Tales from Skunk Hill
Yesterday this was as pretty as corn field as you’d ever want to see. Then we got 3.25 inches of rain last night.
Another field underwater.
Oh, well. At the least the wheat looks good.
You can see one of the flooded corn fields in the upper right.
On the plus side when I went back to look at the field in the second picture there was bald eagle sitting in the field. Magnificent!
Hoping this dries out quickly and you get average rain for the rest of the summer.
Well, like the Bible says, “the rain falls on the just and unjust alike,” (Matt 5:45)
I’m not saying which side of that we fall on, but all our neighbors are sharing in the bounteous rainfall too.
is there a rapid growth talapia breed? imagine the eagles surprise, no fish.
Dan, that reminded me of a time, 30 years ago I’d guess, when that same field flooded. When the water started going down the water ponded in the field had no path back to river.
So there were enormous carp trapped in the field. My brother and I splashed around in the field, trying to catch them.
Good times!
I wonder if that eagle was doing the same thing, catching fish that were stranded in the field?
less than 2 weeks ago, you were blogging that it would be a repeat of 2012 with 6 drops of rain…be careful what you wish for
will you be able to replant spots or is it too late?
[…] is the field that flooded last week that I posted about here. While I whined about this endlessly, we actually only had to replant about 3% of our corn […]
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