We need the rain. REALLY bad. So I was thrilled that we got a bit yesterday and today. Maybe 2 inches? Yay garden!
WRONG. Turns out the gutters were a little stopped up (strange, since there are no trees in the back). So a Niagra Falls dumped itself on my tiny seedlings. Behold the carnage:
Not only that, but the water rushed down the bed and poured through a break in the railroad ties.
Now, if anything else sprouts, it will be in a big clump on my lawn.
*$%(#*$@*#&^$*#^(@#*$^()$!
It will be okay.
OMG! I am so angry for you.
So upsetting! I’m really rooting for these damn plants (I don’t even know why?)
Rooting for rooting?
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