More Rain

Over 2" more rain today and it is still raining. We are far past the point of this rain doing us any good. The ground is saturated and it is all of it is running into waterways.

Yesterday I mowed our lawn. It was to wet to mow but it was the driest it will be until maybe Saturday.

I purged the "cherry juice" (RV antifreeze) from the water lines in our travel trailer and "sanitized" the water system by filling it with water containing 50 ppm chlorine, leaving the solution in the lines for 4 hours and then flushing the system with fresh water. I still need to check the tires (1 may be low), and make sure the hot water heater, furnace/AC, stove, etc. are all OK after the winter.

Lydia & Nolan got a kick out of a small squirrel that came up on the deck eating bird seed. The squirrels are a real nuisance. So far I've killed 4 and Andy has killed one shooting them with my pellet gun, standing in the house and shooting out the door in the photo.

Yesterday evening I fired up our wood fired boiler. The overnight "low" was 58 and it has now dropped to 50. Tonight's low is supposed to be 45 with tomorrow's high/low forecast at 60/51. The boiler also preheats our hot water. Our heat pump is very efficient at these temperatures but no matter how efficient it is it can't compete with the dollars worth of gas I burned cutting the wood that will fuel the boiler for several days.

This morning was our Men's Fellowship breakfast and Bible study. One of the guys told about a dairy farmer in southwest Missouri who had 32 cows killed by lightening. The story is at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lightning-kills-32-dairy-cows/
I don't remember ever hearing about cows being killed by lightening but I guess it isn't all that uncommon.

God is good. May He bless you and yours.