Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Sounds live you've done a whole lot of work to mitigate the water!

I get groundwater up thru the floor in the basement too. Fortunately not enough to puddle (since I fixed the issue of water coming in from the garage), the grade is fine, and there is plenty of sand around the foundation, so a raised floor was all I needed to do. Some might argue I should have done more, but it has worked well for 5 years. Sure, the basement it humid, but so is my main floor - and neither are as humid as the garage (where the sump is).

 

Hey Snowy Rivers , have yourself a Great Birthday!

 

X3 now Lady stop showing up us mere mortals.

 

X4 !!

 

went up to the pond with the grandson, 2 trees where hanging over the wheat.so cut them down so the combine would not have to go round them,and miss the wheat.

 

X5

 

Dead pest count updated

Tree rats
Red 3
Gray 4
Chipmunks 8
Mice 2

Got away from me 2

 

Thank you to all for the B Day wishes....

 

bogieb are you in the flood warning areas? Hopefully all ok for you. May be mistaken but I think your in an elevated area but western NH has been getting a lot of rain lately.

My area has had plenty of rain this summer but luckily not the flooding amounts that western Nh has had.

 

Seven (lord help me) ton New England stacking as high as I can reach without undoing the surgery to my foot. Price is going up $50(ish) in a couple weeks to almost $400. YIKES!

One odd duck ton is labeled Premium "Plus", oh really? Plus what exactly? I got a whole bunch of email words back from Lignetics, and as I suspected only the bag has changed.

 

I'm fine, thank you for asking. Lots of washouts in and around the area. But, we didn't get the 4-8" of rain in 24 hours that other places got. Some of the storms just split right around my area (right between Monadnock region and Sunapee region). An abutting town was telling residents near the North Fork river to get out while they can as they expect even worse flooding as they were going to have to release from the upriver damm, and it was in danger of being overtopped anyway. Many damms in the area are full open as everything is so saturated the ground just can't hold anymore. The Contoocook River is surging - that is 4 blocks away from my house (I am in no way in danger of flooding). But, my area is in no way as bad as western NH - and VT got Hammered. They are comparing it to the devastation caused by Irene several years ago.

 

bogieb , jtakeman

Good to hear for both of you!

Ground is definitely saturated here as well with all the rain and lake/river is very high but no real issues. Hopefully it stays this way.

 

ACOE Elm Brook Dam in west Hopkinton takes care of the Contoocook river flood control, depending on what's happening to the Merrimack river, there can be as much water being released down the Contoocook River as normally flows in the Merrimack river.

Only rub now is the hundreds and hundreds of acres of land behind it used to store the water that local farms use for corn/silage/hay crops to keep the cows/livestock fed during the winter. Those are all underwater during the spring and all but guarantee are again by now.

Then people will whine about not being able to go swimming because the park is underwater, oblivious to all the other consequences out of season flooding has. Both of those dams have provisions for hydro power but have never been utilized to my knowledge.

ACOE Blackwater Dam takes care of the Blackwater River here in Webster and controls that flow into the Contoocook River.

 

Light stone b, couldn't get antique linen on the hidden fasteners.

 

smoke show it was only 14,900.

 

chit then you can buy it twice.