Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - Sat & Sun

Saturday, April 6, 2013
Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 56 degrees partly sunny this morning to 86 degrees and mostly sunny most of the afternoon with a good breeze.

Another busy day with traffic going to three different sites. Prickly pear cactus are starting to bud and flowers will be here soon.

Prickly pear cactus Budding

Sunday, April 7, 2013
Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 60 degrees partly cloudy this morning to 95 degrees and sunny most of the afternoon with a good breeze to not feel the temperature. This Prickly pear cactus is a Mickey Mouse want-a-be

NASCAR Sunday Martinsville, VA.

We had another busy day with work on three different sites.

Mickey Mouse want-a-be Prickly pear cactus



 

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - Apr 5

Friday, April 5, 2013
Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 45 degrees partly sunny this morning to 89 degrees and partly sunny most of the afternoon.

One of the work over rigs on site will switch pads today, this will keep the gate traffic up. Not only that then additional traffic as a fracking crew came in for the site the rig vacated. This resulted in the busiest day and the highest traffic at the gate.

Hats, one of the guy’s coming in gave me a cap and this is the third different cap I have gotten here at the gate.

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - Apr 4

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 53 degrees partly sunny this morning to 74 degrees and mostly sunny this afternoon. The weather (and temperature) has been very flexible changing all the time from warm - dry to cold - wet and alternating between these the past few days. Heat on then air conditioning on and neither, spring season I guess.

That is not the Sun but a poison gas burn stack

A busy morning and last night was slow for Bonnie and she was up early. I made the trip to town as Bonnie wanted to clean in between checking people out and in while I went into Pleasanton. I picked up a Nook she had ordered from Walmart Site to Store along with other shopping.

That is mud I scraped from the bottom of my shoes even trying to not walk in the mud.
There was a road grader working on Franklin Ranch Road and there is improvement but there is a lot more to go for a good ride also changes from the rain.

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - Apr 3

Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 60 degrees partly sunny this morning to 74 degrees and partly sunny part of the afternoon. There were some dark clouds west and north of us but dissipated before covering this area.

Sunrise at Fox Creek

Bonnie had "some" rain and a lightening show overnight. There are puddles and mud, I think that is enough said about that for now. Well the picture is a nice sunrise and the puddle is in the foreground. This mud sticks to your shoes and builds up and adds as you take additional steps. I got another picture of s Scissor Tailed Fly Catcher on the ground looking for bugs for breakfast this morning. The pole lights we have here attract the bugs over night and the mornings are Road Runners and other small birds having breakfast.

Scissor Tailed Fly Catcher

 

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - Apr 2

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 70 degrees cloudy this morning to 83 degrees and partly sunny this afternoon. It did get dark for a while but the sun came back to bring the temperature up to the high today.

Well traffic has picked up at a couple of our pads today and a two work rigs came in with their support trucks making a busy afternoon.

When Bonnie and I first moved into Buster our cat Merry could not deal with a closes bedroom door. Well to be truthful also in the house in Thonotosassa, a door pushed closed to the door jam would be "pawed" open and in Merry would come to see what was going on or to find a place to sleep. This continued in buster only these are pocket doors and Merry would cry to come into the bedroom or out of the bedroom. Merry’s policy was no closed doors. We now realize that Merry is accepting closed doors because we we need the quite and darkness for sleep.

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - Apr 1

Monday, April 1, 2013
Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 67 degrees partly sunny this morning to 85 degrees and mostly sunny.

Went into Pleasanton earlier this afternoon as Silver Sally’s oil and filter were do for changing. Bonnie was up early to allow me to leave for town. Picked up a mail shipment from Lakewood, NM in Jourdanton on the way in to do the shopping and oil change. Traffic at the gate has picked up today. (To enlarge pictures; Click on picture to enlarge, click on the < in the upper left to return to the blog)

Scissor Tailed Fly Catcher

The bird is a Scissor Tailed Fly Catcher and interesting bird when on the ground the tail is about two and a half times the body length and in flight the tail feathers spread and the scissor look is present. Looking for bugs to eat.

bulls eating along Franklin Ranch Road

 

Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - Mar 30 - 31

Saturday, March 30, 2013
Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 61 degrees partly sunny this morning to 86 degrees and mostly sunny.

I had a couple of oil tankers and three pickup trucks and a lot of computer and TV time.

Sunday, March 31, 2013
Fox Creek Gate Tilden, Texas - 68 degrees partly sunny this morning to 89 degrees and partly sunny most of the afternoon.

Then after six we had dark sky’s to the north and some real rain drops but only enough to wet things. Two of my regular pickup’s came in today earlier than normal and one oil tanker truck late in the just before dark.

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The picture is one of the "locals" walking and feeding down the road leadinf to the gate. Thse guys came from the far end and are walking back.