Spring Head and Dam Report Update

Spring Head: Dry

Creek Bed: Dry

The kids made a dam 300 feet or so from the spring head 

and now there's nothing to dam up.

Dry.

I guess that what they mean by "Wet Weather Spring" and Seasonal Creek".

Damn.

Big Rock Update

Yup, still there.

Wildflower Update

Queen Anne's lace

Bull Thistle

Bitterweed

Judith and I like to take the children on evening walks and check out the wildflowers.

It's been cool for the last few days and the fields are in full bloom.

A perfect combination.

Garden update

Tomatoes 

Watermelon

Corn

Sugar Snap peas

Cucumbers

Beats

We had a late start on the garden due to a cold snap that hit the region plus Echo and I going away to New York for 6 weeks didn’t help. This left our first attempt at gardening in a new climate zone on Judith and the kids.

All and all they did a great job without the help of us burly men being around.  Hopefully, Echo and I will be putting up the fence around the garden within the next month or two.

The projects never end.

Chicken update

Our temporary chicken coop 

We lost one of our new chickens awhile back to a raccoon which left us with one hen, one really old rooster and a young feisty rooster.  

The loss didn’t sit well with Emerson because it was his favorite chocolate chicken that got it so I was determined to replace it as soon as possible.

A week or so ago I was in a local farm store and they had chicks on clearance, go figure, so I pick up a variety pack of 10 chicks at half price.

As you can see they are doing well and with the 1” x 1” chicken wire I wrapped the coop with they sleep safe and sound.

Update on the Rain Collection

Last weekend’s predicted storm seemed to have more show and less blow than expected. I was quite frustrated because most of the storm broke up and went around us leaving us with a small amount of collected rain.

These three photos show a very scary cloud formation that only produced three minutes of rainfall. By Sunday night I had given up on getting any significant rain collection and figured we’d have to wait for the next big storm.

Well, business as usual, we did our nightly routine and went to bed. Monday morning we woke to find almost 200 gallons of collected rain water in the cistern. Evidently it rained during the night leaving us with a good amount of water and what’s even cooler is that since last week even though it hasn’t rained when we wake up every morning we find that the water level gets a little higher each day.

I spoke with a friend about this and he said his system can produce up to 20 gallons of water a day just from the morning dew.

Go figure.