Doe 'n' Dog 'n' Pond 'n' Puddles

In a fit of fool-hardiness, we headed out to Die Weide today to deliver the 330 gallon water tank I purchased yesterday. The fool-hardiness was to set out with a forecast of rain all day. When we left Cedar Park though, it was only drizzling so we figured it shouldn't be a problem dropping off the tank and switching out memory sticks on the trail cam. However, the closer we got to Die Weide, the harder it rained. I ran the truck's wipers at full speed from Thrall on. Once we made it that far though, we were committed. The easement road was certainly muddy, but the truck handled it with no problem. We dropped off the tank and leashed Penny to head back to the pond. We chose to leash her because we didn't want to have to retrieve her from the neighbors, where she always dashes off to when we arrive.

After skirting puddles and pasture runoff streams, we arrived at the newly cleared path to the pond, to find yet another runoff. Penny splashed through one puddle after another dragging me along to get really wet boots and then the path opened up on the "Wet Weather Creek." Which is a Texas way of saying a dry creek except when it rains - and today, it was definitely raining as you can see here:

Wet Weather Creek - in wet weather!

And a few paces to the left of this is the infamous natural pond (don't hold your breath!):

Natural Pond on Wet Weather Creek

After a quick swap of SD cards on the trail cam (which showed only 35 pictures for a week), and a check that the batteries would be good for a few more days, we headed back, thoroughly soaked. Here's me and Penny on the pond trail. Normally my jacket is light brown, but it's soaked to almost a Penny brown.

After we got home we loaded up the cam's SD card and found three sets of doe pictures and one set of dog pictures - I was hoping to see a boar picture because we've seen boar sign on the property. Anyway, here's the Doe 'n' Dog from the title:

Slightly zoomed in on dog