Friday, July 22, 2016

The Morning Commute

The drought here wears on.  Since the second week of May we've had less than 1.0 inch of rain.  The only things green now are the trees and the thistles.  :-/


The sheep are in the south pasture again.  Stuff they left last time looks interesting now.  We've also started to feed hay in the barn feeders at night so they have something to munch on if it's too hot to graze much during the day or pickings are too sparse.  It's leftover hay from last year.... we'd really like not to dip into this year's hay since it doesn't look like second cutting is going to happen.  We should have juuuussst enough of the first cutting to get us through a normal winter.

Since the pasture isn't green and yummy the trek out of the barn in the morning is a sedate affair and the girls were easily distracted by me standing by the fence.


If anybody knows a good rain dance we'd sure appreciate you doing one on our behalf.

7 comments:

  1. How many sheep do you have now? I so wish i knew a good rain dance, we are dry here in Western MA too.

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    1. Let's say "a few" more than 130. (wink, wink)

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  2. How many sheep do you have now? I so wish i knew a good rain dance, we are dry here in Western MA too.

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  3. We're having downpours every other day, at least, in Savannah GA. I'd be glad to send you some rain, and about 10°F too.

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    1. We're already hitting over 90 so I think you can keep the extra 10 degrees, thanks. haha

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  4. On an unrelsted matter, I've used your kate during Tour de Fleece, and it works great. No tangled singles.

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    1. Super! So glad to hear. Feel free to post pics on Nistock Farms facebook page. We'd love to see your spinning!

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