e_moon60 (e_moon60) wrote,
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Rain!

We are very happy to be receiving some slow, but steady, rain today, along with a cool front.   This will help with everything green on the place, and it's coming before all the leaves are off--a good time to boost the winter annuals.  Have had a little over an inch so far.


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Rubber boots necessary for the first time in a long while.   Coming back from digging manure into the garden.   Taken from the cover of the porch.


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Taken from the end of the porch past the barn lot, the south horse lot with its manure pile, across a neighbor's pasture, down to the treeline by the seasonal creek.  Which won't flow until we get lots more inches of rain into the soil upstream...about a thousand acre-feet of water in the right place should do it.   Taken from the cover of the porch (just turning 90 degrees.
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