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2badlybent

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It has rained every other day here in northern NY state. In fact it is wetting the ground right now. Last year it did not rain for weeks and I was wishing for rain on a daily basis. Well I guess my wish has been granted. I now remember that old saying "be careful what you wish for, you may just get it". Or something like that.

But on the bright side I have been enjoying watching the wild turkeys learn how to swim.

The waves that the tires on my tractor make when I drive acrosss my hay field remind me of a visit I made onceto the beach .

The neighbors kids have stopped asking for a swimming pool and are just racing each other around the cornfield, doing the backstroke.

My wife has stopped complaining that the dust from my farming is ruining her newly washed clothes.

I was feeling good about my corn still growing through the water until I discovered it was cattails I was seeing.

I know I have a lot to be thankful for and I am not complaining, just looking at the bright side.
 
And here I thought it was because "I" asked for rain a little too much last year.

Getting kinda hard to look for the brite side anymore,but I suppose we'll look back SOME day and have a good laugh about it. Just won't be any time too soon.
 
I hear ya. Im in NNY St. Lawerence Co. as well it's a lot different than last year. My place is pretty flat so I don't know when it'll dry out. I guess I'll get to haying as quick as I can.
 
You want to dry out come to northeastern NM or the Texas panhandle, we have had less than 4 inches a rain this year total and since last year less than ten total for two years sure wish You guys complaining would send some this way. This county 4 years ago had 40,000 head of cattle now less than 4000 and all of them are being fed daily I guess untill we can"t afford it anymore. Just hoping it"l turn around before we are all gone
 
I think you're on the right track.
Find some humor in it, because you can't change it.
Easy for me to say, I know, as my living doesn't rely on weather.
But it used to, so I can understand what ya'll are going through.
Hoping it dries out just enough to be a bumper crop! :)
 
We have been laughing because wild geese and ducks are just taking up residence in road ditches and wet spots in fields. Seriously wet here.
 
2badly, where are you from? I'm over near Brendon in the Ogdensburg area.

Know what you mean about the rain. My "corn field" has muskrats in it.
 
Yea I hear ya. I'm a bit south of you in the Mohawk Valley (new york state).. at my farm rain gauge says we have had 13.3 inches of rain over the last 22 days. Last week I plowed a piece, want to plant some late annuals for green chop (millet or sudax) My old Allis was struggling a bit with the 4x16 plow, but I kept going. After a couple of hours, I had the occasion to turn into the plowed ground...I was unpleasantly surprised ... the plowed ground was actually mud...and I had to struggle to get the old girl out of it... went back to the house and had a beer. Boy, it sure is wet out there... pastures look good though and the water table seems to have recovered from last year's dry spell. Hope we have a dry spell .. I'd like to get more hay baled.
 
Two years ago it was so wet here that the tractor tires had water running off them every time I mowed. It rained either every day or every other day, and weekends were a washout.

Last year was pretty much OK, and this year has been pretty dry but such late frosts that some of the corn has just been planted. If the weather holds just right, it will probably make a crop, but don't know how much yields will suffer. Saw a large field on our road that the corn was all of about 2 inches tall, some other fields that were 6 - 8 inches.

Myron
 
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