Rain Rain Go Away!
It finally stopped raining, but the ground is soaked at our place. We pumped about 6-8 inches of water out of our basement 3 or 4 times before it slowed down. The dryer is not drying clothes as fast now... At the worst of it our septic tank seemed full, the toilet not flushing and water collecting in the tub after a shower. Yuck!
The pasture was like a shallow creek for days and water flowed directly through my barn and out the turn out shed on the east side. (Lucky for me, my hay was on pallets and stayed dry!) The turn out shed it trashed though, with Tango and Pete tearing up the wet floor. The stall in my other building stayed dry, so I hayed the boys in there and they spent a lot of time standing around in there (evident by the two wheelbarrows of poop I had to clean out!)
The ground is a mess, every step Tango takes he literally moves the earth (I weighed Tango the other day with a weight tape, it barely touched ends around his girth and the highest weight on it was 1400 lbs! He is a fatty!) On the first day of Spring, I took down my hot wire fence and let the boys in the back pasture, where the ground is a bit firmer. Our pond overflowed as well. No more rain!
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