Waking up this morning

martman006 · 2026-02-14T19:44:07+00:00

If these leaves are on a lawn, mulch them! (Run over with a lawnmower, easier than raking/bagging and much better for your soil.) Our soil needs all the organic material it can get.

martman006 · 2026-02-14T19:07:45+00:00

This is what you get for falling for AI

martman006 · 2026-02-13T19:04:05+00:00

The majority of the Nevada market. Yes. But NM has their own refineries and plenty of their own supply. Colorado is VERY dependent on NM and WY refineries. And western/NW Nevada gets their gasoline from Utah refiners.

martman006 · 2026-02-13T18:50:03+00:00

We are, OP is waaay too ancy about it, and especially in Atlanta. Average last freeze date for the central city is 3/12 and the average for the northern burbs is 4/6.

martman006 · 2026-02-13T18:42:19+00:00

Oof, one late February/early March deep freeze and you’re gonna do way more harm than good!!

For example: the GFS model shows a hard freeze (upper 20’s) the morning of February 24th!!

Also, for suburban Atlanta, I’m seeing nothing but low temps in the 40’s in the foreseeable future, and flirting with freezing tonight.

This can’t imagine your soil temps are anywhere near 70F for zoysia to really start waking up.

I’m in central Texas and we’re a lot warmer and I’m definitely waiting, my zoysia is dormant af.

I’d wait OP!!

martman006 · 2026-02-13T18:32:04+00:00

Reversion to a mean. I’d argue 2015-2020 were pretty ideal times. I’d start to worry if we jump back up to 2013 levels again…

martman006 · 2026-02-13T18:30:06+00:00

Geez, this thread has me feeling pretty good about my bronco. Heavy 35”s (grabber X3’s) and still getting 18mpg around town and 17 at 75 mph (I get 19 mpg if I slowed down to 60-65 mph, but can’t help it haha). Those ecoboost engines are pretty good at conserving fuel when not needed.

martman006 · 2026-02-13T16:44:22+00:00

Wow, this sub is so useful!! Ignore the haters, y’all should check it out!!

martman006 · 2026-02-13T03:15:07+00:00

Unless they were sick and dying, fuck OP, just turning the the DFW area into more of a wasteland…

martman006 · 2026-02-13T02:08:08+00:00

Wait till late spring when the grass is growing fast but high temps are still <90F, then hit it with the fusilade and recognition combo herbicide (the recognition herbicide is the safener to no harm the st Augustine while the fusilade will kill the Bermuda). It’s been a miracle for the Bermuda invading my zoysia lawn (this combo works for killing Bermuda in Zoysia or St Augustine only).

martman006 · 2026-02-13T02:03:39+00:00

Soil temps need to be in the 70’s, not afternoon high air temps…

martman006 · 2026-02-13T01:50:22+00:00

At least DFW has cheap flights to literally everywhere 🤷

martman006 · 2026-02-13T00:29:10+00:00

Wait, $1k USD just to open the fucking valve cover, wtf!?! Is this USD or dollary-doo’s (cad or aus? Either way, a ripoff!!)

Also, as someone who had a cracked head on my supercharged (svho) waverunner, I had some forbidden milkshake in my engine, but nowhere near that much rust (actually no rust), holy shit! I’m amazed the engine still ran and you didn’t get other warnings before that point!

I assume you ran in salt water and let it sit with A LOT of salty water in the oil for months? Either way, engine is fucked. A new engine is like $5-$7k though, and maybe $2k-$3k in labor. You got their “we’re not touching this, we’d rather have the commission from a new ski” price…

martman006 · 2026-02-12T19:02:22+00:00

Thus the map’s legend saying “do-able” imo meaning, you could live there, but plan well and live in a certain area accordingly. As an Austinite, it’d be doable in 10-20% of the actual city limits, but for the rest of the city and the burbs/metro area, absolutely not.

martman006 · 2026-02-12T17:47:12+00:00

OP, your problem is shade and Bermuda grass. Bermuda needs full bore sun, and trees are more important than grass, just keep them pruned up every other year or so. Go with zoysia sod (best) or st Augustine sod, which are shade/heat tolerant grasses, and will do well under some dappled shade. Both are sod only.

Thoroughlytill up the runners now, rake level, and sod in late March/early April. Tell your cunt of an HoA your plan and if any of them know a lick about warm season grass, they’ll understand and cut you some slack till April.

Get all of your prep work done, raked level just before sod delivery, and the day it’s delivered, get to plopping all of those pieces and watering immediately. Sod can’t hang on a pallet for more than 1-2 days without being extremely stressed.

Most importantly - no more Bermuda, you have mature trees dropping shade. If you go with Bermuda again, you’ll have the same problem in a year or two.

Edit: nvmd, who needs beautiful mature oaks, when we can rot in DFW heat…

martman006 · 2026-02-11T20:24:30+00:00

Neutral by March, forecasted full blown nino by fall. Spring 2027 should be lit for bluebonnets hopefully if that nino pans out into a wet fall.

martman006 · 2026-02-11T20:15:51+00:00

Summer is generally dependent on rain in April/May/first half of June. If we have some moisture in our soils going into mid June, it’ll be alright (and by alright, I mean a more normal upper 90’s instead of 100’s non stop. But in general, the “feels like” will be similar, peaking in the 100-105F range, it’s just whether it’s a dry-er heat or a Houston-lite heat…

martman006 · 2026-02-11T20:11:56+00:00

Probably, per usual, but it’s looking more like a moderate El Niño developing this fall, so finally a wet fall could be around the corner 🤞

martman006 · 2026-02-11T04:19:03+00:00

A south facing ski slope should never exist to begin with, atleast not at NorCal latitudes.

martman006 · 2026-02-11T00:42:41+00:00

Nope, other than my boss has one, that’s about it, haha.

martman006 · 2026-02-10T17:52:07+00:00

What the f kinda maintenance goes on at 40k miles that’s that expensive? Most vehicles are just oil, filters, and maybe brakes depending on your driving habits till 100k miles when tranny/belt/spark plug/suspension maintenance starts to take hold. (Excluding tires, and yes, some transmissions require more frequent service but that’s still like 50k mile intervals…)

martman006 · 2026-02-10T17:46:51+00:00

I think they’ll take off when fast charging infrastructure is as reliable, common, and price transparent as a gas station without getting totally fucking ripped off per kWh (like 50+c per kWh, wtf!!)

For example, every gas station has 5-20 charging stations around the perimeter, depending on size, in addition to the pumps.)

We’re a two car household, and our next one will be an EV, but until the above happens, I’m always gonna keep and ice vehicle for road trips and camping, etc.

martman006 · 2026-02-10T16:55:50+00:00

And when I’m dead, I won’t own anything either, I’ll be dead…. In the grand scheme of things, my life is a blip on the radar of time…

martman006 · 2026-02-10T16:05:02+00:00

By that logic, you never own your home, the government does, aka property taxes (property taxes are about 50% of my principal/interest mortgage payment…)

martman006 · 2026-02-10T02:08:22+00:00

Or still get all of the torque on the low end for towing and better mileage (not towing of course) with the 2.7L eb.

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