Sunday morning, a group gathered in front of the water.   Ideas were tossed about,  How
to get the water across the road.  Finally, seeing that the water was eating away at the
land under the road, it was decided - a culvert would have to be
put in.  

By the time we returned from church, the roadwork was underway.  We were pretty nervous
about the track hoe sitting on a very unstable piece of land to do the digging.  This was one of the places that had
been filling from below with water and very unstable.  

The Davenports came up to inspect the happenings.  In the 80's when the flooding last happened, a large portion
of Dale's farmland was ruined.  This year, his grown boys have been
very proactive in seeing that their father's land will be protected.
Along with watching out for their family, they have filled and delivered sandbags, helped with
the new road, and some were even knee deep in the mud on this day.  

A small crowd gathered to inspect the progress on the new culvert.  

I could not help but take pictures as the track hoe sunk deeper and deeper into the unstable mud.  

The owner of the property was willing to pitch in and work on the tractor's air filter in an
effort to get it working better. 

One stuck tractor!

The interior of the road before putting in the culvert

The tractor was so low in the mud that at one point, there was mud pouring out of the
engine compartment.

Interested friends and neighbors came to watch the saving of a tractor.  

To see the neighbors in Genola who were willing to "jump in" baffled me.  What a wonderful place to live!

Neighbors came to watch, to help, and to lend moral support.