[DianaB]

Thanks everyone for your concern. Yesterday was a hard day for me and I finally broke down and cried. I drove to town and several homes close to town have all their belongings out in the yard drying. It was so sad because I know all of them. My daughters are tired of mucking around in the mud at the shop and wanted to do other things yesterday, but when I asked my husband if they could go and do something else I could tell that he wasn't very happy about it. I know that he's very stressed, but I feel that I'm in the middle trying to keep everyone happy and it just hit me hard yesterday.

We keep hearing different reports about our water. We have water for now, but a valve was accidentally left on that is now shut off so our water could go off at any time. A portable water treatment plant is coming in sometime to help out but, again, it's uncertain how soon it will be up and running. The water plant, I've heard, is going to take months to get up and going again. I haven't done any laundry since this all started so I'm going to have to drive out of town to get to a laundry mat. I just need to find out who has water and who doesn't. I may go this afternoon or tomorrow.

My husband's got one tractor running and another one that he had apart is running too. He was pretty happy about getting them going. He still has the combine to work on. He's been told to keep track of all that he's lost (we had tractor tires that washed away!!!) and we will be able to get a low interest disaster loan.

My husband thinks that we'll be working ground in a few days. We still have some crops to get in.