Moisture

8/07/06 - 2nd Day - Morning. We finally received some rain yesterday. I would say somewhere less than 1/2 total, but it will help. The garden hadn't been watered in over a week. The prognosticators are saying we could have more rain today and tonight. Lord willling. We had company drive down yesterday from Ft. Worth for fellowship. Our Lord's Day goes like this:

10 a.m - Singing. Elder David has been adding songs to our homemade hymnals.

Noon - Fellowship Dinner. David and Susan had company as well. Susan's parents dropped in for a visit, so they missed a great dinner of smoked brisket, green beans, mac & cheese, homemade biscuits and chocolate chip cookies.

Usually we have a sermon on Sunday afternoon, but with all the company and possible rain, I decided to just pray for rain. At 7pm the first rain hit, and compared to what we have had all summer, it was a good one. This was the first measurable rain since June. We still cannot have had 6 inches of rain this year. The catchwater systems we added on the front and side of the cabin were working well. The front one works so well that we were having to bring in trash cans and Danielle was bailing from the main one into some auxilliary ones. We filled 2.5 30 gallon trashcans in just a few hours. We will haul most of that water to the cows this morning. I would say we received 120 gallons or so into our back catchwater (2500 gallon) tank.

This morning I decided not to go milk Ami. She has a calf on her, so it won't hurt to not do it, although I probably should have. It felt good to smell humidity in the air, and it was in the 70's in the cabin which felt good enough to stay in bed until 7pm. Breakfast this morning of bacon, farm fresh eggs, homemade biscuits and bran flakes with milk. We are expecting more company this morning. This place is getting to be like a tourist locale. I guess that is good. Folks are either interested in what we are doing, or.... they are interested in what we are up to.

Michael