In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Yeah. My next house is going to have a large, full basement, and it won't be on a floodplain, with plenty of room to make something really neat.
The layout in my current half-basement is the worst layout in the entire house. Really can't do much more than have an extra bedroom and a duplicate but smaller living room down there. I'm not even excited about the idea of finally getting around to remodeling it one day after I know I've got all water issues under control. I can't think of one single way to make anything down there exciting or unique. Until I moved it would just be two more rooms and an extra bathroom that I don't need and have to clean up on occasion.
I always think that if I'd bought the much smaller house sq ft wise that was close by, but with a full basement under it that wasn't counted in the square feet that I would have been a lot happier with it. No floodplain there and it would have only taken 15 minutes to mow the lawn.
Really tiny attached garage and houses pretty much on top of each other there though.
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Oh, ideally I would like a three-bedroom, 3 bath house about 2000 sq ft with an open floor plan and a garage where you could put doors on both ends to let the breezes blow thru for hubby's workshop.
But, I only get to pick from what's available, not from my ideal-homes in the sky.
We had actually put a bid on a smaller house in a different part of town with (I think) a better floor plan but apparently the wife was so attached to the house... it was where her children had grown up etc etc ... she just couldn't get with the plan of selling the house and moving to OC, even to be closer to her (adult) children. I'll bet they sold the house in the end, tho. She just wasn't ready at that moment.
Anyway, I managed to finish rescue-watering the avocados and pines and texted the bee guy if he could speed up the process of bee removal since I'm going to be too busy to be hosewatering such a large area for very long. I see we're in for a change in weather: hotter, sunnier, drier, breezier. But I think I put enough water dwon to keep the trees happy for at least a week. I hope!!
Anyway, as Tigger used to say TTFN.
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Oh, ideally I would like a three-bedroom, 3 bath house about 2000 sq ft with an open floor plan and a garage where you could put doors on both ends to let the breezes blow thru for hubby's workshop.
But, I only get to pick from what's available, not from my ideal-homes in the sky.
Yeah. I had some options. I went with the cheaper one that needed a lot more work but was twice the size and 4 times the land. Probably would have still thought I made the right choice if it weren't for the flood issues.
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We had actually put a bid on a smaller house in a different part of town with (I think) a better floor plan but apparently the wife was so attached to the house... it was where her children had grown up etc etc ... she just couldn't get with the plan of selling the house and moving to OC, even to be closer to her (adult) children. I'll bet they sold the house in the end, tho. She just wasn't ready at that moment.
Man... the process sucks, doesn't it? I'm not looking forward to moving again when the time comes. At least when I bought this house I didn't have a lot of stuff and was able to store it temporarily at other people's houses and come and get it when I was ready for it. Even with the two de-hoards and the eventual third one, I'm going to need a truck next time. And having to time buying one house while I'm selling another isn't going to be fun either. I won't have the luxury of having places to store the stuff that aren't going to cost me money the next time.
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Anyway, I managed to finish rescue-watering the avocados and pines and texted the bee guy if he could speed up the process of bee removal since I'm going to be too busy to be hosewatering such a large area for very long. I see we're in for a change in weather: hotter, sunnier, drier, breezier. But I think I put enough water down to keep the trees happy for at least a week. I hope!!
Anyway, as Tigger used to say TTFN.
Good luck!
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Out for my walk. Something to return to the library and get a couple of other things done. Nothing big.
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Back from my walk.
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No rain tomorrow... FINALLY! Still raining here most of the night though.
Got my neighbor on deck to come by in the afternoon after the water hopefully dries up a bit and we're going to put together a game plan for that 2nd sump solution.
This will be huge.
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Out for my walk soon on a cooler day. Only 21C right now which is 72F. Suppose to rain very late tonight or tomorrow. Have to see.
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Well, that sounds more comfortable!
I sure hope that the interior gets some of that wet weather too.
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Well, that sounds more comfortable!
I sure hope that the interior gets some of that wet weather too.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
It is.
So, do I and minus the lighting that can come with summer storms. *fingers crossed*.
The weather people are calling for thunder and lighting storms where I am tomorrow. Just have to see. It's at 25C right now which is 80F.
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