"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.
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I hope you get some rain. We have a shot this afternoon at some rain and then it drops off to nothing for a week...
There were lots of storms in Oklahoma yesterday but they all tracked west and north of our location which has been a common theme this year...
There were lots of storms in Oklahoma yesterday but they all tracked west and north of our location which has been a common theme this year...
Well maybe you will get it because it completely missed both our properties.
Tracking north and east and our dryest place is right between Tahlequah and Muskogee...
Other place is due north of Tahlequah...
The rain formed just a couple miles east of both places and moving away...
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Tracking north and east and our dryest place is right between Tahlequah and Muskogee...
Other place is due north of Tahlequah...
The rain formed just a couple miles east of both places and moving away...
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It did the exact same thing yesterday but several miles west of us and then evaporated as it neared...I think we have the same force field
Triple C
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Something tells me you'll come out on top!Don't know if this is relevant or not as I got it with my lunch today...as much as I have been crying about lack of rain and have already planted 1/2 of my plots?
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G3 Ranch
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I must be in the same dry zone, .2 in in the last 14 days according to mesonet. I looked all over today, it,s brown almost everywhere.Well maybe you will get it because it completely missed both our properties.
Tracking north and east and our dryest place is right between Tahlequah and Muskogee...
Other place is due north of Tahlequah...
The rain formed just a couple miles east of both places and moving away...
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Last summer we got spoiled with timely rains and amazing looking clover plots all summer long. This year mother nature is letting us know what Oklahoma summer is all about and rain isn't what it's about
That is great because I know typically it is much drier out in western Ok than it is here but I think all the rain patterns are shifting...we may be the next "treeless" area of the state...
I need to read up on the ceremonies for rain with Cherokee People...I am afraid a lot of the old customs have died out with our elders
It's starting to look a lot like fall everywhere in this "dry zone" except it's still full on summer. Leaves are dropping, trees are dying...
My pines are shedding needles at an alarming rate. Hopefully we get some rain soon!!!!
Somehow missed taking photo's but Saturday morning my wife and I met a good friend of ours who also owns a wrecker service and he moved a wooden 10' x 12' portable building (small barn) from Home 10 up to Whitetail Hollow so we will have a place outside of our home to store stuff other than our small wellhouse. The big Rollback he brought sucked the building right up on there and when we dropped it off the truck we used our Kubota Tractor to lift each end for leveling purposes. Got it pretty close and this chore was just another brick in the wall...
Afterwards I used the new spreader to spread 1700 lbs of pellet lime on our 2 small plots on Whitetail Hollow and then I switched over to the brushhog and brushhogged the grasses,weeds, and saplings that were trying to take over down. I had sprayed clethodim on the plots 4 weeks ago and then a stronger dose 2 weeks ago and some of the grass looked sickly...I came in and spot sprayed the worst parts with GLY. The ground is so hard from lack of rain on the baked ground that I will have to wait on rain to try to work the rock/soil into some semblance of plots since the clover is really struggling badly in the shaded low areas and is nonexistent in the other areas...
Afterwards I used the new spreader to spread 1700 lbs of pellet lime on our 2 small plots on Whitetail Hollow and then I switched over to the brushhog and brushhogged the grasses,weeds, and saplings that were trying to take over down. I had sprayed clethodim on the plots 4 weeks ago and then a stronger dose 2 weeks ago and some of the grass looked sickly...I came in and spot sprayed the worst parts with GLY. The ground is so hard from lack of rain on the baked ground that I will have to wait on rain to try to work the rock/soil into some semblance of plots since the clover is really struggling badly in the shaded low areas and is nonexistent in the other areas...
Yesterday morning I got up well before daylight and got on the road with the tractor as I had several jobs to get done with my commercial brushhogging business. I mowed 5 lake lots that were all within the same area first thing. all but one of these lots are extremely steep and the heavy Rhino Brushhog I was using kept me sliding sideways down the hills a bunch. I usually use a much lighter duty unit when I mow these areas but I had other places to hit too that I wanted to use the heavy unit on. I beat a bunch of flint rock into smaller pieces on these sidehills
After I got the lots done I moved over to mow 2 yards and a small pasture. The peopled who owned the houses had let the grass get away from them this summer and even though it looked nearly dead it was still a couple feet tall. I get lots of calls to mow yards with a brushhog and 6 foot equipment. Have to be really careful in yards as usually there are lots of hazards to miss, septic tanks you have to know where are, fencing, and you don't want to fling something through a window or wall with the mower...
