I HATE RAIN!!!!

[justintime]

This is coming from a guy who has seen more dry years than wet years in my life and trust me...... too wet still  beats too dry almost every time. I know that too wet creates lots and lots of problems, but, to me, too dry creates many more. At least when it is wet, you have something growing and the air is not full of dust. That can really get a person down. Nothing is mopre depressing than having no grass, no hay growing, crops dying or not germinating properly .... and no idea of whether you should move the cows to pastures or not. If you do, and it doesn't rain, you then have to move them back home or haul feed to them.... or sell them. I

I am very thankful that we are starting to get some rains here. Nothing big yet, but we are starting to get some thunder,lightning and some fairly local down pours.One of my pastures got a good shot today... probably close to 1 inch I am guessing by the water laying. More showers are predicted this week so I am hoping we get a bunch more. No matter how much rain we get in this country... we are never more than two weeks from a drought.

Minimoo... if you lived closer, I would wash your mouth out with soap for uttering those three very nasty, nasty words... " I hate rain" . Them's swear words in these parts!

 

[minimoo38]

Minimoo... if you lived closer, I would wash your mouth out with soap for uttering those three very nasty, nasty words... " I hate rain" . Them's swear words in these parts!

that was pretty awesome. here, is this better??  i guess that i don't hate rain that bad, i just have an extreme dislike for it when it doesn't come in moderation, or share it's wetness with the rest of the country.  ;D

 

[coyote]

Here is a picture of one of our dam bottoms, like most in southern Saskatchewan.
I like rain and Shorthorns and beer on a hot day.

 

[BCCC]

Here is a picture of one of our dam bottoms, like most in southern Saskatchewan.
I like rain and Shorthorns.

you sure that not a picture of our feilds?? oh wait no that couldnt be our cracks are WAY bigger ;D

 

[red]

sorry guys that are dry (did that cost me a nickle?). More rain overnight & still raining. 2.5"

 

[fluffer]

Red, Oh breeder and other Ohio people, you all still here.  Good grief!  There were tornado warnings in the county south of me last night, more rain at my house then I have ever seen in such a short time and my goodness it stormed ALL NIGHT- BAD!  The thunder and lightening was CRAZY!!  But the worst part is- we were supposed to pull cidrs and give lute this morning- cows are trapped on the other side of the pasture due to flooding.  We are going to have to come up with some other type of sync program in a hurry  :-\  Lucky for us we were going to do a 5 day and now I think we will be doing at 7 day.  Probably be better off anyway.

Hope everyone else is ok.

Fluffer

 

[Jill]

We have had 5.5 inches this week on already saturated ground and it is supposed to rain the next 3 days, don't want Coyote's dry, but somewhere in between would be nice.

 

[Simmymom1]

   <cowboy>    PLEEEZ send the rain down our way!!!  It sure is hard being married to a part-time farmer when it gets so dry.  I hate that the weather effects his mood, I just know if we got some rain soon he would be in a much better mood.  His corn really is starting to look kind of sad.....  The only good thing is that he also has a "real" job and brings home a "real" paycheck.  Thank God!!!

 

[red]

one thing I've found is there is a big difference btween corgi's & heelers concerning rain. The heeler won't even hardly come off the porch when it's raing. If it storms he practictaly tries to break into the garage. woody on the other hand loves the rain. He's outside playing in the water & running around in the rain.

Also, the books said corgi's don't dig. HA! Woody was digging a hole in the yard first thing this morning. Thought he just did it when he was bored or tied up but that's not the case now.

Red  (lol) (dog)

 

[Jenny]

We have wayyyy too much rain for right now but being from South Dakota we know very well that if you have too much rain at least you have grass and hay (if you can get it put up).  There are quite a few guys who have not gotten their corn in and now it is too late; they were going to put it into wheat ground which has never dried out enough.  Our forecast for the next week is rain, rain and more rain.  However, the cows and calves are in awesome condition.  They are slick and fat and the cows are coming into heat really well.

