Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

Rain rain go away, come again another day!

5.03 inches so far today. My French Drains work great, but still were not enough to handle this volume. We are already over our average annual rainfall amount.

Ed, sorry you're having problems with what sounded like such a rewarding endeavor. Hope you can still make your plans work out.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Camping in a downpour. Camper roof leaking over the bed, but it's on her side... Lol
Came to "town" for supper.

 

[riptides]

First time ever my driveway flooded over. Probably didn't help that the neighbor decided to regrade his property 4 feet higher and install drainage from his neighbor into his pond.

 

[sodamo]

Ed, what a disappointment, sorry that happened. Sounds like bait and switch.

Very, very strange experience this morning. While showing the new Hispanic helper, who I hired, around we came to the garden and he pointed at the fence.
Unreal. A black snake had gotten caught in the plastic netting and had wrapped himself up in it, doing a real number on himself. Lost some scales for sure.
It took me almost a half hour to slowly cut all the plastic off the snake, who we first thought was a goner. Once the head was unwrapped, the tongue came out a little, then a whole inch,
and I still had a little more. So, sorry buddy, back went the foot on the snake to immobilize him, and he was very good, like somehow he knew I was helping him, particularly after part of him got free. I worked from the rear to the front and he never nipped at me. Once the last part was off him, using some garden veggie snippers I had right there, he took off for the wood line at top speed and seemed to be ok. My bad, need to replace that one small section where I ran out of the heavier duty fencing and used some cheap deer fencing. Bad for birds and bad apparently for snakes.

now the real question is.............
what was that snake doing trying to get in the garden?
what was it trying to eat?

Maybe a romantic interest in the red snake next to the fence?

 

[sodamo]

Ed, sorry to hear about the switch. Maybe they should offer the current one at what you paid?

 

[toppop52]

We only have 2.2 inches of rain so far. You guys in northern and central parts of Virginia and Maryland are getting the most. We are getting a lot of wind.

 

[sodamo]

We’ve surpassed 100 inches rain ytd.

 

[lostcreekranch]

We’ve surpassed 100 inches rain ytd.

We’ve surpassed ........ 18” YTD.

 

[toppop52]

We are around 25 inches YTD. 11 of them fell in about 10 days in the spring.

 

[lostcreekranch]

We are around 25 inches YTD. 11 of them fell in about 10 days in the spring.

With our sandy soil, here in the Texas Post Oak Savannah Eco region, I don’t need huge rains. I’m good with about 1” per week.

A 2-3” rain occasionally, to keep our tanks full, is always welcome.