Maisy Likes Rain Too

As everyone knows, Farmers have to pay a lot of attention to rain. Never has this been so evident as during my drive through the middle of the country last week, where puddles in the middle of fields turned to ponds turned to lakes turned to water covering the fields and the bottom half of the farm houses the farther south I drove.

The flooding in Oklahoma is not nearly as bad as in Iowa. But for a state that is usually settling in for a good drought-induced water ban around the middle of June, the rain is kind of startling. Every June growing up, I watched people water their lawns and wash their cars furiously in anticipation of the water restrictions everyone knew were on their way, lawns and cars being especially Big Deals in Oklahoma. But summer 2008 here has seen tornadoes and flooding people haven't seen in a while. For example: average rainfall for the month of June = 4.72 inches. Rainfall on the night of June 9th, 2008 = 3.87 inches. Rainfall for the first 15 days of June, not including last night's torrential thunderstorm = 8.30 inches. Oh, and did I mention they got about 6.5 inches of rain in the last WEEK of May?

Well anyway. You get the idea of what's going on here. The weather is terrible for farming. But I guess on the plus side, Maisy thinks it's perfect for her...

Mud is good for zebra-stripes on your face.



And especially good for running.

Dripping mud post-sprint.