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crazychicknladyIt's raining, again.
Last week we had two massive wind storms turned flash floods. Tree branches broke. Our basketball hoop bent at the base and fell over. On the second night an entire nectarine tree, one M planted over ten years ago, fell over; with S and C's help, he got it tipped back up and secured with stakes. Each day, after the storms wore themselves out, you could hear, as M put it, the symphony of the chainsaws in our neighborhood.
After a few days off, and a few near misses by other storms, we got hit again. Right after getting progressively wetter while finishing evening animal stuff, C asked me if it was a flash flood. I said, well it's not flooding yet. Less than 5 minutes later I stuck my head out to yell at him that now it was a flash flood; deep puddles were already forming everywhere. We lost power, twice, about two hours each time. As it turned out, we still had candles handy from last week's storms.
Besides the flash floods, we had two days of just steady rain.
Today I had a challenging time finding a spot for the ferrier to work, since the normal horse pens were nothing but mud. The ferrier just laughed and said this didn't count as muddy to him; where he's from it doesn't rain 6 inches in two weeks, it rains six inches a day.
Last week we had two massive wind storms turned flash floods. Tree branches broke. Our basketball hoop bent at the base and fell over. On the second night an entire nectarine tree, one M planted over ten years ago, fell over; with S and C's help, he got it tipped back up and secured with stakes. Each day, after the storms wore themselves out, you could hear, as M put it, the symphony of the chainsaws in our neighborhood.
After a few days off, and a few near misses by other storms, we got hit again. Right after getting progressively wetter while finishing evening animal stuff, C asked me if it was a flash flood. I said, well it's not flooding yet. Less than 5 minutes later I stuck my head out to yell at him that now it was a flash flood; deep puddles were already forming everywhere. We lost power, twice, about two hours each time. As it turned out, we still had candles handy from last week's storms.
Besides the flash floods, we had two days of just steady rain.
Today I had a challenging time finding a spot for the ferrier to work, since the normal horse pens were nothing but mud. The ferrier just laughed and said this didn't count as muddy to him; where he's from it doesn't rain 6 inches in two weeks, it rains six inches a day.
