The rains quit this morning about 9 o'clock. The sun came out about 1 o'clock, but it is still cold outside. I think the high temperature reached 52 this afternoon. It is supposed to be close to 70 over the weekend. The ground all around is still saturated, but the levels have subsided a bit. We still can't get from the house to the chicken coop via the path, it remains flooded. I was not able to check the water meter up by the road yesterday because it was submerged. There is still water in the meter well, but the meter itself is visible. It will be a while before anyone gets their tractors in the fields around here. They may get them IN the fields, but odds are against them getting the tractors OUT. I am going to try and get some hay to the cattle this weekend, I think that will be okay, but you never know. Generally, if I get the tractor stuck, I can use the bucket or the front hay fork to get myself out. The things you learn... The rain really does not seem to have affected the chickens too much. Chickens need sunlight to lay, so I was kind of expecting the production to suffer, but nothing drastic. We got 11 eggs this afternoon, which is pretty much status quo. We are down to 21 girls, and I may (or may not) pick up a few more chicks in the spring.Spelunker - Noun: one who makes a hobby of exploring and studying caves. An expedition of spelunkers was credited with discovering the fossil buried deep inside the mountain.
Did You Know? Spelunker sounds like the noise a pebble makes when you drop it down a deep hole and into dark, hidden water far below. But there's nothing dark or obscure about the etymology of the term. We borrowed spelunker from the Latin spelunca, which derives from the Greek spelynx. When you get to the bottom of things, you find that both the Latspelunker is fun to say, be careful: some cave-exploring enthusiasts prefer the term caver.
in and Greek words mean "cave." Although
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