Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Re: [CHICKENS-101] [CHICKENS101] New Rooster/snow

 

Hi Deb. Yes my dad was so excited about that rain. He is a retired cattleman and farmer. He is hoping that the rain will be enough to sprout the grass seed on the hillsides. Mom put a tin trash can lid under the downspout so they could hear the rain noise. She said it was so loud!

Yes the area was mostly dry wheat farming, dry pasture for cattle and dry almond orchards along with some alfalfa. Then the vineyards and wineries took over. The town council wanted to turn the farm town into a destination place for tourists. They love all the wineries. We miss the old dry farming ways. The land and water was not made to provide so much steady watering along with providing the townfolk with water too.

Now here in NE WA we have a creek and pond and summer rains and winter snows. I feel a little guilty.... when I tease my Paso family about it. ;-) Of course this week they will tease me about our single digit temps.

Denise M
Zone 5

On Feb 4, 2014 2:39 PM, "Deb and Randy Buckler" <gotrandy@tcsn.net> wrote:
 

Hey Denise!  Good to meet a 'fellow Californian/Atascaderan"!  Well guess what!  Templeton had a group of "real" Native Americans come and so a real, traditional rain dance in the Templeton park last Saturday! Big-bang, we got an actual RAIN on Sunday!  Real water falling from the sky! It was amazing and almost strange. We were totally unprepared and had left several chicken feeders full of feed out in their runs, which of course got soaked. But it was a small sacrifice to pay for the rain! Everything is pretty wet!  We're hoping to see some blades of grass pop up.
 Yes, it's true, everyone has allowed their outside plants and grass to die. It is SO awful. But the water bills are still so high, it's crazy. What's happening in this area, and I know you know about this, is all the wineries are drilling HUGE wells and literally draining the whole valley dry for their vineyards.  The vineyards get a substantial break for their water usage, but the citizens get charged to death. There's much uproar in the city council meetings but unfortunately, all the council members have been completely bought off. What can we do? Refuse to buy water? Voting is a sham, so even threatening not to vote for them again is a joke.
Deb

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