Last night the rain was so intense, it literally rained sideways. Not having windows in our house at this moment feels like the worse call I've made in a decade, and that is saying something.
A mist caressed our blankets making everything wet and cold. The rain finally stopped around 6am, in time to welcome the sunlight and the hope that a branch had not decided to damage a roof. The loud smacking against the zinc echoed way too many times through the night, and that's never a good sign.
The farm looks more like a swamp at this point. All the trees are under a foot of water, and there are parts of the farm that have become inaccesible for me. The path that leads to my shop requires a canoe, and lucky for me, we don't own one.
At any rate, I'm not going to sit at home and do nothing, so I'm going to work on writing. What else can I do? What else should I do?
What matter is that my family and pups are safe, and that we are lucky to not have lost power. Lucky because as far as I can tell my nextdoor neighbor is minecrafting his way through an otherwise common Wednesday.
Hopefully in an hour or two I can go into town with our old power generator for a quick fix. I tried starting it two days ago finding that the gasoline hose had been compromised-- Maybe mice.
Fun times, fun times indeed.
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They seem to collude with weather so that they disable your generator just when the power goes out.
Had a bit of weather here lately, too. Winds strong enough to do damage, although nothing I couldn't repair the morning the storm blew over. Strong enough to blow a 55 gallon drum onto the property from Lord knows where, rip signage apart, tear the neighbors' vital tarps into shreds too.
Kept me busy last couple days.
Is that the skull of a snake?
Thanks!
oh wow, you are really having fun.
for some reason mice love chewing on rubber. I suspect there's a component to the rubber that makes it taste good.
The skull is of a sea turtle. My wife and I found it walking on the beach and brought it home. We love that kind of stuff. Odd, I know.