I can't believe it's been three months since my last post. It's been a long dry summer since. July 6th 2017 was the last hard rain we've seen. Since then, we've only had .9 of an inch of rain. The place is brown and crispy right now. We started feeding hay in late August as the pasture just had no moisture left to grow. We hemmed the cattle up next to the barn, but eventually it got so dry that the big steer figured out that the fence wasn't shocking him anymore, and being 800+ pounds, there wasn't much the fence could do. So it goes! :-)
There's been rain all around us, a lot due to Hurrican Harvey, just not much here. For the year most measuring stations are more than 2.5 inches of rain above normal. Our little homestead has to be more than 4 inches below normal. It really has affected everything on the Homestead. We lost a couple of trees, the chickens laying has gone down, and the pasture is pretty beat down. Hopefully the Japanese persimmon will come back in the spring.
The orchard swales kept that area producing far long than anything else. One of my goals for this fall is to put 3 swales in the back of the place to slow down rain run off and to direct all the excess rain into the pond.
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