Life on an Island

For a couple of hours yesterday I lived in an island home. Thankfully, it remained an island. The ice was working its way out, and got stuck a bit on the way, causing a fair amount of flooding. First, it was lodged above our house, causing flooding for our little town. Then, it broke loose and piled up below our home, causing flooding for us. In fact, the river rose about 2 feet in 15 minutes by our house at that point. We brought in sandbags, just in case it continued to rise, but thankfully, the ice broke, and the water left as quickly as it had come.
Hannah added to all this excitement by finding our just-started seeds and helping herself to a good handful of them- plus potting soil. Then, in the evening, she started her first official crawling! What a big girl she's becoming! Here, she's showing off her newly aquired first teeth (with a bit dirt mixed in).
"Mmmm...dirt!"

Our driveway and flooded greenhouse

A bit of the ice jam that was causing the whole problem (think I could can that and sell it? Canadian Ice Jam - kind of has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?)

Water covering our front yard and lower culvert crossing

water quickly approaching our home

isn't our driveway looking lovely?!

Karl walking on our driveway. For those of you who have never been here, this is on the opposite side of our house from the river.

driveway again

Heidi helping hold the plastic for sand bags. She was quite impressed by this whole adventure and wanted to keep sand bagging all day. She did want us to keep the door shut on the house so the water wouldn't come in.

Our little dike went up quickly with a big crew here to help

The water was just beyong our bags when, whoosh, the ice went out and the water with it. Thankyou Lord!