Cold, Wet Week

so wet, so cold

The weather last week had been wet, wet, wet! My yard had become a moat, and even the crawlspace under the house has taken in water. On Friday morning I heard bubbling from the duct in the back of the house when the furnace comes on.

The roads outside town were even worse. I have had to take a long detour down county roads because the main road between Fairmount and the interstate was underwater.

I do not have it as bad as Madre. The family house was built over a long, snakey segment of land whose soil is made of impermeable clay that the locals called Puddin' Creek. Her basement floods with every heavy rain, and the sump pump runs constantly.

On Saturday morning I looked out my front door to find ... snow! It was just traces of snow in the grass, and ice on the sides of the moat. But it did give me something to think about, how it was so cold that it was as if winter had come back for an encore performance.

I wanted to mow my lawn this weekend, given how high it is now due to the water and the weed-and-feed. But the ground on Saturday is way too wet; even by the evening much of the ground is still wet. The cold, dry wind did its work, though, and by Sunday morning the ground was dry enough to mow.

old building

I have a Web page about the dilapidated state of the old school in the middle of town. Someone wrote in the local Madison-Grant Shopper, asking why the building was still standing. The head of the youth sports league, which owns the building, gave his version of what is on my Web page, with the added news that the building was to be torn down in 2000, but the town stopped the demolition within days of the event.

Now the town (acc. to the Marion paper: "Fairmount might demolish old high school", Chronicle-Tribune, 20 April 2013, p. A1-A2) is going to discuss tearing down the building, an expensive process due to all the asbestos in the heater pipe wrappings. I want to hear this, so I will go to Monday night's meeting at the town hall.

addendum

My previous entry is written in Esperanto because I am a fan of the language, and I am not sure of the reaction if I wrote it