1.15” rain this week.  A couple puddles in the drainage ditches, low ground soggy, but most soaked it in nicely.  Ponds looking better and thawed, creeks flowing lightly.  One more bean field down, 3 still standing on our 40 mile loop to town.  Deer about early and late, hawks hunting, heron fishing, pileateds making a ruckus in the woods by day, replaced by barred owls at night.  Songbirds aplenty.  Heard turkeys gobbling for the first time in a month, haven't seen any since mid-September.