Just shoot me...

We had rain yesterday evening...again.  It wasn't much or even a very long rain spell, but the yard is so soggy that it just made the rain pool in almost every area.  I told hubby he might as well leave the chickens in the coop this morning, their yard is under water again and that's after he had put more dirt in the low spots.  Just means I have to make sure their water and feed dishes are full inside the coop.  I'm so tired of being waterlogged and yet we have three more storms heading our direction.  Can I just curl up and go to bed until this is over...say until...uuummm, I dunno, maybe January? 

The morning has started off fairly nice, humidity is a bit lower than it has been, but of course the sun hasn't been blistering it for very long at this point.  The temperature is hanging right at 80 and we have a very light breeze coming in from the east.

Between the rain and the mosquitoes, going outside is becoming a major chore.  I've been using Cutter's Deepwoods repellent for years...like over thirty years now...hubby picked up a couple cans the other week and this formula says its an eight hour, waterproof, Sport formula.  Ok, so I spray like normal.  It does seem to work well, but then I've never had a problem with the Cutter brand.  Every time I've used this spray though, I've ended up with a major headache after an hour or so.  As I am prone to allergy and sinus headaches when the weather is weird, I didn't give it much thought.  After several days of headaches in the evening hours, I finally put two and two together...I'm having a reaction to the repellent.  I decided to test my theory by not going outside for several days...no headaches during that time.  Definitely the repellent...I tested it out by putting it on again a few days later...bammmm...headache within an hour.  So sucks, because I really prefer the Cutter brand...after looking at several of the formulas sitting on the shelf at the store, I went back to the pump spray formula. I've used that one many times with good results...hope it will not be another headache creator.  My girlfriend says its just because I'm getting older...pftt, yeah right!  Let's not go there!

My plants for the most part are being drowned with all the rain.  So far, I've lost Four o'clocks, Rhubarb, Lavender, Mint and Thyme to the heavy rains....Never thought I'd see a Four o'clock drown!  The Lavender is in one of the raised front flowerbeds...it looks like it just withered up...same with the Four o'clocks, just withered and died...if we hadn't had so much rain when it happened, I'd have sworn they looked as if they were needing watered.  All this wet weather has kept me out of the garden patch....too wet to work it and I have to wade to get to it.  I'm just over it all at the moment. 

Being under flood warnings and watches is almost the same as being under severe drought conditions in my mind...can't use much water because we don't want to risk overloading the septic system.  Thank the gods that they actually used their brains when this system was installed.  It is a raised tank and that at least kept us from having issues when the yard became a swamp.  But, as we continue to get rains and the yard has no place for the water to go...I'm limiting how much washing of dishes and laundry gets done.  Hubby and I have showered together for years, so that helps with water usage too.  I know its not MY problem if the septic begins having issues, but at the same time, it would be my problem to deal with the disgusting mess if it decided to back up.

SIGH...I'm tired of being chewed by mosquitoes, waterlogged and confined to the house....Its making my mood foul and creating depression.  Every shot on the news shows people wading through calf to knee deep water all across the state...I'm soo over this already and more on the way???   Just shoot me now!