds even better.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Raider Bill

You'll squeel with delite!
Grill your bird, when it's pretty much done dip it in the sauce then slap her back on the grill a bit.
Drizzle some on while eating. DEELISH!
I got hundreds of sause recipes! Love the Q!
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

TexasTimbers

I tried a new recipe in 1999 that I found in a old cookbook I was rumaging through and took it to a dive meet in Key Largo. It was a hit to say the least. One of the divers from California took some home to her husband who loved it so much he would trade me his smoked salmon that he caught and smoked for a half gallon of the sauce. I was getting the better deal. Takes about 2 hours for me to make the sauce. It takes him all day to catch the fish and then another to smoke it. I haven't made a trade in a few years but if I dug up his number I know he would get some fish headed this way.

It's the only complex sauce I have found that I like. It has well over a dozen parts maybe close to 20 because I kept adding to it until I finally got it just like I wanted.  I can't remember half of them but it has 3 different hot peppers in it. I go easy on them and make it semi-mild. We ought to trade sometime. 8)
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Raider Bill

Always looking to add to my collection!
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

TexasTimbers

I just noticed you got Largo Fla up there. Izat Key Largo ???
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.

Raider Bill

Nope just plain ol Largo. Between St pete and Clearwater on the gulf coast.
The First 70 years of childhood is always the hardest.

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