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More rain again last night and this morning. I've never seen so much rain in my life. People think it rains a lot in Seattle, but it's nothing compared to this. My yard is so saturated that it squishes when I walk on it. The creek behind me in the cow pasture is normally just a little stream and now I can hear the rushing water all the way here at my house. Some young guys found a water mocassin there this morning. They stopped and got out of their truck to try and pick it up - silly and stupid if you ask me. But I sure don't like the thought of that snake so close to my house.
The ground is so saturated in places that some of my sunflowers which were growing really well have just fallen over. There's no support for them cause the ground is so soggy. And all my Shirley poppies got pounded by the rain and they are all fallen over also. I planted those seeds last fall and have been nurturing them along and they have just started blooming and now they are more or less done for. I don't think they will survive the beating that this last storm gave them.
But I can be thankful that no twisters came our way and we didn't lose any trees and didn't have any damage. Lots of others in the area didn't fare as well.
And speaking of trees, I have decided that I definitely do not like having pecan trees in my yard. Why anyone would plant them I can't figure out. So far all they have been is a big mess. When Hurricane Ike blew through here last Sept (2008) we ended up with tons and tons of pecans on the ground. Then the crows started in. They LOVE pecans and it was continuous from Sept through Oct - crows all day long cawing and cawing and making life miserable. Then all the pecans - I was out picking up pecans every single day. Then winter and all the leaves - 14 tress - that's a ton of leaves.
And now, now we have catkins - at least I think that's what they are called.
The trees are finally getting leaves, but they also get these long green dangly things called catkins and in the wind and rain last night they are now EVERYWHERE. I've been out picking them out of everything - flower beds, planters, bird feeders, bird baths, etc. They are all over the patio, the front walkway, the front porch, the carport - they make such a MESS! I will never plant a pecan tree. In fact I've been weeding a flower bed this morning and finding little bitty pecan trees growing from pecans the squirrels hid last fall. Well you can believe I pulled those little suckers right out of the ground.
I heard that we got about 6" of rain in that last storm and everything is soggy, soggy, soggy. The grass needs to be mowed and all my plants are really waterlogged. Hubby tried mowing some today; the grass is dry enough, but the ground is just too saturated and he was tearing up the yard. He got about maybe 1/4 of the front yard done, but all of the back. It looks terrible! Thursday is supposed to be HOT and DRY, so maybe I can finish it then.
We've had two new calves born next door in the last few days and another one due any minute. Having never lived in the country before this is all very interesting to me. I love the little calves, they frolic around like little lambs, kicking up their heels and head butting their mothers like little goats. So doggone cute.
My next door neighbor is putting in a vegetable garden in a fenced off area of the cow pasture. I've never done a vegie garden, but most everyone here seems to grow one. And it seems like just everyone I know is doing one of those topsy turvey tomato thingees. I do love tomatoes - maybe I will try one of those. My grandfather was a farmer - he was a German from Russia and farmed his whole life - seems like I'd know a little about growing veggies, but I don't.
I got up early today and mowed the lawn cause I knew another storm was heading our way. I also finally got my little japanese maple planted. I had to stake it in its pot though because when the storm did roll in around 2:30 this afternoon, it really blew the little tree around. It looked nice in its pot though. I can always tell when bad weather is coming because the birds go crazy at the feeders. During the storm today, this little squirrel showed up - poor little thing looked like a drowned rat:
Later in the evening there was a break in the weather and we had a beautiful double rainbow. You can't see both the rainbows in this picture because it was pretty dark at the time, but it was really pretty, take my word for it. This is a composite picture - I couldn't get the whole rainbow in one frame, so I had to put two pictures together. This is the first rainbow I've seen since I've come to Texas.
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