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[akroberts 1085]

Last year it started raining in January and didn’t stop until the end of June. I live on a dead end dirt road, it flooded. I left my car at a neighbor’s and rode my Kawasaki mule to my car. Finally the road got so rutted and washed out that I lift my car at church on the paved road and rode my mule to my car. I left my car at church for over a month. Even after it stopped raining I couldn’t bring my car home. The ruts were so deep it would have drug the bottom of my car. The county commissioner crew couldn’t catch up, there were roads much worse. I got over four feet of rain in 5 1/2 months.

In 2014 we took my husband's mother to a doctor appointment in Chico CA when we got home we had to call our daughter and have her boyfriend come pick us up because the creek had risen to the point that the Ford focus was not close to being big enough to get through it. We even tried every other road that would get us back home but that was not happening.

 

[akroberts 1085]

@Baymule , have you ever tried dry welling around the road. Dig a hole about 6-8 ft deep and then fill it up with rocks and then cover it with dirt. I'm not an expert but it might help.

 

[Baymule]

@Baymule , have you ever tried dry welling around the road. Dig a hole about 6-8 ft deep and then fill it up with rocks and then cover it with dirt. I'm not an expert but it might help.

That would be a lesson in futility. I’d have to put it on my land, and it might capture some of my water, but there’s many acres around here and it would still flood.

 

[Baymule]

You need @Weldman to come and fix your road

No kidding! The county commissioner is a moron.

 

[akroberts 1085]

These are the two beds that my husband and I built from pallets.

This is the garlic that I sprouted in a jar of water in the kitchen window. Both pictures

 

[akroberts 1085]

I'm going to post some more pictures of the garden but I want everyone to find it as humorous as I do.

 

[Baymule]

Really nice garden beds!

 

[SageHill]

That first pallet bed is gorgeous! And using the pieces with the cutouts where there would be decorative stuff - brilliant.

 

[akroberts 1085]

Really nice garden beds!

Thank you. I'm in love with the beds that my husband and I made.

 

[akroberts 1085]

That first pallet bed is gorgeous! And using the pieces with the cutouts where there would be decorative stuff - brilliant.

Thank you. I'm thinking about making some homemade stain for them but I have to do some research first. Anyone want to come up with some colors for the pallet beds? Let me know