<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2">We were in that situation a month or so ago. Rain nearly every day. There was more water running in the Brazos river than I have seen since I moved here at the tail end of '95. Lakes all up a</FONT><FONT size="2"><FONT size="2">n</FONT>d down the Brazos are letting water out to keep from flooding. There have been several drownings due to stupid people doing stupid things in the high water with submerged hazards in the lakes.<BR>We finally dried out enough so I could mow the yard and I had to raise the deck up as high as it could go or the cut grass would clump up really bad. Forecast is for rain again tonight and Monday with a 40% chance Tuesday. The county came by and mowed the bar ditch in front of the house and left it a rutted mess. When it gets dry enough I'll grade the ruts out, but it won't be soon. Sure wishing I had a D2 Cat!<BR><BR>Phil in damp TX<BR></FONT><BR>--- crbearden@copper.net wrote:<BR><BR>From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden@copper.net><BR>To: at@lists.antique-tractor.com<BR>Subject: Re: [AT] OT don't take any Buffalo Nickels and weather.<BR>Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 08:38:12 -0500<BR><BR>
<P>Farmer<BR>
Interesting discussion on the terminology of things.. Here in
Oklahoma, there are so many things that you have to know the slang
term for in order to just survive.. Buffalo are Buffalo here, not
Bison.. I did not know why they were called Buffalo. Thanks for
that lesson. I learn so many things from talking with the
old-timers and I found out at a continuing education session
Friday that I was considered to be one of those...</P>
<P>We had over 30 inches of rain in 31 days in Central OK. Record
rainfall since 1895. The flat areas of the pasture now have
water grass growing in them. I tried to drain a spot yesterday
while I had the dozer running and nearly got stuck. There is a
winch on that D6D but I have not tried it out. I would have to
use the 944 Cat to anchor it and it was on the battery charger.
The 944 has a 24volt generator that I guess is not charging.. It
takes an hour to remove all the panels to get at it. The E110B
trackhoe is still in need of another 10 gallons of hydraulic oil
after I replaced a boom cylinder ($1350), I have not tried it out
yet. The rain has delayed everything here. From getting cattle
worked to harvest to hay cutting. Thursday & Friday were the
2 dry days I had available, and I had to spend it setting in a
mandatory $400 continuing education session for my Engineering
license. If this continual rain does not stop soon, we are going
to be in a world of hurt. I saw some wheat fields cut yesterday
that had large tracts left uncut due to weeds. They were too wet
to cut for hay. Marestail was sticking up a foot above the wheat
heads. Many fields are so wet that 4wd combines were making
tracks over a foot deep. I saw one custom harvester with rice
combines on tracks and his grain carts were on tracks. They were
heading north. There may be a hay cutting if it ever stops
raining long enough to dry out, but the quality will be crap
because we don't dare fertilize when the rain following the
fertilizer application is so heavy the fertilizer is in the
creek. We get 2-3 inches in less than an hour. I get reports
from a private weather station a mile away and many times it has
shown over 4 inches an hour rainfall rate. A few years ago,
urbanized drainage used 4 inches per hour as the 100 yr design
flood. The grass has grown so fast that there is no food value in
it. I had to start feeding again because my mother cows did not
have milk with enough food value in it. Too much water. The
calves were getting scours from watery milk. I started feeding
every day with 15% protein cubes and after a week, the scours
dried up. The cows are also maintaining condition. Before
feeding they were losing condition. Like my Dad, I take pride in
having cows that are healthy and fat and stay that way. This has
been the worst year for livestock. We have had storm after storm
with baseball size hail. The high winds from downbursts in north
central OK has left entire sections with wheat lodged down. <BR>
The estimates for the wheat harvest are too optimistic. I have
already reserved wheat seed for sowing this fall. <BR>
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<P>I think it was you farmer that once said the old saying was "A
dry year will scare you, a wet year will kill you!" That saying
has never been more true. <BR>
The prospects for this year don't look good, but I am sure we will
still be here next year.. <BR>
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<P>Cecil in the central OK swamp.<BR>
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<DIV>On 6/23/2019 2:52 AM, Indiana Robinson
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<DIV>I find this discussion a little surprising... I was taught
in about the 6th grade (in a small rural school in the 1950's)
that what we all call buffalo are really scientifically true
bison and that early explorers were just guessing as to what
they were. It was much like them thinking at first that this
was the far side of the world and them calling everybody
"Indians". The name just stuck and so did buffalo.</DIV>
<DIV>Even back when I was in school it was understood that most
people would probably always continue to call them buffalo in
casual conservation and I still do. By the time I learned that
they were really bison I had already learned the words dog,
cat, cow etc. and bison was a strange sounding name to me. <BR>
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<DIV>Languages are funny things... Always evolving but not
always in a good way. I have a few pet peeves from more recent
years about how people butcher things. I watch a lot of DIY
stuff and keep saying (mostly to the TV screen) "No, that is
not ship-lap. Every old 8" board is not ship-lap!" or "No that
is not a "cinder block! It is either a cement block or a
concrete block... It is only a cinder block if it was produced
using cinders for the aggregate and very few of those are
being produced these days."</DIV>
<DIV>Rambling farther off track (not a cinder track). :-)<BR>
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<DIV>When Diana and I got married in June 1963 we rented a small
house at the edge of town for a year and a half that was on a
full basement all made of actual cinder block. When that first
winter came along I got a real shock. The cinders were quite
coarse and the block walls were not even close to being air
tight. When the winter winds began to howl you could not heat
the basement. If you lit a candle (I really did) and held it
next to the west wall on a high wind day it would blow the
candle out.</DIV>
<DIV>Speaking of languages, we have become friends with a Greek
family who have a local gyro based restaurant (pronounced <SPAN><SPAN>ˈyērō</SPAN>)</SPAN>.
