Tuesday, June 18, 2013

RAINY DAY BLUES

The rains started last night, lightly at first, then it became a really big flash, bang, boom phenomenon. Zoe in her little bed on floor surprised Frank and I by all of the sudden leaping up onto the bed, we were not sure she could do that any longer,but motivation is a powerful thing. She nestled in next to Frank's legs. Parker came creaping out from the closet and hopped up as well, tucking in on my side of the bed, shaking and panting to underscore his feelings about these untoward events. That storm passed, and just as Parker was starting to feel a little more relaxed, another heavy dose of rain, lightening and thunder built back up again. So there we were, two sleeping soundly, one trying desperately to get to sleep and one wondering how the hell we could all be sleeping at a time like this. Morning brought dry skies. Everyone was happy to take their walk under the current weather conditions, so off we went. There were two large trees uprooted and starting their decent to the ground, one moved several feet and made lots of noise just as we past,making the dogs bolt ahead. Back at home, the onslaught began again. Parker took up permanent refuge in the laundry room for the day, where the whirr of the washing machine and dryer must have mask some of the noise, and there are no windows to witness the lighting. Torrential rains have left a pond in the middle of the soon to be field of soy beans. Unfortunate timing for all of this. There is still cut alfalfa laying in the lower field, now saturated with water, and surrounded by muddy fields that will prohibit the machines from doing their gathering for several days. The barley will need to dry out again before it can be cut, and the previous rains have already knocked down a fair amount of the stalks, fungus and mildew are a concern. The ability to groom the field for the soy beans will also be delayed as the ponding will need to be absorbed into the already saturated ground. Oh, sigh! The corn is happy, well at least one thing is right. I of course worry about the gardens with this much moisture. Many of my plants don't really like the water, and some are getting bent over by the heavy rains. It looks beautiful from the window, but the fungus and mildew that comes with all of this moisture is almost worse than what happens when it doesn't rain enough. Wish I were Goldilocks and could find the weather that was just right.

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