Work is progressing on the Alumni House porch: http://www.wiu.edu/vpas/fm/Alumni_House ... cation.php
I especially liked this bit:
At this rate, that may be a while. I walked around my marsh/yard about 15 minutes ago...about half of it involved that nice sucking sound..."shhhhlup"...that you get when walking through mud. We're supposed to get another ~1/2 inch tomorrow as well. At this point, it'd probably take a good week of no rain at all before anything dries out around here.Once weather conditions are favorable and the rain halts long enough for exposed soil sub-base to dry...