Thursday, May 7th, 2009

May 7, 2009: Severe Storms – Snakes – Shingles

Well, it has been a touch forecast today. Thunderstorms took awhile to form. We are now under a severe thunderstorm watch until 6 am tomorrow morning. More severe thunderstorms will be likely tomorrow. Flash flooding is a big concern. Active active active weather. Tough forecasts, as well.

Spent most of today running errands for the house. We went to Nashville yesterday to pick out bathroom, kitchen, and dining room fixtures. So, that was fun.

Big congratulations to Tony for getting his real estate broker license!!! Way to go.

We ended up at the farm this afternoon. It appears the roof is on the house. Now we need shingles. 🙂 That might occur in the next few days. The observation deck is finished. I did not bring my camera, but took a few photos with my cell phone. 🙂 You can see forever up on top of the house. I can’t wait until we get a snowstorm or thunderstorm. Should be a great view to watch mother nature.

We noticed a lot of water running down the hill beside the house. Wasn’t sure what the deal was. Well, then we discovered some bubbling water. Ends up the water pipe has broke. No water in the old house. The water was pouring out of the ground. Then we dug down and discovered an old gas tank – the water was coming up out of that tank. It appears the pipe busted somewhere up above the tank. So, we turned the water off in the well house.

My dad ended up coming up. We looked at the situation for awhile. Then we went back to the well house. A snake was crawling into the door – so that was fun. The snake crawled straight up the wall of the well house. It was pretty freaky to watch.

We then dug down a bit and found a large hole in the ground – more than 4 feet deep. We never hit bottom and couldn’t tell how wide the hole was. So, we are going to have to watch that in case it caves in. Will have to do some landscaping it appears!!!!

We saw 10 deer two days ago. I ordered some binoculars yesterday. I can see the deer better that way!

So, not sure what we are going to do for water. We have been waiting for six months on the county to run their lines. I was hoping that project would be completed by now. No luck. They said we would have to wait until the ditches are dry. ??? That could be a long time!!!! June or July? I don’t know – but I know we need water.

Cell phone photo – we are on top of the observation deck looking north 🙂 yay!