More Water

Well the really big news this weekend was the amount of rainfall that was received last week.  It seems that Rockdale got 3.5" and temporary flooded the city (this was based on an article in the paper).  The ponds were 'very' full.  The large pond was overflowing into the gully.

Here is what the back pond (big one) looked like

 BEFORE

and then AFTER

Here is the front pond

BEFORE

and then AFTER

Because of the storm we had a lot of 'camp' cleanup to do.  And because this is becoming an obsession, we are know creating a tent city.  We have one tent to sleep in and another for storage.

What would a blog be without my dogs

Tyke needed to wear a sweater because it was very cold and very windy.  Because of the wind we didn't get a lot done on the barn but John is ever diligent.

We did get the onions planted this weekend.   We have three different varieties.  You maybe asking yourself, why are they planting so many onions.  The answer would be, I have no idea.  The onions were purchased in this bundle and so we plant......

As I had mentioned earlier it was very cold there this weekend.  Saturday night it was 37.  I will say that sleeping in a tent when it is 37 degrees, is no easy feat, even with a small propane heater.  We did have another emergency this weekend.  At 7:00 pm on Saturday, John and I were deciding whether we had enough gas in the propane tank to power the heater for the night.  We both decided, sure we did.  I believe this decision was made more out of laziness.  We were very tired and didn't want to go into town.  Well, at 9:30 that night, the tank ran out, the tent began to become very cold very quickly.  You have never seen two people get dress and two dogs get into a warm truck any faster than we did.

We did get gas and slept fairly warm in the tent, but again we have learned another lesson, always have a backup propane tank if staying warm depends on it.