Thursday Chopping appointment upended by the rain.

What a rain it is. Likely to get several inches of rain this week alone. Going to refill the water table at this rate unless it all runs off because the soil was so hard packed, and unable to soak in the moisture. We lucked out with a much nicer Tuesday mid day, and Wednesday, so it’s hard to complain. I know my father in law had hoped of harvesting the soya beans this week, but it would have suited them better to try last week while it was hot, and dry as a bone. Perks of being a farmer is hindsight of twenty twenty.

So I’m all dressed up with no wood to safely split. I took the time to run a prescription over to the pharmacy, so I will grab that tomorrow. I have a stockpile for overlapping days because sometimes it’s good to have 7-10 days of medicine in your back pocket for unexpected delays or mishaps. I never want to run out and hope they have more on hand to refill my needs. That’s a risk not worth taking.

Sure has been humid the last four days. My dehumidifier has needed to be emptied at least twice per day. If I wake up and it’s full, it probably could go three times a day. I need a rain barrel to store it for the dryer weeks of the summer for watering the flowers, and keeping the pumpkins going. Bad year for pumpkins, at least for me. I got one viable orange pumpkin, and two early growth blobs, and one which got a reasonable size on the vine, then withered into a smelly puddle. In previous years I’ve had 8-10 with no major issues beyond the vines strangling out everything else around them. The vines were big, and strong, with lots of flowers, but hardly any fruit! So weird.

Works been busy this week for the first time in quite a while. Happy to have the work! Worked hours means invoices going out, and money coming in!

Not much to do but wait on feedback, and sit to listen to the rain. Making me sleepy.

**Edit: just been informed that we’ve had more than three inches of rain over the last thirty six hours, with still more yet to come. The kids Terry Fox run has been rescheduled for next week, so don’t pack up the running shoes and calorie gel packs just yet.