Semi-pioneering, home educating family of three living on 7 acres in the MidWest. These are the mom's thoughts/ramblings about our life, spirituality and whatever else pops up. :) Please feel free to post comments and/or questions. I will get to them as soon as I can. We would love to hear from anyone who is reading along here.

Showing posts with label tree crossing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tree crossing. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Another Storm Today & Very Tired!

Well, today brought another storm and another miniriver flowing through our meadow. With the ground so saturated, the water just flowed right on over. The creek was as high as yesterday. When I can see the top of the rushing water from our RV window...it is HIGH!

When I went out yesterday, I noticed that the tree over our creek is gone. You can see how high the water is. I have no idea if the tree disappeared in the storm of the 3rd or in the previous storm.


These pictures are right next to the where the tree used to lay across the creek.








I could not see the lower driveway because it was still under flowing water. Dave tells me that there is an ankle deep hole in it. I could not get any pictures today due to the rain and lightning that kept coming and going all day long. Tomorrow is supposed to be clear.

I will try to post more pictures tomorrow!

From our little RV on the hillside...try to stay dry and safe!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Photo Perceptions!

Dave actually started to read the blog last night. Woohoo! *laughing*

He pointed out that some of the pictures of the bed to couch conversion make our little living room look bigger than it is. Such is the way of cameras. There is usually some distortion. For me to get the pictures I got...well...let's just say that I had to squeeze into some interesting positions and places to get some of them!

He also pointed out that the pictures of the tree over the creek do not show the height of the water at the time we actually had to use it to cross over. Of course, I did not have the camera with me at that time!

I did, however, get a couple of pictures of the tree crossing one time when the creek was high. The water is still not as high as it was when we crossed over.

The water running down into the creek is coming from the trenching we did across our meadow to try and cut down on the amount of water flooding into our meadow




If you look at the post dated March 26 with the pictures of the driveway portion of the creek, you can see the comparison between normal and high water levels. And again, that is not as high as it was when we actually used the tree, either!

Life is truly an adventure!