I once got stung by a scorpion while deer hunting in the Chautauqua Hills in the dead of winter. 0 degrees and a foot of snow on the ground. F’er crawled up my shirt and stung me in the back. Wasn’t expecting that.
NEWS FLASH: Drought ends at Ponderosa
- Thread starter M. R. Byrd
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Bilbo Baggins
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Little Bill and I will have to pay you a visit this coming season. It seems you perfected the "Rain Dance". We can get some lunch at the rail car in Dodge if you like. It would be enjoyable catching up on the latest and also visit with Mrs. Byrd.
Did you put on the "feed bag" or something. Last time ai saw you, you looked buff
M. R. Byrd
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Sounds good.
These days more fluff than buff
M. R. Byrd
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August 2nd 0.45",
August 4th 0.20"
19.75" YTD
We have heat(106 on the 8th), plenty of sunshine and good moisture and that equals tremendous green growth. Mrs. Byrd is having a hard time keeping the farming done. She works the wheat ground, then a little shower and the weeds are back before she is hardly out of the field. The waste areas are a jungle with well over your head weeds of various flavors. Some of the big bluestem, switch grass and Indian grass in the CRP are approaching eight foot tall. There are certainly pheasant and quail out there, but hard to tell how many with the robust cover.
August 4th 0.20"
19.75" YTD
We have heat(106 on the 8th), plenty of sunshine and good moisture and that equals tremendous green growth. Mrs. Byrd is having a hard time keeping the farming done. She works the wheat ground, then a little shower and the weeds are back before she is hardly out of the field. The waste areas are a jungle with well over your head weeds of various flavors. Some of the big bluestem, switch grass and Indian grass in the CRP are approaching eight foot tall. There are certainly pheasant and quail out there, but hard to tell how many with the robust cover.
westksbowhunter
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.20 on Saturday night and .50 last night. Its still green around here. Going to make the dove hunting a little harder.
M. R. Byrd
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I hit the floor abruptly at 1AM to start shutting windows. Absolute downpour for 25 minutes with driving winds. Sounded liked it was going to bust the windows out. Just emptied 2.35" from the gauge. Will check water gaps first thing.
22.10" YTD
22.10" YTD
M. R. Byrd
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Not much runoff considering how fast it came, but that is what grass will do, especially tall grass that I am blessed with at the moment. At the moment my CRP grass ranges from waist high to some approaching eight foot tall. My pasture grass, mainly short grass buffalo, with some tall grasses including side oats, is knee to thigh high. The kinetic energy of the rainfall is reduced tremendously from the time it hits the stem of the grass and makes it way to the ground. I don't dare drive out into my CRP today with my ATV as that ground is saturated and I will drop out of sight. Add in terraces and grassed waterways and I don't see the flash flooding on the drainages that I did in my childhood. All of this is good things that have come from America's conservation plans, albeit not perfect, but still good.
I had hoped to see some lesser prairie chicken while checking water gaps, but nothing. Still haven't seen a LPC hatch this year, but there is so much cover.
I am experiencing a new shade of SW Kansas August that I don't see often.
I had hoped to see some lesser prairie chicken while checking water gaps, but nothing. Still haven't seen a LPC hatch this year, but there is so much cover.
I am experiencing a new shade of SW Kansas August that I don't see often.
It was really sketchy. Here on the other side of the state I had 2.1", my cousin 3 miles southeast had 3.5. His wife said her hometown of Cedar Vale east of Ark City got 7". Last night on the way home from my daughters north of Winfield I ran into the rain. from just west of Elk Falls to east of Longton on US160 I could hardly see to drive at 40 mph. By the time I got to US 75 north of Independence the road was dry. It was around 8-9:00 before the rain hit here.
Heard another report of 6.5” out of Cedar Vale. Wild.
M. R. Byrd
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Checking pastures for a friend. Normally that draw is empty, but he had a couple inches in that last rain. Normally by now the pastures would be manila colored. In the foreground is "Snow on the Mountain". A lot of it in his pasture and lots of common milkweed.
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Bilbo Baggins
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The "Rain Dance" at work. The Ponderosa is becoming a "Rain Forest".
M. R. Byrd
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Call it what you will, but it was all quite unusual motions out of an old man who backed into a really hot electric fence.
