This is my first conditions monitoring report since I began reporting precipitation in January 2025 after moving here in the fall of 2024.
Last year was very wet in the spring with very hot temperatures in July followed by severe drought conditions beginning in July and continuing through the fall. I have a 1/3 acre spring fed pond that’s about 6-8’ deep. I stocked 50 rainbow trout in it in April and since it was my first time having a pond I had no idea how they’d do. They were doing fine until July when water temps shot up to 70+ degrees which caused several fish to die. By the end of July there were no fish coming to my feedings and I assumed they all had perished. By September the pond was 4’ below full. Heading into winter I wondered if it would recover. Fast forward to today and the pond has recovered to 1’ below full, mostly from snowmelt and spring rains. Today, I stocked another 25 rainbow trout in the pond in hopes that this year the water levels and temps will sustain them. We’ll see. 
I have a one mile loop walk that I do daily with my new black lab puppy named Buddy. As the ground has thawed and snow has melted things are drying out pretty much as I would expect. Very little mud anywhere. I have a small brook that runs along one of my property lines that is running slightly high but not unusually high. Everything seems to progressing the way our springs do. Fingers crossed we don’t get another dry summer like last year.