Coffee anyone ?

[farmerjan]

We have been in the 40-60% chance everyday. Opposite side of the state than @Mini Horses .... it poured just east of us yesterday, north of us and all around us for the last 3 days yet we got a little 20 drop shower several times that didn't even get the ground wet. Today got enough to get the road wet but that was about all. Supposed to get more tomorrow but I'm not holding my breath waiting. Hadn't cut any hay and son went to northern Vt to deliver the feeder cattle and swung by his grandparents in NH on his way home. They were hotter there than we were here. It got muggy here but the rain was hit and miss.... we got the miss.... Guess we are going to cut tomorrow if the rain doesn't materialize as they are saying drier then for several days.
Glad that it isn't too dry though, or I would be hauling water to the nurse cow pasture for all the cattle, not just the one nurse cow that I put in the barn with the calves. Got to get some of them moved out of there to other grass.

 

[Mini Horses]

...make a drag to pull behind ya

Well, I have a rake that pulls with my mower -- does well but, small. It's too wet to put the weight of the tractor on it after the rain & fresh turned. Tomorrow -- if it's hot and breezy, the mower will work late day.
It just ruined my plans for the afternoon! Ya know how women hate that. Then messes me up all week because I have some "go to work" jobs scheduled that will require me to go and do. Late day the skeeters can go into terror mode...so need to get home mid afternoon.

With sections already planted to be worked around, the mower & rake are sometimes easier to move around in there. It's not muddy at all, just wet dirt. The rake levels out and pulls the grass/roots out. The garden is a lot of work.....a LOT of work.

And were getting almost daily rain. My pastures are loving it.

3 in the morning and I can't sleep. will be tough going later.

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. We got a quarter inch of rain yesterday. There is another wad of rain heading this way, ought to be here in about an hour or so. Maybe we’ll get more than we got yesterday.

@Bruce, I can’t share a chainsaw with my son. He lives 3 hours away.

 

[promiseacres]

Thanks for the coffee.
We got 1/2 " of rain.
Now DH can mow the weeds in the new hay field....what's left of it.... the neighboring farmer put on weed killer on a breezey day... a whole corner was killed. DH has contacted him. He is supposed to look at it. And hoping I can put horses back on the pastures again in a couple of weeks.
Today I need to get videos of John's 4H rabbits in case Purdue won't let us meet in person.... he's taking 11.

 

[Bunnylady]

Now DH can mow the weeds in the new hay field....what's left of it.... the neighboring farmer put on weed killer on a breezey day... a whole corner was killed.

In North Carolina, that sort of thing is highly illegal, and your neighbor could be facing a hefty fine if the authorities found out.

 

[Bruce]

Wow, everyone else is getting all our rain.

It isn't us!!!!! What little spit we got last evening was visible as wet spots on the dry, dry dirt. We have some chance of up to .3" tonight and tomorrow. Supposed to only get to 80° tomorrow which will be a welcome change from 90° we've had the last several days. I don't last but a couple of hours out in the sun at 85° or more and humid.

@Bruce, I can’t share a chainsaw with my son. He lives 3 hours away.

I got myself confused!! Somehow it was set in my head that BJ got you the electric saw. Even though when I look back at your original post I see you said your son bought it for you. And BJ got an ice maker. OK, I got it now

In North Carolina, that sort of thing is highly illegal, and your neighbor could be facing a hefty fine if the authorities found out.

How about not IF but WHEN?? If the neighbor doesn't make good on the lost hay (and will the grass even grow back without reseeding after enough time has passed to get the herbicide out of the ground?) I'd be contacting someone in authority. Of course that ASSUMES such liability for killing off your neighbor's crops exists in their state.

 

[Mini Horses]

I raked the garden with the mower & attachment.. Then, T-storms, again. Thunder, lightening, hard, hard rain -- about 45 min worth. So, maybe I need to just stay out of this garden because I'm surely flipping a switch each time. every day. Did I move to FL?

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. It rained last night and it is very cool outside. We will have the neighbor kid working with us this morning. We borrowed Robert's tiller and will use it to clean out the sheep barn. We tested it yesterday. When we clean the sheep barn, the top layers are loose and dry, there is no smell. The lower layers are hard packed and we have to pry it up in big chunks, it has a earthy smell, but still doesn't stink. It's hard to spread in chunks. While our son was here, he suggested getting the tiller and breaking it up, then scooping it up. I want to use it on pasture and chunks just don't spread very well. So we tried it and he had a great suggestion. Anyhoo, that's what we'll be doing this morning! I need another cup of coffee.

 

[promiseacres]

Thanks for the coffee.
DH knows the farmer...a big farm with thousands of acres....DH works on their equipment... so we'll see. Fortunately it was only the short side of the field.... but still sucks. There's laws here too, but better to work it out in person and have a decent relationship with them. DH would spot treat along the pastures at our old place and is willing to do that here too. DH took the zero turn and mowed the weeds that were coming in since we got a bit of rain. Need to get chores going, have riding lessons this morning.

 

[Mini Horses]

Sunshine, humidity, still and muggy. 84 already.

Chores almost done.....still need to milk. Coffee first!