The Power of Water...

The power of moving water is devastating.

We are very, very lucky.

Many others were not so lucky.

Instead of napping when I knocked out hubby,

I walked and looked.

We do have a home and noone lost their life,

for that I am thankful.

This was pasture.

This was a fence.

The water was shirt-deep as I walked up the creek.

I was checking on the culverts I posted about a few weeks ago.

This is where they used to be,

this one landed WAYYYY down stream.

Can't cross here any more.

To give you an idea how large these are,

This is my foot as I am climbing over.

We were blessed with a beautiful day.  Promise of more rain in two days makes me uneasy.  All pond levees held and the terraces did their jobs well...it could have been much worse.  Mother Nature has reshaped the land and we will work with what we have.

The road out of our valley is more like a pioneer trail,

but the sky smiled today.

Always Working At The Farm

Job for a day...almost all day! Just think if we had to do it by hand. We needed access to the garden without going around the spring and all the way back down. After looking through what we had on hand, we decided to use some old concrete culverts Dad had collected and saved through his years on road construction.

Den's tractor is light and he would be working downhill into a ditch with all the weight on front so he hooked Dad's old disc to counter the weight.

This spring branch we are working on was first hand dug by Dad. He had a system set up to divert the spring water to the pond or pasture when needed. Through the years we have widened and deepened this diverted branch and made it the main branch. It now feeds into the pond and then runs over into the creek.

After chaining two and hauling from the barn, we have to decide the best placement.

The boss (me) is making sure they are aligned because the real boss can't see cause the bucket's in the way.

Later the finished project with four culverts hooked together. The water is still muddy but will be clear soon. Now we can drive into the garden from either side. We have also made it easier to siphon and irrigate the garden.

How's that for boring?