How awful for you. There was me feeling so sad I lost a lot of delphinium spires in the winds we had here today even though they were all supported.Puts it all in perspective. ?. Great you have your sense of humour. I hope your garden recovers.
Wow! What an amazing endeavour! Happily we are not as badly affected as the south west has been in recent years, and I'm always amazed at how quickly the waters recede when there is any local flooding here.
This morning the sun is shining but heavy rain is forecast at 4 untill 11pm so we're going to get as much done outdoors as possible before tackling inside.
The freezer is still on dining chairs in the basement - it survived by about 2" - so once the floor is dryer we can drop it back down. Ditto the tumble dryer that's sitting on the sink just now. Fortunately we managed to move the majority of perishable household stuff so it's just a drying out exercise. The lawnmower wouldn't start yesterday (funny that) but husband is optimistic he can get it going, being a dogged engineer. His chainsaws survived but not sure about a few other power tools as we didn't get time to really explore the basement under the garage.
Time to get on now though, but thanks edd for making us laugh this morning.
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Good on you Stephanie - what a brilliant way to view what must have been a rather worrying time for you. Imagine you live in the same part of the world as Muddle Up (see her posts from yesterday on the Resurrected 15 thread).
It must have been quite heart breaking watching all that muddy water sweep over all your hard work - but it sounds as though a lot is recoverable. Do you have a local 'Jungle Drums' type emailing set up where you live? You could post to see if your garden store etc has ended up in someone else's garden.
On the bright side - I think you will be able to reinstate your garden and plants quite quickly (it's prolonged submersion that kills things) - and river silt really will be a wonderful addition to the garden so expect things to romp away later this season.
Lots of veg can still be sown now for a later harvest - or there is absolutely no shame in nipping out to buy some large plugs (no pun intended!) from the GC to restore the status quo.
Good luck and keep us posted with how you get on
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
So a slightly shorter day today but fair progress made. I scraped the silt out of the shed and restacked two log piles after retrieving various pieces of wood from far flung parts of the garden. My clever husband managed to start both the mower and the leaf hoover, not bad considering they had both been under 3 feet of water yesterday!
Sadly the electric shredder which had just died under warranty was also submerged so I doubt Bosch will be offering us a replacement any time soon.
The summerhouse continues to dry out courtesy of a breeze and a wood burner, and various plants have been gradually being relieved of debris. I could swear I heard the hibiscus sigh with relief at losing the lovely but tight straw scarf it had been given by the flowing water
My husband found our bamboo windchimes in a hedge, so at least they're not floating in the ocean, along with the wooden dragon that sits above them!
Having had two days off for domestic emergency I have to work in the morning but can do so from home which is good as it is forecast to be dry all day tomorrow so hopefully hay will be made
Thanks again for your good wishes - I'm just wishing I had taken a pic of a really nice iris that has come out, possibly for the first time since we've been here. I'll try to do that tomorrow, but for now here's a bucket of silt!
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Good on you Stephanie - what a brilliant way to view what must have been a rather worrying time for you. Imagine you live in the same part of the world as Muddle Up (see her posts from yesterday on the Resurrected 15 thread).
It must have been quite heart breaking watching all that muddy water sweep over all your hard work - but it sounds as though a lot is recoverable. Do you have a local 'Jungle Drums' type emailing set up where you live? You could post to see if your garden store etc has ended up in someone else's garden.
On the bright side - I think you will be able to reinstate your garden and plants quite quickly (it's prolonged submersion that kills things) - and river silt really will be a wonderful addition to the garden so expect things to romp away later this season.
Lots of veg can still be sown now for a later harvest - or there is absolutely no shame in nipping out to buy some large plugs (no pun intended!) from the GC to restore the status quo.
Thanks topbird, I'll look up muddle up's post as she may be relatively local to me.
We don't have jungle drums email but there are only 4 houses between us and the sea, unless you count the limestone quarry. Now if they happen to have a new outside locker I think I'll be somewhat suspicious...
I thought the silt would be good for the garden, just as long as it is plant silt and not weed silt of course..!.
Liking the idea of a few plugs though..?
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Oh that looks terrible, I live in a bog so all winter half my land is right on the water table or underwater, but nothing like that! To get like that half of Denmark would have to flood, I'm a whole 16m above sealevel, which isn't bad for this part of the world. I'll keep an eye out for your locker.. but I don't think you'ld like the postage to get it back! lols.
Just a brief update as it's already later than I'd like and it's been three long days, late nights and not the best sleep in between. But....we made fair progress again today, and my prize thing to show you is my first woodpile. I've helped stack the woodpile but never built one from scratch, so here is the before and after, and I have to say I'm really quite pleased with the result. And I should add that it includes some firewood that we retrieved from the beach!
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I remember being surprised (way back) by one of the items being left for trash outside a house flooded and condemned (and eventually demolished) by Hurricane Floyd ... was a hose pipe. Can a hose pipe be flood damaged?
