springing fresh from the world
May. 25th, 2026 09:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanAn exciting weekend was had by all.
Friday was actually nice weather, so I walked downtown to run some errands. Picked up my new glasses, dropped some stuff off to a charity, bought some new headphones to replace my broken ones. Got over 10k steps in, which is a new rehab best. The dodgy foot was so sore after and has been doing some cramping since, but I keep stretching it and so far so good.
Woke up Saturday and it was raining.
And raining.
And raining.
About 8 PM my neighbour knocked on the door because the drain pit was overflowing and he could see from his top window that it was pouring down my back steps. I checked and the basement was still dry but it meant the water being pushed out by the sump pump was just flowing back in from above. (And carrying mud from the yard with it.) The pump was going non-stop. The connection between the pipe that comes out of the wall and the one that is buried under the yard is open to prevent back-flow and water was starting flow over the top and into the neighbour's yard, where it was going into their basement.
So I spent the next hour in the rain moving mud from one spot to another. I piled some rocks along the wall of the pit and closed the gaps with mud to make the world's shittiest temporary dam and I dug trenches on the opposite of the pit to try and get the water to flow towards the back of the yard instead. I was only kinda successful because I hit cinderblock at one point, but the rain finally slowed down a bit.
By morning the sump pump was still sending water into the pit, but the level had gone down maybe a foot so it wasn't overflowing any more. It rained again last night, but this morning it's at about the same level. I checked the weather and we're supposed to get a couple of days off from rain, so fingers crossed it empties a bit before the next round of water.
So getting that to work better is definitely this summer's big work project.
****
This morning I got up, emptied the dishwasher, and spotted what looked like a tangled clump of food and hair resting against the drain so I reached in with my hand and pulled it out.
Dead mouse.
So that's how this week has started.
Friday was actually nice weather, so I walked downtown to run some errands. Picked up my new glasses, dropped some stuff off to a charity, bought some new headphones to replace my broken ones. Got over 10k steps in, which is a new rehab best. The dodgy foot was so sore after and has been doing some cramping since, but I keep stretching it and so far so good.
Woke up Saturday and it was raining.
And raining.
And raining.
About 8 PM my neighbour knocked on the door because the drain pit was overflowing and he could see from his top window that it was pouring down my back steps. I checked and the basement was still dry but it meant the water being pushed out by the sump pump was just flowing back in from above. (And carrying mud from the yard with it.) The pump was going non-stop. The connection between the pipe that comes out of the wall and the one that is buried under the yard is open to prevent back-flow and water was starting flow over the top and into the neighbour's yard, where it was going into their basement.
So I spent the next hour in the rain moving mud from one spot to another. I piled some rocks along the wall of the pit and closed the gaps with mud to make the world's shittiest temporary dam and I dug trenches on the opposite of the pit to try and get the water to flow towards the back of the yard instead. I was only kinda successful because I hit cinderblock at one point, but the rain finally slowed down a bit.
By morning the sump pump was still sending water into the pit, but the level had gone down maybe a foot so it wasn't overflowing any more. It rained again last night, but this morning it's at about the same level. I checked the weather and we're supposed to get a couple of days off from rain, so fingers crossed it empties a bit before the next round of water.
So getting that to work better is definitely this summer's big work project.
****
This morning I got up, emptied the dishwasher, and spotted what looked like a tangled clump of food and hair resting against the drain so I reached in with my hand and pulled it out.
Dead mouse.
So that's how this week has started.
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