We have had so much rain that the yards are knee deep in muck. Usually, it is not so bad but the North side door has been opened, so the mothers can bring in their calves, and with all their coming and going that area has been churned into slop.
Lady Astor gets the concrete pad because she is on dry hay, I am trying to drop her production of milk so I can dry her up in a couple of months. Fat chance so far! I still let her out on the green fields a couple of hours in the afternoon. There is so much feed out there! To lock her up the whole time seems so mean. But the luscious green pastures do not help me to bring her production down!
Last night we had another inch of rain.
Here is a rubbish shot of Molly sleeping with her head stuck through the piglets creep door. She always does this. She just has to open an eye to see what they are up to. Then they have to climb over her nose to get out
I have already had my coffee and fried eggs and am off out to shovel the proverbial – the moment the barn is opened to cows they come in and stand around and fill the area with manure and pee gallons all over the floor. Thankfully they cannot get into the calves creep area so that stays fairly dry and clean.
Have a good one.
I think that is all for the rain for the meantime – I will go back outside to work now.
celi
WEATHER: Cold, wet and windy. (Wellington weather).
Sunday 10/15 0% / 0 in
Cloudy with gusty winds. High near 55F. Winds NW at 20 to 30 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
Sunday Night 10/15 10% / 0 in
Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low 39F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph.
Sun
7:04 am 6:11 pm
Moon
Waning Crescent, 19% visible 2:32 am 4:22 pm
The Kitchen's Garden 
53 responses to “POURING”
Stay dry…that’s a lot of mud!
Dry is not going to be the operative word today!!
We had snow yesterday. (bleck) It didn’t last- but bleck anyway.
Snow! Lordy..
I KNOW! I couldn’t believe it either! The boys were ecstatic.
Turning back a few weeks to the tail end of summer and getting your hay delivered………. a question ….. why is the hay in the middle and eastern states rolled, while all of the hay I’ve seen in Oregon, Wash., and CA are formed into oblong bales? I was so surprised the first time I saw ‘rolls’ of hay in a field in Oklahoma – didn’t know what they were t first, then wondered how they got them that way!
Your mud – if it isn’t cold, I’d be out the sqwooshing it through my toes!
Mud, mud I love it! Guess I’m Miss Piggy at heart!
Here in Central Illinois, I can buy hay in any of those shapes. Round Bales. Rectangular which weigh about a 1/2 ton and the ‘square bales” that are the small rectangular ones. Different balers for each one. I buy the small ones because I don’t have a tractor that can lift a round bale
Hard to find small squares around here, ours are large rectangles, somewhere around 400#, kind of a pain to deal with. What I wonder is if the round bales ever just roll away down all the hills we have around here!
Thank God for gumboots!
Agreed and my red bands are new enough to have no holes in them ! Bonus!
She’s a smart girl, your Sheila!
Sorry to hear about all the muck (and mucking out; )
I don’t mind either –
That’s a lot of rain and muck. After a very wet summer, we cannot complain here in Southern Ontario because we’ve had a great September and a mild early autumn.
Here we are embedded in a prolonged dry, hot spell. In early September we were well into fall. Since mid-September we have been in the summer we missed earlier.