Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Sydney?

Correct!

 

[rural mouse]

Everyone, we are safe. The water was the worst we have ever saw here since we moved here in 2001. We did not have to run. We did move the horses onto the hill for about 2 hours. We lost power about 7 am yesterday morning and it just came back on. I am making my first pot of coffee and going to fix dinner real quick and then download some pictures for a real update later.

@Marie2020 here's the update

 

[Ponypoor]

Laverne’s toe part two

 

[featherhead007]

Laverne’s toe part one

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I feel so bad for Laverne. I love her grey feets. Same as my Blue’s feets.

 

[lightm]

We Have a Second Layer!

Someone laid these beauties in Hattie House.

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Who is it? Guess before checking!

Spoiler: Who is Laying Now?

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It's Miss Sydney!

I was making my lunch and I saw her pacing around Hattie House trying to find a way in. The door was closed because of the awful weather over the weekend. Well I have seen that passing before. Out the door I went. As soon as I opened the door she was up and in. I knew that meant she was either close or ready to go.

Look how much bigger her eggs are than Aster's.

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No wonder they were exploring together!

 

[lightm]

Everyone, we are safe. The water was the worst we have ever saw here since we moved here in 2001. We did not have to run. We did move the horses onto the hill for about 2 hours. We lost power about 7 am yesterday morning and it just came back on. I am making my first pot of coffee and going to fix dinner real quick and then download some pictures for a real update later.

so so so happy to see you are ok!

 

[featherhead007]

News of the neighbor lady I sent to hospital. I picked her up from same hospital and she’s now comfortable at her own home. Doctor said she’s fine but high blood pressure has been treated.
(I know that feeling)
I’m just glad I could help her out with her emergency

 

[featherhead007]

News of the neighbor lady I sent to hospital. I picked her up from same hospital and she’s now comfortable at her own home. Doctor said she’s fine but high blood pressure has been treated.
(I know that feeling)
I’m just glad I could help her out with her emergency

Taxes:
Birds are up there somewhere

 

[Ponypoor]

I feel so bad for Laverne. I love her grey feets. Same as my Blue’s feets.

Don’t feel too badly for her, it didn’t stop her from digging through the straw in the horses’ stalls.

Now she has her nice blue vet-wrap bandage on she can really dig.

 

[Ponypoor]

Picture time.

I took these just as it was breaking daylight. We moved the horses a hour later as the water rose to the edge of their stalls. Thankfully that is where it stopped in my yard. The barn flooded, the gazebo in the horse ring as you can see if flipped over and the concession water rose to the window. Tomorrow I will go see just how bad it got inside the concession, I am afraid to look honestly. The ring is still flooded so when it recedes the ring fencing may be totally shot. Around midnight we had a drunk try to drive through the water to get home. He is so lucky. One of my neighbor's waded the water to get him to safety. Another poor soul was not so fortunate. A gentleman in a blue pick-up tried to drive through and his truck got stuck. He stepped out and went under. They have yet to find him. Do not know who he is as they finally moved the truck this afternoon to hope to get some identification on him to know who they are looking for. 8 hours after the rain stopped it dropped 30 degrees and we woke up to snow this morning. It has since melted off but still very cold. We have a snowstorm coming tomorrow night into Wednesday with several inches expected. Thank god we have power and heat back but so many do not have homes anymore. They are saying this is as bad as the 1984 flooding. School is closed indefinitely. One of the high schools completely flooded. It was being used as a emergency shelter. They had to evacuate it to Rosie's high school. Right now there are over 100 people there. I thank each and every one of you for your thoughts and prayers. Please, please keep them coming many places are still flooded and it will be weeks not days before the exact extent of the damage is known.

After I took these photo's I packed my camera up and loaded my last bag into the car.
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Water is so destructive, I am very thankful you and your family are ok.

And on a more practical side, I hope your hay supply is undamaged. And your bedding too. I know how important these things are.