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30 Wednesday May 2018

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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late yesterday afternoon it poured in St. James… apparently not necessarily in other parts of the city…

it was coming down so hard when I arrived home that I put a large IKEA bag that I found in the garage, over my head…

I took a video of the downpour but it wouldn’t upload…

the pond filled to overflowing and then the pumps stopped… there was so much rain that it tripped the GFI… once the weather improved I went out and pulled the plug out, reset the button and plugged the cord back in… happily the pump started and the waterfall began running… and I wasn’t electrocuted… I texted my son-in-law to say I was still alive and he laughed… hmmmmm…

same thing when I got home tonight… poured like crazy for an hour or so in the late afternoon… we need the rain, but I would like it to rain during the night…

was going to wait till the morning to get it turned back on, but just ran out and got it going again..

handy…

18 Wednesday Jun 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, GFI, handy, sons-in-law, waterfall

had done everything we could ahead of time on Father’s Day to be sure Jeff didn’t have to do anything…

he is my main handy person… within the last month or so he has built a home for the chair cushions, a shelf in the garage, got a pond running, mowed the lawn and helped me take the capstone to be engraved…

on Sunday morning I looked out into the garden and realized that although there was lots if water – the rain had been coming down for nearly 24 hours – the waterfall in the pond wasn’t going… the electricity was on but I checked the garage and the electrical panel and everything was fine… plug seemed to be in properly so I came in out of the rain and sent an email to my pond guy… then I went back out and unplugged everything because I didn’t want the pump to burn out…

when the kids arrived Jeff went out and got it going… apparently it is on a GFI plug… after he showed me how to reset it I felt kind of silly but if it goes again I will know what to do…

20140618-203952-74392741.jpgI sure have the two best sons-in-law possible…

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