it's weekend time again.

Brad

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Wrath of Khan, second in the Star Trek series with the original cast. It was kind of a follow on to an episode that was part of the TV series in the late 60s.
 

fiver

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I got lost as a viewer on the original series.
for some reason even as a little kid I couldn't buy into their science fiction.
 
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Let me know when you set up the bikini module. :eek:

No need to play Mr. Twitty's song backward, they sound alright played forward.
 

Brad

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I can check under the sofa cushion for change to help you out.....
 

Ian

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How's Mini-Me doing these days? You better hurry before he gets too big for the part.
 

fiver

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he just cut his second tooth last night.
he had been working the first one in for a week or two, then last night the one next to it popped through the gums.
his favorite toy is a Dr.Pepper can that is still closed and empty, from one of those famous 11 packs you get from time to time.
he crinkles it around and acts like he is drinking from it, so I really have to watch him around an open can of the real stuff, he will knock it right out of your hand.
 
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fiver

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I hate spring.

we had a storm dump over 2' of snow in a 2 day period.
it sort of melted then dumped another 6"s about 2 day's later, and temps kind of settled in at 30* or so.
then about 3 days ago a rain storm come through and it poured all day and turned to snow at about 5 pm then dumped about 4's of snow.
all of the rain and warmer temps melted all of the snow to go with the rain.
I have been collecting it in my basement at about 15-17 gallons an hour for the last few day's now,
plus the sump pump is running 24-7 about every 2 minutes.

last spring it was maybe 3 gallons an hour and in just one corner and along the front side of the house.
we had snow piled up over 10' high along every walkway in front of the house, down the driveway, and 4-5' on the ground in the rest of the yard.

I have been moving a ton of reloading stuff off the one last wood shelf I have down there and finding places on the metal and plastic shelves [they are bowing in on themselves] and building braces for them as needed.
then we started dragging the gun boxes and plastic gun carriers out along with some camping gear I keep down there.
we had to re-arrange both of the food storage rooms slightly and move some stuff out of the walk in closet I have slowly been building for the wife.
I removed the gun cabinet I had down there as a precaution.

I had everything stacked and boxed and labeled.
now it's all scattered all over the house, and finding a place to put everything is turning into a real chore.

moving everything isn't too much of a problem, but finding a place for it is.
 

Brad

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Have you considered diggin around the foundation and putting in a better weeping system and maybe doing some waterproofing?

That snow system is now dumping rain on my range. Would be nice if you could do a bit better at wringing the moisture out of those clouds next time.
 

fiver

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we got all we could take.
we have been alternating storms from the south with ones from the north.
sometimes it is just moist air from the south hitting the cold air from the north, our mountains stop them both and mixes it together then shakes it all out.
today it was more snow, [and hail] and it is supposed to be the best day we get for a bit.
we really have to keep an eye open this time of year for tornadoes, they get going when two weather fronts come sweeping down/up the valleys and mix at the open points on the flats.
 

fiver

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what we are getting is straight up ground water, there is no where to move it.
I'm not up on the hill like littlegirl, [who also got water in her basement from that rain storm melt dow] but I'm a good 30' above the stream down the road, and 15-20 above the field at the end of the road 300 yds away.
 

Brad

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I consider myself fortunate to not have a wet basement. I am way too high for ground water and the hills around the house keep it flowing away from the foundation. Not easy when one side of the house has 20 plus feet below grade.
 

Ian

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I built as low as I could but plenty high enough. There's a "seasonal" artesian spring that flows for weeks when it gets going, up in the corner I dug out 4' for the driveway and extra parking. None of the house is below grade, and the only areas I dug in were to cut off ground water infiltration under the slabs. I also cut surface drainage on the high side to keep water from the hill diverted. The house is essentially a pole building and I didn't want the pole foundations fluctuating with seasonal ground moisture, so everything uphill got cut off 4' down and the dirt under the house stays bone dry. No need for a basement since the deepest it ever freezes here is a few inches and at that only for a few days.

Speaking of rain, I sure wish some of you would send me some, like about a foot of it at least, maybe two. Spring is trying to spring, oak trees have all put on leaves and flowers, but it hasn't rained any significant amount since last year and everything is dry in a bad, bad way. I'm afraid we're starting into another five-year drought cycle.
 

Brad

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We use basements for things like tornado shelter. Most houses in Ne have them and I wouldn't know what to do without one. Helps to have soil on top of the rock. You do know that happens in some places, don't you Ian?
 

fiver

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usually I don't have any issues, the cheapasses that built my place only done a 6'3" basement height.
the ones across/up the road dug down a full 8+ feet.
they have 2+ foot of water as a result.
the guy next door doesn't have any real issues either and he went about 5'6' and then above ground about 2-1/2 more feet, the place was just a basement house for 20 years.