We only remember a few short years ago when we went 6 weeks with no rain.  We got our crops in but they did not grow.  Guys were plowing under their corn crop in the fall and putting in winter wheat and hoping for moisture.  We bought 200 acres of corn that a guy was going to plow under and chopped it...there was not an ear in it and this was in Sept.  Because we had had several days of 115 degree plus temps, we had alot of open cows and the pastures were very poor and sparse.  The calves were light, the cows were thin....

We will take too much rain anytime.......

 

[Rocky Hill Simmental]

We've been getting a lot of rain here too but for the past half a week it's been dry  <party> I ended up having to turn my show heifers out of the halter breaking pen. There's a haybale in there so they come back so I can still catch them though. It's still not dry on one part of the pen though. It's been so wet, we can't even put any fertiziler on our hay field without tearing the ground up. And now the fescue's too high to do anything but the undergrow doesn't want to come up to fill it out.

We had a big flood back in March and everything's been wet since.

I bet by next month we'll be begging for rain here though.

 

[SWMO]

We were getting a tick dry yesterday. so we had a bit of rain last night and this morning.  Kinda like living in a rain forest this year.  Haven't put the rubber boots up yet. 

Had to pay a unneeded visit to the storm cellar last night about midnight.  But on the bright side we got to visit with three or four lizards.  I told the kids to look on the bright side if there are lizards down here there are probably not any snakes.  Also told the daughter if she scared the lizards by touching them and one ran up my leg we were going to have words.    May be harmless but I just don't like the idea of one running up my leg in the middle of the night.

According to the weather guessers were were going to have 90 mile an hour winds and a tornado heading right down the hwy at us.  Fortunately didn't get either. They guessed wrong.

 

[garett]

Im also sick of this crazy weather! It has rained so much, it will get about dry then blow up another huge storm. Actually the other night we had a terrible storm. It rained so much and the lightning was terrible. The lightning hit a tree right over by our house and left a few cracks in it and blew the dirt away from the bottom of it.

 

[minimoo38]

sun, sun, mr. golden sun, please shine down on me! today we have, as in right now, a very dense fog of which the visibility is only 2.5-3 mi. but that is significantly better than the <1 mi of visibility that we had this morning. woo-hoo.  

 

[garett]

sun, sun, mr. golden sun, please shine down on me! today we have, as in right now, a very dense fog of which the visibility is only 2.5-3 mi. but that is significantly better than the <1 mi of visibility that we had this morning. woo-hoo.  

Id share some sun with ya, We've always had that getting things to dry up, but it just pours itself out again. Ugh it gets so hot and humid almost everyday!

 

[Davis Shorthorns]

I wish that I had gotten a pict of my pens the other morning.  It looked like my cattle were standing on little islands in the middle of a raging river.  I thought about going to get the camera, but then the hail stopped me.  We had one account around here of someone having hail damage inside their garage.  A softball size piece broke  through the garage roof and still dented the guys car. 

 

[CAB]

  Just curious, nobody knows of anyone building a very large boat with pens available for livestock, do they?

 

[shortyjock89]

   Just curious, nobody knows of anyone building a very large boat with pens available for livestock, do they?

I couldn't find it...but the way the rain keeps coming, you would think there would be something in the Bible about Noah having a second coming.....

 

[doubled]

Minnimoo

Im watching the weather now and bad weather already back again in southern Iowa, this season sucks, but the pastures here are awesome just turned cows out and you
could not even see them cause the grass was over their backs.  But we are still not done planting.  Im gonna put a sign in our hayfield that says lakeside property for sale  (lol)

 

[minimoo38]

wow! how many people have tried to cross that???

the cows hate us now. they burred down their mini-pasture's grass, and the rest of the 4.5' tall grass is just on the other side of the fence.

i love the sign idea, that is awesome!!