Sinkhole

Ok so there was this sinking spot in the lawn. We ignored it for awhile, because, hey, we don't live in Florida.
Well one day hubs decides to get the shovel out.
He moves the trampoline (wampowine says the 4yr old). The sinking spot was a decomposing tree stump. Something we should have thought of, considering we have 13 other trees in the darn back yard....which btw makes for fun mowing!
Now it looks like thisThen we have this one.

It just get worse.
We're dealing with this one soon.
Wish us luck.

And to end with some seasonal coneflower (echinacea) pictures. Enjoy!

Procrasination

It's a wonderful word. It describes us a lot.
But we have been working.
In our head.
On what to do with the sinkhole.
Yes a sinkhole. Maybe.
Maybe an old cistern caving in, we don't know. What I do know is the pool has got to be moved. Soon. Probably Wednesday. That sucker takes a good 3000 gallons to fill too, btw.

Fun fun fun.

Goodbye Dear Angel, Goodbye

I just found out a dear friend had passed away this morning, her name was Angel. She left behind a baby girl, a loving husband, her best friend and sister-in-law, a brother, loving parents and many friends who will miss her dearly. She left us far too soon. Jazzy will remember her momma through us Angel, your wicked sense of humor, your laugh that could spread like wild fire, she will remember you dear Angel.

Ride the wind fast to heaven and be her angel forever........

Ok I'm better.....I think

Well we encapsulated the wood with some nifty paint from HyTech it's called Encapsulgard. We placed our order and the paint came fairly quickly. Very nice. It goes on nice as well. Two coats gave us the desired thickness. It was quite funny to see me hanging out the window over the porch. With the help of the captain I was feeling quite limber. :-)

So now we just have my youngest sons room to do. That I am so not looking forward to. It's his lead levels that are rising. They are still in the normal range, but they are rising.

Lead paint sucks

Yes it does. My youngest lead levels are a bit raised. Not extremely high, but raised. We have lead paint that we were trying to abate on our exterior windows. Trying. Now we will be encapsulating it. What do you encapsulate exterior windows with? Especially when you are trying to be cost effective because you are on a budget?
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Who knew?

We always thought the flood of August 2007 would be the one we would remember. No. Now we have the flood of June 2008.
Yes we once again have a wet basement. A floating basement.
Totes will float. Then the tip. They aren't waterproof, by the way, they leak.
Yup.
Leak.
Nice, huh?
We thought so.
I was feeling a tad guilty that we hadn't re-laid the flooring down "there", nope not so guilty anymore. Not at all.
Oh and the PO lied. He did have a wet basement.

And on another note, we replaced another fan/light combo, still going on and off all night.
It's getting to be that time, so that's all I'm writing about it now.