First I want to start off by saying one thing: I will not make a blog post about a politically charged issue while drunk again.
Now that that's out of the way.... Well we finally got a taste of summer over the past few days here. Spring skipped up completely so far. Went from below 0 and snowing to quick melt and 15+ in the matter of what seemed like a few days.
Tuesday was a a great day! I went golfing, yay!! Mind you it was quite wet on the course, the greens were closed to play and there was still some snow in the low/shadowy areas I had to avoid, but I still got to play 7 holes. Man, am I ever rusty. These longass winters here are really a killer to my game. Wanted to go out again today and enjoy the 20C weather and warm sun, but had other things to do. Some yard work, some car detailing, and I was also doing more work on the sump pit that I've been installing in my basement.
That has been a slow process. My basement is dug into clay, and due to the shoddy construction practices of the company that built it way back in the 60's, the weeping tile works like shit. Well, it doesn't really work at all for any real amount of rain. So I broke out a jackhammer and a shovel and went to work. Dug down maybe a foot before the hole was full of water and the sides began to erode out from under the concrete pad. I put my basin in, just enough to get it to fill up with water, dropped in my sump pump and started pumping away. I'm amazed at how much water was under my foundation. The pump has been running for 5 days now, pumping roughly 50 gallons of water a day out of there. Today it was dry enough to allow me to dig down another foot before it filled with too much water to continue. Gotta say, digging through partially frozen clay is a bitch. Now I have 2 or so feet of my 3 foot deep basin sunk into the hole and still pumping water.
Tomorrow the forecast is calling for a buttload of rain, up to 15mm, so I'm glad I at least have some provision in place to evacuate the water. Still, I hope the forecast is wrong. I still need to dig down at least another 2 feet, widen the hole a bit, place a layer of crushed rock in the bottom, replace the basin, fill around the sides with more crushed, and then finish it with a nice veneer of concrete around the edge. Then all I gotta do is run the hose out my window framing, outside a ways from my house and I'm done. What I have done so far will help tremendously, but I hope the rain holds off a couple of more days so I can finish it properly. Fingers crossed!
Then, as if rain weren't bad enough, it is supposed to go back to 0 on Sunday and snow a bit. Fuck, I'm so fuckin' sick of that white shit. If the forecast is right it'll be till at least Wednesday before I can golf again. That;s if it doesn't rain or snow again in the meantime...
Ah well, at least I got to play a few holes and started my tan this week.
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