Rainy Day

I woke up last night with the rain coming down and hitting the windows fairly hard. I managed to go back to sleep and about 6 AM the phone rang, it was a call for Linda to work at the school. She said she would be there at 7:20, so Stacey and I were going to be on our own today. It had rained most of the night and the creek was up, but not outside of the banks. I also noticed that Garmons were working in the lower barn. The weather has been so dry they haven't been able to strip the tobacco off the stalks and with the rain, the tobacco was damp enough to move without it crumbling. I walked down there to the barn and talked a little while with them. They were taking all the tobacco down and stacking it in the hallway of the barn and covering it with plastic. They said it would keep it damp a lot longer than leaving it hang. That way they would have a longer time to get it stripped.
Stacey and I went to Subway for lunch and then to the video store and rented two DVDs. We came home and took a short ride in the Mule down to the edge of the creek. It was getting colder and the rain hadn't slowed down.
     
The branch by the hay shed was running water from back in the 'holler' too. The Garmons finished the tobacco in the lower barn, and the upper barn also. I helped them cover up the last stack of tobacco as Linda came home from working at the school just before dusk. Linda fixed a big pot of chili for supper that hit the spot.