The cats and I stay nice and toasty warm inside all winter long. But what about our cows? Sorry to say, but I am not letting them inside our new house. They’ll just have to tough it out outside. But we’ll help them.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Put on your coats, girls!
It’s snowed, it’s thawed, it’s rained. It was 45 degrees today, headed towards a high of 9 degrees next week. It must be winter in Indiana!
The cats and I stay nice and toasty warm inside all winter long. But what about our cows? Sorry to say, but I am not letting them inside our new house. They’ll just have to tough it out outside. But we’ll help them.
The cats and I stay nice and toasty warm inside all winter long. But what about our cows? Sorry to say, but I am not letting them inside our new house. They’ll just have to tough it out outside. But we’ll help them.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Auntie Em, where are you?
We had some rain here last week. Just a little. The official tally was 3.5 inches in 30 minutes. Our rain gauge only picked up 2.5 inches, but a lot of the rain was coming sideways.
He calmly informed me that the wind was blowing the wrong way for me to end up in Kansas.
I not so calmly answered him: “Okay, FINE! I’ll end up in New Jersey,then!”
He assured me I would not be blown to New Jersey.
Though I thought I might float there…
The ditch filled to overflowing, and the lower hay field flooded.
The cows even had a swimming pool for a day.
We lost power (just us, not our neighbors). Electricity is pretty essential for the sump pump in the basement. So we got water in the basement. About four inches worth in about three hours.
And after it stopped raining, the water level kept creeping up on the roads and fields. Turns out, when there are 3.5 inches of rain in 30 minutes, there is nowhere for it to go. It collects, and ends up across our driveway. The flooding was so bad near our house that Hubby Doc barely made it home later that evening.
Thankfully, he made it home safe, and with a generator, so we were able to dry out the basement.
The power company was out around 6:30 the next morning, once the flood waters had receded a bit, and we were back in business. Just in time to go to work.
And I was hoping to be able to call in flooded. Ah well.
Monday, May 2, 2011
No woman is an island
But sometimes she lives on one.
This morning, I looked out of the bathroom window. The cows had a new swimming pool.
Ah, crap. We had gotten 3 inches of rain overnight. The ditch was full, and the road was flooded.
Some of this water is in the ditch. Some of this water is in our pasture and our hayfield. Some is in the neighbor’s wheat field. Some is completely covering the road.
Our driveway was flooded, too.
Our driveway is the curve coming on the right side of this picture. See the straight line of fence posts at the bottom of the hill?
Those line the edge of the driveway. At 7:00 this morning, the driveway was 1.5 feet underwater.
There was no getting down the driveway.
I have always wanted a lake house, but this is not what I had in mind!
I have never been more glad to live uphill!!
Normally, I would be just thrilled at being stuck home all day. Unfortunately, Farmer Doc had to do some surgeries at the vet clinic this morning, and I had to go check on a pregnant mare.
So we waited a bit. Luckily, it had stopped raining.
At 9:00am, the waters had come down. A little.
There was only 1 foot of water on the driveway. So we left. In pickup trucks. (It was a little dicey.)
When I got home at 2:00pm, we were in the clear.
The driveway was visible.
The road was dry. (Well, not dry. But it was no longer underwater.)
The cows had lost their lake front property.
But it has started raining again. And it’s not planning to stop.
We are expecting another 1-3 (and maybe up to 5!) inches today.
Wish me luck!!!
This morning, I looked out of the bathroom window. The cows had a new swimming pool.
Ah, crap. We had gotten 3 inches of rain overnight. The ditch was full, and the road was flooded.
Some of this water is in the ditch. Some of this water is in our pasture and our hayfield. Some is in the neighbor’s wheat field. Some is completely covering the road.
Our driveway was flooded, too.
Our driveway is the curve coming on the right side of this picture. See the straight line of fence posts at the bottom of the hill?
Those line the edge of the driveway. At 7:00 this morning, the driveway was 1.5 feet underwater.
There was no getting down the driveway.
I have always wanted a lake house, but this is not what I had in mind!
I have never been more glad to live uphill!!
Normally, I would be just thrilled at being stuck home all day. Unfortunately, Farmer Doc had to do some surgeries at the vet clinic this morning, and I had to go check on a pregnant mare.
So we waited a bit. Luckily, it had stopped raining.
At 9:00am, the waters had come down. A little.
There was only 1 foot of water on the driveway. So we left. In pickup trucks. (It was a little dicey.)
When I got home at 2:00pm, we were in the clear.
The driveway was visible.
The road was dry. (Well, not dry. But it was no longer underwater.)
The cows had lost their lake front property.
But it has started raining again. And it’s not planning to stop.
We are expecting another 1-3 (and maybe up to 5!) inches today.
Wish me luck!!!
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