Day 30

I need a week do over... remember that old adage "it never rains but it pours.." well it's flooding here literally. In my basement. Oh and that is only the half of it. At the beginning of the week my neighbor decided in her infinite "Wisdom?" to pull out the hedge that divided our properties. The problem was, it wasn't her hedge to pull out. It was part of what fenced off our front yard and now we have a gaping hole along our yard which is very easy for Milo to escape from. Needless to say I wasn't happy at all... I got quite upset with my neighbor who claimed that the hedge was dying and she didn't realise that it was on our property. I pointed out our fence line and asked how she could possibly think otherwise.. still the long and the short is she has agreed to put up a fence at her expense to remedy the situation. For now we just have to be really careful not to open the front door too wide for the fear that Milo will take off.

Then yesterday morning, my day to start the mass of laundry I have to do, I went downstairs into the basement to put in a second load to find an inch and half to two inches of water all over the floor of the basement. So out came the plumber and after 2 and half hours of investigation found that we had a crack in the sump pump coupling. Or so we thought. He fixed the problem, I finished cleaning up the water damage. I rented a dehumidifier got into the basement. (It's been running ever since.) Finished up the clothing laundry and went about my day. Or so I thought. So this morning when I went to do the sheets (my weekly job) I put in a load of laundry and went to take more sheets down only to see that top lid of the sump pump full of water and then witness a mini "Old Faithful" occur. Okay so I don't have a flood in my basement right now, but it was about to happen. Thank goodness I went downstairs when I did, I hate to think what kind of damage that would've done to the rented dehumidifier. Anyway I now have a call into the plumber to come back out. Only problem is I have to go to the school this morning for the final presentation of the Teacher Appreciation week. I just hope we can get this fixed as Owen had an accident last night and I need to finish washing his bedding.... (I probably shouldn't have written that on the net. Oh well. Therapy here he comes.)

Some sad news too. Hermie is with us no more. The crab passed on sometime yesterday or maybe the day before. So poor Cindy is solo in the crab cage... No we're not getting another crab...it's hard enough to get the kids to look after these crabs... hopefully she'll last a little longer. We'll see.

Okay that's it. No pictures today,...