Our horrible heat wave / drought broke Monday night into Tuesday morning in a HUGE, record breaking way. We got so much rain overnight that we broke an over one hundred year record for rainfall. I am not sure exactly how much our neighborhood got - I dumped four inches out of my rain gauge - but Wentzville got eleven inches! And parts of the city had horrific flooding. People were being told to stay home unless they were escaping water. Roads were closed all over the city. Below is a photo that Steven sent me of a bridge over the Des Peres River that he got off of national news. After that is what this bridge usually looks like (I took it on Thursday). This is about two miles from our home.
The water table was so high around our house Tuesday morning that we had water seepage in our basement. There is a hairline crack in the floor that seeped water and we have a little hole by our floor drain that actually became a spring, bubbling up water. But because our basement has a cement floor and is not "finished" with a cement floor. Just stuff that got wet and since then, I have taken steps to solve that. Completely minor problems compared to people who had their whole house flooded or washed away (like those in Kentucky!) We had another heavy rain Thursday afternoon that brought flooding in new areas of the city but again, we were spared. It was just a noisy storm and poor Linus had to have my hand on him the whole time or he would paw me until I did.
With the rain came a break in the temperatures and weather has been lovely the last few days.
Larkin and Lucy had their day with grandma and grandpa on Wednesday. One of our projects was to make caterpillars from a pair of footie socks that I didn't wear anymore. Larkin, with her obsession for cats, made hers a "cat"erpillar complete with whiskers, legs, and a tail. I am including three photos because I couldn't get a perfect one of both girls in one shot. Sigh.
Another project was to help me dust and they did quite well. They each had a dusting wand and I think I need to hire them for every week!
In the afternoon, all four of us piled in the car and headed to thrift stores to look for a set of shelves to display my Noah's Ark knic knacs in the guest room. It took three stores but happily, I found one that will suffice at the third location. Lucy and Larkin were each given a dollar bill to find a treasure. Larkin found one right away at store #1 - a felted bunny basket with handle. Lucy didn't find hers until store #3 - a small crate with three small pots inside filled with artificial spring flowers. Definitely a dust collector but it was pretty and it will look nice in her room. I forgot to take a photo...
The garden has loved all this rain. The green beans are coming in hot and heavy and so are my tomatoes. The squash are petering out but I think I will plant a second crop this coming week. I tried to grow carrots in the small black grow-bags but that was a fail. I have potatoes growing in two of them and they are thriving. Next year, I will plant all of those small bags in potatoes. Remember my attempts to thwart the squirrels from eating my corn? Well, it didn't work and they ate through the netting. But, surprisingly, they are not attacking all my corn and I harvested three ears on Friday. We feasted on home grown corn and beans with our fried fish on Friday night.
Sometime in the last couple of days, someone gave us a "heart attack". So nice....
We suspect the sister missionaries.
We got "Spiderman - No Way Home" from the library this week and watched it over Thursday and Friday nights. I have to say it was annoying early on but it redeemed itself towards the end. I have been watching "Ms. Marvel" and it is fun. Steve is not a fan - too teenage-y. We worked at the temple baptistry this morning and I spent over two hours going through civic orchestra emails this afternoon while Steve mowed the lawns and worked on the "lights around the back deck" project. And, now I think this is about all of our news.
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