Great American Desert Pics

[Oldtimer]

I took the camera out with me when I did chores...This is what the Great American Desert looks like when we actually get rain...This is after 2.6 inches yesterday and last night and 5 inches in about a week- and its still raining...Last year we got 10 inches total for the whole year.....

Poor Jessy -Looks like a drowned rat...

This is the yard this morning...

Looking south across the hay meadows toward the Creek (which I heard is bank full-- with a wall of water coming from above)...This is the route I have to drive to get another bale into the bulls)...

But this is what it can produce--By the driveway into the house-- Usually mow this for a picnic area- but may have to picket the horses on it...

The corrals are a lake...

This is my catch pen/saddling pen... Feedpans were all under water this morning....

 

[Frankie]

Than's for the pics. Seeing all that water made me smile. Our weather men have been giving us good chances for rain all week, but so far not a drop. This morning they promised that tonight it will rain. We're not in bad shape. All the stock tanks are full and we have more grass than cows, but I am worried about subsoil moisture. So bring it on. :lol:

 

[DrumRunner728]

We haven't had rain in months. Sure wish we had some of that stuff in the pictures!

 

[*Cowgirl*]

Can I PLEASE have some rain? Pretty please with a cherry on top?

 

[Rustler9]

If ya'll have any extra, please send some our way too.

 

[63DH8]

Looks like a normal sunny day in Western Washington.

 

[Oldtimer]

This much rain around here is almost unheard of....
In fact Grandma and I were just talking and it reminded me that the last time we got this much rain in such a short period (3+" in 24 hours and over 5" in the last week here-- some areas have got up to 7") was in Oct. 1986- remembered as the year of 2 floods-- and the creeks rose the Milk River so high our county road was flooded under-- and since she was due with daughter #3, I made her stay in town for several days....River dropped enough the night before she had her, that I drove thru the water and brought her home (to haul her back thru the water to the Hospital the next AM :roll: ).....

Creeks are really flooding- over some roads I guess, but they think the Milk is low enough it won't flood.....