It's been raining since before Christmas. It's the 3rd of January as I sit here writing this and things have gotten pretty wet. I've just done the same as I normally do when the summer weather gets real hot. I've stayed inside and waited. Obviously these guys love it. Sometimes when I'm walking the dog I will see them swimming in the pond at midnight. Sometimes that's a cold walk and I'm sure it's a colder swim.
Our ditches are pretty good and were improved a lot when the county came through last year and scraped out the ditch across the road. As you can see here, it rained so hard that the ditch couldn't hold it in. Thats not too far from normal but the front yard doesn't normally stay under water as long as this.
When you get one of these gully washers you are obliged to take a tour and see if anything major happened. If the donkeys are still here the fence is probably good but you do need to check.
When you get one of these gully washers you are obliged to take a tour and see if anything major happened. If the donkeys are still here the fence is probably good but you do need to check.
This is where I was putting new fence prior to christmas. You see the last post I put in and you see that there is no fence attached to it. That is because I am not a duck.
I spent some time building up the bank of this pond. Before that a rain like this would put the far bank under water. That is also my preferred road to the back of the ranchito and I really didn’t care for the erosion. Now my road is dry, or mostly so. The rest of the area is not.
I found the first tree down in the area where I spent so much time at the start of fall. It’s in the back left corner of the property. Fence was attached to it. After removing the fence it can decompose at it’s leisure. It can do no further harm.
If you look hard, even with this amateur photography, you might be able to count the woodpecker holes in this log. The drought killed the tree. Then the woodpeckers dined on whatever dead trees grow. I would assume that has to be termites at the least. It was healthy when I first nailed fence to it before the drought.
| This might do a better job of showing the woodpecker handiwork. | 
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I think this was the last one that I found. It was never a fencepost. It had just fallen across the fence. The barbed wire might have stretched just a tad but it's still serviceable.
There is one unfinished stretch of interior fence that I did not check. Didn’t care. It will be pretty important when I finish it. Meantime, it's just something else for trees to fall on.
I have little fear that I might have done substandard work. I had several sidewalk superintendents on the job site.
Four supervisors and one worker. Is this a government job?
Four supervisors and one worker. Is this a government job?
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