The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: feldar on August 11, 2011, 06:41:50 pm
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Just saw the news and all the rain you guys in Scotland are getting again, hope you are all ok and coping. It's so ironic, down here on the south coast i was watering the garden this morning cause we are so dry!
and they wonder why farmers moan so much ::)
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Yep it's raining in Cumbria (again ::)) too.
The bloody tup has got over the wall to the ewes and it's been so wet for the past two days I can't see to put up some wall-topping nor hold the post-knocker. Hopefully no ewes are interested in him!
More rain forecast tomorrow too :-[
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Thanks feldar - but it ain't just Scotland! (Oh, jaykay just posted from further south in Cumbria - wet there too :()
Can't do nuthin. Shorn sheep miz. Unshorn sheep (neighbour's) miz. Cattle miz. Ponies glad they have rain channels in their native coats, but still miz. Pig a bit miz but likes the ground soggy for rootling. Dogs only miz as there's less sheep work, otherwise still boinging about being collies.
When the rain eventually stops it'll take several days for the grass and ground to dry enough to even think about cutting grass.
Hope the tup's fun was indeed rained off, jaykay! ;)
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Sorry i didn't mean to not include all the northeners too.
And just to make you feel better our shearling ewes and tup were caught amberling down the road to Milford on sea last night, i think they fancied a night on the beach, took us ages to round them up.
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I was very happy to see the rain evne though my back arden was flooded - it cleared all the poo from the burn that runs through my garden and now the ducks can get out to play in it ;D
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And still it rains :P
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Heavy rain here in North Yorkshire too, pig padocks are minging to the point i may have to bring them in for a few days! :-\
Grass is all shin deep and the clover seems to have exploded everywhere, the only animal happy is Delia pig who is rotivating the fromt field like a bulldozer, she's one helluva turf stripper. ;D
Weather lady promised a dry weekend so fingers crossed as we're off to Ripley show on Sunday.
Mandy :pig:
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Yeah still raining here too. And I now need to go and have a chat with the girl who rides my highland pony 3 days a week - went up this morning to find a rug on her!!! Poor thing was sweating >:(
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Raining here in Devon too. Too much mud to do any work outside :(
The pigs are loving the mud though :love: :pig: :love:
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Been dry and sunny here until about an hour ago. Now drizzling. But the ground is sodden and puddled from the torrential rain on Wednesday.
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Yeah still raining here too. And I now need to go and have a chat with the girl who rides my highland pony 3 days a week - went up this morning to find a rug on her!!! Poor thing was sweating >:(
Davy (Fell) says he's cold (ears cold to the touch) and having to eat dried old thistles. Floss (other Fell, born and bred on the hills) says she's toasty warm and full up.
Both Fells are fat as tunky pigs. :D
But I will bring Davy in overnight if this continues for very many more days.
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:D
The sheep want to know what's this they hear about goats being brought into a nice dry byre when it rains. But the goats would like to know when I'm going to evict the noisy, smelly, annoying chooks from their abode :D
Rumour has it that Sun and Mon are going to be dry
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Bleh...it rained all over my eldest son's wedding in Edinburgh...my hat got wet :-[
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Oh I'm sorry, rain does spoil the photos :-\
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Oh I'm sorry, rain does spoil the photos :-\
Actually, my then best friend got married decades ago, the rain pelted down all day but the very clever photographer with some judiciously placed golfing umbrellas managed to make it look as though it had been dry all day.
I'm sure your son's photographer was just as cunning, Skirza.
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Cunning he was, he went to the church gardens the next day and took photos and superimposed the bride and groom onto them. Rain aside, it was such a wonderful day nothing could have spoiled it :D
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We finally had a dry day today so after a second field drain burst (first one cost £350 to get JCB out to fix a few months back :o ) I was out trying to redirect the flow away from my shortly to be ex-neighbours in all the rain and today I thought I'd finally finish the ragwort pulling which I did ;D While up the slope behind the house I spotted cars slowing right down round the bends, normally they are out of the 30 zone 200 yards before my house the other side, like bats out of hell and doing 70-80 by the bends, so "slowing" means about 60 ::) but some were actually braking so I assumed the ditch needed some assistance.. It was flooding into the field my side but I can't clear the ditch as the fence is between, but I decided I could go out on the road and help drain the road into said ditch (and onto my land ::) ) which I duly did..
