Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Jan 23 - 28

Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Monday, January 23, 2017
Morning 41 Degrees, Wind variable, calm to 2 Mph, Humidity 65%, sunny.
Afternoon 67 Degrees, Wind WNW at 1 to 8 Mph, Humidity 28%, sunny.

Busy day after the weekend work with the regulars coming an going and deliveries.  


Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Morning 49 Degrees, Wind SSE at 5 to 7 Mph, Humidity 60%, sunny.
Afternoon 88 Degrees, Wind S at 3 to 5 Mph, Humidity 31%, sunny.

Equipment came in this afternoon (Road Grader) to cleanup the work area after the well drilling equipment left the pad and trenching for the manifold work.


Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Morning 56 Degrees, Wind NNW at 2 to 8 Mph, Humidity 48%, partly cloudy.
Afternoon 72 Degrees, Wind NNW at 8 to 14 Mph, Humidity 17%, mostly sunny.

Usual characters were in again working on the manifold piping and gaugers checking their equipment on other well pads.  


Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Thursday, January 26, 2017
Morning 46 Degrees, Wind ENE at 3 to 7 Mph, Humidity 56%, mostly sunny.
Afternoon 63 Degrees, Wind E at 7 to 14 Mph, Humidity 18%, sunny.

Bulldozer and roller equipment came and with drivers. Really not much to write about with a morning group of vehicles then gaugers straggling in thru the morning. Then the morning group leaving after four o’clock.


Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Friday, January 27, 2017
Morning 41 Degrees, Wind ENE at 7 to 12 Mph, Humidity 68%, partly cloudy.
Afternoon 58 Degrees, Wind E at 11 to 24 Mph, Humidity 31%, overcast.

Gaugers and pipe crew as usual today and one truck hauling water tanks, four trips,  bringing in tanks that will contain water used during the fracking operations next month. The pipe crew on their way out today said they are not working tomorrow.

Deer in the grass beside the cat last night
(Picture the next morning)

Today after her sleep my wife went to Carrizo Springs shopping and was back near sundown. I opened the gate for her return and after closing it going to Tan Jan to help bring in the bags. She had her door open and I was looking in the direction of the car when I realized there were four deer in the area forty feet from the left side of the car.   I opened the right rear door and said “do not move just turn your head to the left and see the deer” she did. The deer continued their eating and did look up checking that we were not coming in their direction as we went about bringing in our groceries. That is the first time they were seen in that area. There are plenty of deer on the ranch.


Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Saturday, January 28, 2017
Morning 45 Degrees, Wind N at 6 to 8 Mph, Humidity 66%, overcast.
Afternoon 58 Degrees, Wind NW at 5 to 15 Mph, Humidity 35%, mostly sunny.

Frack water tanks came in again today for the third or forth day. No pipe crew but there were enough others single vehicles coming and going to keep me jumping up for the gate. There are a bunch in now and will be filled with water for the Fracking of the wells (six). I am being told the frack will last sixty days. We will not see the end  of the job, we will be leaving the gate in March. We only have forty-eight more days here and the frack does not start until latter this week or next week.