We are too. It took out 3 trees. I went and grabbed pics. I will share later. Debris EVERYwhere. It was slamming into the house last (well early morning technically). It was awful. It snapped the tree in front of our bedroom window clean in half.
Oh my gosh. My kids think it is awesome. My 2 daughters (4 and 6) are outside in the jammies with nappy bed hair giggling and climbing over the downed trees. lmbo. My 11 year old adores storms period so I can't even get him to come inside to eat lunch. My 8yo boy however is not an outdoorsy dude and is playing games in his iPod. haha!I guess we all got slammed with this rainstorm!
Don't you wish we could be like kids and think this is "so cool" as the rain pours down and floods everything?(That's quoting my son, who is wearing choring boots and a jacket and running around outside!)
We have puddles deeper than the baby chicks are tall..........I just hope Momma Buffy is smart enough to keep them away from the water?
We also have leaning, broken fences and lots of tarps to repair. I can be really thankful that I'm not homeless right now! Stay safe and dry everyone!
I am SO grateful for these eggs! I have quite stash in my fridge! Getting between 8-12 eggs a day between all my birds and considering that is nearly how many that are at laying age it's pretty amazing!Just checking up on you guys. Happy Chooks that's was a close one. Glad noone got smooshed.
The sun has been shining here for about an hour. There was another BIG rainbow over the mountains. I wish I could have snapped the picture.
I'm hoping I won't find swimming chickens later on this evening.
Amy your a lucky gal to be getting all those eggs right now. I have I don't know know how many chickens and I'm getting a whopping TWO eggs max a day. I just keep thinking to myself all the eggsill be swimmn in come spring time!
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This picture is simply stunning.Deb, I would like to see a pic of how you used that runner on your coop. I think that I have the idea, though. I'd like to be able to do it in a way that doesn't look tacky, since those coops are the cute ones. I would love to have gutters on all my coops & barns for rainwater collection. That wouldn't help the leaky nest boxes, though. Both coops have eaves that should shelter the nest boxes but don't.
Kelly, sorry about your leak. House leaks are definitely worse than my little issue.
You and Cooper have such awesome trees, Laura too. I'm so envious. My place is mostly open with a handful of trees that are maybe 10-20 years old at most.
Wow, Ron, super work on the digests!
LOL on the hen in prison!
Last night, the wind woke me up at 1:30 am. 37 mph gusts according to the station 5 miles away. I was worried about the roosters in the dog kennel coop. It has blown over once, a few years ago. So, I told my husband that I needed to move them. He got out of bed and tromped across the property with me, and helped me move the roosters into a crate in the barn. I couldn't believe he did it without even griping. That's not usual. Maybe because he has supposed to have built me permanent rooster pens. I was grateful, just surprised. Roosters actually seemed calm about being moved.
Mid morning, rain stopped. I took this. Notice the BAD little steers who went through the fence and are in the olive orchard!