Only the blasted drivers not only didn't slow down when they saw me, they one after the other for the 40 minutes odd I lasted, completely soaked me and not a brake light on as they passed (I had to keep turning my back so saw them going away). Indeed some apparently thought it necessary to pull in as tight to the turn as possible and soak me from boots to head >:(
I came back soaked after doing 4 lots of channel digging, so the road has a trickle but nothing like as much surface water, my field is more flooded, the field drain will have to wait for the JCB to come out (which he can't when it's so wet as he just wrecks the ground more and the soil he needs to dig turns liquid and slides back ::)
So I had a shower this morning, dozens of cold dirty showers from the passing traffic, another shower when I got back to the house, and then started cleaning the hens out and the collapsed under-sink kitchen cupboard so guess what, I now need another one ::)
Just as well I don't have ducks, I'm starting to feel I might turn into one ::)
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An air rifle to the tyres seems in order - how bloody rude of those motorists >:(
With us it rained still though less than the past few days. Tomorrow is supposed to be dry and I might finally fence the tup out from the ewes and keep my fingers crossed that he did no harm ::)
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Hope you are right Jaykay, we had a tup serve a ewe on a moving trailer to a show once.It was the only time they were together and she held to that date, so good luck i would write the date in your diary and look forward to some New year lambs!!
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Even further a-field (eastern Germany) we've had rather too much rain. The river is full, the sheep were paddling on the field (Ive put them in the front garden for a bit as it drains better) The horse is chewing up his field even the Bentams looked twice before following the rest outdoors this morning.
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Some of you may have noticed that the wettest place in the country on Thursday was the RAF base just a few miles away from me... (It's not the first time, neither)
But, it was much drier here today, managed to get the calves out for a few hours. Merry lived up to her name, had a lovely time. :)
ellied those motorists don't deserve your help directing water away from the road. I hope they all drive too fast through puddles concealing potholes and wreck their tyres and suspensions.
jaykay, I just hope the girls felt too wet and miz to entertain your boy... but like feldar, I'd have the lambing kit ready by early January...
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and again...I am so fed UP. YEsterday I felt hopeful that I was going to burn blighted postato foliage, ragwort and all sorts of other rubbish weeds - no, they get soaked again instead >:( >:( >:(It wasn't even forecast, grrrr :&>
Ellie, so kind and brave you are to help - motorists do not slow down even for kids on that same road. Before they put the 20mph up by the school we walked 30 of them over to the path a few times - we waved at the cars, no response, shot by with 60. I was pleased to see a police car near the school the other day, some got a hefty fine - 20 is very slow on a country road ;D ;D ;D! :&>
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like everyone else, i would like the rain to stop...even for a day or two :(
but then again, we wouldnt have this delightfully green and lush countryside if we didnt have the rain...personally i'd rather have the lush green.......
but i do think a polytunnel needs to move up the priority list...teehee...
off to pickle some cukes and make some ratatoulie
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While up the slope behind the house I spotted cars slowing right down round the bends,
Only the blasted drivers not only didn't slow down when they saw me,
I had a similar experience in February's rainstorms. Got caught on Linnmill Bridge - car stalled in 2 feet of water and died - almost dark. 10 cars, yes10!!! drove to the edge of the waterline and turned back the way they had come without even opening their windows to shout if I was OK. They could see me and I had my hazard lights on. After 'phoning a friend' the Police and then the Fire brigade arrived to push me out, then a breakdown lorry to fetch my car to the knackers yard! Poor Zaffyone :'( :'( Zaffytwo is very careful where she takes me on being told about her predecessor! ;) ;D
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off to pickle some cukes
sorry but what is a cuke?
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:dunce: :dunce: cucumber sorry :dunce:
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God you poor things!!! my ground is so dry i am finding hard to push the fencing posts in for the pony, i swear one day i will slip and get one in the eye. We've had a bit of drizzle but that's it out watering again this morning hmmrph
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Someone must be getting a good year for rainfall. We're still mostly dry and worrying about the grass
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I bet we had all yours on top of our own ;D
Blue skies today - will be outside as soon as the kids are away back to school, I don't remember them ever having had such bad weather in the holidays (but they probably did ;D) - the only week od sunshine when we were away, bad timing! :&>
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I'm going away for a couple of training courses tomorrow and next week so given I'm unable to do outdoor jobs here I reckon it'll be warm and sunny ::)
I've sorted the ragwort eventually but the heap waiting to be burnt is sodden and some at the bottom will be starting to rot all over my drive ::) And the weeds will be growing faster than the veg so that could do with attention..
Farrier trimmed 7 of the ponies yesterday and 3 of them had the start of separation in the hind foot toe area :o probably from paddling in all the surface water :o He's coming back in 3 weeks to do the other 7 so fingers crossed for some dry - I'm wondering when anyone will be able to harvest as I can see combines sinking in fields for weeks to come ::)
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i was over in the bow of fife on monday the combines were working then :farmer:
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The combines were out all night on monday all through the night, mate was combining and his cousin leading in the grain while i was baleing as fast as we could to get crops and straw in
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Combine out cutting rape well into the night on monday but it peed down nearly all day yesterday so very damp this morning expect nothing will happen until late pm when the sun has done its job. Glorious today, it seems though that there are no two days alike at the minute!
mandy :pig: