Mostly photos of my life in South Texas. I share what I love. The Outdoors and Ranch Life.
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Busy preparing for the next generation.
Another fawn! Had to keep the dogs in the yard. Notice the ugly armadillo ‘excluder’ we put up under the fence as the rascals were tearing up the yard.
True
Dude I'm glad you're posting your life! A lot of us just reblog someone else's. Texas is the greatest State!
I’ve decided that in the spring of 2019 I will start my custom landscape company. We will build ponds, waterfalls and fire pits. I honestly believe I can double my current salary within two years.
It will give me chance to spend more time at home and possibly never drive more than 20 a miles raduis to make a living. I plan to start a facebook page and pay the advertisement to get me to around 200,000 followers. The population in my area of Texas doubles every ten years. I could be doing a couple million a year by then. This venture will set me free slaving in an office 50+ hrs a week on top of a 13 hour a week long distance commute. I may even build a giant green house at the ranch and start growing all of my own flowers that I will definitely be using like these this year below.
Its hot out! Barn swallows uh... in the barn! They are welcome!
My niece is fascinated with the Cicada Hawk! She took this second picture of it guarding its as yet unemergent young which are consuming a cicada in and underground chamber under the steps of the back porch.
Cicada Hawk guarding an entombed cicada under the back porch steps. Anesthetized the cicada will be consumed From the Inside Out by the growing larvae of the Cicada Hawk. She swoops as we pass but never stings.
Truth
As you get older, you’ll realize that a $300 watch and a $30 watch both tell the same time. A $100,000 house and a$300,000 house host the same loneliness. A Bentley will also drive you as far as a Ford. True happiness is not found in materialistic things, it comes from love and laughter found with each other. Stay humble.
Me too! Almost added a hashtag!
If this is a real place... I wanna go
Good dads that will make you smile
Working cows this early morning. Coolish 75 degrees will work quickly but without stressing the cattle. A quick worming of about 100 animals. By noon it will 95 plus as south texas warms up quickly!
Discovered this while walking W/O the dogs! Incredibly still it waits for us to leave. June and July are heavy fawning periods in south texas.
‘Texas alfalfa’ aka Red root pig weed! The bane of farmers! The love of ranchers! Colloquial name? Careless weed! It could care less where it grows! This is growing in a neighbor’s wheat field. They don’t last long on the ranch!
A scorpion with little ones on its back! South Texas is scorpion paradise! Yard work, Loading square bales ‘hay’, Pulling green corn all could be hazardous! However I prefer 'zapps’ from scorpions over wasps or honey bees as they dont hurt as much. According to my grandfather when dried corn was hand harvested 'pulled’ and tossed into a mule drawn wagon the harvester could expected many scorpion stings on his/her hands. Asking about gloves he replied gloves made it difficult to grip the corn so were not used.
Most prickly pear has yellow flowers however this 'bush' is full of pinkish blossoms! The bees love the pollen and nectar. Known as nopal in the Spanish prickly pear can be torched to burn off the spines... cattle or goats will feast on the cactus. The next year the cactus has regrown but now is twice as thorny.
The agave loved all the rain in April! Blooming beautifully all over the ranch! Not native to this part of south texas we transplanted. Researched aquamiel production and pulque making from agave. I now have a plan!
Newborn died. Then a mama died. Trying to make a new family! Sloppy work on my part..got in a hurry… but it was a success! The mama took a sniff, then a lick and accepted her new baby!
Too true!
Cold weather brings freezing rain and ice to south texas. Ice on this agarito.
Thankful for this. I need Jesus.
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