First the bad...
It was wet this weekend. How wet?
We got almost 4" of rain over the weekend.
This is where we normally park.
Not this weekend!
This was out near the barn and shed.
The water runs this direction naturally, down this depression and on down the driveway toward 2nd Family's house. We are at the high end of the property. It goes on through their yard and toward the road and then down the hill. So we are safe from flooding, like flooding the house type of flooding, but that doesn't mean that the yard doesn't get water standing in it in places.
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| Standing water |
This is me in my rubber boots. And yes, I was wearing shorts, it was 74 on Saturday. Sunday it dipped down into the 40's. If all this froze, we could host the Olympics, ha.
So that might be the bad you ask but alas, it wasn't. Sure it's a mess but the bad stuff was yet to come.
"R" came up to help us get the water back on. I was in the house when he turned it back on, all the faucets came on because they were left open. We went around and shut them off. When the last was closed I yelled out "Everything looks good!"
Then I heard water running.
Did I leave the outside faucet on? I went outside and checked. Broken pipe under the house. Water spraying everywhere. "Shut it off!" I yelled. We turned the valve to the house and it broke off.
Lovely.
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| Gushing water (NOT ours) |
OK, so it wasn't this bad but it felt like it.
We shut off the main valve at the well so no water is going to the house at all. "R" said it was a pipe that had a dip in it and we didn't get all the water out when we blew it out with the air compressor. We'll have to figure out something for next Winter but we'll worry about that next Summer, ha.
His first job was as a plumber so he said he would fix it for us, when things dry out and the weather warms up of course. I like to help him so I can learn some of these things myself. He's a great way to learn!
So no water in the house until then. We filled up some buckets so I can water the porch plants next weekend. The rains are taking care of the in-ground plants, that's for sure.
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| Storm clouds |
Speaking of, it started getting dark and sprinkling so we had to wrap the day up. More rain.
Now the good stuff...veggies!
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| Raised bed garlic |
Garlic is doing GREAT! I've watered when it hasn't rained and the rest of the time we've had plenty of rain (and snow ha). It seems very happy and is much further along that at this time last year.
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| Raised bed cabbage |
Look! We have cabbage (almost). They are all developing nice tight heads.
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| Cabbage head |
Here is a closeup.
Probably another couple of weeks and we'll have some nice heads of cabbage to harvest and eat. We think it will end up being a success even though we started a bit late in the season and our screwy weather confused it. We are looking forward to it!
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| Collard green harvest |
And lastly, we harvested another nice basket full of collard greens. We LOVE this stuff. I think this is the fourth harvest. Next Fall more will be planted. It's so satisfying to go out and snip off the big leaves around the outside of the plants and bring back a big basket like this. Was in the elevator carrying this and someone said "oh my, what lovely collard greens!"
That made us feel good!
Hope your weekend was better!
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