Rain is the absolute worst thing around here. Snow is a pain. Freezing temps mean wearing more clothes and coming in more often to warm up. Rain means flooding. Pens flood, huts flood. While Dan refers to the rain as flushing the toilet out here it is a royal pain in the butt.
Dan, Dave and Frank (Breadman Baking) are outside right now while it is pouring moving a hut and re-strawing for the pigs in the pen. With the ground still frozen the water just has no place to go. Areas that have never flooded before flood during these times.
There are no set hours to farming. When there is a problem, no matter what the weather or what the time you have to get outside and rectify it.
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I feel like sending your pithy little statement about rain to the other owners in my condo building! No one else seems to understand that owning a property (raising livestock, etc.) means that attention must be paid to realities like weather. Still, I think your muck and piglets are a bit more urgent than our sidewalks and stairs. Don't ya just hate when it freezes again?
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