Fresh and soft all day replaced by evening with a deep, heavy, wet storm delivered in two separate heavy downpours. Power goes out and stays out as I head to bed. Enough water runs to pond up in the reservoir east of the house, which until now, had not captured water-the only reservoir that hadn’t. With the new water, the boreal chorus frogs immediately ‘explode’ into song. Amazing, just there in the ground, waiting for the perfect conditions to arrive. To the south, maybe only a few short miles, and on into town, a devastating hail storm slams the area for up to 30 minutes. Damage will be great, I fear. How can such opportunity for some be literally leveled in just minutes? Luckily after moving cows to third split atop Big Wall, I return just moments before the storm hits. BLM was out with interns to plant ‘baby’ sagebrush in the not-so-successful pasture re-seeding in EL8. They will plant up to 2000.
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Mild with a short heavy shower in early evening. I move cows into 2nd split in EL7.
Calm and warm. Cows remain in EL7. Pushed stragglers out of WL7. When full mob escapes with all the baby calves, it takes about a day to calmly get them back to the right paddock.
Heavy rain last night push through temporary fence and back into WL7. I opened paddock EL7 to help get them moved forward. Most of the cows find opened EL7 by evening.
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