I wish we could have some rain!
Drought is threatening sheepdog training here. If we don’t get rain soon, it will restrict our activity.
Although our training ground is heavy clay, the grass is brown and burned off. The sheep are eating what amounts to wisps of hay stuck in the ground (but I must admit they seem to be doing well on it).
No grass, no sheepdog training
But it can’t last. The grass isn’t growing because the ground is too dry. This means that what the sheep are eating is not being replaced. If the dry weather continues and we don’t get significant rain very soon, there will be no food at all for the sheep. We’ll have to drastically reduce the numbers.
Nearly every day the BBC website forecasts heavy rain showers, but they rarely come to anything more than a few spots (literally). Last night, I was actually woken up by the sound of rain, but it lasted about a minute. This morning, everything is as dry as ever.
“Poms whining about a bit of dry weather again!”
I’m sure some of our readers who live in hot countries will find this post really funny. They endure far longer and hotter periods of dry weather than we do in England. For us though, the drought threatens to be a real problem.
I get very uncomfortable in hot weather, but this year has been wonderful for me. It hasn’t been too hot – and the sheepdogs certainly don’t mind. Just because the weather has been mild though, doesn’t stop drought threatening our sheepdog training. How I wish we could have a week or more of good, steady constant rain though.
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