&%$#@ Mud!!!

[lildunhorse]

We got a bulletin from the Highway Department today. Both lanes of State Route 20 to Marblemount are closed due to a mudslide.

My 4 leggers are on the other side.

I sure hope Honey stayed home today.

[jaybird]

that sucks! Is that the only way home?

[lildunhorse]

It depends on how far up the highway the slide is. I'm trying to get more info as we speak.


K, I'm ready for summer now!!

[diamondindykin]

Amen LDH!! I was out in the barn at 5:30 am this morning squegging (SP?) water out of my barn....my paddocks look like a lake

[soggyreins]

I think "squegging" pretty well describes it.

Somebody do a Sun dance. Soon.

How about it, LilDun

[lildunhorse]

Well, not sure I ever learned any Sun Dances, although I do remember my Dad trying to teach me a pretty sorry rendition of the War Dance, with my Mom yelling in the background for him to knock it off! ;D

There is a detour that adds another 20 minutes or so to an already time consuming route, but at least it's still passable. Once the river goes over it though, it's pretty much over until the fat lady sings. The fat lady in this case being some clear skies and a little sun!

Everyone is fine. My neighbors have a pretty swift running stream going past their front porch, I've been told, but all the four leggers are fine. The geese are having the time of their lives. I didn't even know they could swim until recently.

[lildunhorse]

I see horse owners all over the state beating themselves up over all the mud. There's not a whole lot we can do except wait for it to dry out.
Even if we had implemented a plan this summer, we had no idea it would be this bad. The long, dry summer changed the soil to such a degree, that even in our wildest dreams, we wouldn't have seen this mess coming. I guess now we can plan for the worst.
Some good has come out of it though. We realize now we were going to build a barn in the wrong spot. The site was fine last year, but this year it's looking more like a pond site, than a barn site! However, the house site is high and dry, thank goodness.

[qhorse]

If it makes you feel any better, even us folks here in Michigan are trying to deal with the mud. We've had temps in the 40's (tomorrow 50!) and rain, and the pastures are a MESS!! My horses are just covered in mud, and my TB LOVES to roll!!
I'm not even going to mention all the shoes they've been losing....

[zjaraam]

People in Oklahoma would LOVE some rain. We're battling seriously dry conditions and wild fires since the state is just like a tender box. I have never seen so much brown and black in all of my life. I severely miss the green, not the rain, but the byproduct of the rain. Hang in there gang!!

[dancinglawn]

I can totally sympathize. Two years ago when I had all the mares, the day after they arrived, we got 9 weeks of non stop rain. And not just a drizzle, either. It RAINED. and never stopped, until it turned into snow. And then it snowed non stop, all winter.
By the time spring came, combined with a very high water table anyway, (the water table here is less than 2 feet below the surface!) we had mud up over our knees.
And people were yelling at me, because the horses were in mud. The entire COUNTY was mud.
So, I know what you're going through. The only difference is, no mudslides here, its completely flat!

Any indication when the rains will stop?

[twhgal]

We're having the same thing here in Oregon! But this morning it rained a bit of mud off the horses and my husband remarked that he'd forgotten how beautiful the palomino was - not to mention that we could actually tell for sure that he wasn't the appy. We're supposed to get hit again on Friday - first time in five years that we're above the normal rainfall. Wish we could send some to Oklahoma.

[cardicorgi]

Amen twhgal - the mud is awful here in Ory-gun too. Thank god for the shop-vac and waterproof turn-outs. And duct-tape, for the I'm-sure-it's-coming-abscess.