I'll make some more pictures and post them under the DIY thread under ''SEEKING ADVICE ON DRAINING'' :/\\!!

Panama had less mosquitoes before Roosevelt

I bought a 50' drain snake, and when I got home the D-I-L said that it was going down somewhat better. Not perfect but a little better. I plunged it a couple of times and it seems better. No leaks into the unfinished basement that we can see. We've also got the downstairs wood stove on, pumping the heat that way. Time will tell. The good thing is that running water will thaw frozen whatever.

Update; the bog is working more or less okay. We've got another 4" or so of snow coming along with 30 mph winds. I can expect a fair amount of drifting. This is a good thing.
There are plans in place to dig up the sewage line and put 2" styrofoam on both sides and 4 or 5 layers on top of it this summer. We just need to wait until the ground thaws.

After several weeks of warm spring-like weather, winter has returned to the Salt Lake Valley. I'm looking out the big window in the patio door at a very nice snowfall. :rock:

Spring is on the way. Overnight temperatures are above zero F and inching their way up to the freezing point. Next Tuesday through Friday the highs forecast are in the thirties with none of them going below freezing.

I am going to build a new wood room (26'x8'x7') downstairs, directly in line with the window we throw the wood through. That way I can get a hay bale elevator and lower it to its' lowest point and just chuck the wood onto the elevator and it will carry the wood into the room. As the room gets full, pull the elevator back from the window.

After our brief snow we're back to spring - temperature in the low 50s today, expecting 60 by mid-week.

We've got about 4" of snow so far today. Tomorrow being Monday and the snow plow will have filled in the mail boxes (which I keep cleaned out), I will blow it tomorrow. Besides, today I am too lazy to do it and still have to go out tomorrow after the plow goes by.

Update; We got another inch coming tonight. In the morning I can kill two birds with one stone. I'll be up at 5 and blowing by 6, have it all done by 8:30 and eat breakfast and then off to North Bay.

Well, all the driveways have been blown and scraped. my own has bare gravel showing in three places. It has been warm the past couple of days. Now we just have to wait for the spring flooding.

Spring thaw...
 

My basement...
A river runs through it whenever the water table rises from rain or melting snow.:-?
Having an aquifer directly under the house doesn't help but, it's good for the well.:up:

My sump pump will be running every 5 minutes, soon. I have a spare (new) and a portable pump (2" Honda) mounted on a hay wagon with a couple of tanks and a discharge hose as well.

My neighbours' house burned down three years ago in the summer and over the course of the wet fall, his basement filled up with water and froze. Come the spring he tried to borrow my spare sump pump to pump out the basement. He was going to run it off a generator. I looked at the situation and took him the wagon mounted water pump and 12 hours later the water was gone.

have you 'French drained' the house perimeter or basement slab perimeter? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_drain Had to do my parent's basement and run dehumidifiers constantly in Pennsylvania; my bother still has the problem along the Schukyl River in Royersford...along with his cancer causing radon gas filtering unit. http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/radon-abatement-zmaz87sozgoe.aspx. I stay out of basements; they can kill ya'!

This was after the storm on Monday. Had another one last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7HkjdE_Gg

Life is going to get interesting when all that snow melts!:sunny:
Stay safe!

Old man winter ain't done yet...
 

Scraped another six inches of snow off the walks this morning.
It fell yesterday between 10:00 and 15:00.:-?

March snows are usually wet and heavy but, not this one. Temps were in the upper twenties so it was all light and fluffy.

We got about 3" today. I'm not gonna do anything about it until Monday, unless one of my customers calls.

Current temperature 65/18. Expected to reach 70/21.

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