June 12, 2010

I started "rotational mowing" today. The animals tend to overgraze the pasture nearest the barn and leave the further area undergrazed. Today I mowed those nearer areas and tomorrow I will put up temporary fence to keep them off the mowed area until it regrows. The pic was taken after I used the jeep to pull the tractor out of the mud.

Porter is staying outside for the next three or four weeks until we move him in with Sugar for breeding. His little stall is a mess. We strung hose up the hill so he would have water up there and we'll take the little bit of grain he gets twice a day up to him.

Maybe I can get more pics tomorrow.

June 5, 2010

We had more heavy rain last night and today so our creek flooded again. This one is looking upstream where we get runoff from the fields and woods above us. I had a temporary fence here blocking the sheep from going under the fence. It's now gone. The bull is in this pasture now, though, and he's too tall to walk under that bottom wire.

In this one,you can just see the top of the culvert in the background. All of the debris washed up here. The temporary fence that was buried last night is in this shot.

This is closer up. The top end of the culvert is just visible.

This is looking out at the downstream side of the farm. The large wooden fence posts are my neighbor's. The creek overflowed the bank here and ran across his driveway and pasture out to the road.

Ironically, I'm waiting for the water truck to come and fill our swimming pool. Too bad I didn't have a way to channel all of the gutters on our house and outbuildings into the pool. It would be overflowing.