May 28, 2004
Noah Begone !
Woooohoooo! If I trust what the weatherman says this morning, I can stop building that Ark I have started in my yard. The only problem with this theory is, can you ever really believe the weatherman? LOL
Here's the deal...
Every day since last weekend we have been getting hammered with thunderstorm at least once or twice per day. Some days it would rain really hard for 4 or 5 hours, others it would drizzle all day long. Normally I wouldn't care all that much, but I have a ton of little projects to get done outside, and I would have liked to have gotten them all done BEFORE the holiday weekend. So I could actually take a couple days off.
I started painting the exterior of my house last week, and it's like 3/4 done. Hopefully the trim will dry out enough today to allow me to finish that up.
I managed to mow my yard last weekend, even though parts were a bit swampy. But it needs it again already. With the way my yard drains it'll probably take two days to dry out enough to mow again.
I've had to pump over a foot of water out of the pool the last few days. That'll give you an idea of how much rain we've gotten lately. The pool needs to be vacuumed badly too, what with all of the tree crap blowing around.
I also need to finish putting together a new covered swing by the pool area and do a lot of general cleaning out on the patio that I've been putting off until after the painting in that area is done. And I have an old swingset and aluminum storage shed I want to take down. And a new burning pit to build with the 100 or so cinder blocks I have sitting in my driveway.
Looks like it's going to be a working holiday weekend for moi, but I don't mind nearly as much as I should. Hey, at least I can see some blue in the sky this morning! Hopefully my garden will survive all of the water. It's still a swamp this morning, but a warm and sunny weather should help it to dry out fairly quickly.