After 80+ inches of snow this winter, you can only imagine the flooding that spring is bringing to our little homestead.   And one afternoon, we looked out to realize that not only were we getting rain, we were getting ice and the water was rising fast.   In fact, within an hour, this front pasture was totally engulfed!  Maggie and Jessy went to the rescue of our boy stock…  the rams and bucks up in the man shack pasture!   It wasn’t super high yet, but they were getting a little panicky and would not cross the water!   Maggie had to go and fetch them, one at a time.   Little Dreamy had to be picked up and carried!  He was not going to get his feet wet!!!

Harley is thinking that maybe he should go in the opposite direction of the hole in the fence!   Silly ram.   Jessy convinced him that the scoop of sweet feed and a dry garage were MUCH more desirable than a flooded field.  They had to cut a portion of the fence to get them out, the actual pasture opening was under a foot or more of very cold and icy water.  Sometimes you just gotta do what you just gotta do.   We will mend it right back up.

Safe and sound for the night…   they did fine in there.  We eventually had to put them in the back pasture with the rest of the sheep and goat girls again…  the flood waters hung around for almost a week…  the whole place is under mud now.   Hopefully it will dry out more and it warms up a bit…   and we’ve had some very windy days and that helps a lot as well.  Enjoy a few more shots of the underwater farm we have!    I think we really need to consider raising fish!!!