Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Feb - 24 - 28

Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Friday, February 24, 2017
Morning 60 Degrees, Wind NNE at 2 to 4 Mph, Humidity 93%, sunny.
Afternoon 87 Degrees, Wind NNW at 14 to 23 Mph, Humidity 9%,sunny .

Up extra early for a quick trip into Laredo Lowe’s. I was there by six fifteen and picked up a new portable air conditioner (14,000 BTU). Our other one broke something on the blower. I had to rework the opening in the window board I use for the exit air duct. The hose for this new unit has a larger diameter hose and the fitting is an oval shape where the other one was round.

Portable Air Conditioner

I was able to get that done between vehicles coming and going from our gate while my wife went to sleep. I had the new portable air conditioner up and running in an hour and a half.


Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Saturday, February 25, 2017
Morning 45 Degrees, Wind NE at 5 to 6 Mph, Humidity 69%, sunny.
Afternoon 68 Degrees, Wind SE at 12 to 15 Mph, Humidity 28%, sunny.

Other than the frack continuing and piping crew in today. I am still working on Busters front hood removing the diamond shield adhesive. It is a slow process removing the adhesive. The actual plastic comes off fairly easy. The adhesive varies as to how much the sun has dried or aged over time.

Sand Truck

Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Sunday, February 26, 2017
Morning 53 Degrees, Wind ESE at 5 to 9 Mph, Humidity 81%, overcast.
Afternoon 79 Degrees, Wind W at 6 to 8 Mph, Humidity 40%, mostly sunny.

No piping or welders today and the fracking continues. Chemical tanker trucks, chemical container, diesel fuel tanker truck. And sand trucks in and out all day.

My work on Buster continues removing the adhesive is a long time process. The two lighter colors are looking good across the front now.

Buster looking good up front

Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Monday, February 27, 2017
Morning 63 Degrees, Wind variable at 1 to 5 Mph, Humidity 93%, mostly cloudy.
Afternoon 85 Degrees, Wind variable at 0 to 1 Mph, Humidity 43%, mostly sunny.

Typical Monday heaver traffic and sand trucks coming and going day and night.
Our portable air conditioner is working very well keeping Buster cool. With that running the front foof air conditioner only comes on part time in the higher ambient temperatures otherwise it is off. Thasat is important to is as the roof air conditioner has a higher noise level when it is operating.


Busters Gate Catarina, TX - Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Morning 68 Degrees, Wind variable at 1 to 2 Mph, Humidity 91%, overcast.
Afternoon 88 Degrees, Wind SE at 7 to 14 Mph, Humidity 39%,partly sunny.

Fracking continuing with sand trucks coming and going day and night. Other areas of the ranch are getting above average activity during the daylight hours. Here we are the end of the second month of the year already as the year seems to be going fast.