Noah, we need help.

Please send Ark plans.  Today is our 5th straight day of rain, often heavy.  This rain allowed only that the scaffolding be erected over the weekend, no caulking done to allow the staining.

It is the 5th day that harvesting in the garden has been difficult to impossible.

The chicken pen is so deep in mud that my muck boots sink a couple of inches each time I have to enter the pen.  I would clean out the coop and throw the soiled hay over the mud except that it won’t stop raining long enough for me to uncover the hay to put clean dry hay inside.  The older three of this years chicks are now 24 weeks old and I am hoping for eggs soon.  To encourage them, I put fake eggs (golf balls) in the nesting boxes.  Broody Girl is still being stubborn and has managed to move two of them into her box so she is sitting on 3.  I move them back and she relocates them again.  She is sure being stubborn about being broody.

The new babies are thriving in their brooder.

The rain has done nothing to help the lake at Mountain Lake.  It began to leak a few years ago and went totally dry for two summers.  Geologist and soil scientists studied the lake bottom and attempts to repair it were made.  The lake partially refilled last summer after the repairs were made, but mother nature had other ideas and the lake is only partially refilled and lower this summer than last.