Rain Everywhere

Rain, rain and more rain. It sure is hard to get any haying done when all it wants to do is rain. For the past 5 days we have gotten .5 inches to 1 inch every day on our fields and pastures.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/wethay06282005.JPG'><img width='220' height='165' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/wethay06282005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' /></a></center><br />nThe hay lays on the wet ground trying to dry and not having much luck.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/wetbales06282005.JPG'><img width='220' height='115' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/wetbales06282005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' /></a></center><br />nI haven't even been able to finish stacking the bales, that's because I broke down though, but the rain doesn't help. Look at the alfalfa coming back. We will get a second cutting it looks like.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/barleylodge06282005.JPG'><img width='220' height='135' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/barleylodge06282005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' /></a></center><br />nI was mentioning how the barley hadn't lodged yet but now it has. That will sure make it hard to get dry, ripe, and cut. But we're lodging stuff everywhere.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/grasslodge06282005.JPG'><img width='220' height='165' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/grasslodge06282005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' /></a></center><br />nThis is a grassy flat that we feed on in the winter and sometimes hay. The grass on it is lodging and it's a mess. Lots of feed but I don't know when I will get to it.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/creek06282005.JPG'><img width='165' height='220' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/creek06282005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' /></a></center><br />nThis is water draining down the creek after the latest rain. When I looked at it earlier it was dry and when I come back by 2 hours later, 10 hours after the storm, this is what it looked like. It dumped some rain here that's for sure.<br />n<br />n<b>Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike</b>