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I wrote this for all of us out there fighting the drought. A fellers got time to scratch a few lines down while he's hauling water for the livestock. You read a good book by Jinglebob and get to thinking you can write poetry also.
The Package
It was just a little package
With a plain brown paper wrap
Postmarked “special delivery”
Tied with a nylon strap
My calloused hands were trembling
As the nylon strap poped open
Exposing inside my precious prize,
It was all and more that I’d been hopin!
There lying on the table
All shiny plastic and new
Was my state of the art new rain gauge
With a fancy wind meter too!
I mounted it on the tallest post
In the middle of the yard
Knowing it would be real accurate
Cause the wind hit it good and hard.
That was over a year ago
And my patience is wearin thin
I check the dang thing daily
Will it ever rain agin?
It’s always full of spider webs
And bugs of which all are dead
I want to see some moisture
Fill up my gauge instead!
I know the wind meter works
It’s straight out 5 days a week,
In fact once it blew so hard
It wound up down by the creek
So I’m going to send the darn thing back
As my feelings are really hurt
Please send me one that measures RAIN
Not spider webs, bugs and Dirt!!!!!