It rained last night at Go Away!

I awoke this morning to standing water in the yard... I could not believe my eyes. We received a very nice rain over night. The local PineyCreek weather station only three miles away says .69 inches on their website. We'll take it!

Thank the Lord for moisture. Had to drop the well pump on the windmill 40 ft (2 joints of pipe) this week. We were 3 ft out of the water, and it stopped pumping a few weeks back. That's a bit scary.


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Go Away in a drought, along with the rest of Texas!

All I can say is that the great State of Texas needs the good Lord to send a rain cloud and settle over this place for days. We're in desperate shape. Losing trees that we simply will never replace in some of our lifetimes. It is sad, scary, and above all, out of our control. The fires in Bastrop and Magnolia last week(s) are examples of just how bad shape we are in. Need rain Lord!

We were at the farm this past weekend and took Brody with us. We had a good time, but it was very hot. Supposedly, this will be our last week of 100+ temperatures. We had a short reprieve here a week back and it was unreal to feel cool mornings. I'm ready.

Brody, Coal and Louie... quite the trio. They got their workout with Brody this weekend. 

Tank headed to the San Augustine grass near the yard after a drink and some molasses lick.

The horses are no fools... they have started eating the yard grass. But, there isn't a need to mow, so we all win. 

MikMik and Brody worked all weekend in the garden when the temperatures would allow.

Drought brings out some weird animal, bug and pest behaviors. If you enlarge this photo, you'll see our peas completely covered with everything from wasps, bees, guinea wasps, hornets, small black wasps I've never seen, dirt daubers... by the thousands. They are feasting on the aphids and the moisture from the plants. You can't get to the peas to pick them. I'm thinking it wouldn't be worth the bee bites.

Brody and I counted 16 Hummingbirds at one feeder. They drank a quart in one day. 

Amid the drought and heat, this is looking pretty good... But just after a few cool nights, the water is like ice.

Doesn't take too many of these to make a mess:-)

Mikki picked what pears we got in this drought from our three year old trees, and were they ever whoppers. Check this pear out. She got several half-pints of preserves from this small quantity of fruit. I'm not sure what we'd have done with 40 or 50 of these (as we had when they first started in the season).

Monster pear!

7 pears, 6-1/2 lbs

Galen