Happy Monday.....

Or who else do you know who would be happy about a working sump pump?

Up until this afternoon, I had a pond in my basement and a sump pump that was not hooked up. It's a long story of a pump that once did work, then didn't. The guy who said he would get it fixed did not want to hook it back up again, so I said I would get somebody else to do it. Finally, my granddaughter's father found out about it this afternoon, while I was showing him something else in the basement, and he said he could hook that back up to the pipe in no time.

It wasn't quite 'no' time, but after a trip to Menards and a little sawing and gluing, the pump was hooked up and had to dry for two hours. The two hours up, I tried it out, and it works! No more water in the dungeon we call our basement. There was no danger to the furnace or any other working appliance down there, but who really wants a pond in the basement? There is an actual pond in my basement, a huge round cut out pond, cemented and all. There is even a hole cut lower that holds the pump.

We are supposedly not in a flood plain. But we are about a block and a half away from a river, so this water in the basement is a fact of life. I've dreaded every rain storm this spring, not that there have been that many up here in the halfway frozen north. Well, it's not exactly frozen here, just a little chilly.

Bring on spring and the thunderstorms! My pump and I are ready!

Of course, all this running back and forth from the upper apartment where I live and keep all my tools, cords and other assorted equiptment, down to the basement, has meant I'm not getting anything else done today at all. Then running down to start the pump and running outside to make sure the water was really running out away from the house and not back in through the foundation. I feel like I ran a marathon today!

There are crochet leaflets on my bed waiting for me look at, and maybe pick a project from. There is a bag I started yesterday in springy colors of lilac, peach, aqua and white that I really wanted to work on tonight. So maybe tomorrow night, I can pick that up again. And that Lacy Leaf Cocoon from the new Interweave Crochet is calling my name again. I have it started in two shades of blue Caron Simply Soft, and I love the way it looks already. Maybe I do have a few minutes to play with that tonight.