Lucked out..and no so lucky

[zogger]

The monsoons lately have left the area a bit moist shall we say...creek flooded over last night, saw it just tipping over at dusk... Lake was going to as well, so I removed the rock covering the overflow tile and let er rip all night, seems to have worked and the beavers didn't find the leak yet..heh.

So, anyway and future firewood relevance, I lucked out with one tree down, a maple (not sure subspecies), it fell parallel to the fence, yaaaa me! usually trees going down in that area means repair fence, plus hard to get the wood out..real hard. I will have to go get it when it dries up..sometime.

The not so lucky was another tree went into the creek two days ago, (medium sycamore from the bank) rootball and everything, and I couldn't get it out yesterday, too big by hand, water too deep for me to go in there, and no getting any equipment down there when it floods. Floated down and tore up my barricade again.... water went back down to normal just deep today, last night though, that metal was underwater.

Man, this has been just weeks of rain, if we get any big winds at all gonna be big trees down all over heck. Happens some in the winter when it rains, but summer sail area with the leaves is always worse.

The pic with a couple dogs is actually *high ground*, it gets muddier below there, you can see the drop off to the real muddy swamp area with the creek through it at the top of the picture.
the fields on both sides though make some good grazing, so, what can ya do....

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[philoshop]

A little luck is better than none.
Be safe.

 

[RiverRocket]

I didn't realize you guys were getting so much rain down there... Hope you get some nice sunny weather to dry things up a bit...
What is the metal roofing from?

 

[zogger]

I didn't realize you guys were getting so much rain down there... Hope you get some nice sunny weather to dry things up a bit...
What is the metal roofing from?

I scrounged that metal from an old equipment shed that got blown down years before I came here. I have rebuilt that barricade several times now, it is now working as it should, the middle piece is designed to bust away easier and not tear up the whole thiing. The original one, what I found of it, was a heavy cable and sheets all atached stoutly, and big log jams would occur with a flood and rip the whole thing away. I didn't like that so redesigned it lighter and easier to repair, and it still acts as a suggestion fence for the beefers. It's all hanging loose and just acts as a visual wall for them, so they don't go through it.

Bwa! Getting most of the garden produce from inside the greenhouse this year, I have about given up on the outside frog pond gardens....

 

[Mike Van]

Call Bobby Goodson! Thats not wet to those guys -

 

[olyman]

Bwa! Getting most of the garden produce from inside the greenhouse this year, I have about given up on the outside frog pond gardens....[/QUOTE]

tell yah what,,the gardens aint getting real prosperous yet up here....:msp_rolleyes:

 

[ShaneLogs]

Looks like you have something to do now so your not sitting around being bored :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[zogger]

Looks like you have something to do now so your not sitting around being bored :hmm3grin2orange:

Not real bored, just getting behind in work. Can't mow or spray when it is raining or soupy mud out. I have been off and on working on saws (work in the greenhouse, can only take so much 100% humility and high heat...), a truck (outside in the rain and mud..nuff said on how that is going....), running the dogs in the mud (they love it, I like it just up to the tops of my farmers boots..but no higher..)..and being on the net (small cabin, inside, park it, gee, there's a computer...).

Compromise, semi working retired, part time job. Although part time goes right to full time when the weather is nice..always something that needs repair around here, or push the jungle back. Tell you whut, the green stuff is relentless down here given enough water.

A few years ago, one of the boss's more 'tarded goofs thought it was a good idea to shoot every single beaver in one of the ponds here....the whole thing drained out in two-three days. A buhzillion gallons... A nice pond, around four acres or so. Turns out it was the muskrats making holes in the dirt, and the beavers were patching them up. Result, drained pond, thousands of fish lost. Like..hmm...4 summers now later, there are (up to) 25-30 foot trees in there and the underbrush is unreal thick. That's how fast the big green stuff takes over here given a chance. All summer is just constant mowing/cutting/trimming/spraying. Winters I can slack off more and just cut and split and whatever other projects I want to do. That is how it is "part time", it goes by a yearly look, not a weekly or daily look.

Anyway, I don't care, mud sport!!! Patching the barricade isn't that hard, I'll cut the mess out, bang it straight, rehang it with barb wire scraps. Take me one afternoon maybe, two or three hours. Done it enough, just sucks it happens, I *try* to keep the creek cleared all the time. That sycamore falling was a wildcard..

I like all the waterfalls in the woods when it is raining hard, too, it's pretty.

Rather have rain over drought.