Rain

Lately it's been raining a lot here. It's been raining ever since Friday, only letting up a few hours a time. It rains in the night, it rains in the day, it rains while we do our chores, it rains while we milk. The rain turned our milking station into a ton of mud. I can't let my dog Dutch out without him getting dripping wet. However, there is an up side. Our lawn is real green now.

So, for lunch were having the perfect rainy day meal- home made Chicken Noodle Soup and home made bread!

Spring floods {Or, What do you mean every thing is flooding already?!}

Every year, when the snow melts and our creek floods its banks, we have water every where. Only this year its especially bad. And really early for it, I mean, come on, it's the middle of January and were having our spring thaw already!

So the water, which is still partially frozen, started flooding across our road and causing problems, so my Dad and I went out there with a shovel and pinch bar and dug several canal like passages through the ice to drain the water away.

And so far it's working great, I mean, we diverted several hundred if not thousands of gallons to our creek on the other side of our driveway. The only down side is, while doing it, since I was wearing tennis shoes my feet got all wet. Oh well. A small price to pay.

Heat wave

O.k, I know that in my last post I talked about how cold it was, but almost right after I wrote that it got to 0 degrees! We all ran out there in our shorts and t-shirts, enjoying the warm. And guess what? It only got warmer! The average temperature is 45 degrees, but unfortunately it will only get colder and soon will be back in the below zeros. Oh well, we'll enjoy it while it lasts.

Winter

A couple of days ago we got quite the winter storm. Not necessarily lots of snow, but cold. This whole week and most of last week it didn't even once reach above 0 degrees. We quickly got the barn fixed up and put all the animals in it.

So far the warmest it has gotten is -4 and the coldest is -45. BURRR!

Spring?

Two days ago it was a hot day reaching up to 80 degrees!A day after that it was starting to rain. 'Oh-well, rain is nice' I was thinking. Then it started snowing.And snowing. And snowing. Today we woke up to one whole foot of snow! And now at 3:40 most of it has already melted, making lots and lots of mud.

Just another example of Montana's wacky weather.