We all know that we've been suffering through a drought: well, no more! While I welcomed the much needed rain, the fact that it was delivered in a monsoon-like one day event was pretty stunning. I heard four inches in some spots; a month's worth of rain in one day! And some of that decided to inundate my studio.
The site of the worst leak was right above my woodstove. I entered my studio last Tuesday to find the floor wet, the stove dripping and the ceiling drooling. As witnessed above, I placed buckets and waste baskets and towels to mop up and collect the deluge. I'm still drying out today, two days later.
Fortunately, nothing of import (read: my artwork) got wet.
I emptied this tub three times! To bad all this water wasn't available a month ago... The grass and parts of the garden are recovering but face it; it's already September and how much time do we really have left to garden. Now there's a grim thought! We all waited all winter for the gardening season, it starts out really nicely with a mix of sun and rain and then we were thrust into the driest two months in who knows how long. Hahahahhaha!! The "joys" of gardening!
To take our minds off all that watery mayhem, here are a few delightful pictures of our morning glories; erupting into their own heavenly blue cascade of waterfall-like loveliness. Here's another shot:
This variety is called "Flying Saucers' and is so interesting as each flower is striped and sotted in a different pattern. At least the flowers enjoyed all the rain.
Things have been busy and distracting, the ceiling leak was only part of it. In the last week alone, my poor horse Neko showed symptoms of a new infection (or recurrence) of Lyme disease and is unrideable and on antibiotics for a month, we're discussing have Maggie (the ancient Mexican pony) euthanized, our favorite pizza place went out of business, two friends got sick with COVID, we're driving around looking for a new(er) truck (*1) What else? Hey! isn't that enough? Oh yeah, the queen just died.
(*1) Much much harder than you'd think! We need/want a long (eight foot) bed and they're all short and stumpy. We don't want all that extended cab nonsense and guess what? That's what 95% are. And every truck out there is either really old with like 220,000 miles on it or really new and waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much money. We are in process of checking one out right here in our town. Stay tuned: it may be the one.
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