the world may really end on oct. 21st?

Man I hope it rains before that...I don't want to expire thirsty.

Good news? We were feeding today and say quite a few blues paired up. Guess we had enough moisture to generate a bug crop and some grass seeds. Also saw a flock of about 10 or 11 hen turkey polts that looked about 1/2 grown.

Place we were on has the cactus drying up also and the sotol is taking a beating also. Agarita is shriveling, sage doesn't have but about 50% of the leaves it should have, and the catclaw beans are drying up already. At 6 PM here it was 101 degrees.

In Stephenville area ponds are dried up and I've been hauling water out in the pasture,saturday we'll be going to the feed store for hay.This is getting ridiculous,.Cameron,sorry to hear about all those trees dying,I've got quite a few pecan saplings that I've been hand watering,It's starting to suck!move over high pressure,PLEASE.

One thing this drought has done is enhance my appreciation for native species, especially grasses. Where our "improved" pastures of Bermuda grass etc are brown I am seeing the natives, bluestems etc holding their own.

The dry and heat continues. This weekend we went out Friday night and my son went to set the hog trap. He poured in some corn, set the trap and went to the back to check out a feeder. He came back by the hog trap 10 minutes later and a small young deer was in the trap eating the corn, but it wasn't tripped. The deer backed out then trotted off. We saw deer up by the house all weekend at all hours of the day- never seen that before. Pray for rain.....

No rain in sight in the forecast! Out at our place it is nothing but brown. Hope we get a little acorn crop this year. The deer had been going through 50 bags of antlermax 20% every month. This last month it seemed like they ate a little more than they had been. My agarita and persimmon look good though. No browsing pressure on them at all. Not sure what they are eating though. There is even a decent crop of persimmon fruit!

Hope we don't get a fire! We moved all livestock off 3 years ago and there is a lot of tall dry grass from last year. If it gets lit it'll burn like a mofo! Maybe it is time to do my rain dance...

Had a real good persimmon crop last year, but most of the persimmons ended up looking like raisins from the heat and not eaten by the deer. Hope that doesn't happen again, cuz it looks like the deer will need everything they can get by then.

Getting worse. 115.3 on Saturday with a 35 mph wind. The deer went through 500 pounds of protein/peas last week in 2 feeders.

Hot..... Dry.... Brown....Our place in Fisher county got a small bit of rain awhile back but like everywhere else the mesquite sucked it up. we do have a lot of mesquite beans but not much else.
our place in Knox county is extremely dry as well and very few mesquite beans.
Watch the roads driving around especially at night the deer are everywhere right now except the one I hit in my wife's Toyota last week. Had a few close calls several times through the week. them deer are prowling around looking for anything they can find to eat right now.

Bone dry in Bee county also. Down there last weekend. Need rain!!!!

what part of Knox county? i'm headed that way this weekend. havent been since feb.

Looks like there was some decent rain tonight in Comanche county. Any word from folks down there on rainfall amounts?

Southern part of Knox county just north of Knox City. I love it here.

Mesquite trees are turning yellow. The end of time may be near...or at least it is going to be a lot less fun this summer.

Finally the skies opened and we got almost 3 inches here in San Marcos last night and this morning.........Wish it would of started farther up North......probably needing some at the farm in Dumont.........hey Mav.......Love it to..grew up in Munday!!

Well at least archery season will be open and we'll get a few hunts in.

I hunt in 5 different counties and none of them are in good shape. Maybe I will not have so many acorns this year during bow season, but s. texas they are hammering the protein.

I've never seen the deer in East Texas look worse than they do now. And I suspect the acorns will be few and far between.

Drought effects are very badly affect the real estate market , as rates of lot are decrease rapidly.

As bad as it is you will be hoping there an acorn crop.If you think the deer need feed now wait until winter and see what it's like if it doesn't rain.

Oh, you know it will start raining about the beginning of dove season and not stop all the way through deer season. By the time deer season rolls around the deer will be fat and happy with so much to eat they will not even think of going near a feeder, lol. Of course they will all have smaller headgear anyway so most will get a pass this year.

You can only hope it starts. Last year around Sept. is when it quit raining.

Lots of truth right there.As much as I love to just see deer on our place I would be willing to see less if the rains came if it would help the herd.Just heard this morning Texas is in the grip of the worst drought on record.