Right now the area is under a tornado and severe t-storm watch, and its raining like the proverbial Noah's Flood.

The backyard is a friggen swamp - so much water that perhaps 20% has conspired to breach the new drainage network in spots and going around the house *again*. Most certainly my crawlspace is getting flooded - the first time since the ( Read more... )

I brought a new Torro self-propelled lawn mower a little over a week ago. And since then, it has rain 8 out of 9 days - including the last seven straight. Only the front yard was mowed, and the back area around Stooge's Field is starting to look like a friggen jungle. Most of this week looks miserable too ( Read more... )

It's dead, Jim..After several weeks of gradually weakening starts, the Spawn's (a 1997 Isuzu) battery bought the farm this morning. It was the dreaded "click..click..click..." sound. What was far more irritating was that this thing was only 7 months old. So after waiting around a couple hours (8 AM - I normally leave the house at 6), it was time ( Read more... )