Got rain!

Here in eastern NY we have been getting 3 inches of rain a
week give or take for the last 3 weeks. This is our crossing to
the back of the farm. It's washed out 4 times in the last 5
years, the water going in the pipes in near 9- 10 feet deep,
there's 3 pipes below the one half full in the top pics. Thanks
to Steve Terplack who gave me a 30 inch or so culvert pipe it
now handles the water and hasent washed out!??? Yet!! This
same creek was bone dry last summer!

Its ridiculous, "and the hits keep on coming" Incredible how the darned weather systems keep showing up and taking a hard left right towards us, right up the pipe "hudson river valley". right on target. (2) 36 hour soakers, a 3 day soaker, and heavy thunderstorms in between. I put a ditch in with my 1 bottom, a few weeks ago, the furrow is full, and running. Have to wonder what the sweet corn will do if I ever get to to plant it, well I snuck a row in near my upper patch, fenced in along the berm on the edge, will have to hand pollinate it, cukes are yellow now ! Need some sun here or something soon.

I'll say!! Had to dig out two culvert pipes today that plugged up with sticks,rocks and leaves---and the weather is calling for more thursday and friday

We have been lucky to this point but the fields can't keep taking it without affecting the crops. At some point soon the fields will need to be sprayed. I don't have a MFWD tractor about 50 to 60 hp to pull the sprayer but today I started searching. If I called the custom guys I would be at the bottom of the list at this point.

Yep, those weather systems have been forming in the Southeast and working their way North. I have had about 6 inches of rain so far this June in SC.

KEH

I guess its better than a drought, sure wish the folks that need it could have some though, we'll get through it soaked or not, the show must go on LOL !!!

PS, I know its excess rain, and if you want to know why, you won't believe it but while sitting in my corner in the basement, back of the garage I was finishing dinner, I have hawk like peripheral vision for some reason, anything that moves gets my attention, so I see something, before I could look, thought it was a mouse, nope, a green tree frog, they can change color. He hopped his way all the way back to my chair and sat there watching TV! I picked him up, set him in a container with water, and put a lid with holes on it, all the dry dust or what have you on the floor, figured he'd like that, watched some TV, then took a bunch of photos to remember him, I went over to the tallest black cherry in the yard and in the rain, precisely at midnight too, set him free so he could get back to being a tree frog. Must have been too much darned rain, he had to come inside, it made my night, had I not been there he may have dried up, or got in a bind, been years since I have seen one of these with the suction cup hands and feet, the last time one was clung to my back door, in rainy wet weather like we have now. So, that kinda made me forget the rain, enjoyed observing the little guy and setting him free ! Not the first time I had visitors, had painted turtle stop in one night, and had a bunch of goslings follow me in, darned canadian geese, trying to sell me anti-depredation propaganda LOL ! Sure is no shortage of curious critters here, even the darned weasel had to show up back in March, must be the man cave charm LOL !

I hear you! we just have hay, but fields are swamps, can't even walk on them let alone hay them. Weather guy said tonight we got 10 inches of rain last week of may until now. Last summer we had a drought now this nonsense!

I didn't spray my oats May 27 or so because I thought it was a little wet. And you know the rest of the story! It got wetter. So I finally got through them last week. Did something I never did before- sprayed until 9:30 PM one night- in the dark!
I bought a new sprayer last year which holds a little over 600 gal. I spray mostly liquid N, so it's quite a load. I also bought a CaseIH 5230 MFWD to pull it with. Works quite nicely.

Culverts look good...
On their third lives..
Need any more? Still got a couple hanging around.
Landscaping bus. Must be tough right now,
Looks like we won't be baling any time soon...might need to get some flotation tires for all my equiptment with this weather. Lol
Stay dry

Lol! We cut way back on the lawn mowing so were not behind like the past years! Were doing more landscape work. I know the hay is ready, but it will be awhile before it dries out around here.!

Sorry, I see I spelled your last name wrong!!!

So Billy...gotta ask'....how many times did ya kiss that frog hopin' fer a princess???

What was supposed to be a corn field this year has geese swimming in it and I think a muskrat is eyeing it for a new den. I barely got my potatoes in the ground and so far the only thing in the garden are a few tomatoes, peepers and peas. There are streams running in the woods like it's spring.

You watch, it'll get terribly hot and people will be complaining within an hour of stripping off their sweatshirts!

ROFLMAO...... none... ! ain't that desperate, LOL ! though that'd be nice seeing the "bachelorhood" is where I'm at for a long time, it seems the "no good deed goes unpunished" premise is always true, saved a frog, said something on YT about it, now I'll have to take some razzing about it LOL !

Thats ok, I still cannot believe this little guy just hopped his way all the way to the back, and sat there pointed at the TV, without a worry in the world, coincidence or not, probably saved his bacon, dry basement, maybe he'd have found his way out but he showed up at the right time. Clingy little fella, suction cups work nice, sticks to whatever he lands on.