Farmerjan's journal - Weather

[Mini Horses]

get some rain FOR A CHANGE on Sun/Mon/Tues.... Can I go hide somewhere?

Don't come this way -- we are getting it, too! The downpours leaving you are coming this way --- we got the ones from NC & south that came thru last night. Right now, a sprinkly break, waiting for those that left you to arrive & get on out of here!

I agree -- wettest I can remember, consistently, for years. And this Spring wasn't much better -- super wet then, too.

Hope your cow & calves get better. The temps up & down aren't helping any of this. 27 yesterday @6AM & 64 this morning I'm sue you all have the roller coaster going on there as well.

Do you have any livestock at the house area where you live, or all they all off site? Probably off site -- why would it be easy

 

[Mini Horses]

it's going to be a snow maker.

I want sunshine!! Nothing wet!!!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

It has been absolutely pouring here today.
It is horrible.

 

[farmerjan]

Don't come this way -- we are getting it, too! The downpours leaving you are coming this way --- we got the ones from NC & south that came thru last night. Right now, a sprinkly break, waiting for those that left you to arrive & get on out of here!

I agree -- wettest I can remember, consistently, for years. And this Spring wasn't much better -- super wet then, too.

Hope your cow & calves get better. The temps up & down aren't helping any of this. 27 yesterday @6AM & 64 this morning I'm sue you all have the roller coaster going on there as well.

Do you have any livestock at the house area where you live, or all they all off site? Probably off site -- why would it be easy

Yep, make it easy.... all off site. One calf is in the pasture next door, but no handling facilities. Got it caught up the other day and gave a shot. It was laying next to the cow in the sun on Wed and looked okay so I left it alone. I am not sure she has much milk this time around. Have had a couple not come in with the production they really ought to. The one locked in w/ the cow is about 5 miles away. That is where all my nurse cows are and such. No electricity, so have to do stuff in the daylight or by 12 v attached to car battery.
It was 26 yesterday, only 41 this morning and still only 47 now. Not gonna get much warmer I don't think. Rain has let up some, hoping it will stop soon. Gotta take the 4wd ranger up there, will never get around in the 2wd.
Lord love a duck.... it's been something.

 

[Mike CHS]

I guess what you folks are getting is what came through here yesterday and we had almost 3 1/2".

 

[farmerjan]

Yes, @Mike CHS , we are getting what you got first. Not wishing anything bad on you..... but I am glad it left all that with you because it still left me another 1.4 " last night and today. There is water just sitting in "ponds" in low depressions in fields, that there was never any water before. The ground is just saturated beyond anything I have ever seen. It finally was moving out, we could see the edge to the west this evening and blue skies and red at the sunset. Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and in the 50's... I wouldn't mind some wind at this point to just get the surface a little dry.

The calf in with the cow looked a little better, so I opted to leave them in this evening. Since I had given him shots yesterday, I will wait for the morning, give him a shot of the Baytril, and then turn them out. Got another one in with a little cough, and saw 2 more that were coughing a bit. Will try to get the other 2 in but it might take a day or two to get them all in where I want. At least this one had perkier looking eyes tonight and was up and in the feeder with his mother. I will do the one I got in with him and let them both out in the morning. Then will take a ride up through the pasture next to me to see if I can see the one I treated the other day and it's momma. Only got up to 49 today, and the ground is so wet I figured one more night in wouldn't hurt. She wants out but she got some grain tonight and has hay so they will be fine til tomorrow.
The forecast is calling for more to come in, p cloudy on Sun, then clouds and rain through tues...

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Raining in florida

 

[Latestarter]

My rain gauge can NOT be trusted. It tried to tell me I got 1.25" of rain. I got THREE TIMES that! I had a river running down through the carport and another 3' away running down the back pathway. Streams across the pastures which is normal with heavy rain, but the creek was up out of its banks. And it poured here for hours straight, with thunder and lightning to keep things interesting. Supposed to be getting more off & on showers and T storms starting tomorrow for 3 days.

 

[Rammy]

It could be worse. It could be snow.

 

[greybeard]

What I get, ya'll are gonna get as it moves E-NE. Beginning Sat Night-Sunday morning. Same old thing that's been happening...system moves East, sucks up Gulf moisture into North Texas, Okla, and Arkansas, the system moves on E and NE and carries the Gulf Moisture with it.
You're welcome.