We got a wee bit of moisture yesterday

[Faster horses]

Not quite .2" in rain and snow mix, but we will take anything we can get.
It has managed to stay green here, but it frosted hard last night. 24 degrees!!!

The lake way up high that we use for irrigation water is only half full.
Unless there is a drastic change this will be year #2 out of over 60 that Mr. FH
won't put up hay. The other time was when we lived on Powder River and that was
a grass and cake outfit.
I talked to a friend (Sutton Performance Horses-Georga Sutton)
in SD and she got half an inch of rain. I was very happy for her as they needed it too.
I hope you all got some moisture regardless of how it came.

 

[Older Whiskey]

Cold here until yesterday and finally warming up. Despite cold, the first cutting alfalfa was baled last week. I am not sure why they cut so early. Nice and leafy, small stems, but very light yield. Lots of water in the ditch and reservoirs. Lots of moisture all winter and spring. Lots of wind this month that can dry things out very fast.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

We missed out on the moisture on the weekend, good rains not that far away.
Couldn't measure what we got.

 

[Faster horses]

We received more rain on Thursday resulting in .5". It wasn't very warm
so some of the rain got a little slushy.
We did find out that the big lake in the mountains where we get our irrigating
water is only half full. Not sure if we will be able to irrigate this summer.

It looks like there was a path of rain going from Nebraska up through North Dakota.
BMR, I hope you received some rain out of that, as well as everyone who needs it.
I see Van NewKirks photos on FB and it is so tough there. He says he has never
experienced drought after a fire.
Friends in SE Montana are thinking they will have to do something with half their
cow herd.
Lord, Please Let It Rain!!

 

[DosArroyos]

Even though it thundered in February a couple guys here rolled the dice on hay grazer planting dates in the middle of March.A couple days ago I saw a few heads in those very early planted plots that are now chest high.Everyone else's grazer is 10 or 12 inches tall.These guys will get 2 cuttings for sure and if we keep getting moisture like we have been,they will get 3.

 

[webfoot]

I tried a new version of a rain dance. We are suppose to get a little this evening and tonight. I felt 2 or 3 tiny drops hit me. So I hopped on the quad and ran up the road with just a thin shirt on. I was daring it to soak me to the skin. It didn't work. I only got about 10 drops. Looking at the radar Nickie might be getting some but it is all pretty much north of me.

 

[Nicky]

Nope, sure wish we would

 

[webfoot]

Nope, sure wish we would

You didn't get it. I didn't get it. Either the weather radar was wrong or Baker got it all. I was in Baker this morning. If they got it all there must not have been much,

 

[Puzzled]

Sunday and Monday gave this area about 8/10 of an inch. Sunny and warm today.

 

[DosArroyos]

.875" yesterday afternoon. Wheat farmers are going to leave tons of grain in the fields. Ranchers are smiling from ear to ear. Most everyone around here has both farmland and ranchland. Wheat is cheap and beef is high. No one cusses the rain here.

 

[Faster horses]

After the drought of 1992, I NEVER cuss mud!!!!!!!

 

[Older Whiskey]

Any of y'all ever heard of this old Australian ranching singer? I can listen to him all day!

 

[Faster horses]

Even an accordion!!! Gotta love it!!

 

[DosArroyos]

.65 inches late yesterday evening