Are you (or anyone you know) on the lookout for "farm" fresh eggs? If so please let me know. I don't know what's got into my girls but I'm getting about a dz a day (right now I have 6 dz available).
Thanks,
Kate
Fort Worth / NE Tarrant DGers
Soon, very soon, I'm watching this thread.
Carrie,
Do you have any idea which part of the metroplex you're moving to? I'm on the FW side but if you're going to be on the Dallas side I'll be able to point you in a few egg directions there as well.
Kate
My arrangements have been made! :)
We have applied to lease a house in Euless. If everything goes well, I'll know by tomorrow. I mean I will know by tomorrow if we got this place in Euless. If not we have to start over again at square one. (Sigh.)
Good luck Carrie. We too arranged our move here from a distance, so I know what you're going through. I (and a couple of the other DGers) live quite close to Euless, so you'll have people to go to with questions, etc.
See you soon.
Good! It's scary, isn't it? We all love adventures....marriage, old age, life, motherhood, having parents .... the list goes on and on.... but this may be the most adventurous adventure yet!
carrie dahlin, I agree with you except for one thang - gettin old is not an adventure -
its a pain in the bohunkus !
Nevertheless , life is beauteefullllll
Well, ok, I agree, but I'm trying to ignore that part until ABSOLUTELY necessary.... a pain and painful, too, and not a pretty sight. Still--DON'T REMIND ME. It's all good. We got the house in Euless! Now we need a key and get the fridge hooked up and so on.
Can someone tell me--is it true you have to water the lawn to keep the foundation from cracking?
It sounds ok from a curing Portland cement point of view, but in New England, it would sound totally bonkers. We all have stone or cement basements, and elderly houses. I didn't know if the RE agent was full of baloney or telling the truth or getting a kick-back from Reliable Water Co.
It's true.
Watering the foundation? Ha! It sounds bogus, but if that many unrelated people are substantiating the story... maybe it is true. Hmmmm. OK, that's why everybody has inground sprinklers.
We have clay soil and very extended periods without rain, during those times the soil cracks and the foundation could crack also. We have flower beds all around the house and keep those watered so that takes care of the problem for us.
Josephine.
There are no basements in Texas as we sit on a very shallow layer of soil and then bedrock. Yes, you do have to water the perimeter of your foundation or it will crack.
basements ????? what are THOSE wink wink
ti clarify, in dry years you do need to water around the foundations
we use soaker hoses in the flower beds
like Jsephine says
Here at home our water billin winter runs abpit $26
per month and in a dry summer its double that
But this yeae, thanfullt so far has been a "wet" year.
What about the drought and water rationing?
Drought is DONE in TX !!
We are now at higher than average amounts
dor 2012
Been getting good rains on a regular basis,
just about every weejens to interrupt plans...
I know once you get used to it you will love it here !
Sad but true on the foundations... it runs all the way south to the coast. The problem is called expandable clay and it grows or shrinks with the moisture levels in the soil. We are sitting on a cracked foundation. As displaced northerners, we learned the hard way.
If you are curious, you can google expandable clay and find far more than you want to know.
BTW, Welcome to Texas, Ms Carrie... Glad to have you! Kristi
Thank you, Ms. Poddie, dear!
Ahhh, wondered where north was for you, one of the differences in Ma an Tx is if you see something you want to take a look at, you can get off the freeway and go look. You ARE goin to miss cool summers tho, especially for a year or so. The FW side of the DFW metroplex is a bit dryer than the Dallas side, but, you will like that area of the metroplex-except for maybe the traffic resembling a mini play of getting across the GW Bridge at rush hour...give yourself a year to adjust to the differences in weather tho- heatstroke slips up on folks not accustomed to packing their ice teas with them when they move from rooom to room, and? Welcome to Texas!
Uh, thanks, I think. :)
Baja? you havent been to El Paso recently have you? Still a drought, and
hot dry weather out there... was 109* when I hit Texas Canyon, AZ and 111* until I dropped down into Ontario, Ca . Yellow is the color of the desert this year- If it is yellow it is bloomin to survive. So dead and burned and brittle out west past Abilene
See in MA, you could barely have a drought in one part without having it in the whole state, and we don't have droughts, we have floods. That's the problem with making your state so huge! Or, the advantage.
I STILL miss cool summer. As a matter of fact I usually have to flee to my dad's house up in Wisconsin by August because I just can't take it anymore!
Chuckl, my niece has married in Mass now, she loves it, its too small for me- I get into fights cuz the guys think I am making fun of 'Bahstahn' accents, and I'm just trying to figure out what in the world they mean, chuckle, you still have floods here
We get tons of gripes about 18 wheelers who think they can get out of Texas in one trip, chuckl, but it just wouldn't be right if it was broken up, we love our 6 flag state.
Heck, accents? We barely could communicate with some of the people there. I mean the REALLY thick accents. We don't think we have accents--I know what a Boston accent sounds like, I can translate it, I can understand it, but I don't think I talk that way except maybe one or two words that I learned here.
We were trying to buy a car from one lady, and she was trying to give us directions, and she must have thought I was an idiot, because I kept asking her to repeat herself. It didn't get any clearer. I asked her to text me the directions but she didn't. We ended up buying a car from a kid with a Russian accent--easier for me at least to understand.
LOL. Well don't feel bad, 7 years on and my Southeast London born and bred husband still has great difficulty in getting what he asked for when he uses and drive through, along with double takes when he asks for water. You'll be in good company.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ms grubby, that is SO funny. I use to ask for small coke with extra ice and I would always get small coke with large fries. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.