Making the Best of It
We really can’t fault the weathermen for being on target with the rain. Rain began in the early morning hours and it is now 3:15 in the afternoon and it is not done yet.
Deciding to make the best of it, I headed for the sewing studio. I had some naked hand towels on hand. It is always a good thing to have a few extra items stitched. Several of our visitors are not bashful in kissing up for a hand out. While the stitching was at it, I went through a few things in the cistern closets. Hmm. A box of various Command Strip items. Keeping the colors changed out on the sewing machine, I went shelf by shelf in the sewing studio to see what the Command Strips could help with. Items lying flat soon are covered up by other items that want to lie flat. Hanging them up seemed to be the answer. I could not believe that there was a bare spot on the south wall with which to trick out with the Command Strips. Good job Grammie!
At noon I did go out to take a peek at the yard. Our yard has several water ponds showing. The neighbor to the south has a full blown lake. I snapped a photo of our rain gauge at noon. I don’t think I need to check it again. Dennis will be more than happy to fill me in when he comes in. I am fortunate to stay busy when there is nothing to do during a rainy day. Dennis is out in his rocking chair in the patio porch fearing the worst.
As I was closing down the sewing studio, I spied with my little eyes, a trickle of water showing on the carpet on the basement steps. The seepage water was coming out of the bunk house closet, making it’s way over the same level step and running down into the tile that we have around the perimeter of the basement. Oh well. We have nothing setting on the floors of the cistern closet or the bunk house closet. It will be a matter of letting as much run into the tile until we get the shop vac flipped over from dry vacuum to the wet option. Does it make me nervous to hear the sump pump running every 30 seconds? No, we pretty much have it covered. The area in the northwest part of the yard has more water than can soak up from the basement sump pump, but Dennis has a second pump standing in that area of the yard and taking water out into the street.
May has been a soggy month. On the up-side . . . we have been blessed with no storms. I will take water, whether it’s in the closets, or out in the yard . . . any day.