A Blow OUT!

Yesterday we had a blow out in the embankment around lower field. I'd been watering it because it's been unseasonably warm here–although it will be below zero again next week and my fruit trees are all flowering, yikes!–and the water, which is flowing at some incredible PSI, found a gopher hole. And, boy did it find it! By the time I returned to the field the water had carved a cavern under one of my elderberries. I was in time to watch the poor little thing drop from its original planting spot to a new spot some three feet lower. It took the tractor to plug the hole, but I no longer have any hope that the embankment will continue to hold water. Rocks. I need rocks. (Thank heavens I live next to Oak Creek which seems to supply us with an endless number of rocks…)