More From Our Wet & Rainy Day

Originally I was staying at work today for lunch. I brought my soup and hamburger/mashed potato/creamed corn mess with me when I left the house this morning. Justin called me, wondering if I could check the sump pump, and of course I said yes. So, I grabbed my containers and away I went.

I didn't take the same way home as I did this morning when I went to work, so it may have been like this earlier, but there was an enourmous amount of water in the ditches and partially covering some roads.

I'm not sure if this will tell show what I was hoping for, but my steering wheel was at such an angle just to go down the road straight. It's blowing at least 90km/h right now. It's driving me crazy at work; I sit next to a garage door, basically, and the wind is whipping and howling out, rattling the door. Driving me crazy!
Instead of working today, I'd rather be doing this:

Thankfully, the sump pump is working properly. Justin's heard many horror stories lately from guys he works with about theirs not working and flooding thier houses. We don't need that right now, so we check it frequently. Other peoples pumps work very often (we've heard about some running every five mintutes), ours has never ran, other than when we lifted the float to check to see if it's still working. I think our house is a little bit higher than others around it; this is a very nice blessing!

One of our neighbours recently leveled an area for his garage to be built. Then the ran came. I think he should be looking into building a swimming pool instead.

I planned my route back to work the same way, just so I could get a photo of the "lake" that was covering part of the roadway.

I really like to document days like this. Days that are out of the ordinary; days that make you thankful for what you have (electricity for example).

This Is Just The Beginning

Yet again, most of Southern Alberta is under a winter storm warning (although we're in the spring month, apparently they still refer to it as a "winter" storm warning because it's winter condtions). I honestly thought we'd be waking up to snow again this morning, thankfully it's just huge puddles (some might even call them ponds!). For the past two nights I've been awoken to the noice of the rain/ice pelting our bedroom window. Last night was especially bad; the whole house shook. Since watching Lost so much lately, I was a little rattled myself when that happened; thankfully I went right back to sleep though.

Our poor mud pit yard in front of our house.

The snow on the back of the Blazer was mostly slush thankfully. Temperatures are about 1 degree, thankfully it isn't colder, or else this would have been rock hard.

I've only recetly noticed how nice an green the grass is. And, while driving this morning, I noticed the trees have that "green glow" to them and are starting to bud out.

All day yesterday was rainy. I'm not sure the ground can absorb any more moisture.

My Olympic mittens are keeping me warm and happy. It's funny, on the day of the closing ceremonies (and more importantly the gold medal mens hockey game), February 28, we had the patio door open (screen closed so Lowie wouldn't escape) and the weather was beautiful! Yes, we've kyboshed our plans of going camping this weekend; we'll do that another time, when we have warm weather again!