Mush

Mush is the sound your feet would make in our backyard today. There is no standing water that I could see but things were so wet out there that I have aborted most missions to walk out too very far. The entire property shifts under your feet as you walk.

Yesterday the rain let up around 2pm. My area recieved about 2 inches of rain which was enough to flood creeks and topple older trees. The wind comming through just after the rain (the kind of wind tails that follows a hurricane) snapped a large limb off my Butterfly Bush.

Locally, aka Raliegh, received between 5 and 6 inches of rain which caused flooding that surpased the flooding of Hurricane Fran from a few years ago by about a foot. Apparently no one researched historic flood plains before building a two story mall next to Crabtree Creek which crested six feet above flood stage yesterday. The good news is that they made up all five plus inches of there rain deficit yesterday officially ending the drought and ending with a surplus of about a half inch.

Today I spotted one of those swallows (my grass is geting longer) and I think I will officially say that we have Barn Swallows here. Did I mention I saw a Chimney Swift the other day. That was kinda odd, they are usually in small groups I thought.