{"id":10316,"date":"2021-08-26T21:28:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:50:25","slug":"episode-417-drought2021add-drought-to-the-list-of-catastrophes-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=10316","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 417 DROUGHT\u20262021\u2026ADD DROUGHT TO THE LIST OF CATASTROPHES THIS YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 417     DROUGHT\u20262021\u2026ADD DROUGHT TO  THE LIST OF CATASTROPHES THIS YEAR<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
august 2021<\/div>\n

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DROUGHT\u2026THE BIG POND HAS NEARLY DRIED UP.<\/div>\n

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When mom inherited our farm in 1958 or 1959 there was a large pond in the centre\u2026.loaded with<\/div>\n
all kinds of life forms from snakes to frogs to leeches\u2026to sticklebacks to water spiders to bitterns<\/div>\n
to all manner of ducks including a secretive cluster of wood ducks who still hang around unseen.<\/div>\n

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In subsequent years we increased the wetlands \u2026 Ron Saunders dug a deep pond extension where<\/div>\n
Grandad got his best hay and then Ron used his back hoe to make a nice pond near where the barn<\/div>\n
once stood then, even later,  Jim Sanderson brought in his giant excavator to deepen one<\/div>\n
of our most hidden swamps now a glorious shaded pool.<\/div>\n

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Glad we did that.  Those new ponds are the only real  deep wetlands this year.  The drought of 2021 has<\/div>\n
dried up the big pond.   Now it has become  a hideous hodge podge of dead tag alders and shrivelled <\/div>\n
water lillies.<\/div>\n

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Lucky the new ponds\u2026..i.e. ponds created in the last 50 years\u2026are deep.  The turtles have a place<\/div>\n
to live… the big snapper we rescued a year ago\u2026and the painted turtle that seemed to believe<\/div>\n
cars and trucks would avoid him or her sitting in the centre of the fifth line and heading slowly for one of our<\/div>\n
deep ponds.  We hope our resident turtles greeted the new arrivals.<\/div>\n

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A bit depressing to look at the big pond today.  But my depression was lifted when a wild momma<\/div>\n
turkey appeared with her near grown cluster of progeny.  They scattered and gobbled when they saw me.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 417     DROUGHT\u20262021\u2026ADD DROUGHT TO  THE LIST OF CATASTROPHES THIS YEAR alan skeoch august 2021 DROUGHT\u2026THE BIG POND HAS NEARLY DRIED UP. When mom inherited our farm in 1958 or 1959 there was a large pond in the centre\u2026.loaded with all kinds of life forms from snakes to frogs to leeches\u2026to sticklebacks to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}