sodden

it is the end of october and it feels like it...it was forty-two degrees ( fahrenheit ) at around one this afternoon and it has been raining since i got out of bed at 2:30 a.m....we had ten inches or better of rain in may which is what put a stick in the spokes of the dense yellow number two crop hereabouts...we have had half that amount in october..however the bulk of it has fallen in the last week or so and things are getting soggy again...i took a side trip around some fields on the way home today ...

and there is still some unharvested ( and unlikely to be harvested any time soon ) dense yellow #2 out there south on county line road...

there is a lot of water as well and some of those harvested and freshly turned bean fields are going to see some erosion...the fields that were left fallow...

seem to be handling the water in a better fashion...certainly not seeing the pools of water the others exhibit...

out back the northern tepehuan teocintli is sodden as well..the silks are matted...

and the seeds are still green...which is unfortunate...

while the zea mays mexicana ears continue to ripen and shatter...and with temperatures forecast to drop significantly below freezing through the day tomorrow ( halloween night forecast includes the possibility of snow ) the whole prosepect of more mature seeds dims significantly...i have wrapped the green ears in frost cloth...this won't prevent damage from temperatures in the twenties however...i have a fair harvest of zea mays mexicana seed...the northern tepehuan may not yield any this season...fortunately there are mores of those seeds in the freezer and i can try again next year...

ending with a positive, since i cleaned and replanted the ramp bed it has remained untouched by whatever was making the bed its own bailiwick...we will see what spring brings.