Kathy, give Axle a hug from me. He sounds like a sweet boy.
Sharen, you really have a lot of different soil/weather conditions to contend with. The high water table would be difficult. We had an old homestead farm outside of Poulsbo, WA that had a very high water table. Our cellar would fill with water every winter. We put in a French drain and that was the end of that problem.
Alex, I know what your soil is like, my son lives right by you, and the soil is less than perfect.
