2021 is a far worse year than 2020 for me.
From mid May to mid July, my father was hospitalized from an infection. The first few weeks were the infection, but for a month we dealt with Parkinson's. We didn't know it was Parkinsons, nor did the doctors. But there was another month in rehab, a quick trip or two back to the hospital (once for a transfusion from bleeding). Rough two months coming so close to losing my father that many times. Hes back home now, thankfully, in some ways he is better than before, in other ways he is not as good as before.
I'm glad to be working and i have been doing that! 50 hours most weeks. And working on the house most nights.
However, I won't be working on the house any more. At least for a while.
Woke up this morning to the remnants of some sort of tropical storm. Heard my home sump pump running a lot but I didn't realize how bad it was. Had about two feet of standing water in my garage. The house was almost flooded up to the floor joists. Had to move the Nissan and Subaru so they wouldn't get damaged with all the water.
Unfortunately I lost a lot of tools in my garage. All of my power tools for working on the house (and vehicles). The water level was so high , it got into the toolbox where I had all of my air tools. My new Titanium welder, new air compressor. Generator's a gonner. Lawnmower was completely submerged. Not sure on the snowblower, water was up to the oil fill on that . Will have to try to change the grease in the auger and regrease. My small genertor and all my hand tools. Unfortunately it got into a few kerosene heaters so there's nasty kerosene water in the garage.
Today's project is pumping and pumping and pumping. Ran a line about 50 feet down the road so I don't flood anyone else. Cleaning out the garage now. Bagging everything. Also buying all of the box fans I can to keep the garage from molding up.
From mid May to mid July, my father was hospitalized from an infection. The first few weeks were the infection, but for a month we dealt with Parkinson's. We didn't know it was Parkinsons, nor did the doctors. But there was another month in rehab, a quick trip or two back to the hospital (once for a transfusion from bleeding). Rough two months coming so close to losing my father that many times. Hes back home now, thankfully, in some ways he is better than before, in other ways he is not as good as before.
I'm glad to be working and i have been doing that! 50 hours most weeks. And working on the house most nights.
However, I won't be working on the house any more. At least for a while.
Woke up this morning to the remnants of some sort of tropical storm. Heard my home sump pump running a lot but I didn't realize how bad it was. Had about two feet of standing water in my garage. The house was almost flooded up to the floor joists. Had to move the Nissan and Subaru so they wouldn't get damaged with all the water.
Unfortunately I lost a lot of tools in my garage. All of my power tools for working on the house (and vehicles). The water level was so high , it got into the toolbox where I had all of my air tools. My new Titanium welder, new air compressor. Generator's a gonner. Lawnmower was completely submerged. Not sure on the snowblower, water was up to the oil fill on that . Will have to try to change the grease in the auger and regrease. My small genertor and all my hand tools. Unfortunately it got into a few kerosene heaters so there's nasty kerosene water in the garage.
Today's project is pumping and pumping and pumping. Ran a line about 50 feet down the road so I don't flood anyone else. Cleaning out the garage now. Bagging everything. Also buying all of the box fans I can to keep the garage from molding up.