After the flood...

A few days after the "flood", the sky was blue and the ground was drying. 

The cows and sheep were fast eating all the new spring grass and needed to be moved, so we had to fix the fences.

We had to dig the debris off the fences in order to pull the posts back up...

...which took a while.

I called our fencing crew for some emergency work - strengthening the weak spots along the fence line by replacing the flattened t-posts with 3-inch steel pipe pounded 3-feet into the ground (by the tractor you see in the back ground).

The boys pulled and straightened the flimsy fence back across both ends of the stream (this is the west end), but we will have to build something must stronger before next storm.

K7 is cutting up an old tree that has been laying on the stream bank for a few years, and is surrounded by brambles. I need to drag the logs out before clearing out the nasty brush.

K7 also cut up driftwood logs we pulled out of stream and cut down some small walnut trees.  The driftwood goes onto the burn pile, and the walnut gets cut up and stacked for next winter's firewood to heat the house.

K8 also got his chainsaw in action.

His job was to clear out all the thick brush to the right.

He got most of it cut and piled for burning, but as he worked his way close to the trunk of this big Sycamore tree next to the road, his chainsaw got tangled with a hidden bunch of old rusty fence wire that was wrapped around the tree trunk - which was the poor man's way to fence in the Ozarks. He finally got his chain freed, but we'll have to cut all the old wire out before he finishes.