The rains started just after noon. It only took a couple hours to get 2 inches in the rain gauge. This one is of my little solar powered bird bath. Kinda like a pond in a pond! :-D Bird Bath "pond" ( photo / image / picture from cherylad's Garden ) Remember the cranes from yesterday? Well, this is how that area looks now. Rain - pasture ( photo / image / picture from cherylad's Garden ) Top of my shopping list tomorrow... mosquito repellant!
I guess we will have to call the pasture 'lake crane'. Nw if only there were a way to save all that rain till summer when everything is bone dry. It's to cold here for mosquitoes to fly, they can't flap their wings fast enough to take off. I hear Texas mosquitoes are so large they need a runway to take off. Jerry
Jerry... with our mild winter... the mosquitos have had crews out making their very own runways! And hangers! I think I saw a couple of them hijacking a crop duster to take out for a joyride the other day.
Jerry, in Texas mosquitoes don't bite--they head butt you and leave a huge bruise! The fruit flies are so big that they strip the citrus trees of fruit, and you don't want to know about our grasshoppers (we can saddle them, but they buck something awful). Cheryl, we have Lake Red Gate in the front yard, and I had to put on my rubber boots to go to the coop this afternoon. The rain barrels are overflowing, and the pond is up to it's top bank. Thank heavens!
I've been on the verge of complaining about all the rain... and all it takes for me to retract those thoughts are the memories of those big 'ol cracks in the ground last summer. I REALLY really need to get another rain barrel set up. But darn it... I keep spending my "play" money on other things.. like a new solar fountain pump. And then there was this cute little garden statue... and then I really HAD to have that plant(s).
As 'rain barrels' are expensive what about a rain pit(just invented). Dig a hole, make sure there are no sharp rocks or roots, line it with plastic sheet, make a cover from plywood or other material, run a downspout to it and Presto!!! A cheap rain collector. You can dig as many as you want. To get the water out, drop a submersible pump in with enough head pressure capable of pumping the water out of the hole, a small sump pump or large garden fountain pump comes to mind. Jerry
Jerry.... thanks... but that sounds like way too much thought.. and work! I can get a barrell for $20 bucks. And materials for a stand might be another $20. Or I could just use cinder blocks (which are already here). So... I suppose that money isn't the problem... it's my mixed up priorities!
