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Next drought you farm boys call me and I will plan a fishing trip your way. All f'n summer it has rained on the weekends I plan on fishing the river. my lawn looks about like huntsmans. The deader the better with the lawn I had rather have sex with a chainsaw than waist fishing time mowing, hate it worse than prison sex.

I was up in Brusett country last Friday working cows just before the storm hit. Glad I got out of there before it did. I've been rained-in in that country before and had no desire to repeat that. No way with the highway tires I have on my truck would I have gotten out of there if it had rained even .25 inch of rain.

One thing about being dry is the bugs aren't bad.


I just went outside and walked around my backyard(in town)....


No-see-ums by the hundred. Took a minute before I noticed but those little bastards were all over me.

If you have ever been bitten by a black widow I hear the mosquitoes won't bother biting you, Sam. It may work with those suckers too.

Storm which brought the west some rain. Hurricane Marie

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-hurricane-marie-in-the-eastern-pacific/

I got bit by a fat widow........

It apparently didn't work.

Nor did skinny......

I'm still lookin'.

Vinny

I'm thinking it was a good idea to pull the old pump.



Very glad I drove down last Friday to check on the erosion.

Went back today and the river is way up. We checked the flow data online and it's running twice as much water as it was last week.




I got a little nervous thinking about the other pump upriver.

Major chit coming downstream, big logs and random debris and I was paranoid a snag floated down and hung up on the floater.

Luckily the spot is right off the main channel's path, positioned just behind a little bend and the junk shoots past about 50-100 yards away.


Not much room left though, hopefully the river has crested. The Milk must be fairly full to raise the Missouri this much.








Absolute jungle, gonna be like June in September for a week or two.

You've been posting about all the work you did to those pumpsites all summer. Would have been a bummer to see them washed out the 1st summer

Easy(hopefully) fixes and at least with all the rain we are done irrigating.


The plan was to spread decent soil over the sites this Fall and plant grass. I have a $500 bag of 'native' grass seed laying in my garage just for that project.....

Get them sodded up and it they shouldn't wash near as easy or bad. Of course we got 5x the normal August rain in one storm beforehand.


Always a monkey wrench in the plan!

I guess the plus side is you didn't use the seed and have that get washed away aswell.

If everything goes as planned we should have our hay done by Saturday. Then we can work on other projects til our corns ready.

How's the corn lookin'?


Ours needs a few more weeks, cutting it kinda close. Was about 40F the other morning.

Man, farming seems like a hell of a way to make a living sometimes..

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.co...9b840b6-2d6a-11e4-8f20-001a4bcf887a.html

Sorry Sam but more headed your way. Came through here today but we needed it

That was a good story, pretty much described the situation.
I'm sure the big farmers are nervous. Tremendous input costs and bumper crop and then right at harvest the chitstorm hits....


We checked fields this morning. Little funky but at least it's almost 90F and breezy now.


And the pasture should green back up. Hell out south of Glasgow the dams filled in a little. One big one washed out....


Good deal for the cattle and sure dropped the fire danger.

We were scary dry here for awhile.





Keith, I think it's sunshine here for the week and then who knows!

Hope you get dried out soon Sammo. We finished our cucumber harvet last week...that's usually our nail biter on rain.

They're finally getting at it around here.. Going to be sleeping to the sounds of the harvesters for a few nights.

I hope it works out for the best.

Cool pic.

Pretty crazy pic.



We're having an above average year so no complaints here.

Around here most don't start chopping corn til the last week of September and usually everyone's done by the end of Oct. But it varies year to year. If we get an early frost or not.

This morning (5am) my dad said it was 41 or 47 down by the creek. So falls definitely around the corner.

That pic is uuuber.

Combines and grain trucks running like a mofo here today.

Rained all night here, boys can't get a real break in this chit!