Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day!!!
Today is day 9 of rain. We have gone 9 days since seeing the lovely, yellow, shining ball of warm, bright sunlight. Can you tell that I am ready for the rain to stop? As much as I am done with the rain, the animals here at Wynott are even more ready for it to cease. Why Esther (goat extraodinare) told me yesterday that she just doesn’t understand why the big water trough in the sky keeps leaking. And Bramble keeps asking me to do something about the mud in the yard as it is really hard on his hoofs and is preventing him from communicating with his girls as he must stay in his barn instead of being out in his pasture, calling to them.
In times of days upon days of continuous rain, I often think about Noah and wonder how he kept it together. I mean, stuck on a boat, albeit an enormous boat, with family and some others and an unimaginable amount of wildlife, with rain falling down steadily and hard for 40 days and 40 nights. So, Noah must have been quite a man in my opinion, ’cause it’s only been a week and I’m not happy about it.
The rain is just wonderful for our field and for the water level in our well, but it sure does a job on farm life. The mud, the wet grass, the animals not wanting to venture out of the barn, and the joys of doing chores in the rain are just a few of the things that await us outside. I wonder if all of the other farmers like us have this struggle. After talking with my friend A
my about her sheep and goats, I believe that they do. She also has a lovely layer of muck in her farm yard. And her sheep and goats are talking to her, I am sure, of the excessive moisture and their desire to walk and play in the field again instead of huddling in her barn.
But alas, we are thankful that the hurricane that might have hit us is far out to sea, and that this rain will end, and that the sun will come out, and the goats will eat in the field again soon. Rain is critical to our life, and we are thankful for it. So today, we stay inside, we make goat milk soap, we enjoy a movie, and maybe quilt a little as we wait for that lovely sunshine to come out . . . tomorrow.