This summer has done nothing but rain.   I haven’t watered the garden once this year – in fact, it is so water-logged that tomatoes fall off the vines still green, pepper plants are taller than I am yet refuse to set any peppers and the corn stalks are laying flat on the ground from having been beaten into submission by unrelenting torrents of rain.  Not having a bumper crop of corn this year is not a big deal — but not having a driveway — that’s a problem.

Last Monday morning brought 2.5 inches of rain in less than an hour on top of about six inches from the previous week.  Despite having a culvert and huge underground pipes installed to divert the water away from and underneath the driveway, this storm was too much for it to handle, and the driveway took off – down the driveway.

We’ve had small wash-outs before that Chris was always able to patch by hauling the run-away stone back up the driveway and tamping it into place.  But this time, we needed a dump truck full of stone, the front-end loader and the grader (yes, I begrudging admit – the tractor came in handy).  Chris is about half way through the process of spreading the stone, tamping it down and then grading it.  And guess what — today it is raining, AGAIN.  Fingers crossed that our driveway holds up and he can finish the fixing  driveway on Monday.

I think we need to install sandbags before the next deluge!  Otherwise, I might need a canoe to get to work.