Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

There are two white markets with reflectors on them in the picture above that mark a culvert that goes under the road. It helps, but just can’t handle the volume of water. Road in front of my land is flooded.

Across the road from my driveway is neighbor’s culvert. It can’t handle all that water either and I can see where water flowed on top of the road as well as through the culvert.

The water is flowing down the road past my place and that road is flooded too.

I’m sure between my place and the paved road are several other places where the road is flooded. And that’s why the neighbors all drive 4 Wheel Drive trucks.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Thats a lot of water!

 

[Baymule]

I’ve felt terrible for my poor sheep and dogs. Barely a dry spot and the pens are slop. I let Cooper and his girls out on the middle field and they can go back to the pen for shelter from the hard rains. There s no shelter in the front field and the rains have come down in torrents. So ewes and lambs were stuck in their mudhole. This morning I tied a cow panel across the driveway so I could let the Anatolians in the yard. Then I opened the gate to the front field and the sheep pen gate and tied them in place so the ewes and lambs can have access to both. It’s working.

I let the Anatolians in the yard and they explored every nook and cranny , everything in the yard.

I showed them the open front shed and the hay. Sentry laid claim to it and Sentry doesn’t share. He’s all warm and cozy.

Sheba and Buford wandered the yard. Sheba finally chose a spot behind the portable building under the lean to, peeing to mark it as hers. Buford peed too. But Buford continued to wander, totally lost. He wanted back in the field with his sheep. So I opened the gate and here came Sheba too. LOL

I’ll likely let Sentry stay right where he’s at until Thursday. I have 3 more bales of pine shavings and I’ll stuff the dogs favorite shelter so they can be happy.


Y’all just can’t imagine how badly I want a real barn, with built up dirt pad, so sheep and dogs can stay DRY. I’m going to make it happen.

 

[Baymule]

Thats a lot of water!

Yeah, and I’m bored. Can you tell?
First ice and freezing cold that took me 2-3 hours twice a day to care for animals. Now it’s a monsoon. Y’all remind me of this when I’m whining about the 100+ temperatures and drought this summer.

 

[blessedfarmgirl]

I forget, what part of the state are you in?

Upshur county in East TX.

 

[Baymule]

Upshur county in East TX.

They have a good chicken swap at the fair grounds in Gilmer. I liked going to that.

 

[Weldman]

When it rains here and that's a big WHEN it rains here, what you got past few days comes at once in a gully washer down the hills, ridge and into the ravines. Catch it while you can!

 

[blessedfarmgirl]

They have a good chicken swap at the fair grounds in Gilmer. I liked going to that.

Yep! My family goes a couple times a year. It's a lot of fun and we sold 11 piglets there in September.

 

[Baymule]

Yep! My family goes a couple times a year. It's a lot of fun and we sold 11 piglets there in September.

What kind of pigs do you raise? I lived in Lindale 7 years until 2022 and I was always looking for 2-3 feeder pigs. I’m not set up for pigs here yet, but I want to raise pigs again.

 

[Baymule]

When it rains here and that's a big WHEN it rains here, what you got past few days comes at once in a gully washer down the hills, ridge and into the ravines. Catch it while you can!

Do you have swales to capture the water or dammed up some of the ravines?