Rain, Rain, Go Away

This has been an unusually wet year.  I actually love rain, and wish that it would rain where I live more often than it normally does.  But when it comes to the hobbit-hole right now, rain is not so good.  It really puts a damper on working on it--at least on the part that I need to work on right now, which is the outside.  But there is some good news: I have plugged the leak!  One thing about all this rain is that it has given me lots of opportunities to test whether the measures I have been taking are working.  Yesterday morning it had dried out enough that I was able to put some finishing touches on the repairs.  It has rained a lot off and on since then, soaking everything pretty good, but the hobbit-hole is nice and dry, which is a good thing, because, after all, a hobbit-hole is not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell.  No--a hobbit-hole means comfort!