365 Photos: The 1pm Picture Number Twenty-Five!

Today’s 1pm pic is of the clouds. we want them to bring us rain but it ain’t happening! So we have ordered water for the tank….

Clouds waiting for rain

Wet Weather Bliss

As we are having so much joy in our rain, here are some photos!

 

A bedraggled chicken

Puddles in the garden

The drought breaker

The fish pond refreshed

 

 

Happy Wet Ents

The rain came down, and we are happy campers. So far we have had 42mm of rain in the last 16 hours, which is more than four times the rain for the previous 28 days! Our fruit tress are happy and our water tank is filling. We are also grateful that we haven’t had the really heavy stuff that’s further up north.  It can stay raining like this for the rest of the day, yes sir it can

 

What A Lovely Wet Day

Our water-tank is looking a lot fuller! We had a lovely 42mm of rain yesterday. Which was more rain in one day than the previous eight weeks combined! And more is on the way…

22mm Of Rain in 45 Minutes: The Excitement Continues

We are doing a very happy rain dance here. In the last 45 minutes 22mm of rain fell! If we get more falls like that over night we may even be able to cancel the tanker of water we ordered for next week! To show you how dry it has been over the last couple of months I will present a table showing the rain totals over the last four months. Note that when today’s rain fall is added tomorrow it will more than double the months total!

Great Excitement! Water Fell From The Sky!

There was great excitement over night. It rained!

Our garden and water tank are very grateful for the 7.5mm that fell. That more than tripled the rainfall for the month.

Evidence is to be presented…

 

Water in the rain gauge

A puddle!

Updated: We Have A Storm….

I would post pictures, but it I doubt you really want to see photos of, mud, mud, rain and wind.

Yes the storm has come across us. It is bitingly cold, with near horizontal rain, and a penetrating wind. Out poor chickens are all feeling a bit cold and wet, except for the broody in her little enclosure. She is the driest of the lot…

The fire is going and the house is steadily warming up, so that is good.

On the not so good front, we are being exposed to country life it’s most practical… Across the river on the neighbors side, there is ewe and her lamb which have managed to get stuck half way down the cliff on an area of slip. They have no grass and can’t get off the slip. We rang the farmers, but suspect that with the weather they won’t come out attempt to rescue them. We are not sure they will be able to rescue them. It’s a hard thing knowing that they are likely to die on the cliff and there is nothing we can do.

UPDATE: Good news.. The farmer managed to rescue the ewe and the lamb…

Just A Wee Bit Of Rain

It’s a bit squelchy this morning. We had 23mm of rain overnight, and it’s still falling. Before this last weekend we had had a total of 60mm for the month. Now we are sitting on 100mm with 40mm falling in three days.

So it’s a bit soggy, and our water tank is overflowing again

There was a slip on the road just below our place, fortunately nothing serious enough to block it, and the river is up…

I felt very sorry for the chickens actually, as they trooped across the fields in a bedraggled line, eager for their breakfast.

I am hoping it eases off though…

Bovine Ruminates, Mud And A River Flows Through

We sway one way and the other on the merits of keeping stock on our little block of land. We are more than happy with our flock of chickens, and would be more than happy to raise them and trees. However we have an awful lot of grass that needs keeping down. So we often toy with the idea of keeping, cows, alpacas, donkeys, pigs or sheep.

At the moment I am leaning towards cows, mainly because a friends up the road have been grazing ten heifers on the land. There is something quite nice about waking up and looking out on the land and seeing the cows quietly munching through the grass.

At the moment they are on the slope paddock below the house, so in the morning we can lean out the window and say “morning Ladies”

They do make a mess of the paddocks though, especially with the rain at the moment.

But then so do we. The above photo is by the firewood pile beside the house. Mucky!

But then it’s not surprising considering how wet it is at the moment. Normally we can’t see the river from the home paddock, but the river is so high I can see it from the kitchen! Fortunately that is still a long way from the level of the lower paddock! Over wise we might have to panic!

Water, Water, Everywhere

With all the rain that has been happening, we have had a little subsidence where holes have been dug and then refilled.

The moat around the septic tank

We might need to do some infilling

The pond in the drive, suitable for sailing boats