Reasons why someone needs to do a rain dance!

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Am just wondering if anyone knows a rain dance? Coz here are some reasons why we need just a touch of rain (not too much mind!)

Waterbutts are all empty and as we're on metered water, its costing a fortune to keep garden, chickens, etc supplied in water, as well as washing the car, washing horses, yard, buckets etc out!!

Everything is coated with a thin later of dust: gets in your throat, on your clothes, inside the house .... etc etc

Grass in the fields is getting eaten up! Having to move sheep onto alternative pasture, whereas normally they'd be OK at least for another month

My poor piebald boy has got white bits in all the wrong places, bless him, and has a sunburnt nose! (now wearing a mask and hating it - whereas normally he wouldn't have to wear it at least for another month or so)

Ground is as hard as rock: fencing is a nightmare plus jumping practice has to be limited

All this weather now means that we'll inevitably pay for it later; result another year when no-one's being able to produce any hay and prices will be sky high again

SO.......... cummon you guys and gals and lets have your rain-dances!
 
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite said:
Am just wondering if anyone knows a rain dance? Coz here are some reasons why we need just a touch of rain (not too much mind!)

Waterbutts are all empty and as we're on metered water, its costing a fortune to keep garden, chickens, etc supplied in water, as well as washing the car, washing horses, yard, buckets etc out!!

Everything is coated with a thin later of dust: gets in your throat, on your clothes, inside the house .... etc etc

Grass in the fields is getting eaten up! Having to move sheep onto alternative pasture, whereas normally they'd be OK at least for another month

My poor piebald boy has got white bits in all the wrong places, bless him, and has a sunburnt nose! (now wearing a mask and hating it - whereas normally he wouldn't have to wear it at least for another month or so)

Ground is as hard as rock: fencing is a nightmare plus jumping practice has to be limited

All this weather now means that we'll inevitably pay for it later; result another year when no-one's being able to produce any hay and prices will be sky high again

SO.......... cummon you guys and gals and lets have your rain-dances!
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Yes too much dust and farmer is worried about hay production (altho luckily he has stock piled so we should be alright if it's rubbish this year) he's already getting calls from other farms wanting hay...
 
Here in West Wales we had a heavy rainstorm last night lasted about an hour.
What rain we have had does seem to have been at night.
All the troughs and the house are gravity fed from our own spring bore hole so water costs nothing.
We shut the hay field off at the end of February growing on nicely should get 500/600 bales of hay off that.
There are advantages of living in the Welsh hills and best of all no clay!!!! subsoil so the ground doesn't set like concrete
 
I'm just so worried that we're going to have another terrible year for hay because I'm not sure I can afford another one like the last. We get through so much of it! It's really stressing me out so although I'm loving the sun I would give almost anything to have a really wet May.
 
I thought I was seeing things this morning when I saw a patch of mud in a field. Actual mud! Then I realised it was a pond that had dried up :(

I am lucky that my two don't need much grass (natives) but I do need it to grow just a little bit. I too worry about the hay prices over winter, I struggled to get any last winter, it was a nightmare.

Rain dance shenanigans going on here!
 
NO NO NO!!!

Last time people were this hopeful for rain was in 2007 and we had massive floods!

Okay well you can ask for rain but only a little bit please. :)
 
horselib said:
Here in West Wales we had a heavy rainstorm last night lasted about an hour.
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It was a good one wasnt it! Some serious noise and light display and raindrops like bullets!!
We are on the coast and we must have had it for a few hours solid, still not enough though, want more!!!!!!!!
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Ooooh, the rain dance has enticed the clouds and there is some loud thunder rumbling around. Still no rain though..............

BTW, is it just my family and friends who think it is insane wishing for rain and can't understand my obsession with the weather?
 
We have sandy soil so no mud in the winter but this dry spell has really dried out the grass quickly. I have also spent the last 2 days digging out the plants in my garden that died due to the severe winter - about 50% at current count :eek: and the rest are wilting under the heat, my soil is more like desert sand and no matter how much I water the garden its dry as anything by the morning. We were forecast light showers this evening and tomorrow but there is now no rain forecast again for the next 5 days :(
 
Here in Bucks it is getting pretty desperate - we have not had any decent rain in around 6 weeks. I hate to say it but we need constant rain for around a week to get us back on track!
 
Several loads of washing have not done the job here in Bedfordshire but I have other tricks up my sleeve. I have just assembled the garden hammock &, in one last desperate rain creating effort, I have just watered 50 hedging plants that I put in last winter - with a watering can. 2 plants per can except for the 3 that are really struggling, they had a whole can each. If that doesn't work I'm afraid we will just have to adapt to desert conditions.
 
I'm doing my bit to help. I have:

~planned a BBQ for 30 friends and family members for tomorrow afternoon. They will not all fit in the house.
~acquired enough sun cream to last the next 3 months
~dug out my shorts
~spent £50 on summer clothes today
~left my car sun roof wide open
~have done copious amounts of washing

If that doesn't make it rain then I'm all out of ideas!
 
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