Wanted: Used Ark, Dinghy and Forklift
I'm definitely in the market for a used ark. I figure a new ark would probably be out of my price range, but a used one might be cheap enough for me to buy.
Also I need a dinghy. Anyone have a dinghy for sale?
The rains came down hard last night and kept coming. I could hear eerie water sounds outside and inside the house. So could Finbar.
Speaking of Finbar, I am changing his name to Lassie. Yes, that's right. He will be called Lassie because he tried to save us from the rain and the rising water in the cellar. He started knocking knicknacks off the fireplace mantle. How he leaped up there I don't know. I heard stuff falling and saw what he was doing: trying to wake us up.
He ran to the cellar door and pawed at it in a frenzy. Then he ran to the sofa, leaped up to the curtain rod and both Finbar and the curtain rod came falling down.
He was definitely spooked by the winds and rain and wanted us all up for company.
We peeked down the cellar stairs and saw something float by. Our cellar was filling quickly with water.
My furnace, washer and dryer and beer fridge were under siege.
One can live without a furnace and a washer and dryer, but one can't live without a beer fridge!
Pumps have been pumping and shop vacs vaccing and all this noise is punctuated with the odd curse word here and there. Damp cellar smell is everywhere.
Tomorrow we're having overnight company (we do have a lot, don't we?) And not only do I have to clean the house with special care to the guestroom, I must also pump and vac, pump and vac, pump and vac. I love cellar monitoring almost as much as I love dog poop scooping. Which one I love the most is hard to say.
Anyhow, the dinghy would come in handy as I rowed my way to the beer fridge and the ark would be great to have in the back yard, ready for the floods that seem to be taking over Fairfield County CT.
I probably should advertise for a used forklift too.
I could use the forklift to get the beer fridge into the ark and then I'd say: Screw the rain.
I'm definitely in the market for a used ark. I figure a new ark would probably be out of my price range, but a used one might be cheap enough for me to buy.
Also I need a dinghy. Anyone have a dinghy for sale?
The rains came down hard last night and kept coming. I could hear eerie water sounds outside and inside the house. So could Finbar.
Speaking of Finbar, I am changing his name to Lassie. Yes, that's right. He will be called Lassie because he tried to save us from the rain and the rising water in the cellar. He started knocking knicknacks off the fireplace mantle. How he leaped up there I don't know. I heard stuff falling and saw what he was doing: trying to wake us up.
He ran to the cellar door and pawed at it in a frenzy. Then he ran to the sofa, leaped up to the curtain rod and both Finbar and the curtain rod came falling down.
He was definitely spooked by the winds and rain and wanted us all up for company.
We peeked down the cellar stairs and saw something float by. Our cellar was filling quickly with water.
My furnace, washer and dryer and beer fridge were under siege.
One can live without a furnace and a washer and dryer, but one can't live without a beer fridge!
Pumps have been pumping and shop vacs vaccing and all this noise is punctuated with the odd curse word here and there. Damp cellar smell is everywhere.
Tomorrow we're having overnight company (we do have a lot, don't we?) And not only do I have to clean the house with special care to the guestroom, I must also pump and vac, pump and vac, pump and vac. I love cellar monitoring almost as much as I love dog poop scooping. Which one I love the most is hard to say.
Anyhow, the dinghy would come in handy as I rowed my way to the beer fridge and the ark would be great to have in the back yard, ready for the floods that seem to be taking over Fairfield County CT.
I probably should advertise for a used forklift too.
I could use the forklift to get the beer fridge into the ark and then I'd say: Screw the rain.
posted by mary bishop | 10:27 AM
13 Comments:
Save the beer fridge! For the love of god! You'll have to attach some flotation devices to it from now on.
Sorry to hear about your mishap. And your mess. Good doggie.
By the way, I don't usually pick favorites, but I love cellar monitoring more.
HI Nic, taking a break from vaccing and pumping...(sounds sexy, no?)
Anyhow, catdog did do a good job waking us up. He really is more dog than cat, but that's what they say about Coonies and "they" (whoever they are) are right.
must save the beer!!!!!
yeah we are having mucho rain here too.
Ah catdogs. I have one of those too.
Mini, you got it too? I guess most of the coast got a soaking. In upper New England they're worried about a snow storm..Is this spring?
Nic..post more cat pictures when you get a chance. Your kitty is way cute.
I took some yesterday. I will post them for you :)
Holy moly! I'm so out of the loop. I read there was hidious rain on the eastcoast but it just didnt sink in how hidious it really is. I'm so sorry you have to put up with that kind of crap. When its all over dont forget to mail your global warming hate letter off to Washington. Make sure you get Lassie a dry erase board so he can write messages instead of knocking things off the "how the hell did you get up there" place. (I bet you the first thing he'd write is "Can we go back to the vet and pick up my testicles?"
Ah Gavin, you never cease to make me laugh. Finbar aka Lassie was an amazing furry fury last night. Fear made him sprout wings I think.
He couldn't get high enough in the house. Oh if only we had 10 foot ceilings, alas, he could only get as high as the armoire as if the water was rising in the living room which last I looked it was not. Maybe I should look again.
Testicles are long gone and probably ground up in some Menu brand cat food.
yuck.
you can't diss it under you've tried it.
Nic, you first ;-)
Seriously, the pet food people buy up road kill and animal bodies. I couldn't believe it when I first read that even medical wastes and plastics were found in pet food.
ugh - rain devolving to pet foods... talking about segues. :)
Sorry about all of the flooding dear - we found out my grandmother's house kind of got hit a bit - not nearly so bad as you... but looks bad when it's found while showing the house for sale...(thankfully it was a contractor.)
Good luck with the basement - the beer fridge will survive.. I know it in my heart... (or would that be liver?) All will be well!
An expert in waterproofing cellars is coming on Saturday. Let us pray the estimate is a doable one. Water keeps on coming in. My boots are my best friends now. On as I wade to the beer fridge, off once I hit the rug.
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