Saturation Point

As some of you know we have not had that much rain for the last two years. Last year we did not receive enough rain to saturate the soil. Thus resulting in a year of having to buy most of our animal food and not enough plant growth. This year, it seems we have hit it. We have not had that much rain, but it is slow and steady. As such, all our rain barrels are full and there are puddles all over the backyard, with out pond and stream being full. I might add that the ducks and the geese are having a great time playing. This does cause a great mucking mess in the back pasture area as cow is a bit heavy and our clay soil turns to a mess as soon as it gets wet. We'll have to see what we can do to minimize any damage to the soil. We hope this steady rain continues so that we can dry farm all our grains and winter beans. I might add that "rain" is used to mean any time the sky spits on us. A local farmer and I were talking excitedly the other day about getting 1/18th of an inch of rain the night before. I suppose after a year of less than 10 inches of rain we get excited about any water that we can get.