Wow. It's cold, but the sun is shining!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

The rain was coming down in buckets, almost sideways in the howling wind. I looked outside my window to check on my 39 one-week-old, pasture-raised peeps in their brooder hut, and in the glow of the red lights, they were all playing the "chest bump" game and peeping about in the warm, dry grass while tarps covering their hut flapped and rattled violently in the wind.

These are gonna grow up to be some hardy girls I hope. And thank God the power didn't go out!

 

[LarryPQ]

Went out to the coop, it is half-flooded. Decided to let all the big kids out. They ran out, ran in, ran out, ran in....half of them are on the other side of the yard: either in the rain or in the playhouses. Silly chooks.

Tried to figure out why the coop was flooded. Turns out the roofing on the coop (corrugated metal roof panels) has holes in it on one side---because it is recycled material. The DH said he didn't think an occasional screw hole would make a difference. Which it shouldn't: except for the one time a year it rains here

 

[tdgill]

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awww jeez!

 

[LizFM]

Well Tempe finally got some rain this week!

Hours of good, solid, drenching rain! And it's still coming down.

We haven't really got a "storm" in our area (no real winds, no big lightening and thunder), just steady, drenching rain.

I wish we got rain like this more often!

My husband is out doing an irrigation system for a friend of ours (yes, really) this week. He says it's all my fault

 

[LarryPQ]

Poor Beaker! Beaker (formerly Dozer) is a sizzle. All this rain is SERIOUSLY messing up her coif. So sad.

 

[rufus]

As I recall, the winter of 1965 - 66 and the winter of 1966 - 67 we had rain for three weeks in a row. It snowed at Sperry Phoenix in 1966. Then again in the 1970's we had two consecutive winters with three or four weeks of continuous rain. It was glorious. Plants I had never seen before sprouted; there were wild flowers everywhere. The desert was carpeted with millions of tiny flowers.

The down side was the brush fires that started in late spring. The whole valley was covered with dried Mustard Weed and Malvia.

The bridges across the Salt River washed out. The only bridges still working were the old, new Tempe Mill Avenue Bridge, the railroad bridge and the Central Avenue Bridge. The state pressured the railroad to put on a commuter train so that people could get to work from the eastside. It was called the "Hattie B. Mosier Special."

I have been sick with pneumonia for the last week. My wife is "taking care of" my chickens, supposedly feeding them etc.

In this country, you never know if the roof leaks until it rains, and then it is too late.

Rufus

 

[the Pollo Loco]

Rufus I do hope you get to feeling better, I have been sick for the past month, but seem to be better now. It's just this weather, we need the rain, but we also need warm weather to start to feel better.

 

[rufus]

Yes, I caught a cold in the last week of August, and it just never went away. I am on that five day antibiotic again.

Rufus

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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You need something stronger than a 5-day antibiotic.

 

[debilorrah]