Rainy day, finally!! And, Kapowie!

Hurray! The rain is falling and the plants are happy. Most of the people seem happy, and the cows, too, seemed mostly happy. It's good to have a lot of water falling from the sky, as a gift to our sun-soaked soil, this time of year. It's a time of abundance and plenty, and mostly we seem pretty busy taking care of plants to eat later... and it's definitely the best time of the year to eat. We're eating well now, and there's the joy of anticipation, too. Our spinach is still yummy, and there's asparagus, yum, and soon... strawberries!!!

It's a good time specifically to look on the bright side, because we did have a not-so-wonderful event a few days ago. Our tobacco barn... blew up! Yes! It was not filled with tobacco -- Oakers have long since given up that endeavor. Nope. It was filled with... no, not explosives, of any kind... it was filled with... no, not anything particularly flammable... it was filled with WATER. Yup, and it burned to the ground pretty fast. The water was held in a gigantic pressurized (somehow) plastic tank. I don't really understand it, but I'll try to explain.

Back in '02, we put in a new well, and a tank to hold water, aboveground. The well's fine. We put the tank in the old tobacco barn, where it shared space with some stuff, and cow slaughtering equipment, and also chick incubator equipment. Somehow, a small fire was started, and then spotted around 6am, and while folks were gathering to put it out, kapowie! And a peice of the tank blew over the trees. No one was hurt.

So, we're using our old well. So far, so good. We'll see what happens....
much love,
Kelpie