Neighbors are Blessings!

Let's start at the beginning. The first November we lived here, the driveway (in 2 places) and the front yard, and a bit of the back yard flooded in two really bad rain storms. Luckily for the front yard (and us) there is a massive hole. Those that have visited us know the hole is big, VERY big! In the rainy season it fills up and continues on toward the house. Well, the past two years it hasn't been to bad... just about 5 feet closer to the house then edge of the hole.

Some may ask why a hole in the front? Well, it was the people who lived here before us, I guess, were thinking of making a pond and putting a bridge over it, for cars to drive over possibly?? Anyways, it is just a big hole in the front, to us, that has become a burn pit and is now, quite literally full of water, which is rising. There is actually a current in the front yard, which is nothing new in rainy season.

What is new, happening right now, is that the water was coming over the paved part of our driveway, towards the garage. Our neighbors across the way saw this, and offered to help, and we said YES PLEASE!!! They have big tractors and other pieces of large equipment and after about an hour of getting soaked and taking pictures, there is now a new current that runs off our property and into the wetlands. Of course, this new river that has been created does not really help the area with the hole, but extra water does not go into the hole to create more problems.

So now there are two currents running through our front... one into the big hole, and one across our driveway out into the wetlands... And it is still raining. The good news is that our garage and house are currently in the safety zone... hopefully this stays the case.

Enjoy the pics.

See the floating wood?? That is where our burn pit is and that is the left over wood from our Bonn fires over the summer...

Here is an after shot of our driveway... I didn't think to get one prior, but the green bucket by the bushy tree was sitting in water.

Standing on the curved of our driveway. In the front yard, on the far side of the hole the water went up to the most upward line of the boots.

This was on the paved part of our driveway about 10 feet from our cars.

Puddle Jumping anyone??

Prepping for the new river to run through

Ooops... Red tractor with bucket got stuck in a sippy hole in the back while trying to create the new mini river that leads water off our property, so we had to call up reinforcements... the yellow tractor with the 'triangle' There is a name for it, but I forgot. :(

Wetland... where hopefully the water will flow.

It is sill raining and they (news) is saying it is going to get worse. We'll see how our new little river works.