Really nice family. We were eating there a day or two ago and
a lady and I believe her daughter sat a the booth behind me
and were chatting. I wasn't sure what language they were
speaking but it wasn't English. When things slowed down our
friends came out to visit with them and I realized that that
they had been chatting in Greek. It was a happy visit for the
4 of them and I had to chuckle a few times as they talked
listening to them as all 4 of them flip-flopped from Greek to
English over and over again. It was maybe about 60% Greek and
40% English. Our friends are quite good at English so it was
funny hearing the sudden shift from rapid fire Greek to a
perfectly enunciated full sentence or more in English then
instantly back to Greek. I can only assume that some thoughts
just might be easier to express in English and some easier in
Greek. We have some Chinese friends but they always speak all
Chinese or all English. We also have Hispanic friends and
family and they also speak mostly all one or the other. I have
always wished I could learn other languages but while I have
learned many thing in my time, other languages are just not a
big part of my skill set. I do speak American English, British
English, Australian English and a little New Zealand
English... :-) I do also speak a little dog, cat and horse.</DIV>
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<DIV>Dang! I'm getting burned out on daily raining... Crops are
all over the place in quality and some fields are still not
planted and still standing water. One problem with a really
wet spring here is that if the ground stays too wet too long
the corn will not put down many deep roots then if it suddenly
turns very dry it doesn't have a root system deep enough to
get good moisture. If that happens the guys that use
irrigation here may benefit from its use.</DIV>
<DIV>It's been "interesting" with these everyday rains going
past the local Whitecastle joint in a down pour of rain and
seeing their sprinkler system running. It must be under
"corporate control".<BR>
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AM James Peck <<A href="mailto:jamesgpeck@hotmail.com">jamesgpeck@hotmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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am a fan of the Lonesome Dove series, both the books and the
miniseries, and even have been to one of the filming sites.
One main character is Buffalo Hump. Maybe we can get author
Larry McMurtry to rename him.<BR>
<BR>
<A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Hump">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Hump</A><BR>
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The book 'War Of a Thousand Deserts" gives the Comanches
credit for discombobulating Mexico enough for the US to win
the 1846 war.<BR>
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<A href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300158373/war-thousand-deserts">https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300158373/war-thousand-deserts</A><BR>
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[James Peck] I was on a work related trip to a location along
the old Erie Railroad right of way in western New York about
10 years ago and heard a man rant about the shortcomings of
English speakers. He was upset that Beau Fleur had become
Buffalo. This source says that is fake info.<BR>
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<A href="https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100616152325AAZECYp">https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100616152325AAZECYp</A><BR>
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[Dean VP Snohomish, WA 98290] I'm sure "Buffalo Bill might
disagree with this. \uD83D\uDE0A<BR>
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[<A href="mailto:szabelski@wildblue.net">szabelski@wildblue.net</A> The
correct terminology is “BISON”. Bison are members of the
bovine group “BUFFALO”. Bison are native to North and South
America. Buffalo are native to Africa and Asia ( i.e.: Water
Buffalo, etc).<BR>
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[James Peck] I was in a place where the TV was playing
"Highway Through Hell" a few days ago. They were towing and
removing vehicles and big loads on the Alaskan Highway. When
they drove by a herd of what my first instinct would be to
call "Buffalo", the Canadian accented truckers called them
"Bison".<BR>
<BR>
<A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison</A><BR>
<BR>
The show had some WW2 shots of tracked tractors pulling pan
scrapers in the building of the highway.<BR>
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<A href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Thru_Hell">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Thru_Hell</A><BR>
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[Ralph] <snip>The bison herd are being fed a hay bale
or two fairly regularly as the grass can't keep up with them.
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