I am so glad mom and dad sold the family farm house (not the farm ground) years ago and just kept the acres, otherwise mom would have lost everything as well. She lives up in the hills of Council Bluffs now and is safe. It will probably get worse before it gets better.

I know I need to repot my house plants as well and devide the bigger ones into two. Did that with all my african violets recently, they've perked up.

PS. I added a picture of what I-29 looking North looks like from our outing Wednesday to see the damage the waters have done. Lots!!!!!

They are a huge project it took over 2 weeks to get ours completed, Jensen Retaining Wall's did ours, working every day regardless of weather. Each block weights 120 lbs and the wall is half a block long as we live on the corner and there is only two places on this side street. Each section of the wall has 3 individual garden plots in it, first one I planted Stella Del Oro's and Purple Salvia. The second one is a row of nearly wild pink roses and then a section of purple speedwell and the last row is double pink knockout roses, with two purple clematis growing up separate trellis between the middle points of the knock out roses. The third section has 2 rose of Sharon in front of it is twice blooming lilacs, then staggered around the wall is 1 dappled willow, spirea bushes and in the front is autum joy sedum in pink along the garage wall edge which the retaining wall ends at the garage butting up to it, there is stella del ora's and a forsethia bush and Ivy growing on the side walls of the brick garage. Everything is new, next year it will fill in and in three years it will join together really well. First year is sparse but like I said it will fill in as things grow, didn't want to overwhelm the wall with too much and don't want to have to maintain it only as little as possible, as everyting else on the old wall was wildflowers and had to be deadheaded and didn't want to do that again, age is coming up and didn't think I could do this forever.

Yeah, the flooding has worsen over the last two days we went and looked at it last Monday and then went to Council Bluffs Lewis and Clark Monument to view I-29 north and it was just overwhelming to see all the water. Can't even recognize the area. I grew up in the flood area by the mormon bride and our families farm is underwater and all the neighbors we had out there have lost everything.

Deb,

Good for you getting everyting planted especially since we are now turning hot again. I know I too was getting everything in late due to all the rain and cold weather, it has been a very strange planting season hasn't it?

We just had a new retaining wall put in last fall and have been trying to get everyting planted in it and get it mulched and keep it going. It has been quite a job, but we finally got it close to completion, only have a couple of plants left to get in and now that it is hot will have to wait until late evening or early morning. We have a lot of concerns on flooding in our down town area and also in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the other side of the bridge, we went over yesterday to the Lewis and Clark look out point and seen how bad it is from a birds eye view and it is so overwhelmingly unbelieveable. No interstate I-29 toward Crescent and up to Sioux City, Iowa. Can't even see the interstate, my heart goes out to these people in the flood plains, we used to live in the Crescent, Iowa area along the river that is now under water, I spent all my childhood there on the farm and 15 years of my married life there, and now it is filled with water.  

Deb, Stopping by to say Hi! and to see how things are in your corner of Nebraska?

Hugs, Sherry