acrosstherange | Entries tagged with rain

I'm at Graham's right now and thoroughly enjoying hi speed. Dad and Graham are out on the west coast fishing. I hope I drilled it into them enough to bring back halibut. :D They called last night and we probably won't hear from them again until Friday since cell phones don't work out there.

Erin took the shop vac down to Graham's this morning and then I came with a load of water later on for his cistern. When the pump runs a lot at his house you know the water is low. I vacuumed out two bins and then then the extension cord plugged into the cord on the shop vac started smoking and was melting a bit. I figured I must have run it for too long.

I started this last night but didn't get around to finishing it. It rained throughout the night so I won't be cleaning out the bins. I did spray Graham's oven with cleaner though so I'll be going down to clean it out. The spray is strong enough to knock you over but it really works. :P :D Also going to catch up on some other cleaning there.

Watched Daniel Gardner's Tropical Punch live last night. The chat lagged on me the whole time but it was still fun.

The past few weeks have pretty much kept us going from dawn to dusk with farm work. There is still more work to be done but it rained last night. Our rain gauge has a leak so we aren't sure of the exact amount but Dad thought about 1/2". More is predicted over the next few days and it looks like the weather forecaster is actually going to be right. Dad was able to get the canola seeded and when it dries up we'll be getting two other fields ready to seed flax. We were hoping to have all the fields seeded by now but due to extreme dryness(other than the rain and snow we had a few weeks ago, up to now we hadn't had moisture for several months) and the fields being in grass for several years, it was a much bigger challenge than anticipated to break up the ground.

One of the jobs has been picking rocks. We've actually picked more rocks than this and there are more in the field yet to pick.