Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[RollingAcres]

This is why I have gentle sheep. A mean ram won’t work here. She is enamored with the Sheep. She starts yelling Baa Baa Baa before she even gets here and heads straight to the Sheep lot. While most of them move out of her way, I have 2 ewes that love attention and will stand for her to love on them.

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She is so adorable!

 

[RollingAcres]

I don't think catfish counts as seafood.

It's SEEfood Bruce.

Just hope the baggage doesn't get "lost" in transit

Sure hope not!

 

[Baymule]

She is so adorable!

Thank you! She loves all the animals and wants to be outside with them. She especially loves the sheep and will climb to the top of a cow panel, trying to get in the pen with them.

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm starting to wonder how our pasture is going to do. We had about 1/2" yesterday but that's the first in about two weeks.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Our grass is starting to slow down growth with the soil drying out, but better chances of showers the next couple of days. There is still deep moisture, but surface is drying....the crops are stunted that is growing in the fields around us.

 

[greybeard]

I'm starting to wonder how our pasture is going to do. We had about 1/2" yesterday but that's the first in about two weeks.

It's not too bad yet..'officially'but the old adage here is "we're never more than 2 weeks away from drought".
The problem with the drought monitor and other 'official maps' is they consider the short term drought conditions ("S" designation) as 'less than 6 months duration". Might be true regarding raw data collection, but In the real world, 5 months and 29 days can be devastating.

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

 

[Bruce]

That's for sure. Even a month with no rain will kill off a lot of vegetation.

 

[Baymule]

We had 1/8 2 days ago and before that, we had 1/8 on May 3.

 

[farmerjan]

I have never lived in an "arid" climate. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be "2 weeks away from a drought" as you put it GB. When we go more than 10 days without rain, or snow, or moisture in some form, it is significant here. I think that we average 3-4 inches a month for the year, something like 35-40 inches a year on average. Now, with the latest ridiculous weather patterns, we have seen some really crazy swings. Just north of me, say 50-75 miles, in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley, there are farmers that have not been able to get on their fields and I know of a couple that have not even planted the first kernel of corn. Normally it is in the ground late April-early May. And the ones that do double cropping will take off something like rye or barley and get it planted by mid June. The latest rainfall for the year up there to the first of June is like 27 inches when the normal is like 15. It's been crazy. We started out dry and not hardly any snow all winter, now we are way over and can barely find 5 days to get anything dry enough to make hay.

They are calling for a few scattered showers this eve but it is sunny so far; then sun through Sunday but temps are going to climb into the 90's by late week. Been a nice 60-75 the last few days. We will be cutting hay either this afternoon or tomorrow.

 

[greybeard]

I don't currently live in an arid area.
"Cleveland, Texas, gets 54 inches of rain per year. The US average is 39."

Rainfall this year in my part of East Tx hs been good but spotty. Some places have gotten plenty, others have gotten hardly any..mine being the latter but 40 miles in either direction they have gotten x2 as much as I have.
It's not how much we get...it's when. We get most of our rain in winter and early spring, which doesn't do any good in summer...July-Oct,
tropical storms being the outlier.

I have lived in an arid area, and hope to again soon. My kind of country: