"Why?" you might ask, " would you need a sailboat?"
Because this happened yesterday.....
Saturday 14th December
Le fleuve Adour, c'est lever!
Our lane, le chemin du Louet
The water at the back the sheep paddock
...... and on the way into the courtyard
The day became a good one. Lots of chats with neighbours, French and English, which had a bonding effect between us all. Most were worse off than us. We spoke a lot of French as well, which was good.
You might be of the opinion that living beside the river we should expect flooding. You are right of course. We remain mindful that it can happen, it was just that the flood came unexpectedly after a year of rainy weather which should have had the river flooding so many times, but it didn't, so we had become complacent.
Not to worry...........the day passed, and then it became the next day, and relief zoomed our spirits right up into the sky as we saw green land again and not deep brown muddy flowing water.
We also saw the damage to the fencing. Oh dear! Loads of work!
So what you do is to go buy some more hens to replace the ones that the dogs massacred the other day, which takes you away from the farm for a few hours, which is good, because then you see the countryside in all its soggy glory, which still holds a beauty even after all the battering it has had from the recent high winds and torrential rains, and you are reminded how lucky you are to be living in such a lovely place.
One of the seven black orpingtons chickens that have come to live here.
So when you feel a bit overwhelmed by things you have to keep going, and fight the heavy desire to give up, that is what you have to do, and that is why we went a chicken shopping.
Hope all is well in your part of the world,
Bye for now,
Vx
9 comments:
My dear mother used to say 'try not to buy your house near a body of water or a forest. Flooding and fires are traumatic experiences'.
Now, with the climate change her advice is even more relevant. People living by the sea and oceans are in danger of being "swalowed" with their homes, by the waters. No kidding Many town councils, especially in islands, are already making plans for future trouble of that kind (except the UK island which is busy with the Brexit thing, not thinking that there could be another Exit for her).
DUTA; all the houses have been built on higher ground that the level of the actual flood plain, it was just that this flood surprised us, and, of course, we need the water from the river to water our smallholding!
I am glad you are getting back to normal Vera. Even the Algarve has been getting heavy rain. It's great that you have a good community where you live.
Thankfully we are too high for flooding in our hamlet, but I need to go and take a look at our local village, the river runs through the middle of it!! Will try a take a look tomorrow if it stops raining!! Stay dry, Diane
NORTHSIDER DAVE; I think that when there are others around you who are experiencing the same difficulties, then that does have a bonding effect. Carry on, that is what you have to do!
DIANE; Oh dear, hope your village didn't flood. We have had some not very nice weather this year!
Oh gosh, the water got so close! I'm glad the house is on higher ground, as long as you're still able to get to it when the river is so high.
We've had so much rain here too, the ground is totally saturated. It most likely won't dry out until Spring now, not enough to let me back on the soil anyway.
JESSICA; we have had a lot of rain as well and river water now, so our fields are soaked. You must miss being out in your garden, it is such a lovely place.
That would be very alarming to slowly see it coming up. Chicken shopping seems a complete legitimate reaction.
TOIRDHEALBHEACH BEUCAIL.......we are used to the river coming on to the land, but it was indeed alarming to see it rise with such speed, but chicken shopping cheered us up!
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