We are Flooding

The basement is flooding.

Water in the ditch is 1/3 across the main road that you see in the photo below.

I will upload a new photo in the morning but for tonight, I am on water detail. Every 10 mins, I must go down and put sump pump on until water level lowers. But, it's rising faster than we can clear it.

With the temp above zero, there's no chance of the water stopping. We need a good long freeze to stop it.

We're on Flood Watch

I took this photo as we left home yesterday around 11 am. It shows the water around our farm at a high level. Nine years ago when we first moved to the farm, the water rose up over the road. Hubby had to wear waders and walk through the 1-2' high water to get to his truck parked on the other side just so he could go to work.


We're praying it won't happen this year, but that water is high and there's still a lot of snow to melt. Plus, it rained yesterday. I'll keep you posted...

I enjoyed a wonderful Easter celebrating Christ's resurrection with the family in Regina. My sister-in-law, Teresa, always puts on a delicious meal with lots of side dishes. It's a special treat to celebrate a holiday at her house. In the photo, our daughter Jessie is taking a pic of her dad, his mom, and his sister, our hostess, Teresa.


After we ate, we played canasta - a card game. It was more fun than usual because we had extra players and when one player had to leave - like when Grandma started to fall asleep and left to go for a nap - my teen son sat in to play. This was the first time he's played canasta and it was a nice to spend the time with him in such a way. When the phone rang, another player left and someone else sat in to play. After awhile, our partners were all mixed up but it didn't really matter who won the game because it was the socializing that counted. While we played, Teresa served up snack food and dessert so we really had a treat.

Later on, we headed to the airport to welcome back Ashley, an Australian friend who had first come over as an exchange student years ago. It was a long 30 hr trip for her and it was nice to see her land safely.

So, other than a glorious celebration of life over death, my weekend consisted of family, friends and fear of flooding.

How was your weekend? Are you worried about anything at this time of year?

Happy Blessed Easter

What Caught My Eye This Week

The Canada geese are back.

Here's a pic of a gully I wrote about in one of my books.

This is how it looked on Wed...

And this is how it looked just 2 weeks ago.

This is an arm extending off the big Qu'Appelle Valley.

This is ice, but you can see how the water froze in a circular pattern.

Have you ever seen snow melt?

It just kind of recedes.

This was taken Thurs night.

Snow melting in the ditch.

If you look way up, you can see my first hawk sighting for 2009.

My first robin sighting of the year.

The mama's are watching over their babies.

Newborn bull calves gone exploring.

I stopped to take a pic of the bison and they turned to look at me.

What caught your eye this week?

My Week in Pics

Here's a pictorical post of some of my encounters this past week.

I've blogged about my trip up to Saskatoon last Sat for my mtg with the Sask Rom Writers.

Well, half way there I took these pics of someone building farm buildings made from the abundance of flax straw. Here's the house in the foreground with some type of barn or outbuilding in the back...

...and here they're putting up a couple more outbuildings. One might be a garage but I'm not sure what the other could be.

I'll keep you posted on the progress.

Hubby was working on Thurs evening so I ended up taking the boys to their guitar lesson.

This was taken at 7 pm in Grenfell, SK while we waited for a train to pass.

This is what I see as soon as I step out my door and turn right to the east.

We sometimes use this rooster clanger to summon everyone in. It's more decorative rather than practical since the clanger gives off a thud rather than a clang.

As you can see, still lots of snow here.

Another frost morning, taken on Tues right out my bedroom window.

I literally had to smush my ear against the window for this shot which looks east at the garage through the garden arch on the right.

This is the same photo but around 7 pm that evening with the western sunset splayed all over it.

I woke up yesterday morning to find frost covering just the tops of all the trees.

You're looking north at my sunroom.

I'll leave you with this shot of the barn.

With all the melting that's going on, the chickens are out and about the yard.

Have a great weekend!