Water on the farm!



Lake  spillway

We have had over 5 inches of rain this year! It is needed so much here on the farm and all over the country this year. We have to have all our ponds and lake filled before summer or we won't be able to water the animals. We have had a drought for the past two years and they say this year will be the same. Right now though we are doing great. Hopefully this will bring a great first cutting for the hay and we will be able to fill the barn again. We had to feed the cows in July because there was no good grass on the fields. But right now the Lake is full and the spillway is more than overflowing. And the grass is turning green!



Man made lake on farm

The lake is man made by taking three ridges and damming between two of them. On the right as you go up about thirty feet is the spillway. The lake covers approximately two acres. Not a really big lake but it is a great reservoir. And it has great fishing! Bass as long as a man's forearm! 


View from the top

The view from on top of the lake is just beautiful!

In this view you can see the sheep in pasture 5A. The first time I saw this view, before we bought the land, I could not even imagine that we would have sheep. And that I would be bottle feeding a little lamb.

We need to do some work on the spillway though because so much rain runs through it at times that we may be starting another Grande Canyon! We need to add some large rocks in the flow line to slow the water and erosion. But that's a job for another day.