Dear Complaint department.

It keeps raining every other day. My garden plot is fully wet, standing water and even the cereal rye is drowning out. Last year I had plowed , harrowed and planted corn for May 4. The water table is so high here. The soil being saturated, it doesn't perculate down, all filled up it seems.

And then the weather forecast keeps lying to me. I will see 4 days of sunshine forecast, well that goes to heck with 1" rain on the second day and cloudy to boot.

Here is today's forecast at the nearby national lab with full weather department:

So it rained yesterday, is raining now, supposed to rain until 9PM, then sunshine and birds singing for 3 days. Yeah right, fool me once, shame on you.... I will update later this week.

So instead of playing farmer in the dirt, I am fixing equipment and putting up more lights in the shop.

Maybe I should switch to growing rice?

Blame me!!!--- I sent it your way!---We had it pass here last week, over 5 inches in 24 hours, flooded everything, now they say rain for Monday again.

Our onions look fairly good, late planted by 2 weeks, turnips and radishes are up, volunteer sunflowers all over, grass/weeds taking over, etc.

Can't mow/spray/cultivate because of the mud! --- NOT starting out to be a good year.

A guy down the road planted a big field of corn just before the flood hit and it looks like he will re-plant that field now! ---- Great weather for sure, cold here along with the mud.

Mid-West troublemakers. I'll keep my eye on you guys. We heard the rumors even out here.

 I have lived with too wet a few times, maybe as many as 12. But try 6 or 7 or 9 years( depends which weather guesser is talking ) of less than average.  So dry you cannot make tears to cry about it. Watch big old 200 or 300 year old  oaks dying.

My average is 20 and have seen as little as 8 to as much as 60. So I can have seem both sides neither one much fun. But sure is not boring that way.

Ok, we are not being flooded, no one is loosing their home. But I can't plow and plant in mud.

Ray I lived in Southern California from '84 to '14. Yes drought for years, then rain and the dams are over topping. Those pacific rainstorms can be torrential. And with all the mountains, it moves downhill fast.

Near where I am now, Aug 2014 we had a localized 13.57" rain over 24 hours, but 1.08" fell in 9 minutes at the peak. A average year is 48". I think last year was 67". But the rain backed off for tillage time last year.

I guess along the Gulf cost they get 15" storms "all the time".

Maybe I should switch to container nursery gardening. If i run out of things to do I will start complaining about taxes.

 Hey Shameless,,and all them other members along the Big river,,I keep seein on the TV where all that rain causing so much flooding,,,,, I remember back in the 60's of a massive project to pipe water from the Mississippi across several states to get it to west Texas, NM,  Arizona and Calif,,,,,,but what I remember was that Louisiana nixed the deal for not wantin to divert any water out of the big river,,,,HMMmmmmmm,,,,

Well what do you know, we got 3 days of sunshine, just like weather service predicted on Sunday. Complaining works!

8 pm tonight...