African Violets and Gesneriads: Happy Birthday Susan!!, 1 by gessiegail

gessiegail wrote:
You would never be able to live down here in the country. I have every possible kind of spiders, scorpions, bees, etc. in my house. Lots of salamanders, too.....I have gotten good about catching them with a paper towel and taking them back outside.

In our drought, we have now passed the urgency of the 1916 drought.......worse recorded in history for us. Yesterday when I went outside to turn the water hose and sprinkler on for the safety of my foundation, I found 12".....yes, 12" cracks in the yard. I started trying to fill the cracks and holes with water.........that didn't work as I couldn't fill it but it did force many snakes out of the ground.

To say that this is depressing is to understate what is going on. My utility room fell 2" away from the house yesterday and I have towels stuffed on the floor against the sides so I don't have 2" gaps to the underneath of the house.

If I could leave, I would. However, moving is not even a possibility.......got to hang in here to protect what I can with the house shifting.

I took these pictures before I found the utility room shifting away from the house. These pics are not of sheet rock which could be repaired. These are cracks in my kitchen of knotty pink wood buckling.........which cannot be repaired.........I don't even know where to go to even buy knotty pine wood again.........these walls were in the original farm house.