(When it's not raining, it is pretty)
Yeah. We were milking last night while the rain pounded down. Cows didn't want to go back out into it, let me tell you. Take a day of fixing and changing to keep them in and they are really much better off out, so we insisted. They protested, but went eventually out to their feed in the heifer pasture.
They weren't the only ones. The barn was full of teen aged toadlets too, little couple-inches -long fellas that came inside out of the rain. (It has rained enough to drown slugs all over the paths where we walk) We are big herptile fans here at Northview, so the toads all got escorted outside to safety too. Nothing good about the collision between half a ton of cow on the hoof and half an ounce of Bufo.
Then when we came in the house, we found that a friend had put up videos of a little sneaky snake of a tornado up around Glen somewhere and other folks were saying that they had seen two. Another video I found this morning showed it coming right at one of our friend's family's farms, but is was sucked up into the sky before it hit them.
Wow! We didn't even get any wind to mention for which I am grateful. I guess the twisters were both little devil tails, stirring things up but not doing much damage. Still, this is weird as heck. Not your grandma's upstate weather.
Alan and I ran errands and visited folks earlier yesterday and came home along the river. You would not believe how big a channel it cut during the Irene and Lee flooding. Another wow. It looks like a glacier came through at warp speed, cutting gouges and flinging rocks and mud behind it.
We have stayed away from Schoharie and Middleburg and the other really badly damaged areas, but I shudder to think what it is like down there. Poor folks.
Hey, if by chance you want to read this week's Farm Side, the paper put it up online. Usually it is only on the pay site, but here it is if you are interested. Just Look and Listen
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$35 for 50# of sunflower seed? Yowsa Indeed! Thanks for the warning. I bought 10 bagslast fall and still have 1/4 bag left. I had planned on purchasing another 10 bags for this winter....OUCH!
Nice article explainging what's going on with the price, however.
BTW Love the thought of cows and toads cowering at the barn door not wanting to go our into the rain.
OK. This is too weird. I had a dream last night of a twisty dark little tornado in a hilly rural area . . .nobody hurt - just a little mayhem.
Swear to heaven . .
Honey. I am so glad you're on a hill.
And you're right. All that lush rolling green makes for some beautiful scenery.
I'm so glad you linked to your Farm Side article.
Fascinating information.
I love that bit about the flower heads becoming stationary after they set seed- toward the sunrise!
Too cool!
As for those chickadees of yours . . feeding out of your hands . . . awwwww :) and awwwww :) and awwwww :)
Yowsa, indeed! I'm almost out of seed, but I guess we'll hold off as long as we can and hope the price comes down.
I planted a few mammoths last spring in the hopes of growing my own. It was fun to watch the heads follow the sun each day.
But I only have two good heads, and they're still just flower, no seed. Frost needs to hold off for quite a bit longer, I think.
FYI: When I was looking for different ways to hull the seeds, (my husband likes them, too) I came across "Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden," a fascinating account of how Indians used to garden.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/buffalo/garden/garden.html#III
I think you'd enjoy it.
Black Oil sunflowers are on sale at local hardware store here this weekend for $25, and we are in sunflower growing territory. I thought we were expensive, not as bad as you, I see.
I sure am sick of the rain and looks like we are not going to get out of it for some time yet. I also sure do feel for the folks down there also!
Joated, a lady who reads the Farm Side called yesterday afternoon with the name of a place where they are only twenty bucks. Drop me a note if you want it. Guess the price is high now pretty much all over. And thanks
Cathy, that really is weird. So is this weather. Up until the last two or three years I had heard of maybe five tornadoes in this whole region in my whole life. Now they are coming with almost every storm. And I am glad of this hill too. The boss has complained about it ever since I met him. I hush him now. His daddy's choice of farms looks pretty good from where I am sitting. And the sunflower thing...they drive me nuts because I like to plant them where I can enjoy their sunny faces but all my good garden spots are to the south and east....lol
AKA, drop me a note and I will give you the name of a place that is supposed to have them for ten bucks for 25 pounds, about the same as last year. You can call...someone called me last night with the info. thanks for the link!
Caroline, wow! That is just crazy. I was dumbfounded when the boss handed me the bill for the darned things. I am afraid to open the bag. lol
Lisa, this rain is insane. Just insane. And walking around in the mud is killing my broken foot making it a misery to work. Whine, whine.
Food prices are climbing. And it seems that the sizes are shrinking while the prices are raising. With all the damage from the weather and the army corp or engineers food in any shape or form is going to come dear.
Linda
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