Another Sunday... Another Trench...

Another rainstorm.... another broken limb on the black cherry tree.

Another trench: this time around the new garage. Spent all day yesterday cleaning up the mud and mold, etc. from last Sunday's rain. This morning, the garage leaked again, so now it has a trench all around it. This should divert water away from the garage until a permanent solution is found.

THe black cherry tree lost some more limbs. Learned this because neighbors called the police (why ?) after the limbs hit the electric line and knocked out their power. Had to explain that the tree company is trying to work with the power company so that they can take the tree down. Wonder where this will lead ?

So, no biking today, and waiting to see if the do-it-yourself trenches can keep the garage dry !

The Trench ... or... How I Spend Sundays

This is a picture of the trench that I'm slowly digging in an effort to rid the back yard of excess rainwater. A rain garden is in the works, but it won't be enough. The trench is running down the middle of a berm, which we had to put in as part of the garage effort. It has never worked, so I'm going to level out the berm, put the trench in and channel the water out to the street. Like all of our neighbors.
If I keep going at this rate, I MIGHT have it done by August.



We have clay soil, so rainwater doesn't sink into the soil.... it just runs off. So, during the summer we have flash floods..... I took this picture last week during a storm that lasted about 1/2 hour.