Rain, Rain, Go Away...

It's done nothing but rain all week. I'm starting to feel waterlogged, I can't finish staining my deck (I need a promise of at least 24 hours of no rain) or kill the fire ant hills in my yard (again with the 24 hrs of no rain so as to avoid contamination of aquatic areas thereby killing all my little toadie and tadpole friends). So today I wake up to sheeting rain, high winds (thanks to the latest hurricane) and my poor doggie had to go outside in her little yellow raincoat (because I was damned if I was going out there with her). Can we PLEASE have some sun sometime soon? I'm drowning over here!

Save the tadpoles

Picture this if you will... Myself and my friend Stacy, and her little westie Katie, hanging out by the pond (also known as a retention pool for rain run off -- an attempt at avoiding flooding), when we notice roughly 1,000 tadpoles in a very shallow pool on the other side of the dam by the pond. We immediately took to rescuing the little suckers with old plastic cups (Hey man, frogs and toads keep the mosquito count down, plus they're awfully cute!) It was during this time that Katie decided it might be fun to run around the pond and then dive in after the poor stunned younglings. Thankfully she didn't catch any, but we had a lovely time getting the burrs and stink off her!