Although outside the boundaries of the past week, about 12:00 AM on Saturday, 5/24 a tornado devastated much of London, KY 30 miles north of Barbourville. Locally the wind raged and howled. At midnight I sent a group text to friends asking if everyone was OK. London residents replied, "We're hunkered in the hallway with the dogs. OMG, a tornado just went through." In those moments, they lost their attached garage and front porch. When they awakened the next morning, all the houses across the street were GONE. So it was with much of London and parts of Somerset, KY to the W. Other London friends lost their entire home.    

Locally, in Barbourville, KY it is wet. It is so wet. There were some sustained downpours this past week. Other days were sunny until they weren't.  Dark nimbus clouds moved in and buckets of water fell from the sky for ten minutes. Then it cleared up again. Often, an hour or two later, the pattern repeated. Today, 6/1, marks the first dry 24 hours in a week.

I planted my raised bed on Sat, 5/24. Within two days, seedlings began to appear. By Sunday, 6/1 tomatoes, okra, zucchini, lettuce, carrots, peas, kale and bibb lettuce appeared.  However, a local friend who direct seeded weeks before I did reported that all of her established seedlings had washed away by 5/29. She has to start over. And yet, I categorized current conditions this week only as "moderately wet" because the immediate area is not flooded....