In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:HAPPY B'DAY BRENDA!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Thanks Kiki.
I do indeed.
Unfortunately, your picture didn't come through. But I'll tell you my favourite colour is blue.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Jeez SIX, that nightime flood that came and went without a trace sounds like something from The Twilight Zone. I guess you're right: The ground must have been pretty dry for so much water to soak in. You've mentioned that you soil is sandy? I guess the water must have percolated down pretty fast.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Jeez SIX, that nightime flood that came and went without a trace sounds like something from The Twilight Zone. I guess you're right: The ground must have been pretty dry for so much water to soak in. You've mentioned that you soil is sandy? I guess the water must have percolated down pretty fast.
Nah... The ground probably wasn't super dry since we had a day of storms about a week before.
That was all the storm sewer system and the ditch. It ties into a river around here... all sorts of complicated machinery involved, yada, yada, yada. We would have all been screwed if not for that, probably 5 times a year the last 5 rainy seasons.
Not only are there traditional sewers with manhole covers every 100-120 feet or so around here, but on the curb of the ditch there is a large rectangle grate that is probably 60 feet long too. (I can't imagine that goes directly into the ditch itself since I think gravity would push water out of that grate from the ditch if it did, so I don't know how it works).
The whole system is the reason we "don't have floods anymore" and why people aren't kayaking down the street constantly like they did back in the 60s. The only problem with it yesterday (allegedly, as I heard it from a low level employee of my city) is that there was just so much water in so short a time span that the system couldn't keep up with it.
Once the rain finally slowed down and eventually stopped everywhere, I assume that the water everywhere there was problems began to disappear similarly to how it did in my crawlspace when I put in a new sump pump and turned the power on.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Still raining on and off today. Nothing crazy though...
Can't tell if anything is getting in the cinder blocks that is fresh with a normal rain. The dirt is wet down there now in the low spots, but still hasn't saturated everything over to the high spots in the front.
I've got to get down there and finish my work. Only 4 days left of highs in the 70's and 80's and then it's all mid 60's in the next two weeks. Summer's over :(
I'm going to have to put some old plywood scraps down there or something. Since I didn't get the work done before the crazy storms turned my dry dirt into mud, it's going to be quite messy otherwise.
I've got to get the structural repair finished, then regrade the dirt and rocks before I put the patio pavers down there before the visqueen comes. Hopefully my friend can come by at least one night this week. I think it will take two more nights before the floor is installed. If things go right, I should have a floor on the porch again by the middle of next week. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Got Dracula on. The version from 1931 with Bela Lugosi. Haven't seen it in years. Forgot how cheesy it was.
Is that the movie where Bela died in real life and they got somebody like a foot and a half taller to play the rest of the Dracula parts and walk around covering his face with the cloak?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
No, that was a different movie and now that you mention it the commentator guy talked about it and I can't remember the name of it.
The 1931 movie was the film Lugosi did after being in the stage play of "Dracula".
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:HAPPY B'DAY BRENDA!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Thanks Kiki.
I do indeed.
Unfortunately, your picture didn't come through. But I'll tell you my favourite colour is blue.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
Thanks SIG.
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Well, just another lazy Sunday up here.
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Going to make some popcorn before I sit down to watch some tv.
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Beginning of another week.
Hear from some friends in Alberta and a message from my cousin in Alberta on FB.
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Minus the backflip, I did this today on a joist...
Seriously, not nearly as funny in real life. Tomorrow is going to be fun.
Got a lot done today. Not what I was expecting to do going into it, and had to re-arrange how I'm doing some things due to the rain we had the other day, but progress nonetheless. It all needs to be done at some point.
Hopefully I'll still have the floor in by next week.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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