“The RoseBouquet”

Did I mention that spring has crept in over the last few weeks? The streets are nearly dry, but on our yard there’s still some drifts old, dirty snow, that are not melted yet.

I’m glad, in fact, that spring hasn’t rushed in over-night, and turned up the heat from the sun because then a lot of us in Hague are going to have flooding in our basements. The water table was so high in fall already, and this extra moisture going down into the soil is only going to make it higher. However, with the low temperatures, just above freezing by two or three degrees, and the breezes, means that the snow is evaporating upward a lot, and that’s less water going down.

Well, that was until yesterday when the rain started - which turned into snow. This morning we have thick fluffy and very wet snowflakes coming down. Everything is white again. Walking in four to six inches of it this morning I realized that this is good snowman-making stuff. But it will turn to water when the sun comes out.

Thinking about all this makes me glad that Dad went to the trouble last September of digging a deeper hole in the potato pit in the cold storage room in the basement, and installing a sump pump. It is in place ,and that means if the water starts seeping in from there, the pump will suck it up and send it via that black hose to the sewer drain in the basement floor in the utility area. I don’t have to do a thing, just let that sump pump do what it was made to do.

On Sunday I showed a couple from our church through the house and I think they were happy to learn about that sump pump as well.

This makes two young families who are waiting to see this house go for sale. They want to be notified so they can put in their bid. But that’s all held up until I have a confirmed new home.