Well, 2017 is here as off yesterday and this is the first weekday of the new year. It has rained for the last 3 days. This is December but it is 65F and has been for the last 3 days. Thunder and lightning outside at the moment with rain pouring down. It’s a messy way to start a new year.

Power is coming and going and the UPS’s are keeping things running smoothly here in the Depot Forum office. As long as no tornadoes show up we will be good to go.

Rain is coming down now at 1.93 inches per hour. Let’s hope it stops after this hour or I’ll need to dig out the plans for the Ark.

Scanner reports a vehicle wreck out on the Interstate about even with us. They say the vehicle is off and in the trees. Someone going too fast for the conditions. We always said that this area was a place of “Instant Idiots, just add water”.

Many people don’t realize why plumbers get paid so much. Try working on a sewer pipe under someone’s home. That is the worst smell you will ever face. I can handle death and decay easier than that.

We bought this place and the owner had told us that a plumber had not quite put the correct amount of drop on one of the lines and it might stop up every few months needing to be cleared. We have been here almost 2 years and no problems. Apparently the house shifted and a couple of joints in the waste line opened. This is when I got to see the “plumbers” work. It turns out from the neighbors that the elderly man who lived here simply sent his 12-year-old “plumber” grandson under there to piece pipes together and shore them up on blocks (that can settle). There was not a glued joint in the whole system.

The job took us about 2 hours counting 45 mins of slowly crawling through and removing what one might mistake as cotton candy. It was actually Spider webs, I hate Spiders. I was fortunate that last month I had the exterminator come out and treat the underside with something to kill them so they were few and far between but their handiwork was there.

Hopefully my repair will stand the test of time since I did it what we like to call “The right way” using glue and tying the pipes up with hangers to the underside of the home.

At least the job is done.

Fairly quiet except for someone firing fireworks (early 4th?) somewhere down the road. We do have a sports bike back in the park in the back some where but at least he waits till he hits the highway to try to kill himself. Meanwhile it must still be a full moon out there as within our 5 mile radius we have had mental disturbances, intoxicated and fighting families.

It made it to 104 today, I think I saw a bird using oven mitts to remove worms from the
garden. No rain was expected so we had two thunderstorms roll through that blew over a tree just down the road, lit another on fire and tripped burglar alarms all over the area.

I did get to hear a Volunteer Fire Dept. Chaplain? Respond to a tree down in the road. No he wasn’t happening by, he actually responded to the call on his own and got out on the radio as Chaplain 1. Not sure if he was giving last rites to the tree or not. Just seems… weird.

Sorry, not to be rude, but let’s stick to helping the sick/injured and putting out the fires and save the preaching to my Preacher, call him.

Other than that nothing notable in the Park.

Has it been crazy around your place? or am I just lucky.

Comments welcome