Water prefers to run downhill.  It's a well known fact.  The small walled in yard surrounding Shiloh slopes gently down hill from front to back. These facts combine to create an interesting phenomenon here.  When the rains come, which, living in a tropical rain forest as we do, they come in torrential sheets, a small river flows under the car gate.  It travels down the driveway and on into the carport.  Eventually the low point of the carport fills and water then spills into the draining ditch running along the back of the property, ending up at an exit hole in the far back corner of our yard.  From there it flows onto the neighbors large garden, providing more than enough water for all his plants.   But flowing water has a tendency to pick up things and carry them along in the flow.  And so the neighbor's dirt from the property up the hill from us is steadily but surely relocating itself into the neighbor below's garden.  You would think that eventually the upper property would be completely void of soil, and that the property below would be rising to new heights, but that's not what's happening.  To the naked eye, everything seems to be exactly as it was when we moved in here the better part of ten years ago.  

So why are we talking about this phenomenon, you ask?  Good question.  Today we cleaned out the lower corner of the drainage ditch.  Lots of mud and gunk accumulates there until water can no longer flow on out to the lower neighbor's garden.  It's a several times a year project.  

Thought you should know that life at Shiloh is not all glitz and glamor.  Some days are full of the mundane.  And it does not get more mundane than shoveling mud.  But whatever we do, we do it all for the Glory of God.