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Weather in the Texas Hill Country?
23 June 2017, 18:44
Bill/OregonWeather in the Texas Hill Country?
I know you have your share of spring and summer thunderstorms and the occasional tornado. Overall, what are the seasons like in the Hill Country, especially the winters?
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23 June 2017, 18:50
KenscoYou wouldn't like it. Better stay where you are. The Hill Country isn't known for tornados, floods yeah, tornados, no. Boring, boring, boring. Better stay where you are.......but you can come to visit.
23 June 2017, 23:37
Bill/OregonReminds me of an Oregon governor who famously invited Californians to "please visit Oregon but for heaven's sake don't stay."
There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
– John Green, author
24 June 2017, 08:29
NormanConquestBill,we do have an occasional tornado but not like north Texas. We get our heavy rains in May,usually around Memorial Day.Other than that usually dry but humid,today we hit 100 deg.This last winter we did not have one,great for the peach crop but gonna be hell on more bugs. I agree with Kensco in general but you are an exception.There are way too many people moving in here,but you can't hardly blame them as this is as close to Paradise as you can get.With my 3 sons I felt that they should see everywhere else after having grown up here to get perspective.They all live here,directly over the center of the earth.
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24 June 2017, 18:45
LawdogBill:
Go to Weather Underground or do a search on Llano, Texas Weather History. Llano is a beautiful little town that is about as Hill Country as it gets. Or pick the town closest to the area you are interested in. And do the search. You will get detailed data for any day of the year.
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Mark Twain
29 June 2017, 03:45
CrazyhorseconsultingOver most of Texas, it is a case of "If You Don't Like The Weather, Give It An Hour Or Two".
Last Friday, June 23rd. I was about 40 miles south of Olney outside of a small community named Murray to check on some cattle my boss has on a grazing lease down there.
I was there at about 3 p.m. and the pick up I was in has one of those thermometers on the rear view mirror.
At the gate going into the place, it read 104. At one point while in the pasture, which is really heavily brushed, the thermometer read 110. It was 106 by the time I got back out the front gate. This was all up in north Texas.
Even the rocks don't last forever.
06 July 2017, 10:49
BoxheadWe live a bit outside of Boerne and enjoy most of the weather. That said, as I type, we are at our place in far north Idaho for the summer...
17 July 2017, 06:26
GatogordoIt just ocurred to me that if you move to New Mexico, then you're going to have a helluva hard time finding some good Q. Think about it......
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17 July 2017, 08:54
NormanConquestYou got a point there Gato. Most eat to live but in Tx. Q. is in the mix we live to eat.(you'll love it Bill).
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17 July 2017, 10:04
Big Wonderful WyomingYes but the quality of Mexican food will be increased 1000 fold.
I like the Hill Country, especially the bits that are not near San Antonio, Waco and Austin.
I bet Kerrville is an absolute madhouse with tourist during the long weekends. I did 6 months in 2014 in San Marcos, it's just a through fare for the big cities and will be part of it some day. If it was me, I'd live out on the West end of the Hill Country.
17 July 2017, 23:43
Gatogordoquote:
Yes but the quality of Mexican food will be increased 1000 fold.
Not really, there's a reason it is called "Tex-Mex". we invented it.
Although I will admit the NM versions of Mexican food are good eating.
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18 July 2017, 05:53
Big Wonderful WyomingNo Sir!
Some people in Texas use cilantro in their Mexican food.
In all but Santa Fe this is a reason for hanging someone.
Green chiles and blue corn make for a superior product.
My buddy retired and moved to Wimberley in early 2000's . He said it got so hot the ground pulled away from the fence posts and they almost fell over. 40 years a computer geek b4 PC's and the net. I visited in 2006 on my Tulsa to San Antonio trip.
18 July 2017, 06:39
Gatogordoquote:
Some people in Texas use cilantro in their Mexican food.
Cilantro has been a noted ingredient of REAL Mexican food for over 400 years......
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18 July 2017, 09:30
Big Wonderful Wyoming400 years of bad Mexican food in Texas and California.
Gotta get your chile fix brother! It is the only way to true salvation.
Big Jim is my personal favorite breed of Hatch chile.
18 July 2017, 19:09
Gatogordoquote:
400 years of bad Mexican food in Texas and California.
You forgot to mention Mexico!
