Our property is an icy wet mess. Not fit for equine, canine or human. Our horses are stuck inside for a second day, and their vet appointment is tomorrow morning. Great. The indoor arena helps, but it is not remotely the same as turn out.
The reality is, we need another pasture. A flat one, even if small. We also need another gate entrance to the existing pastures, where water/ice doesn't pool. While I am at it, we also need a second walk in shelter. Our girls need to be have a place to take cover from elements. It never ends!
I took a video clip yesterday morning that starts at the top of the pasture (gate is behind shed) and ends at the butterfly garden. With pasture water rapidly flowing across part of the garden :(
I thought the entire garden was raised enough to stay above our annual Spring thaw. Thankfully the corner section under flowing water had the least amount of plants. Mostly annuals. Guess those reseeded flowers will come up somewhere else?! Will be interesting to see how/if the garden survived. Or not.
2/27/23 (34 sec)
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Yes it is always something! I guess seeing where the run off is will help to decide what goes where. I am going to be really curious to see what happens with the thaw here; the river that surrounds us on 3 sides and is iced over still has been known to have ice jams when the thaw happens (it's
locally called "when the river goes out") and that can lead to flooding of the lower pasture here.
Whoa! That’s a lot of water. Yes, we’re always adding and changing things to meet new weather demands. It’s never ending, and it makes me dream of going south in winter. The birds have it right. We just got a big dump of snow. It’s like Groundhog Day around here. Winter…again.
I can see where you need all that because of how your land is shaped. I don't know if that is even a correct way of saying it.
When I lived in Kenosha, we had flat pastures with flooding like that any time it rained heavily or the snow melted.
You may be surprised to find that the ground was frozen under that water and the seeds and plants didn't move? Maybe??
When you video your pasture like that, I can see that there is no place to get out of the winds for them. A run in shelter would be really nice!
Yesterday was a pure mud day here in any place that was melted off.
Tropics? Let's go!
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