MiraB ... don't feel bad as that's the standard FQ price here, too! Sometimes less but if it's nice and what you really want, you can count it's the higher end.
While no fabrics, glad that you helped the economy with some pattern and embroidery acquisitions!!
With water aka floods like that, it's understandable why your home is on stilts!
I bet at times you start to consider building an ark.
Maybe this year, you should have some fun with that and make an ark quilt?
Now the question I am wondering ... is this a riverbed that floods?
or merely monsoonal rains that just don't drain away from you?