That sinking feeling.....

This morning I went 10 miles up towards Mt Spokane to mow a couple of fields. Since I am used to mowing in the "gravelly" valley fields, it caught me off guard when the old 175D started to bog down....and I saw water squishing out of the ground in front of the front tires. First response is to lift the mower, front wheels come up, but rear wheels go down! Nothing like getting caught in a pasture and wondering if you can keep from sinking into oblivion in the clay.  Fortunately all I left were some deep tracks....so far.  I got rained out anyway, so will see how wet it is tomorrow.....we have a rain cell that seems to be stalled over us right now. Where's the sun???

yeah the rain is getting pretty bad around here to..

Actually the weather hasn't been too bad here even though we are 3" above normal. It could be much worse...just glad we aren't in the river flood plains.....or tornado alley.

Around here we had 3 or 4 good sized storms last week alone and it's been raining almost non stop, most of the fields haven't been planted and only wheat is growing around here right now.

Whats worse when you have that sinking feeling is when you have a load of brush on a wagon behind you and didn't realize it was that wet at the bottom of the hill, AND your back tires could almost pass for drag slicks...

We were looking dry this spring then got 5.5" of rain in May.  Not much corn was planted before the rain started.  I finished about May 25th, a month late but most of the neighbors were in the field too so I couldn't feel bad.  Haven't had much since late May, maybe 1/4" but it's been fairly hot so who knows what the summer will bring.  I turned on my pivot sprinkler tonight.  Have several acres of blue corn which had not come up yet.  The winter wheat looks good, spring wheat is kind of slow.  Have 22 acres of hay ready to bale tomorrow (small square bales) - if it doesn't rain tonight.  Ah Farming!