Burns Best Farm

How Bad is Our Drought?

It is So Bad that the Drudge Report has a headline linked to a My Way News article reporting that in the metro Atlanta and Augusta areas, neighbors are calling law enforcement to report other neighbors of watering violations.

I mean, people, it's just a green lawn.  Grass.  Not edible by humans.  Unless you are grazing livestock on it, it does not need to be watered during a severe, multi-year drought!  You can replant in the fall and maybe next summer, if we have some rain, your lawn can once again look like the Miracle Grow commercial.  But let's all agree to give up the dream for the summer of '07, OK?

Meanwhile, the farmers up this way have all baled hay this week after cutting it last week and the week before.  I'm glad to see them getting it up and stored because there may not be a fall hay crop to speak of.  My dreams of buying the milk cow have been put on hold for awhile longer.  May have to settle for goats instead.  I need the help with some overgrown brush.

:-)

03:06, 2007-May-26 .. Posted by rellamom

Thanks for the smile. Very blunt, but true! :-)

(Why IS it, anyway, that people crave a perfect lawn!?)

Carrie

Hi

01:30, 2007-May-27 .. Posted by MyThreeDaughters

It seems we had the drought in Australia first and it has carried over there. My lawn is just starting to grow again. It may have been the first time I have had a dead lawn, not counting the rented farmhouse we had in 2003 which was also a very trying year waterwise and the farmer didn't want us to water it. Some places in Australia are still struggling, but thankfully we live in the mountains. We are hoping to go off water restrictions soon. It is autumn, nearly winter.

Golden Syrup

10:32, 2007-May-27 .. Posted by MyThreeDaughters

Thanks for visiting my blog and being kind to me about the drought. I have another recipe to help use up your syrup.

http://www.homesteadblogger.com/ourlittlehouseintown/57549/Anzac+Biscuits+%7E+Cookies+Using+Golden+Syrup.html

Australia is frosty inland in July. There is a great Christmas in July celebration near Sydney then, Blue Mountains I think. If you want to keep warmer Queensland might be good. To an American it might not be that cold.

It depend what people are interested in. You can go to Mansfield and see where the Man From Snowy River was filmed, or see where the real one lived.

Hey

03:50, 2007-May-30 .. Posted by Anonymous

I don't know if your former neighborhood had the same rules but down here the associations can charge up to $1000 fines for dead lawns. It's cheaper to pay the watering fines than the assoc fines. We've been without measurable precip for 3 months now.
PS Katey & Emma say Hi to your brood
Cousin in Tampa