The rain measured in the above picture occurred in less than 24 hours here on the farm, so spring gardening has come to a halt until the ground can dry out that 2.8" plus 0.5" plus whatever we have gotten in sprinkles the past few days. What is in the ground in the garden already (including the grass and weeds), is soaking it all up, and growing nicely (or too fast in the case with weeds). We are blessed that we live on sandy soil, and seemed to have just missed the complete deluge of 3 to 4 inches that happened just to the south of us the same evening. So things will not take a horrible long time to dry . . . we hope.
Until there are always the critters to take care of. Three baby turkeys living under the heat lamp in the garage. The two pigs who are eating like crazy, and make me sad that I don't have something that needs rooted up . . . they root with vengeance whenever we let them out of their pen. The calves are enjoying lush spring grass and have grown to be almost as tall as me, which is good but now allows them to reach over and slurp on my hair when I'm doing chores, which is not good. At least from my point of view . . . they seem to think its fun.
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