Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - June 17 & 18

Monday, June 17, 2013

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 77 degrees mostly sunny this morning to mostly sunny 95 degrees.

Bonnie was not up to going shopping after her sleep so I went into Pleasanton for shopping and drinking water. That was the biggest activity today. We did get a visit from the company (oil) and the gate job will close this week maybe Wednesday.

The cattle were out along the road feeding and I have come to the realization that the big thing foe me noticing then is they do not move when a vehicle comes by them. The wild life here as anywhere will run when the vehicle comes. Not the cattle they continue whatever they are doing at that time. Eating, walking, standinf or laying down just stay right there, go around I’m busy doing.

Bonnie had a large group of the cattle come around last night about midnight. She did not go outside or wake me during the night but the were setting the inside alarm off wandering around and feeding in that area for a while.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 75 degrees partly sunny this morning to mostly sunny 100 degrees.

This morning I am working towards our departing the gate packing a way and cleaning the windshield and other. Then the water did not work it was a corroded electrical connector on the pump. But trouble shooting I broke an inlet elbow fitting while check to see if there was a blockage to the pump inlet. I thought the clamp for the hose to the fitting was not re-tightening properly. Bonnie was still up as she had a nap during the night, so I went into town for a new clamp that clamp worked well but that is when I found the fitting is cracked. There is three quarters of a tank in Buster so we have water.
Today going in and out on Franklin Ranch Road there were no cattle seen at first then there they were standing or laying down next to tree trunks getting all the shade they can.

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - June 16

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 77 degrees mostly sunny this morning to mostly sunny 95 degrees.

Yesterday evening after Bonnie was up from her sleep I went into Tilden dumping our garbage. We are drying out more today with the mostly sunny morning the puddles are drying up. No pictures as the camera was located safely on the computer table but there were plenty of cattle seen out there feeding along Franklin Ranch Road and SR 16 during my trip into Tilden.

NASCAR Brooklyn Michigan that’s today’s race plan along with a slow gate.

Saturday, June 15, 2013


Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 77 degrees mostly cloudy trying to clear this morning to mostly sunny 97 degrees. We are drying out today.

A fire started by a lightning strike at a salt water disposal plant in Atascosa County has closed SR 16 last night for a while. This is water removed from oil wells and has some hydrocarbons in it and is disposed at treatment locations. Buster's gate is located five miles south of the Atascosa county line.

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Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - June 13

Flag Day

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 80 degrees mostly cloudy this morning to mostly sunny 95 degrees. We have the thunder storms today, with water and yes the mud puddle is back and the ground will stick the our shoes when we go out. The storm does drop the ambient temperature but it does go right beck up and with humidity.

The thunder storm coming from the Gulf of Mexico are here this afternoon again today as yesterday was dry at Busters gate I only experienced the rain in Jourdanton and Pleasanton. Today the gate is slow and waiting for our diesel fuel and fresh water delivery. Turned away another pickup looking for a rig with directions on how to get there from here. He turned into our road instead of continuing another three and a half miles east on Franklin Ranch Road.

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - June 9 & 10

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 78 degrees partly sunny this morning to mostly sunny 90 degrees. The tricky triangle Pocono, PA racetrack NASCAR Sunday .

The gate is quite today with only oil tankers hauling out oil and me watching racing.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 75 degrees partly sunny this morning to mostly sunny 95 degrees. Enough clouds so there is no sunrise.

It has been a slow couple of days here at the gate, not very much going on. We are making departure plans with some maintenance work needed for Buster that I will try and schedule in New Braunfels, Texas then we may head to Austin to see Carole and Avery before heading to the Ranch in New Mexico.

These are pictures of sunset Bonnie too the other night. They do look better live as something is lost in the picture.

 

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - June 8

Saturday, June 8, 2013


Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 68 degrees mostly cloudy this morning to mostly sunny 95 degrees. No sunrise today, too many clouds. The clouds are slowly clearing.

It is interesting that when the cattle come and feed wandering around for the right spot to munch and all of a sudden one of the cows decides to start walking back to the pipeline the line forms and they are all walking in that direction with out a noise from any one cow. The pipeline also seems to be their preferred route not walking on the side of the road.

Late today I went into Pleasanton typical shopping dump garbage put gasoline in Silver Sally. On the way in it started to raining am headed east on Franklin Ranch Road and the sky to the south is black clouds and I am on the gray line where it is raining. A muddy road, but there is no dust cloud following Silver Sally. Heading north on SR 16 I drive out of the rain and the first thing I do in Jourdanton is power wash Silver Sally. It is nice in Jourdanton and Pleasanton no rain but on the return to Franklin Ranch Road I am in the rain again. At the Fox Creek Gate the heavy rain missed and was south of Franklin Ranch Road. These pictures are of the gate puddle and that did not grow with the late afternoon rain.


I caught the rainbow picture going south on SR 16 before turning onto Franklin Ranch Road.

 

 

Rainbow along SR 16

 

 

 

Grazing along Franklin Ranch Road

Sunset along a wet muddy Franklin Ranch Road

 

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - June 7

Friday, June 7, 2013

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 74 degrees partly cloudy this morning to mostly sunny 95 degrees. Breezy this morning, a warm breeze from the east. Mid morning there are some spits of rain in the air. Our water and diesel fuel came on the scheduled day Thursday this week amazing.

The cattle enjoyed them self’s last night and a larger group came by this morning after sunrise to feed and drink again. I refilled the steel bowls half full with water and they drank the bowls dry. This is what I am concerned about, draining our water tank for them. The sad eyes are looking for water and I can not refuse them.

Sunrise

That depression in the center of the white tank, collects water and black dirt.

 

Well we had rain all afternoon and yes we have puddles. And this was a most of the afternoon event. Then a tanker came in to load oil, thus the tire tracks here to the left as the heavy loaded truck making the turn digs into the wet roadbed.

You can see the shadow from Buster in these pictures and the edge of the left side window awning.