One nice day

[altivo]

Between the storms. Rather like the famous calm when the halcyon was supposed to nest upon the waves and lay her eggs without being disturbed. Unfortunately, it's supposed to last only for a day and then more thunderstorms tomorrow. Last night there was a tornado watch and several severe thunderstorm warnings.

Pastures are as squishy as a wet sponge. Tess has a big chip out of one front hoof but she's not limping or anything so I took her out and let her go squashing around in the wet grass for an hour anyway. The moisture is supposed to keep her hooves from being so brittle, and she has been doing well for about a year up until today.

Gary has gone to listen to a presentation on "How to lower your property taxes" given by the county treasurer. I declined because I knew it would make me more angry than could be justified by anything useful learned. I expect a lot of it is going to consist of "Write to your legislator and demand property tax relief" and "Vote Republican, we'll cut your taxes" (which is simply not true, the entire executive government of this county is Republican and they still keep raising the taxes every year. When property values decline, they change the "multiplier" or something in order to make sure the revenue keeps increasing anyway.

The new antenna has stayed up through two heavy thunderstorms now. I thought it was sagging a bit this morning, but it must have just been the support ropes stretching a bit while wet. This afternoon it was back up where it belonged. Now if we'd just get a few sunspots back.

Comments

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

The weather here is terrible as well...been raining since early hours this morning to 1230 (current time), and the skies are still grey.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

And after yesterday's blue skies, it was raining at dawn this morning and the sky is a wintry gray with more to come. I swear we are going to slide downhill in a torrent of mud this spring. I can't remember one this wet.

[avon-deer.livejournal.com]

I wonder if rustyfox's carrots will like this? I know potatoes tend to rot in excessive wet. :(

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Carrots are a bit more durable than potatoes, once they get started. Too much moisture before they're established could be an issue though.

[jmaynard.livejournal.com]

Well, for some values of "nice", anyway...I took my flight instructor checkride at an airport in Walworth yesterday, and flew down your way. (In fact, if I hadn't turned a bit, we'd have done some maneuvers right over Harvard.) IT was windy enough to make a few things interesting, to say the least. Still, it wasn't so terrible that I couldn't get the ride done. Yes, I passed. Whee!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It's hard to tell from down on the ground what the winds are like up there. We had no clouds and it was just pleasantly breezy. The flags suggested a steady SW wind but nothing horrendously challenging.

[jmaynard.livejournal.com]

The winds aloft weren't a problem...but the winds on the ground in Walworth were stiff, gusty, and from an inconvenient direction. What's "breezy" to you can be a real pain in the ass to a pilot of a small airplane.