Drought Weather

 

 See the drifts??  Yes, on April 14 it snowed, horizontally, and measured up to no moisture in the rain gauge.  But, what snow stuck to the ground made puddles and proved to have some water in it.  We were very thankful for what we got.

 

 Sadly, our red bud trees were beginning to look wonderful when the snow came and the cold froze the buds. All the pretty parts fell to the ground and now leaves are sprouting out.  At least they were prettier than they were last year, when they didn't even bloom.

I always get a picture like this because I like the layers of trees.  Example: Red bud in front, pine tree in middle, and elm tree in back.  

 Here is another work of taxidermy I set my hand to.  Meet Molly May, my taxidermy parakeet.

 

 I figured the bird would be prettier if it had a touch of real life background to it, so I planted wheat around the base of the perch.  Now, I can say that I was the first one to cut wheat this year. 

 

 Here are the last kids to be born.  Sadly we have lost three kids total this year.  I now milk, with the help of my brother and sometimes Dad.







 





 

 If you look at the picture above this line you will see what kind of view we had on the morning of April 28, at 11:00.  Just below this line is the view we had that same day at 1:22 P.M.
The "clouds" at 1:22 are not rain clouds, though everyone wished they would have been, but was just dirt.

 

Here are two more views, just at different times of the day.

Taken at 11:00 A.M.

Taken at 1:22 P.M.

I wrote about the weather in my journal on the 29th and have decided to share parts of it with you. 

 

"All together, yesterday was anything but settled.  It was drizzly in the early morning, then came those spotty white clouds that are always fun to take photos of.  And then later in the day came one huge dust funnel, but last came a nasty dust storm.  We, at points, couldn't see the east round pen fence in front of our house.  And all that time the wind was puffing."

Excerpt from My Journal

 

The tumbleweeds haven't left and aren't even getting smaller.  The fences are once again filled to the highest wire with weeds.  The wind blows from the north one day, causing them (the tumbleweeds) to stack up on the fence.  Then the next day, it blows from the south, taking the tumbleweeds with it, only to blow in new ones on the other side of the fence.  The fences don't know what way to lean, and we don't know what to do to keep the weeds away.  So, what's a person to do?

 

My answer is just keep trusting God.  : )

 

"In You, O Lord, I put my trust." Psalm 71:1 part A