never mind

On Friday we had an appointment at the IWK for Rose's eye. It was determined that she needed a patch on her strong eye to strengthen her weak eye, so that eventually she will gain equal vision..however if she does not, she may need surgery. So far so good , she keeps the patch on , no complaints and enjoys picking a different pattern every day! On a rainy, rainy, wet, Friday night, after kids had gone to bed..about 9 or 9:30ish..Chris was downstairs on his exercise bike in the office and decided to come up stairs to get a drink and was met with about an inch of water in the little hallway...and the entire basement floor, (where the snooker table, washer dryer, furnace etc ), covered in water! Our computer towers are on the floor in the office room so we quickly got them up, I got the mop and Chris got the shop vacuum out. But we couldn't keep up with the water. So I got on the phone with every neighbour I thought might have a shop vac and soon we had 4 vacuums plus neighbours over sucking up water while I tried to get everything I could up off the floor..including Christmas gifts in a cardboard box waiting to be delivered! After much discussion it was decided that the water was coming in this drain (in the corner with the shop vac pipe sticking out of it)..which seems to be on the highest part of the basement...because the outside drain must be blocked or plugged.

This was an important part of our attire as we all headed out in the rain to see where our outside drain ended up...Alas .....we had no luck in the dark rainy woods...

So early Saturday morning, we welcome the arrival of Jeff, our friend with the excavator, to help with the search...they dug...and dug...and dug.... across the entire front lawn looking for the drain. with no luck until finally in the afternoon Chris noticed some gurgling in on of the first spots they had looked and...low and behold..there in our path on the hill..buried under ground was the drain! We replaced it and it now drains off to the side..not buried..

On Sunday....we thought ...today is Lily's birthday..we are going to celebrate. Lets leave the basement and house full of wet boxes and keep our birthday plans. So after church we headed into the art gallery for gingerbread house making with some friends of ours. Here we are about two minutes before ( with no warning or prior signs) Rose started vomiting all over everything.

However despite all of this...here are the good points

*Chris was down stairs that night to catch the water when he did ..otherwise we may have had much more damage.

*We have wonderful neighbours who come, clad in rubber boots, in a minute ,when we need them.

*We are in the process of organizing our junk finally.
*I now have half a clothesline pole up because of the excavator!!!!!!

** Rose 's strange flu only lasted the day.

*We will have another day to celebrate Lily's birthday properly to look forward to...maybe this Saturday?? however I'm not making any plans or emailing Bethanne telling her any of them until after the plans have come to fruition.
So Bethanne, that email I sent last week....never mind.