The snow has melted, the power (and heat) are back on and hallelujah to that! We’re getting dumped on by the rain at this point but so far no repeat of the basement flood of last year. The past week we’ve had about 1 1/2 inches of water in the basement at all times so we’ve had the septic guys back out to try to figure that one out and tonight our septic pump alarm started going off. We’ll see what tomorrow brings, we’re just one of the lucky ones in our area who aren’t dealing with loads of flooding and for that we are thankful.
I do have one boy who couldn’t be happier that it’s raining and that’s Levi. He is finally getting a chance to use the Spiderman umbrella that Santa brought him! The wind has made it tricky, though and it reminds me of my time up at Western Wash U. If you’ve spent any time in Bellingham you know that it’s basically a wind tunnel and you can walk across the campus on any given rainy day and spot the freshman in 2 seconds, they are the ones with the umbrellas, most often turned inside out. The rest of us would just chuckle, as they try to close up their now mangled umbrellas. Too funny! Now I’ve just got to teach my boy that if he’s going to use an umbrella he’s gotta be smart about it.