we've been blessed with a little rain

[copperhead46]

Just wanted to show some of our rain, some of you might have seen our little area on the national news over the week-end, seems as though we got ourselves a down pour, again. Last year we had a "300 year" flood, according to the USDA, well, we've done it again!!! We had 11 inches of rain in 14 hours, with 5 inches coming in one hour. This is my back pasture and the nice little creek that I have running alongside the pasture.

a couple of hours later, calves on the wrong side of the water



My barn and lots are literally "knee deep" in mud, oh, the joys of farm life :banana02:

[B Adams]

Wow that was some rain. Feast or famine, wouldn't it be nice for it to all work out and you get just enough when you need it and not to much when you don't. I feel your pain we have a pasture on the river and have to watch when north of us gets lots of rain and the river starts getting to high we have to go push the cattle up to high ground or backwater cuts our place into or worse. Thanks to the internet we can watch the progress of the river rising and move our cattle out ahead of time. I hate swimming cattle out.

B Adams

[basempires]

The dogs seem to take everything in stride, lol.

[Callieslamb]

Hope you dry out soon! Glad it was warm enough for you to wear shorts rather than a wet suit!

[fordson major]

we had the "too much rain" last year as well, one reason i always wish everyone "enough!" (rain, sun ,heat)

[francismilker]

I feel really blessed to have been "flooded" this past weekend with 4.1" total. The new stock pond is beginning to finally seal up and fill and the ground is good and saturated pretty far down. This should give us a good quality hay cutting and get the grass in overdrive once the sun comes out for a few days. After the winter around here with lower than normal rainfall, the ponds and pastures all were beginning to look like August-September. We weren't able to get any winter grasses or early Spring greenery due to the dry conditions. But now, here goes the growing season!

[copperhead46]

Jamie, I was wondering if you got any of this, I know you all really needed it, bad!! I'm hoping that we will slack off for a while, there will be lots of grass and hay up here, for sure. I had just moved my cows to their summer pasture a couple of weeks ago, and had to go get them because the creek that runs over there came down like a tidal wave, took out 3 sides of the fence, so I guess I'll have my cows here again this summer. I usually move them so that I can bale my pasture, but same thing happened last year and we weren't able to get the fences back up untill fall, and now they are out again. Thats the price we pay for having that glorious, live running water, on the place. The only good thing is that the water goes down very quickly, we've only got about 6 inches of dirt on top of creek gravel.
P.J.