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i check national weather service.  They are reliable.  Today said 20% thunder showers.  ok.  but i got easy and went off to work Away without covering the alfalfa after the morning feed.  I like to leave it open to air out as much as possible.  Came home and lay on the futon for the afternoon nap,  everything just ok and nothing in the wind.  But then out of the blue,  like literally OUT OF THE BLUE  blue sky…..

STORM.

from the East….maybe kin to Harvey…..but a STORM.  probably the second biggest storm in the 20 some years i've lived here and being from the East,  causing trouble.  The open ends of all the Goat shelters face east because weather rarely comes from that direction.  Everyone pretty much got wet.

The Albatros,  where the grass hay is stored…a lot got wet.  The alfalfa bale,  uncovered,  got wet.  A lot of loss in feed.    Bummer.  But even though there was HAIL,  there we all were,  when SUN broke through and there was a double Rainbow and Gideon was mumbling as he does.

Compared to Texas,  nothing.  Compared to here,  a LOT.  

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7 responses to “surprise again….maybe it’s just a life of Surprise?”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Oye! Also AURGH$#$##@ for the feed loss. Unpredictable is what it is…our life on planet earth now (probably always was). So sorry.

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar

    can you spread the hay to dry it out before it spoils?

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    the goats will enjoy a big feast!

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I make the picture big .. zoom in and can see Tay looking and thinking WTF just happened. Hehehe Sorry Grace I should not be laughing but he just looks so befuddled looking at that puddle.

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  5. jude Avatar

    Sort of the same here last night. Out of the dark. With wind. But not as unusual. I had the rugs in the rail.

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  6. Liz A Avatar

    I tried to leave a comment earlier, but the ether wouldn’t have it.
    So, trying again … to say how water is such a potent force. It will have its way in its own time. How humbling that is when we see it, wherever we are.

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  7. faun bonewits Avatar

    can you turn the alfalfa over wet side down
    and recover the dryer stuff under neath?
    haven’t seen the neighbor but I will ask him
    if he’s made a bigger rice patch-
    because our weather has been so wet.
    the beavers would be the explanation why there’s a pond.
    wonder if ours will come back now the trapper has died.

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