Snow,Fog and Overcast!!

[Buckskin]

How is everybody else doing for moisture? It has been snowing for about a week now. Not a lot of moisture in it, but it will help. I think I have calves a week old and yet to see the sun!! Might have to put sunglasses on them if it every comes out. I see why people that live in Washington and Oregon in the winter sometimes get depressed. The calves seem to be doing O K even with being damp or even wet for a week.

[ranchwife]

good morning, buckskin!! don't know how ya'll over on that corner of the state are doing drought-wise, but here in sw montana, we could use all the moisture we could get our hands on....have been getting some this last week in the forms of rain and some snow and making the passes rather nasty at times, but ya don't hear alot of complaining around our little town...the only ones complaining actually are the tourist-type who want lots of sunshine and think that springtime in montana means time to plant the gardens and the flowerbeds...WRONG our mountains are still pretty dry compared to where they should be this time of year...so, folks around here are praising the rain and even the snow the more, the merrier!! have a good one, buckskin!!

[Buckskin]

Ranchwife
I really wish you guys could get some good snow in the Mountains. Old Fort Peck Lake is going to be a big hole in the ground soon. They are starting to talk even possible limited irrigation below the dam this summer. How do you do for stock water, is it OK when dry. Is there enough springs? Don't know much about the mountains, kind of one of those old flat plain dudes!!
Better go back out and check a 2 yr old.
Take care and hope 2005 is good to you.
Buckskin

[ranchwife]

good morning...on our place, we depend on irrigation from the madison river and from the mountain run-off to flood irrigate and run 2 large pivots in the wheat, barley and alfalfa fields....many folks around here have spent the better part of the winter worrying about wells drying up..so far, though, not too many have had that problem...folks just west of us in the dillon area have been hit even harder than us in recent years as far as the drought...many ranchers having to sell their entire herds and move out rather than watch them starve due to lack of food and water!! not a pretty picture, but it is looking up....suppose to have more snow and maybe afternoon rain today!!

[baling wire]

We have 1.5 inches of wet snow on the ground this morning.Largest amount of moisture this year.So dry.

[Jinglebob]

We've got 4 or maybe 5 inches over yesterday and last night. And it's wet!. Melted as it hit untill about 3 pm. Wonderful stuff! I'm burning the dump this morning as it's the first snow and low wind I've had to do it in, since over a year ago.

[sw]

been in the mud all weekend. YIPPEEEEEE

[alabama]

We have had strong thunderstorms and tornados all morning. We should get several inches of rain today.

[reader (the Second)]

[Shelly]

[Haytrucker]

I figured that with 5 wet days forecast, we should get at least a quarter of an inch don't you suppose; Baling Wire? I talked to DP yesterday at noon, and they had three inches at his place already. He said last week they had a row of bunks blow completely full of sand twice. I don't think I've ever heard of that before.

[ranchwife]