Good Morning Bluegrass friends. This ramble has nothing whatsoever to do with the Richmond Marathon other than it will occur today. Today, I'm going to focus on this bit of lousy weather we've all had to endure here in Virginia over the last several days. We've had around 6 inches of rain in our area and the ground is saturated. That said, my house was built during the depression by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for $500. The lady who had the house built was a widow whose late husband had been a lumberman and had traveled to the Philippines to harvest mahogany and other exotic trees and was there when the Japanese invaded and he was never heard from again. She received insurance compensation and took that money and had this house built. Just a couple years later she added two more rooms to the house and under those two rooms she had a basement dug. This basement is more like a cellar as it was built using simple brick for the walls and no kind of drainage was thought of other than a sump hole in the floor and a sump pump installed to handle the seepage of water during heavy rainstorms. Over the years this basement has been flooded due to the sump either going bad or there being no electricity to operate it. This time the pump simply didn't work and right now I have just over two feet of water in the basement. This really wouldn't be a problem except that my oil-fired furnace and my electric water heater both sit on the floor of the basement. Of course, they now are sitting in over two feet of water. I have purchased a new submersible sump pump and as soon as the skies brighten enough I will drop it into the water and begin the long drawn out affair of draining the basement.
On a brighter note I wanted to remind you of the Bluegrass Brothers and The James King Band concert tonight at the Amelia County High School Auditorium. Tickets are $15 at the door and the music starts at 7PM. Also, don't forget Gary Davis & Borrowed Time will be performing at the County Seat in Powhatan tonight.
"NUFF SAID!"
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