Looky What We Got!

 YAY! We got that good rain on the North end of the ranch a few weeks ago, but not a drop on our south end. Well all of this fell on the south side!

                                                       

It'll be a few days before those roads set up enough that we can get out and check how much rain we had, but I can tell you that we are whooping it up around here!                    

It started to rain just after dinner.

Perfect timing to curl up with a new magazine that came in the mail:

                                                       
My latest finish:

                                                               
and take a nap to the sound of this:


                                          


An hour later we had this:

                                          

There was not a drop in this tank before this and this is at least 3' deep.

This poor little fella wasn't quite sure what had just happened:

My poor chickens really got hammered. The door to their coop faces south and it is always open during the day and the rain hit from the south.

They were a little bedraggled.

There was a whole lots of feather shakin' going on:.

As well as a hen conference that, I assume, discussed what had just taken place:

I had wandered out in my daily footwear which is a pair of hiking boots. I hadn't intended to end up submerged, but I felt badly for the chickens when I saw the state of their coop and didn't bother going back for my irrigation boots:

I had a mess to clean up. This is an icky picture, but just thought you might want to know that it's not all fun and games out here:

And we lost a ton of huge tree limbs. This is just a small portion :

That always makes me so sad. I've got a good day's work cleaning all of this up. However, you can bet I'll be doing it cheerfully!

The wind was nuts and there had to be some sort of rotation in it because these trailers were parked parallel to each other:

     

From this angle, you can see a bit of the drag marks from the cage top trailer:

                                   

Sorry about hounding y'all with another detailed weather report, but this is a pretty big deal in these parts. Between the surprise visit from our boy that the kids pulled off, this amazing rain, and a couple of other things...well I would have to say that the Good Lord has been mighty generous with those blessings, and you can bet that we are mighty thankful!