Post by bracabric on Aug 20, 2008 12:17:43 GMT -5
Sorry I have not contributed much of late, life has been hectic but with little to photograph.
As some may remember we had the driest season since records began last spring/summer/autumn and water was a real problem, I had the house well dug out deeper until we hit rock, well thats all changed, we have now had one of the wettest winters on record and getting too and from the Farm has often been a problem, the 6Km. (4 Ml.) dirt road to the farm has turned into a DEEP river of mud and my pickup can't make progress. last Thursday and Friday when I was there it rain heavily for 40 hours and caused landslides and such and the yard was a pond and the river in flood carrying all before it including two new fences I had built across it.Well I had to get out and back to the big city on Saturday as Sylvia was flying back from the south where she and her mother had been visiting Sylvia's eldest daughter for a week. I loaded up the pickup with rocks for some weight and tried, I got 15 yards from the front gate and sunk in to the axles. Fortunately the 354 in 4 wheel drive was able to pull the pickup out and (slowly) drag it all the way to the main road at the side of which I took the attached pictures, the return to the farm with the Tractor was OK but the walk back to the pickup was dire !! I think my wellington boots weighed 10 Kg. each !
Oh life's such fun down south
Dick
PS I shall be low profile for some time yet but have not forgotten you all !!
As some may remember we had the driest season since records began last spring/summer/autumn and water was a real problem, I had the house well dug out deeper until we hit rock, well thats all changed, we have now had one of the wettest winters on record and getting too and from the Farm has often been a problem, the 6Km. (4 Ml.) dirt road to the farm has turned into a DEEP river of mud and my pickup can't make progress. last Thursday and Friday when I was there it rain heavily for 40 hours and caused landslides and such and the yard was a pond and the river in flood carrying all before it including two new fences I had built across it.Well I had to get out and back to the big city on Saturday as Sylvia was flying back from the south where she and her mother had been visiting Sylvia's eldest daughter for a week. I loaded up the pickup with rocks for some weight and tried, I got 15 yards from the front gate and sunk in to the axles. Fortunately the 354 in 4 wheel drive was able to pull the pickup out and (slowly) drag it all the way to the main road at the side of which I took the attached pictures, the return to the farm with the Tractor was OK but the walk back to the pickup was dire !! I think my wellington boots weighed 10 Kg. each !
Oh life's such fun down south
Dick
PS I shall be low profile for some time yet but have not forgotten you all !!
