Faith from the Farm, Sharing as He leads!
We are now considered to be in an extreme drought. There are others in varying stages, but some have already reached the exceptional drought stage. Our area of Mississippi is now in the fifth driest August since 1895 with September stats about to be released. We did a little riding around this weekend to take a look at the pastures and noticed the extreme drought conditions and how they are taking a toll on the pastures.
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Well, it’s no surprise that hurricane season has started and we have had a tropical depression/ storm already! We aren’t quite sure how much rain we had during the storn, since the rain gauge was overflowing, but it was somewhere around 8-10 inches! There’s a lot of water!
We were doing a little looking around and checking on things and had to go across the pond. Of course, the pond is high and water is going through the spillway. To be honest, driving through the water made me nervous. The water was a bit high and it was moving pretty fast!
As husband went to drive across the spillway, I had him stop so I could take a picture. As always, that still small voice was speaking and this time I was listening.
Not sure about your area of the world, but around here, we have had A LOT of rain! Lately, we have been experiencing not only some heavy rain, but some pretty big storms as well. We are generally accustomed to storms; we have lived with hurricane seasons all of our lives, but these storms lately have been quite unusual. We have definitely not been saying, “let it rain!”
During hurricane season 2020, we had about 11 trees that were blown over and had to be stood back up and staked down, along our driveway. After one storm last week (not a hurricane), we had to stand 8 trees back up that the wind had blown over even though they were already staked down. Along with the wind, we have had a lot of rain. Each time the weather has been rough, we have gotten several inches of rain. I have really been tired of the rain, especially.
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