I just emptied 4-1/2 inches of water out of my rain gauge. I didn't realize how much rain we'd gotten in the last few days, as the indicator was stuck.

I've been out on the tractor for about the last hour. Thankfully I hadn't taken the backhoe off. My culverts were stuffed full of summer debris. I cleaned out the culverts and I cleaned out my settling ponds too.

They say we could get another 6-8 inches of rain by Sunday night.

I haven't had time to get my RES/FHM grow-out pond seined yet. Thankfully, the RES were planned for the pond it flows into. I expect most of them will be swimming in that pond by morning, as water was starting to go over the emergency spillway. The FHMs will at least provide some forage, but I sure will miss having them as bait for the next several weeks.

The last time we had rains like this I was picking trout and HBG out of the bushes.

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