The summer heat is on. We have had a few days of milder weather, but generally, the temperatures have been in the the mid to upper nineties with a heat index as high as 124 degrees. I try to get the chores done in the morning before the heat sets in for the day. Evening […]
I’m always busy, regardless of the time of year, but as I go through my notes of the past couple of weeks, I began to realize that it feels a little ramped up, even for me. I always keep a calendar in my phone up to date, a calendar for a page-a-day for events and
The past couple of days have actually been nice, weather wise and I am grateful. The sweltering heat and humidity gave way to a nice rain storm and several days of high temperatures in the eighties with a little more rain forecasted later this weekend. On Monday, Tom and I loaded up Yoda onto a
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Between days of extreme temperatures of 100 degrees with a heat index of 125, we have also had some intense bouts of rain. Welcome to Oklahoma. A few days after my Cornish cross chicks arrived, a huge storm blew through, blowing four inches of rain sideways into the chicken tractor in the early morning hours.
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We knew it would happen. It happens almost every year. Day after day of spring rain, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and occasionally, flooding. Then the rain stops, and it gets hot, very quickly. It had been too dry previously for much flooding, but everything else went as it always does. Now, it’s hot and dry. The mud
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I saw a meme the other day that hit pretty close to home. It said, “I’m glad it rained again; my mud was getting dehydrated.” From the last blog post a couple of weeks ago, we’ve gotten another seven inches of rain, giving us a total of 34.3 inches so far this year and 17.45″
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Since my last blog post on May 9, we have received 4.4 more inches of rain. Add in the rain from the first part of May and our rain total on the farm comes to 8.7″ for the month and that includes the 1.6″ we got over night last night when a nice thunderstorm blew
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We have had so much rain lately. Since April 26, we have received nearly 13 inches here on our farm. Our pastor says they have had even more than that. I’m grateful that we are on a hill, but the mud is deep and hard to walk through in some places. We have had no
Crystal’s piglets are growing quickly and are completely different in personalities than Wattles piglets were. I have a lot to learn. I’m enjoying the process though. Most of the time, the piglets are content to sleep in their pig hut, but I’m going to have to keep an eye on one of them. That little
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Well, many things about this spring are very normal. The pollen is very high, along with the wind. Those two aspects are just part of Oklahoma life. What has been different this year is the lack of, not just rain, but severe thunderstorms. Don’t get me wrong, we have gotten some rain, but not the
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