Thursday, March 8. 2007

Rain

Okay, this is ridiculous. It's the 8th of March and it's raining here. The ground is still frozen underneath and there is still snow and ice around in places. Adding rain to this slushy, muddy, icy, miserable ground we have around here is not necessary. It just makes the cattle, My Darling Wife, and me miserable.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. Jacopo Sannazaro

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First its too wet, then its too dry, then they want the gov. to pay for it! You sound like a farmer.

#1 name on 2007-03-08 17:49 (Reply)

I'll be the first to admit that at times I say it's too dry and at times I say it's too wet, that's the nature of the agricultural game. This time around I am not complaining so much that it is too wet as the ground is frozen and the wet is not doing me any good but making it miserable around here.

Lastly, WHEN HAVE YOU EVER HEARD ME ASK FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO PAY FOR ANYTHING WHEN IT COMES TO DROUGHT OR FLOOD OR ANY OTHER DISASTER ON MY PLACE!!!

I might report what other farmers and ranchers are whining for in the way of aid but I always make it clear that I am not asking or lobbing for any kind of aid. Don't get me wrong, if the government offers a disaster program that I qualify for I apply, it would be foolish not to, but I never run around or here in my blog ask for one. It's too much like begging for me and I can't in good conscience do it.

#1.1 Sarpy Sam (Homepage) on 2007-03-08 18:17 (Reply)

we have been through droughts for the past 20 years up here in the north country of Montana and finally have mud, the reservoirs full and even some water in lakebeds! Looks beautiful through our glasses! Better than the dust blowing and birds standing with their wings out and their beaks open! Hope you have a good spring.

#2 mr. g. on 2007-03-08 22:01 (Reply)

Again I will say it, the extra moisture doesn't do any good when the ground is frozen about 2 inches down. It doesn't soak in and do any good. Not a hard concept to understand here.

I would rather get the ground thawed before all the moisture. That way I will store it instead of sending it down the Yellowstone to the Missouri and out of state. It doesn't do me, or anybody else in Montana, much good when it's out of state.

#2.1 Sarpy Sam (Homepage) on 2007-03-08 22:12 (Reply)

You must not have heard the joke with the farmer, rancher, and the banker going into a whore house. I was joking with ya, Just think it coud be 20 below and the wind blowing. Stranger things have happened than a little rain in MT.

#3 name on 2007-03-09 09:17 (Reply)

I sure understand where you are coming from. Too much of any kind of weather is just that-TOO MUCH.
Moderation in all things, including rain and dry weather.

#4 Marianne (Homepage) on 2007-03-09 17:09 (Reply)

I don't imagine that a bunch of rain and a top layer of mud is much fun with calving and haying.

#5 Genevieve (Homepage) on 2007-03-09 18:54 (Reply)

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