Friday, May 29, 2015

Calling on Moses




In the months of April and May, Texas has had record breaking amounts of rainfall - to the point, that we have had flash floods, tornadoes, loss of life and property and hit national news almost daily.
With all this rain, we have had an increased amount of mosquitoes and snakes and as you can see from the pictures, once again, our garden has fallen into perilous times.  Our green beans are flooded, our tomatoes and peppers look like a swamp and we're pretty sure our potatoes and onions are so saturated, they are rotting in the ground.
I'm disappointed - slightly.
I love having this house.  I love our land that we have developed and prepare every year for a garden. We put a LOT of time, money and heart into planting our garden every year.  This is our third year.  First year, our garden was plagued by the grasshoppers and destroyed within a 3 week period of time.  Last year, was great - lots of green beans, potatoes, onion and peppers - but the tomatoes failed, as did the corn and the squash.
And now, this year?  We have a beautiful garden that has had saturating rain for over 50 days straight and very little sunshine.  Unless the next 30-40 days are filled with warm sunshine, we will have another epic fail in the garden department.
We need some divine intervention.
MOSES 911.....
Can we just ease up on the rain for a month or two???
Maybe divert the snakes and mosquitoes to New Mexico this year??
And could you please look into returning Texas Blue Bell ice cream to our local store shelves??
Then all will be well in the world again - or at least, my corner of it.

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