Yes, we needed water.\u00a0\u00a0 It is POURING down.\u00a0 In the dark, so impossible to really judge, but we do have a metal roof and so do the poor horses, w\/o insulation.\u00a0\u00a0 Rags couldn’t care less, but Tigger hates loud noise.\u00a0\u00a0 I put out hay in the barn, but dunno if he’ll stay in or not.\u00a0\u00a0 We saw the storm building up from miles and miles away and knew it was not going to be the soft gentle rain I most wanted for the burned area.\u00a0 This is hard rain and plenty of it.\u00a0 The big red patches came right over us; one is still on the other side of town.<\/p>\n
That’s all I can say for now, because it’s dark, and pouring, and I’m not going out in it.\u00a0\u00a0 Will edit and update this tomorrow.<\/p>\n
{I meant to, but…yesterday was a tough day in the health dept…overlapping immunizations + having foolishly gone out and hiked around on the burn scar in the heat before the storm finally came…without taking water along, or eating anything before deciding to just go see what it was like.]<\/p>\n
So: MORE water from the sky late last night, Yay!!.\u00a0 The First rain, about an inch and a half overall, had a hard-driven component that worried me, but the crust of burnt stuff acted almost like one of those anti-erosion-blanket things, plus the ground had cracked open in a lot of places.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact, we saw a few determined green sprouts from the least charred remnants of grass clumps.\u00a0 By no means all of them, but some.\u00a0 The oaks, however, looked much worse.\u00a0 Now there are more little green leaves from the merely brown-scorched grass clumps, as well as the re-greening of grasses not touched by fire.\u00a0 I’ve ordered a “midway” seed mix from Native American Seed, a source for native prairie plants, after chatting with their staff about recovery from hot wildfires.\u00a0 (Yes, as opposed to “cool” wildfires, which don’t heat the soil enough to kill off the seeds in the soil.)\u00a0\u00a0 I’m also going to order more forbs.\u00a0 Should have done all that last week, but other stuff intervened.<\/p>\n
It’s cloudy, dripping, and supposed to rain some more.\u00a0 Last night’s was either a half inch or six tenths, depending on which gauge.\u00a0 Storm rain around here is *very* local.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll add more updates when and as more rain develops over today\/tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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