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| What home feels like |
I expect that any day now a troupe of monkeys will swing by on the local grapevines oohing and scratching, as they admire Tarzan's mighty jungle call.
It is so wet now that even though I am indoors and have not been exposed to any actual precipitation...so far today that is.... my skin feels clammy and damp.
You probably know that it has been wet here. Only went two or three days this whole month without measurable precipitation. It rained most of June as well.
Last week one storm was so bad that Fonda, right across the river, flooded horribly, closing both state roads for hours and destroying a lot of people's properties and possessions. It took out our driveway, which is even at the best of times long and arduous, as well. The boss spent hours repairing it with the skid steer.
It didn't even have time for the gravel to settle when....
It did it again.
Worse.
Last time Liz couldn't get her car down the drive until Ralph fixed it. This time she couldn't get up at all, had to park at the bottom of the barn driveway and walk up and over. Our vehicle, which is a large, heavy, 4-wheel-drive SUV barely made it.
More hours fixing, last night, almost impossible because the gravel is so saturated as to be nearly liquid.
I don't know how much it rained overnight, but the new little garden I built this spring is under water. The entire covered porch is drenched all the way to the back wall, which has NEVER happened before, and the greenery along the driveway has drooped into a sad and soggy tunnel. The area is swathed in muggy, oily, fog, that looks, smells, and feels awful.
The worst of it is, now that the ground is this saturated, every day that it gets warm and then cools off in the afternoon is going to bring still more rain. That's how it works.
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| At least the corn likes it |
Ralph hasn't made a bale of hay in weeks and won't be able to until this pattern changes, which doesn't look to be coming any time soon. Several inches of water on all the fields and I am sure the tractor would sink to the frame if he ventured out there.
We watched a neighbor farmer trying to chop third cutting yesterday. They almost got the field done, but ended up having to quit and leave it.
I believe that we need to build a gigantic fan and blow all the water west and north and south where it could be useful and dry out our region before we start to see those monkeys and wild men swinging on our vines.
Or maybe dolphins swimming in our gardens.
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| Doesn't it look innocent? |
So much extreme weather this year. Floods, drought. all in the same country. Go figure. Trtade ya some dry weather for some rain! In moderation, of course.
ReplyDeleteSuper dry in southern Ontario for 1st half of the year. Very little snow last winter and almost no rain until late June then rain and rain and rain. Even with all the July rains, our ponds are dry or almost dry. Strange weather . . .
ReplyDeleteShirley, it is nuts, isn't it? Way, way too much in one place. None in another. I fear for food prices this winter if things don't change soon. Wish we could trade. I would take two weeks of dry in a heartbeat. We are not even going to have enough hay for our own stock this winter, let alone to sell if it doesn't dry out.
ReplyDeleteOW, it is odd indeed. Rivers and creeks are running gangbusters, and yet some ponds are low around here too.