Promise Acre: Our Journey

[Bruce]

Mom's birthday is tomorrow, hoping to take her trail riding Wednesday (REALLY shouldn't with everything we need to get done... but I need it!!)

Mental health is important!! I'm sure the hay situation is really gnawing on your DH. It isn't a "product" that can just sit and wait at prime condition until the weather cooperates.

Seep springs are notable because there is rarely a single identifiable point of exit. It doesn't bubble or flow up, it's just there; usually in a mushy/marshy area.

Pretty well fits this "spring". You can see flow as it goes to the pond where the water has made a narrower channel but a bit farther up (and a "bit" means a few feet) there is no obviously moving water.

When I was about 10,his sons sunk 2 concrete culverts down on their ends to make a collection point, and broke a bit of concrete off at the top for the flow to exit at one single point. Later, since the spring was down a long hill, the put a pump in with the pump's suction about 3' down in the culverts and piped water up the hill to the house. Before that, that home had no running water of indoor plumbing. The excess water just flowed on down a draw and they later dug a pond and dammed the flow up. It has an overflow in the dam so the pond water doesn't back up into the spring itself.

Sounds a lot like here. In order south going north:

• pond behind the barn
• 100' or so of soggy wet area unless it hasn't rained for weeks. Clay soil, doesn't drain or perc. Good place to get the tractor stuck.
• concrete block cistern with small diameter pipe at the bottom in both the north and south sides, looks like there was once a pump and vertical pipe
• less wet area that I can run the tractor over
• natural wetland
• "brook" when there is enough water
• north man made pond

 

[Baymule]

We have wet weather seeps here on out place. One of our neighbors has a running stream in his front yard when it's wet.

 

[Bruce]

We can have that but only in the spring when the snow on the parking area is melting and the ground is still frozen so it can't soak in.

 

[promiseacres]

 

[Bruce]

At least someone can work their fields! I guess Indiana didn't get the heavy rains of some other states.

 

[promiseacres]

At least someone can work their fields! I guess Indiana didn't get the heavy rains of some other states.

It was still a bit damp but we have a 5 to 7 day of rain free days predicted...am guessing there's going to be a lot if hay dropped asap! We seem to be in a location which gets missed at times... it will hit all around us but... we have more fields planted up here than around Indianapolis...which is very unusual.

 

[greybeard]

It was still a bit damp but we have a 5 to 7 day of rain free days predicted...am guessing there's going to be a lot if hay dropped asap! We seem to be in a location which gets missed at times... it will hit all around us but... we have more fields planted up here than around Indianapolis...which is very unusual.

We call that a "hole in the sky".

 

[Baymule]

That is a beautiful field!

 

[promiseacres]

That is a beautiful field!

That's actually some of the "yard".... lol

 

[Baymule]

Still a beautiful field, don't care if it is yard or not. Baling the yard is the redneck thing to do. LOL LOL