a peaceful night...

I've been wanting to go to the house and take some pictures of the snow we've had around here

since Christmas Eve.

First I was busy.

Then it was too cold.

Then it snowed some more.

Then it was really cold

and windy.

Then I got sick

and stuck around the house

because it was

really really cold.

Yesterday

I could not stand

being inside

one more minute.

We had planned to drive to Joplin

to run some errands,

but Jim wanted to keep on

with the paperwork

he had almost finished.

I whined and said,

let's at least drive out to the house

so I can take some pictures of the snow.

Boy howdy,

it's a good thing we went

because

this is what we found....

water water everywhere!

water spewing.

water dripping.

water soaking into things that were not

supposed to be wet.

Apparently,

since things were beginning to thaw

the water line into the house

cracked.

And the water came spraying into the basement.

It's not just the water on the floor,

becauase that was minor,

The spray must have created quite a humid environment,

because water seems to be on every surface on that half

of the basement.

While Jim scurried out to shut off the water

he slipped and fell into a hole of snow/water and hurt his leg.

Then he began dragging wet stuff over

to the dry side of the basement,

setting up fans and lights.

To complicate things,

the sump pump seems to have burned itself up.

We'll deal with that tomorrow.

Here is the site of the drama.

But enough on that.

Here is how things are looking

dusted with the lovely snow.

I think we are in for a heat wave and thaw this week.

It's supposed to get up into the 30's!

There were deer tracks everywhere.

And it was sooooo quiet.

Geese calling overhead.

Little birds settling in for the night.

Peaceful.