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Offline oldandslow

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I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« on: December 18, 2021, 12:39:56 PM »
I drove north from my home today after lunch and about 3 miles up the road the tumble weeds were piled up out onto the pavement. Another mile and I jogged west a mile to another road (had to as the road I was traveling ended) and turned north again. The tumble weeds were stacked up against the west fence until it was leaning over to the east about a foot and and a half out of plumb and this continued for several miles until I turned west again. I don't know how long that fence has been standing but it's been a lot of years with no lean until this year. We finally had a wet for here summer and weeds of all kinds have thrived.

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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2021, 01:17:12 PM »
There were area roads south of here that were closed until the tumble weeds could be moved.
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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2021, 07:46:17 AM »
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   Kids, cows and the highway department would all freak out..if we suddenly had tumble weeds show up around here...  LOL
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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2021, 08:04:12 AM »
if you have cows and tumble weeds spray molasses on the weeds . cows will eat them up

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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2021, 08:04:37 AM »
 Tumble weeds are a menace. Your tempted to burn ‘‘em down.
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There you rid the Holy City of the Scourge of Islam , Make the streets run red with the Blood of those who wish to wash Israel and Christianity from the face of the Earth.
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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2021, 10:40:36 AM »
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    have no tumbleweeds around here, from what and where I have seen them...they must roll around more or less "west of the Pecos"... ;)  ;D
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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2021, 10:42:53 AM »
if you have cows and tumble weeds spray molasses on the weeds . cows will eat them up

Where I live that'd require a lot of molasses.
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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2021, 10:40:28 PM »
yup but we have to navigate 2 feet of snow on the roads some days. I laughed when i was at great lakes naval base recovering. I saw a 6 inch snow storm shut down the whole town and the news said it shut down chicago. Heck thats a sprinkle up here. Barely enough to justifying snowblowing the driveway.
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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2021, 05:33:23 AM »
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    have no tumbleweeds around here, from what and where I have seen them...they must roll around more or less "west of the Pecos"... ;)  ;D


Not just west but for a long way east. I am around 60 miles as the crow flies east of the Pecos and we have plenty of them. I grew up about a 100 miles east of where I live now on the eastern edge of the caprock and they are plentiful there. I have no idea just how far to the east of the caprock you have to go before being out of them. Probably to the piney woods of east Texas.

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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2021, 07:14:52 AM »
They pretty much stop at about Wichita Falls TX. Rarely east ot there. Climate ain't good for tumbling.
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Re: I just thought I had a lot of tumble weeds.
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2021, 12:41:57 PM »
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  Wichita Falls.. There was an old Army air training base there, as I recall.  Then it was just south of there , where Mcmurtry located his story of "The Last Picture show", I believe..
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