The Flood We Slept Through

The day after Cambry's birthday, we woke up to realize that the creek had been so high during the night that it literally ran through our whole yard - including our basement, garage, the shop, and all over the farm yard. So we were left with a layer of mud to clean up. With Chelan's leadership and his parents' help, we were able to get things pretty much back to normal by the next evening - and it was a good reason to get rid of some things that we didn't know what to do with anymore. After the house was back in order, the shop floor needed to be cleaned up, ALL the rock that had washed into the grass had to be moved back into place, the chicken barn needed cleaning, and someday, the old garage will need to be fixed up and cleaned out. We lost our garage refrigerator, washer, and dryer to the high water, so we limped along for a while without those things. 5.75" rain in a couple of hours can really do a lot of damage!

The water carried sand everywhere, including
onto Ivan's field. It's like it created a beach,
or as the girls liked to call it, the fielch!

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Pre-Christmas Surprise

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