How Much Rain...

...is too much rain?
I don't know - maybe 8 inches? I'm not brave enough to go out and look at the garden. and it's not over yet. We had a slab poured next to the barn yesterday...and Will ran home from work so we could cover it with plastic before all this started. I'm operating under the assumption that the plants in the garden will weather this (no pun intended); but this much rain always reminds us of the 'Remnants of Allison" back whenever that was..2000 or so. A hurricane / tropical mess of a situation that lingered long enough to give us more than 20 inches of rain. I don't remember how much exactly, but I remember having to pull hundreds (literally hundreds) of mature tomato and pepper plants loaded with fruit out of the field because the had drowned and died from the rain (!) so you can understand why it makes us nervous.

I'll just stay inside, maybe make some bread....and try not to worry about it because you sure can't DO anything about it. and, in the end, I think it's better than a drought...we've had that too.

At least there's no work outside today...after hauling bales of hay and bags of leaves to mulch the new herb beds I needed a break anyway. And thanks to a new friend / customer...we prepared three new beds on Tuesday. Had she not offered to help, those beds wouldn't be out there for maybe another two weeks(!) p.s. she helped tie up the fencing in the garden and then planted the cucumbers too! And we've had offers of help from others as well...and we plan to take them up on it...all I did was ask. Don't know why I never asked before. There are a lot of generous people out there!

By the way, here's the driveway...