Following that stupid stupid dream

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This ranching thing is fun, must be or I wouldn't do it right? Been a wild year, besides the usual weather worries etc bought a couple registered bulls, one is currently in the corral deciding if he is going to live or not after getting hurt somehow.   It's mostly rare but happens.   

Then this morning after I just ordered irrigation water to come in today, I get a call this morning saying the irrigation ditch had a tunnel through a hill collapse and then backed up and washed out the ditch, so its shut off, possible for the year.  we have been fairly wet so far, so its OK for now, though probably won't get a 2rd cutting.  I have enough hay for winter already, but sure will cut the income since I probably won't be selling any.   The guys who have row crops and no insurance are screwed.


If anything is normal, it's that there is no normal.

Pic is the ditch washout.

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Man, so sorry to hear, Honcho. We aren't having a banner year here either, I have to wonder if this is a Russian collusion thing...

I hope there's a turn around coming for you!

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We are actually doing OK, and will make it through even with no water, but certainly puts us on edge because about the time you think you used up all the bad luck, you find it was a 2 or 3 for one special.

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Some more pics have showed up.

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Oops!!

Hope you can weather that man-made storm!
It has been raining like crazy up here...the vegetation and lawns are loving it, but it is not much of a summer. Right now it we are into the second half of July and I have the fireplace on 'cause it is so cold and wet outside....nothing compared to what you are facing, but definitely an unusual summer!

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We are bouncing between summer as spring still, triple digits the last couple days,  70s and way high humidity the next couple. The weather alone would be enough to make me lose my hair this year if I had any left.

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Our Cub Cadet LTX1045 turned 10 years old exactly one month ago. Every mowing this year (around 4 acres) has ended with one money & time sucking repair after another, each taking longer and more skin off my knuckles than the one before. I've removed enough "safety" features by now that OSHA would likely have me on a most wanted list if they knew.

I replaced the solenoid yesterday, this morning put the deck back together. The grass here, between the every-other-day rain and 90 degree days betwixt, is 9 inches long and gone to seed.

And it's going to get longer. I got about 5 minutes into the mow and the PTO spring flew off the working end.

The dealer tells me that these cheesy Cub Cadets are designed to fall apart in 5 years, so I've supposedly beat those odds. Hooray for me...

Eric, you can come bale my back yard if you got a druther to....

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Sure round or square?

We bit the bullet last year and bought a new one since I couldn't keep the little JD 170 mower going, bought a Toro zero turn on some sale at Home depot.  It's fast and nice to run but don't buy Toro, they are seem cheap, rebranded MTD I suspect.  Between that the DR trimmer type thing, the tractor and bushhog and the other JD mower, we have managed to keep the jungle beat back so far.  I remember the drought year I mowed like 6 times the entire summer, seems like I am doing that about every 2 weeks or so.

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More pics from the tunnel collapse.
1st one was right after, next one is from yesterday, they decided to try and come in from the top as well as tunnels it back out.