Hey folks..it's been raining..sometimes hard, sometimes soft since we awoke this morning at 3:40am from loud claps of thunder and eye piercing lightning..but it continues to be steady nonetheless. We're loving the precipitation, it does wonders for the soul, not to mention our garden, which by the way, I haven't checked on yet today. Our biggest fear is hail..it can devastate a garden! I don't think it hailed, typically we can distinguish the sounds of heavy rain versus hail, and I pray it was only heavy rain this morning, but I'll keep you posted.
Upon opening up the garage and meandering out in the light drizzle this morning, I was happy to discover our rain barrel's were over flowing, so more free water for the inside vegetation and good drinkin' water for the girls. If I was to guess, I would say we have gotten at least 2-3"! Which further supports the need for some weather gage apparatus on the farm.
The boys don't mind the rain, thunder or lightning, they go out regardless of the weather. But the girls on the other hand, they are fair weather "creatures", they "hate" the thunder, however, according to Maggy, a rain bath is much better than a hose bath any day of the week, but second only to a swim in a pond! Speaking of ponds, it's supposed to get up into the 90's tomorrow, so I need to give our neighbor a call today and ask permission to let the girls go down to his pond for an afternoon swim to keep their black coats cool!
R Dean
So glad you are getting all that great rainfall. Boy, I'm hoping you don't get hail, too!
ReplyDeleteWhenever I find my rain guage broken, which seems to happen an awful lot....
...I end up using a 5 gallon bucket until I get a new guage. The sides seem to be fairly straight, so it's not too inaccurate.
~Faith
Faith, hmmmm...never thought about that...is there a way to equate the measurement in a five gallon bucket to a rain guage, considering the surface area of the bucket is much greater than the rain guage? At least I would think that if you had 1" in a bucket, it would really be much more in a guage, but maybe that is not the case.
ReplyDeleteR Dean
Well, if your sides are straight up and down, it doesn't matter how big your rain guage is, so you can just take a ruler and see how much you got.
ReplyDeleteI am only wanting a fairly close 'ballpark' figure, so since my buckets are barely noticably wider at the top I just mentally subtract a little from the total.
Only one way to know for sure, test them side by side. It would be funny if my method was totally bogus after all these years. LOL
~Faith