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That ol’ time honored saying of “If you don’t like the weather here in Texas, just wait ‘til tomorrow”, has certainly been true the past few weeks. It’s as if Winter & Spring cannot come to a conclusion as to which one might be in charge. All good things, in time, will come. We know a lot of people that pray for patience, but most of them want it right now!!

There were a good number of folks from this area over in Goldthwaite Monday at their annual Pecan Field Day. I didn’t get a printed program as it was on up in the morning when I registered, having to load, haul, & deliver our 4-wheeler over to Nick’s at Polaris for it’s annual service & tune-up. I visited some with Dr. Larry Stein, Extension Horticulturist, Uvalde & Bill Ree, Extension Entomologist, College Station. Both of them gave illustrated presentations representative of their respective areas of expertise and information for the producers present at the meeting. The audience was also fairly active during discussion of management problems & various method & material questions pertaining to p rograms for the orchard & bottoms. I visited briefly with the Oliver boys as they attended the day’s activities, as well as Basil Savage, who brought some Equipment down to exhibit from his Pecan equipment plant up in Madill. Besides our discussion on some pecan bottom rescue & renovation, he happened to add that Mayor, Buddy Adams walked away with their fishing contest at the spring Pecan meeting at Madill. I never knew the Mayor to really care much for fishing.

If you happened to have missed seeing any notice of the Goldthwaite field day, do not despair as our San Saba Pecan Grower’s Assn. & the County Extension office have our field day set for the 1st Monday of May. That should be about a day prior to Cinco de Mayo. I’m not sure as to all aspects of the day-long program and equipment show, but it will be thorough. I’m looking forward to getting to visit with some of the program participants & catch up with some of the new “stuff”. If you want any information, contact the County agent’s office in the Courthouse.

Most of the inter-active discussion amongst the growers present during breaks, was related to the weather & late frost or freezes. I know that some areas were predicting a possible freeze for Monday night. One sure sign that there might be a freeze that evening was the fact of Glenn Fitzgerald having all his tender garden plants covered from impending damage. At his writing, it’s a bit too early to assess any damage to plants & young, tender buds & shoots, but Lady Z registered a low of 35 at our house, Daddy’s thermometer showed 34 at 7:30 Tues. a.m., and Jr. Goode reported a flat 40 degrees from his place up between Fairview & China Creek. The Bank “time & temperature” man told me it was 32 at 7:20. Anyhow, we’ll be seeing if there might have been any cooler weather down in the low spots the next few days. Hopefully, this was our “Easter spell” & we can get on with planting (or replanting) the rest of the garden next week. I’m pretty sure that the folks out at Abby’s Plants on the Lometa Hwy., The Rose Shop or the feed stores, will be glad to help you with some more to transplant. We still have plenty time left to get our Okra seed shucked for last season’s pods, though, as we’re still at least 3 weeks off from the ground getting that warm. In the mean time, the Mayor & yrs. truly will be finding plenty to keep ourselves occupied out around———————Harkeyville!!!