I was fixin to run out to the shop and weld up something to attach to one of the 4 wheel thingies I get from Harbor Freight so I can pull that coffee table in to the house but I just now stepped outside and didn't realize 39 is not working temp where the welding stuff is. What was I thinking???

I had drawn up a bridle that ought to fit Bernadette and figure I better not say anything to her about it until we get ready to transport that thing in to the house...I do want to wait till it gets warmer but knowing her, cold weather don't affect her like it does me..Like yesterday I had her out raking up the leaves so some day I could burn them. I didn't get to watch her to see if she did a good job cause I was playing free cell.

  I drew up something like what horses are hooked to a wagon looks like but figure I'll just surprise her the day I put it on her...

  This will be the first new thing for the house since we moved in here 21 years ago so I know she is looking forward to something different...

I will post a picture when I get it built.

If your Bernadette Is Like My Wife I think you ought to go into deep thought about how many friends and relatives you wish to attemd your final viewing. Heck  it was 41 outside  and i was racking leaves in my short sleeve shirt.

Mesquite trees, at least the ones here, don't shed their leaves. Beans aplenty, though. Don't even own a leaf rake. Not even Ace stocks a bean rake. 

Jesse, don't you still have the halter and traces she wore when you had her pulling the plow?

            

Gene I can never find the last one I used on her so I might change how we move things. I am thinking if I forget the halter and have her going first and backing up all the time at least if she falls then what ever it is we are moving the item won't get damaged cause she would be under it and therefore her body would get the nicks and bruises saving any damage to the wood things...

  She must be selling those halters at the garage sales she has once a week..

Come to think of it I always give her a personalized halter for our anniversary and its coming up the 22nd so maybe I'll call that table her gift instead of!!!! Oh heck, her birthday was the 29th and I forgot but I do remember it will be 59 years on the anniversary thingy and she hasn't aged any.

  I still like the name Snowflake better than Marana which sounds like fake butter...

Edited December 14, 20205 yr by Smallpatch

Gene, maybe those leaves hang on till the summer when it gets to 120 then they would be smart to call it quits.  

Hey Jess, tell Mrs. Jess happy birthday for us!

And an early congrats on the anniversary next week - assuming you live long enough to celebrate it!  If she reads some of your posts I'm not so sure...

Congrats on your anniversary Jesse and Bernadette. 59 years is awesome. You guys musta been preteens when you got married. 

Yeah, Marana is a weird name. It's a Mexican Spanish word and, depending what part of Mexico you're in, it can mean bramble, thicket or, female pig. 

As to Mesquites, I think the hotter it gets, the better they like it. 

Gene when Sherri was going to A & M she brought me a story about how the school had a research about the mesquite tree....On one exercise they wanted to know how the mesquite stayed growing during a drought when everything else in that area was dying so they started digging around some roots of a large tree and they finally gave up at 80 feet down and the roots were still going down.... I don't know if this was close to College Station or where...There are some very large mesquites around the Austin, San Antonio area..And when I was traveling all over checking out the mini golf courses before we built one we went to San Antonio to a very well know mini golf course. It was beautifully laid out and just a great couple of acres with all kinds of shade so the people could play without burning down in the sun...the shade was provided by huge mesquite trees that some of the trunks were 3 to maybe 5 foot in diameter and that meant lots of shade but the owner had a very big problem....limbs would drop black sap all over the very well kept areas and ruin the greens carpet. How did you solve that problem??? was my thoughts and he said come out here and take a look up.....All the limbs were wrapped with black plastic. He said at first they used thin sheets of plastic but it would get too full of sap and burst open causing more head aches. They finally started using stuff about 1/8" thick and once a year or so swap out for new and keep them people playing golf.

 Around here the ranchers charge 3 to 4 dollars a cord for all the wood above the ground and two or three foot of the trunk would stay so the excavators will see what they have to remove with their large equipment...Or the ranchers pay for a plane to fly over and spray poison and the poison doesn't hurt the oaks, pecans and other useful trees.

But if the dead trees are not removed some roots will shoot back up and in three or four years another problem exist. So most ranchers have a backhoe for that purpose...  

80' deep and still going. Now, that's a tap root! If they'd found the end they might have located an aquifer.

I pay $4 to $5 a BF for slabbed mesquite, Pecan and Pistachio. He gets the logs from new home sites, road construction, grove culling etc.