The last two days have seen the temps rising and melting all of it. Add in a full day of pouring rain on top of frozen ground and the water has nowhere to go.
The front yard has turned into a moat!
And when I got up this morning, @uncle-dan informed me that our utility room had flooded. It's the only room in the house at ground level. Small cracks in a couple interior foundation walls let the water in. He'd been running the sump pump in our crawlspace for the last three hours and just finally got all the water out. This is only the second time in almost 30 years that it's flooded.
You can see the difference in the carpet colors between the floor and the step. Normally, they're the same. You can also see on the box next to the step, that it'd wicked up the standing water. (And melted a bag of potting soil, too, dammit.)
We're expecting a low in the mid-20's (F) tonight and a high tomorrow in the low 30's. All that water is going to freeze.
Yay.
The bright spot in the gloom today was a tiny glimmer of true spring.
If you look very closely...
...my ancient chive plant is sending up shoots already.
This is the only hands-off (except for harvesting) container in the garden. This is why. It obviously needs no help from me!
(P.S. - I'm also stunned that the camera actually did a decent close-up. A rarity!)
@daddykirbs.
@slhomestead.
@grow-pro.