There shall come soft rains

[jhetley]

But that's not the prediction. A hard rain's gonna fall, instead, 1" to 2" from now into tomorrow morning, with the ground frozen and a lot of winter snowpack yet unmelted. Stream and river flooding possible.

We're maybe 100' above the river here, which means we just need to worry about the basement leaks. And, so far, the water has run out the floor drain just as fast as it comes in through the fieldstone walls....

Well, Beowulf and crew made it through the night without killing each other. They're bickering over breakfast now (well, Grendel's Mother went fishing for hers and is listening to Beethoven's 9th instead). Five hundred words accomplished.

Comments

[ebess.livejournal.com]

Totally raining here in the city, too. BAH.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

About that rain...

so far it's looking very white and flakey down here; and in fact it's starting to cover some of the grass and mud that's been uncovered in the last few days of warm weather. Maybe a quarter inch of new snow in some spots... and it still comes downy very prettily.

Guess I ought to put out some bird food -- the critters are getting nervous.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, that's what you get for living back in the hills.

(Actually, just looked out the side window and we are getting snow mixed in with the rain. No accumulation yet, and Wife did manage to do her morning-out-stuff without getting soaked. The best is yet to come?)

[prophet-marcus.livejournal.com]

Ah, fieldstone foundations. Aren't they wonderful?
Does any other part of the country have those? Or are they a uniquely New England architectural abberation?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I've lived with fieldstone foundations in southern Michigan, though they don't have the surplus of raw material you find in Maine "fields." And the house in Georgia had a rough granite masonry foundation, quarried stone but with the same level of irregularity and leaks.