Wednesday, January 20, 2010

It's Raining


The rains came. My little rain gauge had well over 1" of water in it. The pens are flooded. Poor horses. We usually get less than 6" of rain a year. Getting 20% of that in 48 hours is quite unusual. The horses pack down their pens all year long then, when the rain comes, it just forms one big lake. And because the pens are a few inches lower than the surrounding ground, there's no place for the water to drain. More rain is predicted...

3 comments:

Tuff e Nuff said...

Cool photo John. We got your rain only ours is coming down and freezing! My horses are just thrilled about it!

John Harrer said...

Do you have puddles or little ice ponds? Our poor horses are standing in mud all day.

Tuff e Nuff said...

Both!