Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Diluvian New Year

Holy cats, has it been raining!

We had 4.5 inches one night, then 2.5 inches fell the next day. (That's about 11.5 cm and 6.5 cm.)
I'm a few days late in posting these pictures, and the ground is still boot-sucking soggy.
If "beaver-drowning rain" isn't an old country expression, it should be. Driving towards town, I saw two dead beavers on the side of the road. You know it's a lot of rain when that happens.

It's hard to complain about this much rain after 3 years of drought. But it was starting to become worrisome.

Jasmine fretted. She whined. She barked at the water!

Just starting to recede.

Ahh. Much better.
This is a little drainage ditch that hasn't had water in it for 3 years or so.
This was the last time the water was so high. That was in the spring (when you expect that sort of thing), almost 4 years ago now.
They say it's going to rain again tomorrow...

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