First rains

There has been a tremendous amount of rain since it started raining yesterday - its more like the monsoon than the summer. Everything is very wet especially where we did the earth works at the back of Buddha Garden. As it has been too hot to plant anything here it is a very good example of what happens when there is nothing to hold the soil together. Everything is very sticky and the soil washes down the banks very easily and it looks most unstable. I wonder whether we need yet another pond!

It was lovely to see how the ponds all filled up and the stream that we dug from the pond near the well to the large pond beautifully. This enables us to keep all the water on the land.