the day the cucumbers died

We have our first casualty. I'm not sure why or how, but the cucumber plant is gone. Just gone, not wilted up and brown and dead, but missing!? It's still early enough to try again, so I'll replace it but isn't that strange? I guess it died and blew away, but still.  I'm a little concerned about my little garden as I watered it last night while I took the dog on a walk, came back and it was pretty drenched (standing water). I figured it'd dry out today in the sun. Yah not so much it's been raining all morning and doesn't look like its stopping any time soon. So we may end up with a marsh. Whoopsy as Klaire would say:)