Thank you. Our neighbor who was put on Hospice on Monday, just past away Friday night around midnight.
Yesterday was a very sad & difficult day for many reasons. The sky opened up & we had T-storms, periods of hard rain, and nonstop rain from Fri night through this morning. Our dog got sick & we have Poop-Armageddon. (Floors, walls, dog blankets, poop soaked fur, etc.) Our sewers backed up from tree roots, so the bubbling black-water is popping up through the lower level shower & floor drain in the laundry room. This means that we can't use water or it will just be flushed back up into the lower level of the house. We finally saved up $ to get our line rodded & made an appointment for Monday. (This was before all the rain & we didn't realize how severely slow the drain is.) We've been conserving flushes & not running showers, laundry, dishwasher, etc. We're a pretty stinky family. Add a dog with explosive diarrhea and the stench is incredible. We're washing floors & walls & dumping the buckets outside. Our other dog caught it, so he's adding to the excitement today. The coop/run was flooded for most of yesterday. Thankfully we have sand in the run, so the standing water has already drained, and no chickens were washed away. When I spoke with the neighbors to see how they were doing, they asked if we were building an ark. I jokingly said that my problem was having more than 2 of every animal.
