12 Years Ago Today...

...I married my wonderful wife, Jennifer. Friday night we went out to celebrate at the local Mexican restaurant with the best margaritas. Readers of this blog know that I believe in local food and drink but some things - Mexican Tequila and Irish Whiskey, for example - really should be left to the experts, right? Seriously, though, these have been twelve great years. May God grant Jennifer the grace to keep me around for many more.

We've had some minor flooding in the area today after a thunderstorm last night and rain this morning. We got about 2" (5 cm) of rain. The lower photo is my neighbor's pasture across the road. The upper photo is the stream that comes down and cuts through our pasture. I've built a flood gate here where the electric fence crosses the stream. It is made of galvanized jack chain hanging from the lowest fence wire. The bottom wire is energized through an energy limiter, also called a flood-gate controller. It automatically cuts power to the bottom wire when the stream rises or when grass grows over the bottom wire. This keeps the fence from shorting to ground.

weather today: 54°F/65°F rainy
tags: flood, pasture, stream, flood gate, energy limiter, electric fence