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That's G's mom - flooded in!

in front of G's parents' and aunt and uncle's houses

poor guy has new riverfront property

this is the new river on Lime Kiln Road

crazy fool on Harpers Ferry Road down close to Mills - she made it!

this is torrent coming out of the actual Frog Hollow - water is coming off the ridges from around off Chestnut Grove Road

G's dad doing his best to keep ahead of it

It hadn't been this high in the hollow in a long while.

Today the river and creek will rise, but all the branches in the hollow have gone down. We had lost power for most of last evening, but all was back on by about 8:15 p.m.

Seriously, Let It Rain

We're trying to grow some new grass up here, and we've had surprisingly better luck than we thought we would have, considering the severe lack of rain this summer. The current radar looks like this:but lately even a screen like that turns up dry for us here in the Hollow. All summer long the storms have gone north and south of us, but we've hardly come up with a few drops. Here is a recent article in the Herald Mail in which an 80-year-old claims that this is the worst summer drought he can remember.

We have only had sweet corn twice this summer - once from a farmer on Mills Road - it was inedible! - and once from a farmer at the Shepherdstown Farmers' Market - it was okay. My inlaws claim that Britner Produce was out weeks ago and that he had to plow up scores of acres of dead spindly stalks.

I took this photo of the Hawks Hill just a bit ago:See the yellow leaves?! It's too early for those trees to be turning!