Water, Water, Everywhere!

For those who don't know, we are currently experiencing "the great wet of 2010". We are 8 days into the month of March and have already received more than double the monthly average rainfall for March. During February we had over 18 inches. L has been frantically pumping and siphoning water out of his fish ponds and into the big dam, which has been well and truly overflowing for weeks now, in fact, the bottom end of the dirt road that runs down the side of our property is underwater.L taking the kids for a walk down the road

At least Miss A was wearing her gumboots :) even if they are full of water
Nothing to do with the water, just a snap we took when we came back from the walk of Master B's big cheesy smile

That night, L had to go and help some friends who needed a back-hoe. He contacted some friends who own one and borrowed a truck to go and pick it up. However they didn't even get the truck out of the driveway before getting bogged.I guess it's no wonder with 8 tonnes of back-hoe and a very soggy driveway

And then on Sabbath morning, L went down to the shop, only to discover that the dining room area was flooded. Then he came home to see if we would be able to get the car out of the driveway to go to church. Alas, we pushed it through the mud for 20 minutes, before it finally succumbed to the mud and became thoroughly bogged. These photos are from a few days before, when we could actually get up the driveway.

L pushing the car through the mud

all that way, took about 15 minutes + to get there (and that's only half of the driveway)

We spent the remainder of the morning siphoning water from ponds.

On Sunday morning L spent a few hours desperately trying to stop the shop from flooding. These photos show the amount of water around the place.

L and his dad spent hours on the dozer trying to drain the water away from the shop

L's dad reckons the last time he can remember there was this much water was in '74, and before that, in '42
We are "over" the water and mud!