Posts Tagged ‘yard’
More Blizzard!
Posted by: kari on: February 10, 2010
Wow – just when I was proud of the path I’d dug to the mailbox… It took me an hour (it’s a short driveway) to dig a path that’s one shovel wide through snow that was about 30″ deep. Now it’s snowing again – hard. This time with whipping winds that are producing some short [...]
Snow! 18″ (Official) Total
Posted by: kari on: December 19, 2009
Yes, I do love the snow — as long as I am inside or outside and bundled up. In either case, I like to be warm! Our storm began Friday about 11pm and it’s over 12 hours later now and still snowing strong. It looks like we might have 6-8 inches already but it’s really [...]
Not a hairball – or a worm!
Posted by: kari on: September 28, 2009
Amazingly, we discovered the source of the problem with the sump pump drainage. Everyone’s first thought when they saw it was that it was a hair ball. Actually, it’s a root ball. There was a small sapling nearby that apparently went after a good source of water. Over the years (we figure less than 10, [...]
Trench for sale – cheap
Posted by: kari on: September 14, 2009
After several attemps at finding the pipe along the house where the green “clean-out” accesses are, I gave up. I had trenched all the way down the side of the house between the green vent things. No drainage pipe. So I eventually stopped and spent the rest of the week recovering. My son suggested I [...]
Shovel + Determination = Trench
Posted by: kari on: August 29, 2009
Last weekend I spent Saturday evening in the rain digging out a small trench to drain the sump pump. Apparently the pipes have become blocked because the pump was pushing the water up – and it was going straight up! What goes up comes down, and back down drains right back to the pump. There [...]
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