The Swamp Has Reclaimed My Property

About to go crazy here, have had rain for last 2 weeks. Ground is so saturated if you step anywhere in the yard you sink to your knees in mud! 2 more days of rain in forecast.Guess it will take another 2 weeks for yard to dry up. Wife said I wore a path in the carpet walking the floor, looking out the door to see if the rain stopped every 10 minutes Not to mention being bored I am eating up all the groceries in the house

 

We need some of that rain here in MO! We're about 17" under average precipitation. I heard on the news tonight that Chicago hasn't had 1 inch of snow yet - crazy.

 

After driving through 2 Chicagoland blizzards in my lifetime, I could go out without seeing any more snow!!

 

I grew up in the swamps and golf courses of south Jacksonville, FL, and now that I'm grown I don't sweat the lawn (ha) or the landscaping much. We both know that they can more or less fix themselves with a little help when the water goes back down.
I hope your house, your family, and your cars are OK!!
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wJWBcj7lsY

 

I understand...just bored being stuck in the house. Not heavy rain just a constant rain to keep you from getting anything done.

 

For a brief time as a teenager I stayed in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire for a few months during winter. That was the first time I ever seen snow and last time until around 2008 we got about 1 1/2 inches in Louisiana...I just knew the world was coming to a end when we got snow!

 

When i was a kid one of the times i was spending a week with my grandparents and it had been raining most of the time. I was hanging out with my grandpa on their rather large patio and mentioned that i was bored. He got up, went inside, and returned a minute later. He handed me a sponge with a smile and told me to try drying off the patio.

 

Tireman I feel your pain......going nuts over here too

 

As ateen, friends parrents backyard was as swamp, awesome green grass but if you tried to walk on it it was a knee deep swamp.

Then there is my back yard:banghead3:...... summer, the grass never grows and then winter and the rain........


you get the idea.......

 

I do residential remodeling and construction and snow is just fine, at least you can work outside in it and when the ground is frozen there's no mud. When it rains everything comes to a screeching halt unless you're working inside and no getting away from the mud. You can't do anything outside at home either so it's the dreaded cabin fever time. Same goes with cold, you can put on more clothes and start a fire to keep warm, there isn't a thing you can do to keep cool when it's 98 degrees and humid except get sunburned, sweat, and drink a lot of water.

 

I know this will not help the rest of you much. But----- Last two weeks the daytime highs have been around 80. At nite between 50-60. Sun shine almost everyday, at least most of the time. Grass is green and lawn is dry. In fact my truck is very dusty from the dry lime rock road.
Sometimes it's rough living in NW Florida in the boonies. But we suffer through it.
Next week winter will return. 60-s and maybe low 30's with a 28 or two at nite. Time to bundle up!
Bikers out riding with big grins on their faces. Girls and guys in shorts and tankie tops. Sadly I had to hit the window wash button to clean the windshield and ended up turning the darned AC on in the truck coming home from town.

 

Holy shnikeys Tedy! Don't let that muddy boy in the house without hosing him off first. I don't feel so bad now about the 20" of snow on the ground here now...mud I think is worse.

 

Yea but the dog sure looks happy.
Can you just imagine him running thru the living room and jumping on the sofa!!!!

 

20+ years ago a friend and I were working on a new consruction and eneded up getting a sweet side job on the site, another building axp 50 yards away. It was a mud pit but we had to string power cords to the building. after a few days you could not see our cords anymore except for 20 feet going to the one building, and about the same at the other. more rain, and more rain, and then everything froze. We finnished the side job and after a week were were done at that building..... we were never able to get our cords out of the frozen muck, I'm sure they are still under ground out there.

 

Did you unplug them Tedy?:confused: