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B.Y.O.A (bring your own animals, no spiders please!) as mentioned a few days ago, jeremy discovered a couple of inches of water in the basement. further investigation found that one of our two sump pumps had stopped working. a whole bunch of rain + melting snow - a working sump pump = standing water after several hours of sucking up buckets of water with the wet dry vac and making absolutely no progress, jeremy eventually figured out how to fix the sump pump. that sucker cleaned the basement out. a smart new englander would know that there is no such thing as a dry cellar and would have everything off the floor or in plastic storage bins. but alas, our "throw it in the cellar, we'll deal with it later" method of moving and unpacking came back to haunt us. the cellar was going to get organized... eventually. it just hadn't happened yet. so far we've lost some books and other small things, but nothing too major. this weekend we will execute "operation cellar" and try to get things better arranged down there. as i said, it's been raining cats and dogs here. this is what our yard looked like on saturday afternoon.

then, saturday night, we got 3 more inches of rain. this is what our yard looked like 24 hours later, at noon on sunday.

it hasn't receded at all. it looked wicked deep so i got out my sweet rain boots and walked in. i went in as high as i could without getting my legs wet (it's damn cold!) the water i was in was over a foot deep, and there were sections that look significantly deeper. we're waiting to see ducks or trout or something out there. it's insane.