April Showers.

[hank4elk]

Finally! Steady rain for 4 hrs.
Then off and on.
Puddles. 1st real rain since Oct.

Got 3 sacks of seed down, then it started.
Western wheatgrass and AZ fescue,pine grass.

Lots of elk, antelope and deer sign about.

Got a load of firewood and then showed my water tanks to buddy who is also a longtime guide/outfitter.
He said I should plant one tree and move cage.

I will plant a thicket of trees and have 2 more corrals to work on. Someday I will find more trees.
3 narrowleaf cottonwoods, 4 aspen, 2 native plums. Currants and serviceberry. Wild rose clumps for the flats.
Shade and food.

Have a meadow growing in orchard area of native grasses.
Bare ground 10 years ago.
Watering the big pinion on the west side to try and save them. Need to get drip on them.

Sun coming out for sunset.
Maybe more rain this weekend.
Water is good.
Life is good.

 

[Wild Bill]

Doing the Lord’s work, Hank. Good stuff.

 

[hank4elk]

Doing the Lord’s work, Hank. Good stuff.

Me?
More like Lard work. LOL.

2 boomers came through after sunset. Crack, Boom ,then heavy short downpour.
Dotti growled.

67% humidity.
45% is the magic number up here.
Add 2 fronts spinning flow from Mexico north is the magic.

Watched the local half hour special on monsoon forecast....put a smile on my face.
3 of 4 said positive for good monsoon. The 4th knows NM...Maybe.
The East/West divide is ?.
Does East NM & Tejas get flooded or does AZ/NM then CO and Kansas?

I'll stay positive and use what I have.
A good well producing more than when drilled and the sun and poly pipe and a few valves.
Corral panels and some wire.

5,000 years ago the ancient ones dug the 1st acequia's ...ditches to water beans and corn, chiles.
Juniper poles and thorny branches to protect crops.

100 years ago Mr & Mrs. Hogg homesteaded this place.
No one had lived here in a thousand years.
They built a duggout home.
They hand dug some wells. Grew beans and corn and ran some cattle.

I saw elk coming back to the land roamed by Merriams.
Rockies have taken to it. In a big way.
Going with the flow.
Giving wildlife the edge.