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June 04, 2006

perfectly lazy

yesterday and today i have felt deeply, deeply lazy. sit on the porch? sure (it feels perfect out here). nap? sure. go shopping? ehhh... well, only if i don't have to walk too much.

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dan is coming over later to take the old sofa, that his dad bought in 1969, and which i nabbed in my early 20's. rich would have been in his 20's when he bought it, and dan is 21, so i guess it is the sofa of one's 20's. when mom and i moved into the house it was covered in black leather. i think her very first re-decorating project was to have it re-upholstered in beige fabric.

moseman loves that old thing so he may be unhappy at its departure, but i won't be.

to get the room ready for sofa extraction, i had to consolidate much of teh crap that came from mom's attic and that has been sitting in there getting in the way for several months now. it's quite difficult not to get sucked into reading everything, however i forced myself to stop after: four or five of my best poems from high school (they are appalling); letters mom wrote me while i was at young writers camp; the beginnings of a short story told from the point of view of a hobo (i was mildly obsessed with hobos at one point); and a highly amusing letter from my grandmother (amusing because of it's utter borningness, written the way people use to write letters: "well grandpa and i got back from a long weekend in bundick today and the cat ate a mouse and we mowed the grass and..." except my grandmother was a better writer than that, generally. enclosed was a photo of their new minivan. she called it a wagon.)

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there was a moderate amount of flooding in the basement yesterday, enough that it wasn't yet dry this morning. (and at this moment, i realize that blogs are often boring and newsy in the way old fashioned letters between sisters once were.)

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i did work up the energy to mow my lawn yesterday, but quickly discovered that my lawnmower has finally given up the ghost. it's some insane number of years old-- 25 or 30-- so it deserves the rest. i'm allergic to something in my back yard and my nose was dripping as i was discovering this. hot, tired, dripping nose, but by gum i was going to mow that grass anyway!

Posted by lisa at June 04, 2006 12:21 PM

Comments

Have you tried or do you have drain tile in the ground around the outside the basement?

Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas on June 5, 2006 08:37 AM

no. what is drain tile?

at the moment, i'm still trying to get my gutters to drain properly (not overflow), and direct the water away from the foundation.

if i can do that, i'm convinced it'll solve at least 90% of the problem.

Posted by: lisa on June 5, 2006 08:50 AM

It's big pieces of pipe with holes that you bury in the area you're trying to drain -- in this case, the dirt around your basement.

Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas on June 6, 2006 12:24 AM

sounds like a french drain.

Posted by: lisa on June 6, 2006 08:56 AM

Do you mean a Freedom Drain? ;)

I just looked up "french drain": apparently it's a trench filed with very loose gravel and covered up; the other is trench filled with drain tile (often surrounded by loose gravel) and covered up. So, yeak, like that, I guess. I'd never heard the term before.

Posted by: Joseph H. Vilas on June 6, 2006 10:22 AM

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