Tuesday

We're putting up a "flyover" for the Home Page of the blog.  Since they couldn't find the funds to do the right thing at the races over the weekend.  No sequester issues here.

Lots of rain in the upper Midwest over the holiday weekend.  (Although my pal Bill had nothing but sunshine down at the Lake of the Ozarks.)  The normal local QC flooding trouble-spots all showed their colors, and some homeowners had the worst case scenario...back-ups of raw sewage in their basements!  Yuck!!  Basically, what happens is that the water overwhelms the storm sewers and it backs up the flow in the sanitary sewers.  Not a pleasant picture.

My return to Maplecrest yesterday found some soaked carpet in two areas of my own basement as a result of a sump pump failure.  That pump was probably 25 years old (or more), and simply crapped-out.  A replacement pump from Home Depot was pretty quickly acquired and installed, but the damage was done.  Now, it's the Big Dryout game.  Never a dull moment for home owners.

Several ideas to add here later.

BCOT