Our feet are growing webs. The rain has rained for days now, maybe weeks – on and off – On and off. The land drinks it all up in between squalls. 
I feel bad for California – you would think that osmosis would enable some of this water to creep across the country. Because we certainly have enough. It is the rainy season here and I know I will be grateful for all the water in the soil later in the season but right now – we need a break from the rain.
The gateways and my brains are turning to mush. 
The flies are coming too, just a hint of warm and up they leap. The flies in Illinois bite, which I find quite unfair.
Mud. The big animals have limited time in the good fields which is a catch 22.
Good to keep the fields in order, bad for the areas around the barn where the flies are breeding. Bad for my massively depleted pile of hay.
However for today and tomorrow there is no rain in the forecast so back into the gardens we go.
And later today I hope that the cows can get back out too. Yesterday they had the afternoon in the fields.
And I really hope that you all have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farm
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
50 responses to “Mud, Mud, Mud.”
Despite the mud the last 2 photos had lovely light. Beautiful portraits of Lady A & Naomi and Tima.
it looks so nice 🙂
I do not understand why we cannot move water from here to there. It’s possible, hopefully soon it will be done.
We had over 11 inches of rain in about 3 hours last night – then the storms began. We are lucky we live on higher lump of ground and the water quickly drains to the lake 2 blocks away. Molly was quite disturbed the neighbors black garbage bags were floating down the street and would not stop barking at them. (not a good idea to put those bags out late at night in tis sort of weather. You’ll be up early anyway with all the weather alerts going off…bleary, but up) Looks like more rain on the way. Molly fortunately is ready to hibernate for a bit.
Hope the weather moderates a bit for you!
More rain in the forecast, but every moment we get that is fine.. we rush for the garden, the weeding excellent in this dampness..
Yes, it’s the first year, the flower beds actually are pretty weed free!
We had a really wet spring in Italy last year, it was horrible. This year we have had little rain, which means I spend hours watering to get my plants to grow…a happy medium would be nice wouldn’t it?