Finally dry enough to do some work

[ncrebel8]

Dry enough for now to start on a new horse pasture....

 

[s219]

I know the sentiment. This is the driest the ground has been here since about September.

 

[fixitman123]

Still too wet in SE NC and raining today and tonight.

 

[s219]

I had just remarked to my wife last night that it was the driest it's been in months -- was out at my all-wood barn and the gaps between doors were at least triple what they've been the past few months -- but of course today it's rainy drizzly all day long.....

 

[The Suburban Farmer]

I had just remarked to my wife last night that it was the driest it's been in months -- was out at my all-wood barn and the gaps between doors were at least triple what they've been the past few months -- but of course today it's rainy drizzly all day long.....

Where abouts in VA are you s219? I'm in Northern VA and the ground in our yard still squished under my boots yesterday (BEFORE this dang snow started up again.) I still have some spots that look more like marsh than yard. I'm counting the days to be able to get the tractor off of the driveway...

 

[The Suburban Farmer]

Where abouts in VA are you s219? I'm in Northern VA and the ground in our yard still squished under my boots yesterday (BEFORE this dang snow started up again.) I still have some spots that look more like marsh than yard. I'm counting the days to be able to get the tractor off of the driveway...

The door to the chicken coop is still swelled up enough that my wife can't pull it open without using both hands, too.

 

[s219]

Where abouts in VA are you s219? I'm in Northern VA and the ground in our yard still squished under my boots yesterday (BEFORE this dang snow started up again.) I still have some spots that look more like marsh than yard. I'm counting the days to be able to get the tractor off of the driveway...

We're in Toano, about 15 miles northwest of Williamsburg.

I was pretty much having to keep my tractor on the driveway for all of fall and early winter, but then we had a good several-week run where the ground froze up hard and I quickly caught up on many chores, moved trailers and logs around, etc. But since it warmed up a couple weeks ago, we were back to squishy ground, and even my crusher-run driveway had gotten soft. As of yesterday the driveway was back to feeling like concrete, but I bet today's rain will move everything back in the squishy direction.

I still have a couple tractor ruts in my lawn from October that I never have had the opportunity to fix -- either it's been too wet/soft, or frozen up. And I need to tweak the grade in the ditch on one side of my driveway. I guess if the weather/ground doesn't cooperate within a few more weeks, I will have to keep the tractor parked and get out the shovel and wheelbarrow. No matter how good my equipment or status in life gets, I still frequently find myself standing in mud on the end of a shovel....

 

[The Suburban Farmer]

That's nice land down there!

I've got some ruts to fix, too. We've been so wet that when I drove my tractor out back in 8" of snow to get my blade, it STILL left tire marks in the yard. Never had that happen before. Even through the snow, I sank into the ground. That was the last big snow that came after the ground had unfrozen.

When you get done with that shovel work, feel free to drive up here if you're bored...

 

[Walkin Horse]

I got the garden plowed yesterday before the rain.

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[Stick895]

I don't know if this is officially the wettest winter in VA , but it is in my personal experience.

 

[The Suburban Farmer]

I don't know if this is officially the wettest winter in VA , but it is in my personal experience.

+1 to this. It's the worst we've had since I've lived here. I've never seen our ground as soggy as it is now, and we have water standing in places where it NEVER stood before.

 

[s219]

Definitely one of the wettest I can remember in my 24 years here. I think it would have been one of the snowiest if the patterns hadn't kept giving us warmups whenever moisture came through during the first part of the winter. For that first period, it was either cold/dry or warm/wet, but never cold/wet. It wasn't until the pattern shift in February that we started getting cold with the moisture, and bingo, there were 2-3 substantial storms within 2-3 weeks.

I really feel sorry for my neighbors in the process of building their homes -- the mud has been some of the worst I have seen on building sites.