Anyway, best wishes Stephanie on your road to recovery. Hope you're back to normal as soon as poss.
I remember being surprised (way back) by one of the items being left for trash outside a house flooded and condemned (and eventually demolished) by Hurricane Floyd ... was a hose pipe. Can a hose pipe be flood damaged?
Anyway, best wishes Stephanie on your road to recovery. Hope you're back to normal as soon as poss.
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How awful for you. There was me feeling so sad I lost a lot of delphinium spires in the winds we had here today even though they were all supported.Puts it all in perspective. ?. Great you have your sense of humour. I hope your garden recovers.
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Wow! What an amazing endeavour! Happily we are not as badly affected as the south west has been in recent years, and I'm always amazed at how quickly the waters recede when there is any local flooding here.
This morning the sun is shining but heavy rain is forecast at 4 untill 11pm so we're going to get as much done outdoors as possible before tackling inside.
The freezer is still on dining chairs in the basement - it survived by about 2" - so once the floor is dryer we can drop it back down. Ditto the tumble dryer that's sitting on the sink just now. Fortunately we managed to move the majority of perishable household stuff so it's just a drying out exercise. The lawnmower wouldn't start yesterday (funny that) but husband is optimistic he can get it going, being a dogged engineer. His chainsaws survived but not sure about a few other power tools as we didn't get time to really explore the basement under the garage.
Time to get on now though, but thanks edd for making us laugh this morning.
Good on you Stephanie
- what a brilliant way to view what must have been a rather worrying time for you. Imagine you live in the same part of the world as Muddle Up (see her posts from yesterday on the Resurrected 15 thread).
It must have been quite heart breaking watching all that muddy water sweep over all your hard work - but it sounds as though a lot is recoverable. Do you have a local 'Jungle Drums' type emailing set up where you live? You could post to see if your garden store etc has ended up in someone else's garden.
On the bright side - I think you will be able to reinstate your garden and plants quite quickly (it's prolonged submersion that kills things) - and river silt really will be a wonderful addition to the garden so expect things to romp away later this season.
Lots of veg can still be sown now for a later harvest - or there is absolutely no shame in nipping out to buy some large plugs (no pun intended!) from the GC to restore the status quo.
Good luck and keep us posted with how you get on
So a slightly shorter day today but fair progress made. I scraped the silt out of the shed and restacked two log piles after retrieving various pieces of wood from far flung parts of the garden. My clever husband managed to start both the mower and the leaf hoover, not bad considering they had both been under 3 feet of water yesterday!
Sadly the electric shredder which had just died under warranty was also submerged so I doubt Bosch will be offering us a replacement any time soon.
The summerhouse continues to dry out courtesy of a breeze and a wood burner, and various plants have been gradually being relieved of debris. I could swear I heard the hibiscus sigh with relief at losing the lovely but tight straw scarf it had been given by the flowing water
My husband found our bamboo windchimes in a hedge, so at least they're not floating in the ocean, along with the wooden dragon that sits above them!
Having had two days off for domestic emergency I have to work in the morning but can do so from home which is good as it is forecast to be dry all day tomorrow so hopefully hay will be made
Thanks again for your good wishes - I'm just wishing I had taken a pic of a really nice iris that has come out, possibly for the first time since we've been here. I'll try to do that tomorrow, but for now here's a bucket of silt!
Thanks topbird, I'll look up muddle up's post as she may be relatively local to me.
We don't have jungle drums email but there are only 4 houses between us and the sea, unless you count the limestone quarry. Now if they happen to have a new outside locker I think I'll be somewhat suspicious...
I thought the silt would be good for the garden, just as long as it is plant silt and not weed silt of course..!.
Liking the idea of a few plugs though..?
Stephanie Oh How awful for you. All your work . So sorry.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Oh that looks terrible, I live in a bog so all winter half my land is right on the water table or underwater, but nothing like that! To get like that half of Denmark would have to flood, I'm a whole 16m above sealevel, which isn't bad for this part of the world. I'll keep an eye out for your locker.. but I don't think you'ld like the postage to get it back! lols.
Just a brief update as it's already later than I'd like and it's been three long days, late nights and not the best sleep in between. But....we made fair progress again today, and my prize thing to show you is my first woodpile. I've helped stack the woodpile but never built one from scratch, so here is the before and after, and I have to say I'm really quite pleased with the result. And I should add that it includes some firewood that we retrieved from the beach!
I remember being surprised (way back) by one of the items being left for trash outside a house flooded and condemned (and eventually demolished) by Hurricane Floyd ... was a hose pipe. Can a hose pipe be flood damaged?
Anyway, best wishes Stephanie on your road to recovery. Hope you're back to normal as soon as poss.
Lol, that's just so funny. I found our seep hose under the laurel bush and just laughed...