We were almost an island ...!!!!

While the rest of the planet appears to be drying up and suffering under daily record-breaking temperatures, here in the South Shore of Nova Scotia, we are slowly submerging under lots and lots and LOTS of rain.

Apart from the occasional day with bright warm weather, this summer has very much been a total washout, I have never seen much rain. For a Scotsman who spent the first 26 years of his life in Scotland, that is indeed a unique and bold statement. Even when I lived on the Bay of Biscay in Northern Spain, an area notable for excessive rainfall, I never saw as much water falling from the sky as I have done this summer and in such an aggressive manner.

Today we had rain falling all day, it was relentless, persistent, unforgiving and came down so fast and heavy it was bouncing off the grass.

At one point this afternoon, we were not far from being completely surrounded by water ~ We were almost an island ...!!!!