There is no water in the house...........it didn't rise that far. But it sure came a lot closer than it has done before.
The big garden loss I can tolerate, sort of, but the loss of the herb garden is killing me. But as one of the guys said at the Lodge this afternoon, if you want to be a farmer, you deal with it. And it was a farmer saying it - and he wasn't saying it to be mean, just pragmatic.
I'll spend this week clearing it out, and then will put in another planting of cold weather stuff, like beans and peas and lettuce and spinach. I have peppers in the freezer, I'll just have to buy more throughout the winter.
Poor coolbreeze - he's working tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday and then doesn't go back to work until the following Monday..............he's not getting a vacation.
there is no way around it, you are subject to the weather, and have no control. that is a sad fact. i am thinkg that you must be in a lowlying area or that there is poor drainage? because we got a ton of rain but bc we are on a hill we never have pooling water anywhere. Same with where i grew up. My dad had a huge garden every year and i don't recall rain ever being a problem. the DEER were his problem!