The rains came down and the floods came up

In the last three days we have had over 100 mm (or 4 inches) of rain. (Cardston had even more). This comes at the end of an extremely wet spring, where there was already standing water in many fields. Farmers have been unable to plant many of their crops and even those crops planted in many cases may be ruined because of the standing water. We have had almost no warm weather, and nothing hot and dry in the forecast. My own garden is not growing much at all, and I very much doubt I will get corn, tomatoes, peppers or even cucumbers this year.
I'd like to ask all the Pretes to begin praying for good weather for our reunion.
This is a low quality picture. It is of the Cook fields in Magrath where there are soccer fields and baseball diamonds.

This is our trailer parked in a lake at the storage place. The trailer was already in water before this rainstorm. The ground is so saturated that the water has no where to go. It would take a miracle for the water to be gone before our reunion. We only hope it will go down enough that we will be able to get the trailer out.

This is the school soccer field or lake MHS.

Our own property, thankfully, is raised up and drains off very nicely. In addition, we have a sump pump on our lower deck that redirects water straight into the town storm drains. This is the view from our side yard of our neighbor's shed which is under water.

Cardston 5 Mile/5K family fun run, June 5th, 2010

The start of the 5 miler. There were probably 20-25 runners.

The start of the 5 K race. Austin and Preston have their ears covered, afraid of the sound of the gun. Granny and Aunt Sherylee helped Austin and Preston through the 5 K race. Thank you!

Becky at the finish line. I ran in 42:43 which on that day was good enough for first place woman. My niece, Kaylene, age 13, ran with me for the first three miles, before she eased off the pace just a little. She finished second.

Preston coming up to the finish line. He and Austin (and their helpers) were the last to finish in about 1:03 and 1:04. It was sure a long way for those little legs to go. Austin took his "poké-walker" with him. It said he went over 10,000 steps!

Austin near the finish. Shortest legs, Biggest heart!

The Doig family 5 miler/5 K race participants. Monte was faster than me, and got the medal for being first in his age group. Nathan got a silver medal in his age group too.

It was a terrific race, timed with time chips, and accurate for distance. The adults got real running shirts. Everyone got a door prize, and there were first, second and third place medals in each age group. For being the overall winner, I got 2 tickets to the Carriage House Theatre.

At the end of the race, Preston was so tired, he said "I shouldn't have done this, it was too far." Later, inside, after a jumbo freezie and a bit of rest, they gave out the door prizes. When Preston got his prize (donated by the dollar store) of a spider man activity kit and a Marvel comics cup, he exclaimed "And when I do the 5K next year, I'm gonna get another prize!" It is amazing how a $1 prize can totally change the attitude of a small child.

We missed having Alyssa in the race this year, since she had a basketball tournament that day.