Before I came home from work this morning, Tom was texting me that we were flooded.  He was getting ahold of the county road team as the culvert under the road was clogged, and he couldn’t pull the debris out himself.  Apparently when the neighbor across the street dug out his ditch, the water level came down, but then the beavers moved up ditch and blocked the road culvert.  Thanks to the county planting a lot of trees along these ditches, there is plenty of wood for the beavers to build dams with now.  So when I got home, this is what our front pasture looked like (as close as I could get):

Fortunately the road supervisor came out, and they cleared the culvert using a vacuum.  I started the chores with this mess:

But the water levels started coming down.  Here is the culvert draining the water.  This is our side of the road,

And this is the other side of the road.

But this is all of the rain we got.

It just that the ground was soaked, and we receive a lot of the run off from the development on the hill behind us.  The beavers kept the water on our side of the road with no outlet.  Our neighbors east of us were flooding as well.  But now the culvert is open, and the floodwaters are receding.  We did not have to sandbag the barn.  This is going to be a long winter.

In other farm news, on Sunday I was able to get some knitting done while watching a horrendous Seahawks football game.

A lady came to our farm stand on Sunday with a bag and took 3 dozen eggs without paying.  Then she had the nerve to come back and take another dozen eggs.  So Tom has locked the refrigerator with the eggs in it, and people need to call him to get eggs.  So far no one has done that yet.  So this could really affect our egg sales, but we cannot just have all of our eggs stolen either.  It is too much work and money for that.

The garden is pretty much shutting down.  There are still some turnips and rutabagas.  They are chard, carrots, onions, parsnips and beets in containers.  There are still some tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse.  The hothouse was torn apart with the wind.  But we are still getting a lot of golden raspberries.

There is a bunny living in our barnyard.

We have the sheep and alpaca in the front of the barn with the front pasture with the 2 goats.  This will be their winter quarters.  So far all is going well.

The beagle is going crazy with the rabbits around.  She dug a hole under one of our outbuildings looking for them.  She got incredibly dirty doing this and had to be hosed off.

I have washed all of the laundry from the Boles contaminated by mice.  Here are some rugs drying, and Wally decided it made a good bed for her.

And this afternoon I was able to take it easy on the couch with Wally and Ryeleigh (surprisingly next to each other) and watched British Bake Off.  That was fun.

So the flood waters are receding, and hopefully we can resume more farm work tomorrow.