Got a rude awakening just after midnight today when a truck came driving up the drive. It was pouring rain so he had trouble backing down to get turned around and #1 son who was awake called to see what was going on because he had seen him pass his house. The truck headed back down the drive and stopped in front of son's house for awhile then turned around in the highway and came back up here. With the warning from son we were ready for him with a big spotlight and when he saw the light he stopped and said he was looking for an address that isn't on our driveway. He left and we went back to bed but then the rain started pouring and thunder and lightening kept us awake for quite awhile. I think I finally went to sleep around 2am when the storm passed and the rain slacked off some. When we got up this morning we saw the results of the heavy overnight rains were a flooded bottom pasture.
It looked like the water had been quite a bit higher and had already went down.
Hubbie and I got chores done and everything acted like they were certainly glad to see the warm sunshine this morning. We had breakfast then went outside to get some yardwork done.
These bushes in this bed are getting way overgrown and there is poison ivy starting under the bushes that needs to be removed. This is what is looked like before I started.
I put on gloves, long sleeves and even a face mask to crawl around underneath the Azaleas and butterfly bushes to pull the poison ivy out and then came inside to wash my face and arms anyway with a poison ivy scrub just to be on the safe side. This is after the trimming. And we moved our house number sign into better view.
I cleaned a little more in some other beds but didn't want to take away any of the flowering vines as there was honey bees all over them.
We came inside and had BLT's for lunch then went up to the garden to pick green beans and more tomatoes. The clouds grew dark for a while but the storms missed our area today thankfully. I got more Fall crop seeds planted today. I planted lettuce, spinach, Swiss card, carrots, kale and rutabagas in a couple of my raised bed cattle waterers.
#1 son came up and we decided to put a gate on our driveway with a coded access so we can stop the middle of night wanderers from getting up in here.
The weather is still the main story with not both storms having names as Marco was named today.
After chores hubbie and I ended the busy day watching the storm clouds build around the horizon again tonight.
There is still a lot of water standing in the bottom pasture as the ground is so saturated it can't sink in right now.
Thankful for the blessings of this day.
God Bless and Good Night
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