Rain

The road we took last night
where we drove through the water
CLOSED

As well as three others we tried this morning.
It made getting back and forth between horse-locations
a bit more challenging than usual.

After a rather long night of keeping up with the incoming water in the basement, in the grand scheme of things, we don't have it all that bad. It does give me a new appreciation for the amount of work happening in basements locally and across the nation after the massive rainfall amounts we've been seeing lately, though.

And on the bright side,
I don't think I've ever seen
quite so much of the basement floor -
nor seen it quite so shiny!

Belly rubs are always welcome!

The rest of the ponies at the farm got their shots this morning. (Late, I know, but for whatever reason finding 6 doses of 4-way in one spot was a problem. Next year I'm just going to order it first thing and pay the shipping.) Sunny and Amyra & Rufus already had theirs a while back, but the other six don't get the West-Nile combo, so...

Feeding the cats at the farm this a.m. - there are, at last count, 19 of them, I think. None of which are reproduction-capable, thank goodness! All friendly, too - in fact it's a good idea to check the back of the truck and roll up the windows, as a couple of them have tried to go home with us more than once.

Flooding, wire cuts & rain

So much for plans to ride today - at least this a.m. It's pouring steadily out there.

We're on farm watch again this weekend where Rufus lives, but no escapees there last night. The same, unfortunately, could not be said Sunny's crew.

See this innocent face? It was not on the right side of the fence.

And it was attached to this.

Not as bad as it looks - it was clean and draining, and with very little swelling. The storm the night before dumped nearly 5 inches of rain, and there was apparently some hellacious thunder and lightening rolling through along with it. The top strand of fence was on one side of the pasture Thunder was out in, and it looks as if he cut himself on a wire splice running into and over it. The rest of them didn't have a scratch.

We cleaned him up and applied some salve, and we'll flush it again and probably give him a shot of penicillin when we go out this morning.


I didn't get a good picture of it in the horse-through-the-fence excitement, but there was a crop duster working a field to the west, and his turning around pattern was RIGHT over the house and the field the horses were out in. He was close and low enough to skim the tops of the trees.

The horses completely ignored him. Sheesh!

So what does over 5 inches of rain look like? Well, in addition to all of the flash flood warnings we're seeing, here's the road we usually take south to where Rufus lives...

This is the creek we cross on the main road - it looks like spring snow melt season again.


And it was stacking up in the southwest again last night as we drove home.
(The weather man just said we had another 1+ inches overnight - good weather for ducks! Speaking of which, more duck pictures later, he's growing like crazy.

SD water features

This much snow...2/21/10
Has to go somewhere.

Warmer weather means it's melting. That's the good news portion of the programming. The week of rain we've had that's helped it go? That's the bad news.

We took a drive yesterday afternoon, checked on Rufus and meandered around the countryside at bit after.


In some spots it's a fairly normals spring. A bit wet, but some spots there's always water during melt. In others...

They posted a warning on the high road to the farm we take when the snow blows in badly. It passes through a marsh area just before the next crossroad west, and the water's up just a touch.

Farther down the blacktop...Enemy Creek - the runoff culverts aren't big enough this year.

Driving back we angled across on the back roads

with a detour here or there.

Water at the farm is up, too. The driveway remains passable for now, although there's a very nice pond forming at the base of the drive.

G cut in some drainage. They've never needed a culvert, but this year would be one to have one.

Up on the hill, this little rivlet runs right down through the trees...

And straight through the bottom of the horse lot.

I did some trenching Friday afternoon, and so far it's draining nicely. The bottom is sandy, and it's only a bit over ankle deep...

Now that it has somewhere to run to.


'Myra says...

"Make it stop raining now, 'kay?"