I then moved on to the last job which was a remote property owned by a deer hunter. I had been conversing with him a little bit and he owns a property with some ridge tops that had been cleared by dozer many years ago and every opening up there has grown up in sumac. He told me about his wishes to start a couple of plots and we decided on a throw n mow because the soil is all flint ridge makeup and is more rock than soil. I brought a 5 gallon bucket of winter rye grain seed and he bought some mixes and he had sprayed some areas to try out about a week ago. I broadcast the WR into it when I got there and he had already broadcast the mixes before I got there. Now we are just praying for rain on this...
After I got the lots done I moved over to mow 2 yards and a small pasture. The peopled who owned the houses had let the grass get away from them this summer and even though it looked nearly dead it was still a couple feet tall. I get lots of calls to mow yards with a brushhog and 6 foot equipment. Have to be really careful in yards as usually there are lots of hazards to miss, septic tanks you have to know where are, fencing, and you don't want to fling something through a window or wall with the mower...
I then moved on to the last job which was a remote property owned by a deer hunter. I had been conversing with him a little bit and he owns a property with some ridge tops that had been cleared by dozer many years ago and every opening up there has grown up in sumac. He told me about his wishes to start a couple of plots and we decided on a throw n mow because the soil is all flint ridge makeup and is more rock than soil. I brought a 5 gallon bucket of winter rye grain seed and he bought some mixes and he had sprayed some areas to try out about a week ago. I broadcast the WR into it when I got there and he had already broadcast the mixes before I got there. Now we are just praying for rain on this...
I also drove past some property I used to live near and deer hunt in the past because I had heard hogs had gotten thick in the area. Sure enough I saw 10 in an open hay field while I was just driving down the county road. I lived here until 1999 and at that time there were no hogs whatsoever in that country...
Mother Nature still up to her tricks...we have DAILY pop up showers all around the area but for some reason can't seem to happen over our properties. I was over at home 10 putting away some stuff from the building move and a dustnado sprang up in our food plots and came right to me and I got blown around a bit. Then thunder, lightening, high wind...and not a drop of moisture
Storm developed over me but was moving so fast it started dumping rain a mile west and was headed northwest toward wagoner and Mayes county... The storm split into 2 rain zones and I took this photo while getting diesel.
Wife watered trees up on our 80 around the yard area while this was happening. Getting more fall looking by the day with trees aborting their leaves...
As was expected our plots on home 10 planted a week and 2 days ago are doing absolutely nothing
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Storm developed over me but was moving so fast it started dumping rain a mile west and was headed northwest toward wagoner and Mayes county... The storm split into 2 rain zones and I took this photo while getting diesel.
Wife watered trees up on our 80 around the yard area while this was happening. Getting more fall looking by the day with trees aborting their leaves...
As was expected our plots on home 10 planted a week and 2 days ago are doing absolutely nothing
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lakngolf
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We can do all we want, and change methods to try and preserve, but ultimately at the mercy of Good Lord and Mother Nature. My Dad always mused about rain, either needing it, or needing dry weather to cure a hay field. Long time before instant weather maps he was paying attention to whether those late August storms in the Gulf would bring us some rain. Hope you get some soon. Dry here too, but I don't have any seed in the ground.
catscratch
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Kubota, I at one time thought it would be cool to make a trip down there and see your place, then have you come up to see mine. Kind of swap a land tour thing. I'm not so sure now. I don't think I want you anywhere near my place, I'm afraid your drought curse may rub off onto my place!
Just joking about you being cursed, I hope a couple of those storms pop up on your place.
Just joking about you being cursed, I hope a couple of those storms pop up on your place.
My dad used to feed hay throughout the summer a lot. I know we are not experiencing anything new but I guess now I am just more in tune with it... I could never be a farmer that's for sure!
