There seems to be a lot of rain falling all over the country. We’ve had a bunch here lately, but at least we don’t have to worry about the record level flooding of the Red River like the folks in Fargo, North Dakota, and on into the Manitoba, Canada, area do.
Nevertheless, we still got a lot of rain a little too fast, and by yesterday morning the creek that runs along one side of our property was flooded.
It backs up a lot when it gets to the culvert/bridge just down the road from us. There’s just too much water and not enough space for it to run through! The culvert also gets clogged with debris, and that constricts the water flow even more, and it has to go somewhere.
The Farmer decided to check out the flood waters before he left for work and walked down as close as he could get to the bridge, then headed back.
Thankfully, since the bridge is past our driveway, we don’t have to worry about flood waters over the road when we want to drive somewhere.
However, The Farmer was worried about the flood waters getting into his pond. When it was built, they made a high bank on the side closest to the road, hoping to prevent that. So far it had worked, but he decided to check it out.
It almost worked this time, but in a couple of spots there were trickles of water flowing into the pond.
There wasn’t enough water to worry about, but we’ll just have to see what happens next time we get a lot of heavy rains.
When the creek floods, the water also backs up into our bottom pasture and flows through the adjacent woods.
As you can see, the water runs over the fence line, which is why we have an electric fence there. It’s easier to fix when the fast waters tear the wire away from the posts, or the debris just flat out breaks the wires.
The ground was so saturated with water, the earthworms were bailing out everywhere. The grass was polluted with them, and I could barely walk down the driveway without stepping on one.
The guineas chose to stay high in the treetops, even though it rained on them all night.
Of course, I wouldn’t accuse guineas of having an excess of intelligence. They obviously don’t even know enough to come in out of the rain!
All this wet weather makes our Maremma LGD (livestock guardian dog) look pretty ragged since she’s all white.
She probably looks like a lot of folks in dangerously flooded areas feel – a little rough around the edges.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like we’re done with the rainy weather, so time to hunker down and wait it out! I’m just thankful we got the basement water-proofed a couple of years ago, so I no longer have to spend hours and hours with a shop vac trying to drain the rising pool of water in the basement!
I guess there’s a silver lining in every cloud after all.