We have had nearly 2 inches of rain yesterday and so far today, and it's supposed to rain much of the night and most of the day Sunday. There are flash flood warnings out for the county. We don't have worries about flooding here (other than the back pasture along the creek), but the following picture shows the corner of the front pasture near the mailbox. It is almost solid rock underneath (see the protruding pieces). One of my to-do projects is to put in a drain pipe underground to get this water out to the barrow pit ( or road ditch, or barrel pit, or whatever you call it in your neck of the woods!)
According to Websters, barrow pit: "a roadside borrow pit dug for drainage purposes. Also called bar pit, bar ditch." Apparently the term comes from "borrow pit", as in borrowing fill dirt for another purpose and leaving a pit.
Here is a shot of the wet garden and back yard.
The cows don't mind..they just keep grazin' in the rain.
Have you watched the Huckaby show on Fox, where he has to show pictures of his new grandson at the end of the show? I kind of like that idea!
Katie's family returned to Portland and to Iowa on Wednesday, so we are helping when we can. They all spent the night here Thursday night, Caleb by our bedside. Rita did the feeding and changing through the night and didn't call on me until 5 AM. Wendy spent the night at their house last night to care for him so that Dave, Katie and Jackson could attend an event at Lipscombe University to hear Phil, Miss Kay and Uncle Si from Duck Dynasty. (More on that in a later post.)
So to conclude, here are 2 pictures of a mighty sweet boy. He's one month old tomorrow, 4/28.
Where are you in TN??? I am in the Knoxville area and I wanted to plant my tomatoes and peppers today, but too much rain. Our blueberries have flowered, as well as our apples, plums, and nectarines. We have a few teeeeeeeny peppers on our plants that are still in pots, which, at the moment, still look good, but after another week in a pot???? And, Friday the low is expected to be in the high 30s. We're holding off until next week to put things in the ground outside, but it seems so late.
ReplyDeleteHi Melanie,
ReplyDeleteWe are south of Murfreesboro about 10 miles.
It does seem late, but then I remind myself that many years I have done most of the planting in May. In fact, the first year we were here, I was developing a new yard and garden from scratch and put in some corn, beans, squash and melons near July 1 and still had a decent harvest.
I hope we are done with 30s; hope you don't get frost this late.
First of all, your grandson is so sweet and you and your wife are so blessed and a blessing to your kids helping them. I'm happy for you!
ReplyDeleteIt does seem to be almost a waste of time to plant frost susceptible plants before May, and a few years ago we had a killing frost close to Mother's Day. But it seems like everything catches up pretty soon, doesn't it?
Thank you, Dewena. We are indeed blessed.
DeleteYes, I should know better. The 2 tomatoes and 2 peppers I set out under cloches a couple weeks ago haven't done much so far. Might as well have waited!
Oh, he is a sweetie! We don't and won't have any that size until the Grands get married and begin families. Our youngest gd is 13.
ReplyDeleteYour place is beautiful.....where are the weeds? It is so neat it makes me uncomfortable....(just kidding).
Thank you, Glenda. We are sure enjoying him. Our grands are 16, 13 and 9 so we are tickled to have another wee one!
DeleteI just came in for a bite of lunch; been out weeding :-). I'll go back out and plant some now (rain coming tonight with 2-2.5" expected through Sunday)