where do I begin????
well, let's head back to friday for a moment...
I just HAD to comment to Steve about how low the lake was, I don't think I had seen it *THAT* low before, well talk about the "calm" before the storm! We had massive winds [not hurricane obviously] but still when you live at the lake you are always on the lookout. The water started to rise... higher, and higher.... then later I noticed it was starting to splash up onto the breakwall and then over the wall. It's nasty but seen it like that few times in the past, so not exactly a reason to worry. WELL! next thing I know the water is starting to REALLY come OVER the wall and creating a small puddle in the south east corner..that "puddle" grew into a pool and then the lake was literally AT our back door! I could not let the dogs out and the water was coming in around the door. That was around the time that our woodpile also washed out.
I have more to say but I have to go take care of kids and make supper....I'll edit later ;)
K, here's MORE of the story...
~so my mother in law came down and was convinced that the sunroom was going to be 'washed away' and that we'd be safer to stay at their house. So I figured sure, why not. I got a bit of a hand with the kiddo's and I got to scrapbook :)
Not to mention the dogs were able go outside without have to swim to land to take a pee. Oh did I mention that *I* was out in the water a couple times and it was FRIGID! there were a few things in the yard that needed to be 'rescued' aka Tonka Trucks!
So the water washed out parts of our road and 1/4-1/3 of our wood is now REstacked in a different spot. We had 5-6 cords of wood! talk about totally pissed off...
Dawson asked today "why do you think God sent such a storm?" ...to which I replied, "I guess he just wanted to clean up a bit".
Steve did majority of the work, but I tried to help him as much as I could. I think sometimes I get a little hard on myself seeing him doing so much and I'm "just" making supper, taking care of the kids, tidying up... It was kinda funny b/c I was out there helping for about an hour on and off and didn't he restack EVERY piece of wood that I piled up???? LOL -talk about anal eh? apparently there is a particular way to stack wood. sigh... so thankfully we have a portion of wood in the back room, in the wood box, on the porch and on the back "deck".
Thankfully tomorrow is a new day! :)
The kids and I are going to see Santa Claus and when you ask Ally what does Santa say she'll say "ho ho ho ho ho ho" it's cute! Then I think we'll go have a coffee and muffin with my grandma. I really haven't been to happy with the kids these days for shopping so I will probably refrain from doing any of *THAT*!
I have a good dent into the shopping, but still seems like I have a TON to do.
I just HAD to comment to Steve about how low the lake was, I don't think I had seen it *THAT* low before, well talk about the "calm" before the storm! We had massive winds [not hurricane obviously] but still when you live at the lake you are always on the lookout. The water started to rise... higher, and higher.... then later I noticed it was starting to splash up onto the breakwall and then over the wall. It's nasty but seen it like that few times in the past, so not exactly a reason to worry. WELL! next thing I know the water is starting to REALLY come OVER the wall and creating a small puddle in the south east corner..that "puddle" grew into a pool and then the lake was literally AT our back door! I could not let the dogs out and the water was coming in around the door. That was around the time that our woodpile also washed out.
I have more to say but I have to go take care of kids and make supper....I'll edit later ;)
K, here's MORE of the story...
~so my mother in law came down and was convinced that the sunroom was going to be 'washed away' and that we'd be safer to stay at their house. So I figured sure, why not. I got a bit of a hand with the kiddo's and I got to scrapbook :)
Not to mention the dogs were able go outside without have to swim to land to take a pee. Oh did I mention that *I* was out in the water a couple times and it was FRIGID! there were a few things in the yard that needed to be 'rescued' aka Tonka Trucks!
So the water washed out parts of our road and 1/4-1/3 of our wood is now REstacked in a different spot. We had 5-6 cords of wood! talk about totally pissed off...
Dawson asked today "why do you think God sent such a storm?" ...to which I replied, "I guess he just wanted to clean up a bit".
Steve did majority of the work, but I tried to help him as much as I could. I think sometimes I get a little hard on myself seeing him doing so much and I'm "just" making supper, taking care of the kids, tidying up... It was kinda funny b/c I was out there helping for about an hour on and off and didn't he restack EVERY piece of wood that I piled up???? LOL -talk about anal eh? apparently there is a particular way to stack wood. sigh... so thankfully we have a portion of wood in the back room, in the wood box, on the porch and on the back "deck".
Thankfully tomorrow is a new day! :)
The kids and I are going to see Santa Claus and when you ask Ally what does Santa say she'll say "ho ho ho ho ho ho" it's cute! Then I think we'll go have a coffee and muffin with my grandma. I really haven't been to happy with the kids these days for shopping so I will probably refrain from doing any of *THAT*!
I have a good dent into the shopping, but still seems like I have a TON to do.
posted by Jen Hoover | 5:32 p.m.
6 Comments:
Oh my goodness Jen. So is the Lake gone out of your yard?? Cam woudl ask why God made it thunder- I told him- he is re-arranging things..LOL. Hope the Santa trip went well!
Wow! Glad to hear that you're back home. Take care and have fun with the Christmas shopping. I still don't know what I'm getting for some of the kids on our list... Just not motivated to go and shop lately.
Looks like Mother Nature is really giving alot of us a hard time.
Did you get to take the kids to see Santa today? Pictures?? LOL!
did you go see Santa? I saw you called yesterday. So sorry I missed you!
I've just been thinking about you, and wanted to let you know. :) ((HUGS))
man oh man !!!
Hope you got to see Santa!!
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