Next 7days has 103 as the coolest

Nice Dave! We ain’t even in August yet

Add to, the Saharan dust in the air.

Frustrating...I'm logged in, try to post a rather long run of the day narrative...and told I'm not logged in.

My evaporation has really jumped in the last few days. Hot and dry.

Need a minor tropical storm.

If so, good news for the fish in the Atlantic Ocean. Dust fertilizes.

Big pond's dropping like a rock, and now I'm usually in by noon. Summer's here.

Hot and dry here too. One pond is down 31 inches, the other about 16 inches.

It's crazy guys!

Out welding on my pier today...... nice

Hoping the AC gets fixed before the temps heat up again. I'm not in Texas, but it's hot enough! I feel for you poor suckers.

Cool and rainy here today with high of 74 degrees. The surface temp at the pond has dropped to 82 degrees, a few nights ago it was sitting at 90 degrees.

This weeks projected highs of 107 is the highest I can remember it ever being here in Shreveport and at the E. Texas farm. ZEP, crazy is right on.

Tracy, It's 66 here. Wait, I had the thermometer upside down!! Must be the heat. I better get in the shade.

That's how it was for us yesterday. A rain cooled 75 until the sun came out then it got to 94 with a heat index of 105.

FL checking in! temp in the high 90`s and the humidy just as high! we have been getting shower every other day in the after noon to help keep the pond levels up thank goodness

It is suppose to get in the upper 40's here tonight. Yanked the AC out of the windows!

You can laugh at me come February and March when I am stuck in the slop.

I'm watching my pond close. Surface temp had dropped to the mid 80s with the recent rain and cloud cover, but the weather's been in the mid-upper 90s and the rain chances are nill for at least another week. Boat is sitting ready in case I need to stir some water.

D/FW will be setting records the rest of the week. Average of 106.

That is dangerous hot! Be careful!

it's so hot i am thinking about putting this sign up:

107 to 108 today.

Well, Jesus' first recorded miracle wasn't turning wine into water...

Ice fishing is just around the corner guys! Yeah, I don't believe it either.

What time does the bar open!!

I just got back from shooting surface temps. Big pond was at 94.1, and the little hatchery pond was 92.9.

Water adjacent to the docks was at least 2-3 degrees cooler. Temps shot through gaps in primrose and other plants was the same 2-3 degrees cooler.

Good chance that I will lose everything in my smaller pond. It’s about 1/4 acre and as of a week ago, was about 2 to 3 ft low. Probably around 4 ft deep in the middle due to the lack of rains. No chance of rain in the near future. It’s happened once before; about 20 years ago. My spring fed creek is now totally dry. If it does go, I’ll get my tractor and clean it out. Someday it will rain and I’ll restock.

May break 110 this weekend!!!! Ugh

That is awful, on so many levels.

Up here there would be a lot of deaths as many of us don't have an easy way to escape the heat. Many older folks don't even have window air conditioning. When the water is 95 in the ponds, you cannot even jump in to cool off!

I cannot imagine if the power were to go out at the same time for you guys. I pray that there are no grid troubles during this time.

Got the generator ready in case of brown out
Was out welding on a gate and it was 102, that was warmish, 110 that’s hot!

Heading up to the panhandle today from DFW. Going through Vernon which was 109 yesterday and will the same today. Making sure I pack an ice chest so that if I breakdown I’ll be prepared.

The City of Dallas is again giving away fans to people who don't have/can't afford AC.

I want to go see my place but can't think of any reason to go there(70 miles away). By 10 or 11 I would be stuck inside watching TV or using my IPAD. Not worth it.

In 3 or 4 days, it will drop into the upper 90's for a couple of days. I guess I'll go then and take a look.

Very similar situation to mine, Dave. We live 65 miles from BOW, though are getting a trailer moved on site soon.

I fear my pond may go dry with high temps wind and no rainfall to be had.

Surface water temp was 96.9 this afternoon. It's getting a tad warm.

I hope no Fried fish show up at my place any time soon! That's hot Al!

Yesterday surface temp at 4pm was 95. Air was 101 heat index hit 118. You can almost see the water dropping in the pond.Over 2 foot low now. Record low a couple years ago was a little over 3 foot down. Going to be a tough August!!! Unless we get a tropical storm!! Wood duck sitting in the pond and not feeding or moving much. I believe she was just trying to stay cool.

Tracy, I would have never thought we'd have a complete ice over and water temps that high in the same year.

If we keep dropping, I may be looking at an electroshocking this fall. Having pinched water may be the perfect time to get as many unwanted LMB out of the pond as possible.

Surface temp at 8pm, near dusk, was 85. But that was close to the dock in an area that gets afternoon shade. Still, encouraging. Fish continue eating feed pretty well, though not quite as vigorous as six weeks ago.

Down two feet from full pool, lowest I've seen. Still getting some flow from small creek.

Just realized. I haven't seen a mosquito, tick or chigger.

Dave - If you are missing those critters, you can come visit my place. We have deer flies too:)

Dave the ticks were bad just a couple of weeks ago. Not sure why no ticks on me lately other than I been trying to stay out of the stuff around the pond that support a tick population. I always herd if you have deer then you will have ticks. And fire is the only way to get rid of them.

Al, I spoke to Walt @ Overton's awhile back when he delivered some Northern lmb. We fin clipped the Northern's and I told him I planned on a e shock this fall. I am considering Oct. This is the first year of an lmb spawn and so I want to see what they are in Oct along with some recommendations on whether to remove some of these newbies or let them be this year. I have had three stockings of Florida's, 1 batch of Camelot Bells, 1 batch of Texas Lonestar Legacy's and 1 batch of Florida's from Tyler Fish farms where Todd got them for me. I need to know whether to remove some of the males and or poor performing lmb. Have you ever had an e shock in the fall? I would suspect the fish might be a little lower on the Wr than they would be in a spring shock. all my spring shocks have shown the lmb to be in the 120's + or -.

We used to be loaded with ticks, chiggers, tarantulas, etc. about 15 years ago we had a 4 year drought that got rid of everything but grass burs. Then the fire ants arrived. We used we used to be loaded with rattlesnakes. I never considered them a problem and didn’t bother them. The the pigs arrived and I’ve run out of snakes of all kind. I liked the snakes better. An interesting thing is that, for the first time in the 30+ years that I’ve owned the place, I’m seeing jack rabbits.

Fire wont get rid of ticks. I burn yearly and havent noticed a difference between me andthe neighbor who doesnt burn.

Ticks are not fire proof. If they are exposed to fire, they die. if the local tick population is not exposed to the burns then they do not die.

https://www.qdma.com/burning-questions-can-fire-reduce-tick-abundance/

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