Rain, Rain, and More Rain!

Our Neighbors, Bill and Joyce Leonard

Woke early, around 4:30, to rain on the roof, went back to sleep but got up at 5:30.  Opened the windows, kept the radio off, and listened to the sounds of dawn, rain drumming on the roof, various bird calls, and watched the martins acrobatic flying, as they continue to build nests, find mates, and get ready for the fledgelings.  It's 60 degrees, supposed to get up to 70, and rain on and off most of the day but I think it's more of a constant light rain rather than dramatic and intense thunderstorms, which we have had for past two or three days.  It rained 3/10ths of an inch yesterday, much better than and inch and a half the previous day.  The lake continues to rise, and I am still worried about m dock, the I nailed the runners to the horses yesterday, so if it does rise, they will not float away unless their is a big storm.

We went to Leonards for dinner last night, enjoyed seeing them again.  We helped them with moving in things from their car, and Evie cut their lawn last fall and this spring to help out, as well as we both cleared lots of branches and twigs.  This year seems especially hard for them, at least Bill seems fed up with all of the chores involved in opening up his house.  However, most of that's behind so they seemed in good spirits last night.  We had ham, apples sauce, cheesy potatoes, Evie's vinegar and oil coleslaw, and Mrs. Snavely's Coffee Cake for dessert.  We stayed till about 9:30 and walked over and returned in rain.

Rainy Dawn Sky

I am not sure what today will bring, perhaps more trips to the stone quarry as it's too wet to do anything else.  Maybe I will kayak, something we have done very little of so far for some reason.

It's been pouring for the past hour, the lake's rising, the yards a mess, Aultz's are out trying to put their dock in, and I was able to get three loads of stones for the driveway and parking areas, spread it around and because of the rain, it looks like I did nothing, alas.  A good day for reading, so back to THE REDBREAST, which I like a lot.

Well, I was not exaggerating as it's been rain most of the day, heavy at times, and we have gotten over an inch in the last four or five hours.  The stream by the T overflowed into the yards of the houses on either side, though it caused no damage.  You can hear it rushing through the covert, and it's bringing lots of debris into the lake.  In fact, about an hour ago, it look like a stream of branches, wood, twigs, even some stumps floating by.  It's no a good day to be out on the lake, in fact, for the next couple of days it would  be best to stay off the lake.  I think the storm is stalled over us, as there's little if any wind, so it just keeps raining.  Our yards are a mess, and the Pine Hill Road is like a stream, rushing down into the right a way and, of course, our yard.  A lot of good my gravel did.