Posted on 09/13/2006 11:52:03 AM PDT by nwctwx
We've all been praying for rain...
VERY little hay this year (three bails out of 10 acres), the pastures are all dead. The trees in our ravines are dying - some of them large cedar elms. You know it's bad when the milkweed dies...
I have a bucket calf, and the only place where I can stake her out is in the orchard, where I've been watering my trees by hand. We're bringing our horse and our neighbor's horse in from our neighbor's pasture to ours. We'll let them eat what's left of our hay pasture, but there's so little there it's more an act of letting the other pasture rest so it won't be trampled to dust.
I'm amazed we still have water in our central pond - I think we may have a spring or a seep down there.
It's been so hard on our neighbors, most of whom are beef ranchers. The prayers for rain have truly been heart-rending.
And here comes El Nino! Thank you GOD!!
I understand that when Clinton was asked about El Nino, he replied that he'd never had sexual relations with that woman.
Is she an Illegal alien?
yep,that the good news.........
Tractor skiing?
A lot of tanks in the Necessity area are dried up.
how did she get across the border????? does she has a visa????
Mostly cross-country. I'd like to find somebody to teach me a better telemark turn, however.
Damn! We are going ot have to put up with all that radical crap again ....
El Niño - La Niña - El Niño - La Niña - El Niño - La Niña - over and over every day - every news cast - every weather forcaster ... We're all gonna die!!
ARGGGHHHH!!!!
I'm trying to remember, but the last time we had this situation, we had a LOT of snow in the North East.
My husband came through your lovely city last week - he told me the grass was beautifully green and looks SOOOO much better than ours.
~jealosy~
El Nino could end the drought in Texas...
I hope so, my canoe is sitting in my garage gathering dust.
What county? I'm in Travis; mojave conditions here excepting the very recent rains. Our major thoroughfares & roads are buckling, water & gas mains rupturing, wells already dried up but they keep issuing building permits for 1000+ home subdivisions over badly-shrunken aquifers.
They just figured this out? We're wrapping up the wettest coolest monsoon season in Tucson since... well LAST El Nino and they're just figuring out this is an El Nino year.
they keep issuing building permits for 1000+ home subdivisions over badly-shrunken aquifers.
Katy, bar the door! Hate to change the subject but, this is exactly my problem with the TTC, More people and not enough sources of water.
Now we have a chicken and egg situation where we have all the "experts" a bit befuddled over the relative quiet so far in the Atlantic, Carribean, Gulf spawning grounds for the hurricanes and now the first indicators of an El Nino.
The recent past has been based on noting the warming in the Pacific in the fall prior to a mild tropical storm season.
Horse pastures around me are dust, absolutely no vegetation left at all, and the price of hay is through the roof. A large creek runs near me and the ducks are hard put to find enough water to splash around in. Many hard working people are facing financial ruin.
Whats this mean for Seattle Weather ???
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