The rain storm we had last weekend lasted three days and dumped ten inches of water (the wettest it's ever been up here on the farm apparently). If it had stayed at that it would have been ok but after only one day of sunshine the rain came back in a big way. The soil being too sodden to hold anymore moisture caused my henhouse to go under water and the rain even ran into the rabbit shed and flooded that although the bunnies were safe and dry as their cages are suspended. But the worst part of all was that when I came home from town on Wednesday afternoon (yes mad dogs and kiwi women go out in the teeming rain) the large wattle tree at the southern boundary of my place had fallen into the backyard. The ground was so wet that the roots just pulled free so now it's lying on top of the lemon tree.
The road is also in a bad way and someone who was heading out here to see me ended up bogged down in the shingle in the new section of road my landlord is constructing to bypass all the winding sections. She did free herself but turned round and went straight home for a shower as she was drenched. Now she says she won't come out here for another week and only if it's sunny!
Yesterday was sunny and warm so there was frantic reconstruction of the drive by the landlord in his tractor while I did the washing, dumped dirt into the holes in the henhouse floor to mop up the water and worked with the rabbits as their coats are beginning to web after all this damp. And the weather forecast......yes more rain coming from late today.
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