Part 2
We were lucky compaired to most, storm wise, lot's of downed trees, flooding, etc. Some of the poor souls were still cleaning up from a storm on Monday, when they got blasted again.

Anyhow, decided to run up to the field to check how it faired. [X(]

We had a new pond and river.[X(][X(]

Mother nature as some smucks have to find out, does not like to have stream beds making turns, water likes to flow straight. My family figured out that one a long time ago, hence the spring and stream beds we had run for just this kind of flooding.

The coal co must not know that one. Both the spring and stream bed decided straight is a lot easier then making a bunch of 90 degree turns.

So the field took a pounding. When I got there, a quarter of it was under water, and a gentel stream of water was running across it at the mid point.

So Saturday bright and early, I went and grabbed our tilt bed. Loaded up the tractor, generator, pump, and lots of misc stuff. Lower third of the strip was a swamp, I only managed to get stuck three or four times with the tractor. Nothing like wet clay, it clings to everything.

I notched out that section to help it drain, and started on saving the rest. Mark can attest to how nice of a job the rock hound did in clearing the land. Well Mother or Murphy decided to cover it all back up with stone. I figured there was no way of trying to save the new grass and remove the crap deposited in it, so I hooked up the bedsprings to the tractor and and started a redo.

3 hours of dragging had everything pretty much back to square one. Saturday till 9:00 pm and all day Sunday, again till 9:00 I spent raking all the left over stones and muck the drag had pulled loose. Today I'm having them drop deliver another 100 pounds of seed and a 1000 pounds of mulch fetilizer. I'll reseed tonight, and luckily there is no rain in the forcast for the rest of this week. I've got the pump hooked up to feed from the main pond to run the sprinklers.

Oh well, we now have 300 by 40 feet of runway, the rest is just too far gone to attempt a quick fix. Should still be enough for even the big birds.

In retrospect, it wasn't Mother, it had to be Murphy, as the rest of the field didn't get hammered as bad.

Oh and good news too. Phone company came and yanked the poles and buried the wires, so one less thing to deal with there. [&:]