A lot of people have asked how the farm is doing with the flood, so I thought I’d share a few photos of the damage so far! We get flooded at least every spring, but this year is supposed to outdo the flood of ‘97- when we had to take a canoe back and forth to get from the house to our cars! 

 

 Here’s the view on Monday morning before we started sandbagging:

 

 

And here’s the view from the house: 

 

 

At first we didn’t think we’d be able to get any sandbags, so we started building a wall!

 

 

Then we got the poly out of the barn to cover the plywood:

 

  

And then the sandbags arrived:

 

 

And finally the sand:

  

 

Lots of friends from church came to help us out:

 

 

So we made food and hot chocolate for them:

 

 

 

PS: We have the canoe ready to go again! 

 

 

This was this morning after all the snow:

 

 

And here’s a close up of the river which normally is down the hill from the barn: 

 

 

 

Thanks for all the help and prayers from everyone- it’s amazing to see the whole city come out and help each other like this!