{"id":3614,"date":"2013-07-14T20:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T12:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2013-07-14T20:24:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T12:24:31","slug":"blue-skies-after-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/14\/blue-skies-after-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Skies after the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130714-017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3625\" alt=\"20130714 017\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130714-017-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130714-017-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130714-017.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We got over 65mm of rain up to 10am this morning, with most falling overnight, just the way I like it. \u00a0 That is almost 10% of our annual rain and 50% of the average July rainfall! I spent a bit of time on the shovel digging drains to reduce the flooding in the horses&#8217; walkouts for their boxes and made some slight modifications to our emergency <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swale_(landform)\" target=\"_blank\">swales<\/a> which are successfully keeping water from running down to the house. \u00a0We dug them on <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/23\/30-millimetres-in-30-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\">23rd June<\/a> when we had the last heavy rainfalls. \u00a0We will modify and turn them into feature damplands when we have realigned the drive to its final position. \u00a0 We are having fewer rain days than average this year, but getting bigger volumes when it does rain .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-09-15.02.02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3636\" alt=\"2013-07-09 15.02.02\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-09-15.02.02-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-09-15.02.02-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2013-07-09-15.02.02.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got over 65mm of rain up to 10am this morning, with most falling overnight, just the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/20130714-017.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}