{"id":999,"date":"2021-11-03T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2021-11-03T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:02:04","slug":"water-from-the-sky-again-yay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/03\/water-from-the-sky-again-yay\/","title":{"rendered":"Water From the Sky Again (yay!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The predicted storms started with a BOOOOOMMMMM! around midnight, followed by hard rain for maybe 20 minutes, and then off and on rain (some quite hard) through the night and into the morning.\u00a0 It’s dark.\u00a0 It’s much cooler (50sF, cold to us, esp. with rain).\u00a0 I went out between downpours this morning and hayed the horses, *both* of whom were in the barn.\u00a0 First they got hay on the floor, and now they’re munching from hay nets.\u00a0\u00a0 These are supposed to be “slow feeder” haynets, but with Rags there’s no such thing as “slow” feeding because he doesn’t get distracted.\u00a0 Tigger will quit eating to watch a cows or goats move alone the fence, or a calf bawling in the distance, or a truck on someone else’s place bouncing along while they check fence, if distant dogs start barking.\u00a0 Rags…eats.\u00a0 Bluebonnet seeds have sprouted beyond the cotyledon stage…the “fingered” first leaves just showing…but not as many as I’d hoped in what had been a lovely bluebonnet corner of the east grass.\u00a0\u00a0 This rain is SO GOOD for the scorched trees.\u00a0 I do think we lost one of the smaller oaks in the “Apostles” group…but we’ll find out in spring.<\/p>\n

Thunder continues to rumble around us as this front shoves coastward.\u00a0 This might even bring the creek up if it rains like this all day and tonight.\u00a0\u00a0 One of R’s ongoing projects is a rock check-dam\/fence protector at the “swamp” area, where several flash floods have dug out the natural drainage enough for calves to get their heads under the fence.\u00a0\u00a0 Hence the calves that get onto our place.<\/p>\n

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This image is from Monday, Nov 1.\u00a0 When dry, the “swamp” is just a gently “scooped” area, but in the old days, it held water much of the year.\u00a0 The creek (a dry channel most of the time now, but steeper-sided and narrower) is to the right maybe 40-50 yards.\u00a0\u00a0 When the swamp is holding water long enough, it has amphibians, crayfish, and sometimes small fish, and attracts all the mammals and birds.\u00a0 We actually do have swampy plants in it (although this checkdam is now sitting on what was a lovely colony of those big sedges I took pictures of earlier (sad, but not too sad.)\u00a0 Eastern persimmon grows on its west bank (to the right), other sedges upstream in narrower “catchments” and temporary streams.<\/p>\n

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The predicted storms started with a BOOOOOMMMMM! around midnight, followed by hard rain for maybe 20 minutes, and then off and on rain (some quite hard) through the night and into the morning.\u00a0 It’s dark.\u00a0 It’s much cooler (50sF, cold to us, esp. with rain).\u00a0 I went out between downpours this morning and hayed the Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,16],"tags":[52,17,51],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-80-acres","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-80acres","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}