Water Works

Today, Everett and I got to the Kelly Thompson Ranch around 7:30. We went up to Mill Ridge to check on the cattle, where we'd left them over the weekend. Ev had gone and checked the cows yesterday and knew to expect that some of the fence would be knocked down. Sure enough, a couple sections of poly-wire that bordered the creek were a mess. We took an hour to clean them up and build three more fences, creating three new paddocks for the cows. We then proceeded to gather up the cows and move them to one of the new paddocks in Arano Flat.

In the new paddock there is a trough. The trough, like the others in the Picnic Grounds, can be fed from a siphon that draws from a holding pond in the Little Field (East of Arano Flat). We'd planned on the having the cows water from the trough that was being fed from the pond, BUT, just like the troughs in the Picnic Grounds, we ran into some problems...

For some reason the siphon wasn't working. We spent about an hour and a half running back in forth between the tank that feds the pond, the pond, and the trough... and an air release. We were able to get it to hold but unable to have it pull the volume we were looking for. So, tomorrow, Ev and I will head over to the ranch around 6:30 to check on the cows, clean up some fence, and work on the siphon.

I'm optimistic but I hope it doesn't take a week to figure this out - by then, the cows will be gone...