It’s been sleeting, snowing, and raining an awful lot these past few weeks. I’ve put out hay in just about every weather condition there is in the last two weeks.
One thing is for sure though, the ground at my house is saturated and we shouldn’t have any problems with the ponds being low. My son said the ground shook as I spread some shale around by the barns. I was trying to fill in some mud holes, but I think I made it worse.
My tractor comes back from putting out hay with mud in every little nook and cranny. I don’t like to let the mud dry up on my tractor so I use the squirt nozzle and wash it off every day when I’m done. Mud ruins tie rod ends and gets in bearings and so forth. It adds a little time to my day, but it’s worth it to try to save a buck or two.
My waterproof cowboy boots are being tested too. I quit buying the rubber boots a few years ago when I discovered they made waterproof cowboy boots. I got tired of those rubber boots getting wore out halfway through the winter. I can get two or three years out of these waterproof cowboy boots whereas those rubber boots wouldn’t make it through one winter.
They say April flowers brings May showers. I guess February rain, sleet and snow just bring mud. I was counting the bales in the hay pen the other day and looking at the calendar. It if warms up enough we’ve only got about six more weeks of winter. We’re almost through and I think I’ve got enough hay to make it that long so long as we don’t get bad cold spells each week. I can kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel and I’m starting to have some hope it’s all going to work out. I was reminded of Galatians 6:9 “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
James Lockhart lives near the Kiamichi mountains in southeast Oklahoma. He writes cowboy stories and fools with cows and horses.
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