Saturday, June 25, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Water, water everywhere and.....
I like rain, I really do, but lately rain/snow and I, well....., we aren't talking anymore. M and I were having a very nice Memorial day seeing family and going to the cemetery. I told M lets just chill the rest of the day. He was going to read his book, I was going to take a nap; what bliss. We parted ways and then within moments he is back upstairs looking for his nasty work pants. I thought this strange; I don't usually change my clothes, let alone into nasty work clothes, just to read a book, so I inquired.
He then told me that the window wells were filling up with water and about to get to the windows. M and I are not really pet people, so we decided that the aquariums would have to go. So we both changed found some buckets and then started bailing water. I'm sure the cute little widow that lives across the street from us was having a jolly good time watching me run around the house throwing buckets of water on our front lawn.
We got it done and M used his super genius powers to rig up some sump pumps he got at the store and some PVC pipe. (P.S sump pumps hard to find because of all the flooding, so says the store clerk) Crisis averted and no water actually got in our basement, which we are totally blessed for. I'm just ready for everything to dry out though, I think our poor yard is even turning "pruney" from all the water.