It's been another rainy day... The earth certainly needs the renewal of the rains and it brings restfulness and restlessness too... The farm is quiet as everyone has found a dry spot to wait out the rain...there's an occasional bleat from the goats, but the roosters haven't made a peep today.  We lost Mr. Frizzle Rooster...he was getting older, guess he got too wet.  Seems we loose a chicken now and then after major rain storms.  They get wet and cold and hypothermia sets in I suppose. It's worse in the winter months, but happens even in summer too.

     One hanging feeder got soaking wet... hum mm ... at todays feed prices.... that was probably about $9 worth of chicken feed ruined... perhaps we can put it in the guinea pen...they are so ravenous they'll eat anything these days...I just hate for it to spoil and go completely to waste.  It was such a blowing storm it blew in up under the shelter.   We may need to do some new adaptations there for future storms....and we still need to get a pig...they'd eat the sloppy old smelly wet chicken feed....

     We had tornado warnings during the day...we had to go into the halls at school.  I'm glad they passed us by and I haven't heard of any major damage except for a few trees down.  We even kept power, so that's good.  The rains are to continue into tomorrow.  Boy was it hard to be still and quiet too... we hadn't gotten to go to recess...oh the restlessness of rainy stormy days!

      Richie was trapped in the house for most of the day.  He began to get cabin fever and went to check on his newly dug pool he's building...yep, got an old fashioned mud hole in the back yard fer a swimming hole...right now...  It'll need a few day's drying out before progress can be made...all a part of the life of a pool builder... Hope the little boys that live there don't find that good rich red gooey mud to play in...

    I met Hammie in the barn, he mooed once he knew he had an audience... I told him I was still mad at him for butting me yesterday...but he got his scoops of food just the same...He cast those big brown eyes and looked over saying..."I just wanted to play"..."don't be mad"...   maybe not mad,  but hopefully smart enough not to go back in the pen with him!

    I fed the barn kitties...Snake and Boots have joined the gang now as they are growing up.  So they run for their evening vittles mewing "feed us".  They , along with Miss Scarlett, still follow along on all the evening chores. 

    The rain started again before I could feed the goats... they had to wait for a break in the rains when Richie came in... finally all the animals were fed and it's quiet once again this rainy evening.

    Fresh rain cleansed air...cool ...refreshing...bring in an evening of solitude and quiet.  Soaking in the joys of today, refreshing us to be ready for tomorrow. 

        Hope Clay is enjoying his trip already... He's flying around today... We haven't heard from him yet... Watch out world... here he comes...