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18 July 2017, 19:21
Gatogordoquote:
Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
400 years of bad Mexican food in Texas and California.
Gotta get your chile fix brother! It is the only way to true salvation.
Big Jim is my personal favorite breed of Hatch chile.
You forgot to mention Mexico! You can thank Saeed's ancestors for the use of cilantro in Mexican cooking.
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Most of the spices, however, originated in the East, and the combination of these spices and indigenous herbs and chiles became a foundation for flavoring characteristic Mexican dishes. Many of the ingredients generally thought of as Mexican were brought to the New World from elsewhere, and it is difficult to imagine modern Mexican cuisine without cilantro, the herb brought by the Spaniards that gives us coriander; or cumin, a spice that originated in the Eastern Mediterranean region.
When we look at Mexican cookbooks through the ages, especially the historical ones lovingly reproduced by Mexico's National Counsel for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) it is evident that the Mexican use of these onetime exotic spices began during the Colonial period. The 1780 cookbook of Fray Geronimo de San Pelayo remains one of my favorites, and his recipe for torta de arroz, or baked rice and picadillo, is well flavored with both herbs, such as parsley and mint, and a variety of fragrant spices, including saffron, cumin and ginger.
Besides that you probably need to eat more of it......
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The book of The Arabian nights tells a tale of a merchant who had been childless for 40 years and but was cured by a concoction that included coriander. That book is over 1000 years old so the history of coriander as an aphrodisiac dates back far into history. Cilantro was also know to be used as an "appetite" stimulant.
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19 July 2017, 08:26
NormanConquestFor what it's worth,on the news today they warned against ingestion of cilantro,snow peas,+ another here in Central Tx.Several cases of intestinal problems leading to projectile diahareea,etc. Have not heard a update as yet.
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19 July 2017, 20:41
GatogordoBWW:
I take it that you don't like cilantro. I don't think salsa without cilantro in it tastes like salsa. No cilantro, yuck.
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19 July 2017, 20:47
GatogordoCaused by cyclospora, thus cyclosporaisis, and causes bad diarhea.
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Foodborne outbreaks of cyclosporiasis have been reported in the United States since the mid-1990s and have been linked to various types of imported fresh produce, including raspberries, basil, snow peas, mesclun lettuce, and cilantro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclospora_cayetanensis
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20 July 2017, 06:18
KenscoI am giving up snow peas.
23 July 2017, 12:59
Big Wonderful Wyomingquote:
Originally posted by Gatogordo:
BWW:
I take it that you don't like cilantro. I don't think salsa without cilantro in it tastes like salsa. No cilantro, yuck.
Yes Sir,
Not sure if allergic or what, but it taste like soap. Rasberries though, I'd pretty much gut someone to get good ones.
23 July 2017, 14:11
NormanConquestOne has to have cilantro to make salsa. I grow all my own vegys + can my own salsa. I also USED to enter the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce cook off.After getting second place 5 years in a row to a Canadian who used canned goods against my organic everything in my salsa,I blew a gasket. Fuck em was my new mantra.BTW,I still make a batch every year in the fall;putting up the tomatoes in the freezer until "cannin time".For those of you who have no knowledge of this it is the time of year when we all put up goods for the year.Times have changed for most but I am still old school.work my own garden + can my own.
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23 July 2017, 18:04
Bill/OregonI usually grow some cilantro in the garden. Just brushing up against it makes me drool for a burrito. It is key to decent guacamole, too.
There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
– John Green, author
26 July 2017, 09:53
Gatogordo
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26 July 2017, 16:48
Big Wonderful WyomingWe had five months over 100 in the Mojave Desert of California. And 3 of those had temps over 105.
I don't think Texas is as hot as California or Florida. But at least in California you get a break. The Mojave and Sonoran deserts are the hottest place in America.
Give me the South West and no humidity even if it is hot enough to bust a thermometer.
To me Florida is the most miserable, as October should be nice and it is generally just 88 with 100% humidity. I thought coastal Texas had the same shit Florida weather though just for not as long.
27 July 2017, 09:25
NormanConquestMy preacher buddy is coming up on Saturday with his 2 boys + his disc set up on a propane platform to do chicken fajitas W/ corn tortillas + guacamole. I'll be doing my world famous beans + a good time will be had by all.Any of ya'll in the neighborhood feel free to stop on by.
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