I'm with ya, Dawn. I think I prefer praying for rain as opposed to praying for it to stop!! I've never owned a pair of muck boots...but this may be the year.

Still holding on here in NE rural Norman. There are only two roads left for us to access "town" or work. And with more rain coming - I'm wondering how long those 2 roads will hold up. If they get washed out..so be it but I'm just praying the water doesn't make it into the house. It's been over half-way up our brick-skirting twice now. Just the rain from this morning caused more large puddles so I'm really dreading the next 2 days of rainfall. If it weren't for our raised beds...we would have NO garden this year. And our wild plums and berries.....they've had the "hail" beat out of them so there won't be much fruit to harvest. Ironic it wasn't a frost that got them, isn't it?

Paula

We are about the same shape here as far as too much water. I heard there was a non detected tornado about 10 miles from here today. Some people lost their roof last I heard.

I went to Poteau to get some more tractor parts to try and get these ready for haying. It's either I work on equipment or mow on the sunny times. I just have to decide which one I feel like doing. I for sure am going to have to mow across the road as it looks like the pasture.

Got 2" of rain in the gauge today.

We are the same. I went out about 20 minutes ago to try to pull some beets. I have to hunt for them in the crabgrass. Most of them look too large but I will salvage what I can, and then mulch the area, hoping to mow it first. This has been an almost "no till year" for me any way because the ground has been too wet for ever. I am not going to complain because so much of the country needed rain so badly. I just wish it could have been regulated a little more evenly.

I have heard all my life that you should save for a rainy day, which I have tried to do, now what? Do order a boat from Amazon and have it delivered by a Drone?

Paula, I worry about you and Ken and all that high water. Y'all be extra careful! After all these years of fearing that wildfire would burn us all out of our homes, now we are at the other end of the spectrum.

It hasn't even taken hail to knock fruit off our plum trees. Every time we have had really high wind and heavy rain together, the ground is covered with fruit. I still hope to get enough plums to make some jelly, but that looks more and more iffy every day.

My garden is the same as yours---without raised beds, there simply would be no garden left to produce anything. This week I yanked out the snap peas----the plants, though heavily loaded with peas and still in bloom, were rotting off at the ground, and they are in raised beds. I harvested all I could find as I pulled out each plant and put it on the compost pile. I'm not going to plant anything else in the ground where they were growing until we have had a few days of sunshine to dry out the waterlogged soil in those raised beds. I fear that any seed sowed there now would just rot or wash away anyhow.

Robert, What is a sunny day? (grin) I feel like we have become obsessed with mowing and edging the property, precisely because we cannot do it. On the first sunny, dry-ish day we get, Tim will be mowing, and I'll be out there with the string trimmer tidying up the edges, and along fence lines and such. Tim did mow the other day, so at least the grass in the area closest to the house, garden and outbuildings is low, but the roadside and the pastures are high. You know, that snakey sort of high. I can't wait for us to at least be able to mow pathways through the fields. After Tim mowed the other day, he had just parked the riding mower in the garage when gas became pouring out from underneath it. As he was pushing it back out of the garage, I was running to the house to grab cat litter to absorb the spilled gasoline. He eventually found a hose loose and then two parts on the ground that surely must have had something to do with the loose hose, which I assume was a fuel line. So, before he can mow again, he'll have to fix the mower again. It is always something, isn't it? We've never had to work so hard just to mow the grass.

Larry, Thanks for the laugh! You always say something that puts a smile on my face. I like the idea of a boat delivered by a drone. Yesterday when I heard the UPS truck coming down the road (you can hear it from a long way off once you are used to what it sounds like) I went down the driveway to meet the driver down at the road. I wouldn't have wanted for him to bring that big old truck up our flooded driveway as he might have gotten stuck in the mud.

Has anyone here been counting days and nights of rain? Is anyone approaching 40 days and 40 nights? It might be time to start building an ark, and if I was building that ark, it would have two sections---one for two of each kind of animal and the other for two of each kind of plant. Oh, who am I kidding? It would have a third section for 100 tomato plants.

Dawn