On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:31:26 CST, Phyllis and Jim
wrote:

Central MS has been very short on rain. Up to today, we are more than
20" short for the year. Our acre pond/lake has gone from 4'.5' to
less than 3' deep. That is serious when the herons visit! At 4' they
get very little. At 3' they do better. At 2' they can wade anywhere
and will strip the pond. Our 500 game fish and thousands of flathead
minnows would simply vanish!

It is raining solidly today! We will get more than an inch of rain if
it keeps up. Could even be 2". The pond collects 4-8" per inch that
falls...depending how wet the ground is before the rain. I suspect we
will see an increase of 4 or more inches from this rain. That is a
serious help. I will go out to check the depth in a day or two.

Rain, rain, come and stay. Drop some more on us today!

No rain here. We got about 5 inches in June, below average, but as we
are heading into the "wet season" here in northern Florida I thought
things would improve. Alas, we got what little rain that came down
early in June, and we haven't had any since. I'm having to run my
garden hose 24/7 into the pond, and only have about 2 feet of water
left in the deepest sections. I don't have any fish, but if this
keeps up I won't have a pond either.
--
Galen Hekhuis
We'll cross that bridge when it rears its ugly head