Texas images from central Texas
 

here are some pics that i took from last weekend and the one before that:

sunrise at around 6:45 or so:

the Guadalupe river behind our farm:

another one of the river:

then on walking back to the house i just had to take this pic:

last one for this week, this one i took the weekend before:

AHHH spring time in the country !!! Nothing like it !!!
Eggggggggselant Pics !!!!!!

thankyuh, thanktuhverymuch, stimpy, i mean zippyt:D :beer:

(stay tuned. more to come!)

next time i go out there (maybe this weekend) i'm going to take some pictures of the right wall of the dog trot. bruce will have a field day with these tools/doodads!

here's one of a wagon that was on our property when we bought back in '84. it was almost not restorable but we managed....

Wow! Great pics - esp the early morning ones.

I think there is a ghost milling about in the "sunrise at 6:45 or so" photo. And why is the lead (the arm between the trailer and hitch since I'm sure I used the wrong word) so long on the trailer ?

The sunrise in the barn shot is an award winner if you ask me.

that's just the length we made it. not sure why (or can't remember) but you can hook it up to the jeep and get yourself one bumpy ride though! it rests there for looks now.

If it's an oxcart, the beam can be hooked to the yoke, which is way up at the front of the ox.

If you're going to hitch a team of horses to the cart, the tongue goes into a thingy in between the collars.

No, that only works with an oxbow. With horses the tongue would be attached to a triple tree. The first tree (crossbar) hooks to the tongue from the middle and each end hooks to the center of another tree. The second and third trees hook to the horse collars with traces (straps/chains) so that it pulls evenly on both sides of the collars. The purpose of the triple tree is to put an even load on each horse even though they aren't exactly side by side. A 40 mule team would use 20 triple trees. :)

For somereason I keep thinking: Everything's better with bluebonnets on its.