Looking ahead...and cringing.

At the end of last summer, I took some "Random outdoor shots" for you all to see, and for all of us to refer back to as I hopefully do some gardening this spring.

Well, I have some new, not-so-random shots that were taken during the last few months. Now I understand why there is a lack of gardening and some other weird landscaping quirks — especially in the back yard.

Since the time I took those nice, sunny outdoor shots, I worked my booty off to move some of my favorite perennials from the old house to this new yard. Now you can imagine my disappointment to see this:


Yeah. That's the entire back yard under about 2 feet of water. This seems to be a regular occurrence. It first happened in September (not shown) when we felt the effects of Hurricane Ike via serious rainfall. We had to pump the water out of the back yard for days.
This time (shown here) I got to brave borderline freezing temps to get the pump going, only to find that the hose was blocked by ice. So after a while of wading around in icy water and wrestling the frozen hose, I got the back yard pumped out a little bit. After 24 hours, the temps dipped below freezing and we had to stop the pump. I can't wait for all of that to melt and end up in the basement again.
But you see where my little garden peninsula is...sigh.