Greetings,
Recently it warmed up here and all the snow melting meant water in the basement. When we settled here in Merrill, this house was our 3rd choice. When the snow melts or when we get a heavy rain we get water in the basement. Naturally this occurred right after our warranty with the previous owners expired hmmm . . .
Back onto topic though, part of the problem is the driveway pavement is landscaped in such a way that the water runs off toward the house rather than away from it. Also when the gutters were installed, the spout lets the water out right next to the house. Ironically enough, one selling point about this house was that it had a DRY finished basement!
When the last election cycle was up I found myself (as county chairman) stuck with a 4x8 foot John McCain sign and our storage unit is too small to house it. The state party didn't seem anxious to get it back and the McCain campaign was not returning my messages so in my garage it went. I knew that sometimes people run again (although in John's case I doubt it) and we have often altered signs in the past by repainting them, etc for other uses.
Well, the drip, drip, drip coming off my gutters was just about 8 feet wide and THAT gave me an idea:
With the current housing mess we are in thanks in part to Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama & ACORN and keeping in mind the 1 Republican who saw this mess coming was none other than John McCain - I feel if this gets back to John, he'll find it an appropriate metaphor as today my basement is staying dry (we cleaned up the water yesterday) thanks to having the McCain sign blocking the drip, drip, drip of my fairly useless gutters on my poorly sloped driveway.
The bad news though, we have a winter storm warning that we are about to get another 6 to 10 inches of fresh snow. Right now I wish we had gotten those 4 signs we were promised so I could block off more of the house. Makes me think of how we could use more Republicans in the House and Senate again - to stop the oncoming storms and drip, drip, drips of the Democratic majority's policies.
An appropriate metaphor indeed.
TTFN,
Jim
Recently it warmed up here and all the snow melting meant water in the basement. When we settled here in Merrill, this house was our 3rd choice. When the snow melts or when we get a heavy rain we get water in the basement. Naturally this occurred right after our warranty with the previous owners expired hmmm . . .
Back onto topic though, part of the problem is the driveway pavement is landscaped in such a way that the water runs off toward the house rather than away from it. Also when the gutters were installed, the spout lets the water out right next to the house. Ironically enough, one selling point about this house was that it had a DRY finished basement!
When the last election cycle was up I found myself (as county chairman) stuck with a 4x8 foot John McCain sign and our storage unit is too small to house it. The state party didn't seem anxious to get it back and the McCain campaign was not returning my messages so in my garage it went. I knew that sometimes people run again (although in John's case I doubt it) and we have often altered signs in the past by repainting them, etc for other uses.
Well, the drip, drip, drip coming off my gutters was just about 8 feet wide and THAT gave me an idea:
With the current housing mess we are in thanks in part to Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama & ACORN and keeping in mind the 1 Republican who saw this mess coming was none other than John McCain - I feel if this gets back to John, he'll find it an appropriate metaphor as today my basement is staying dry (we cleaned up the water yesterday) thanks to having the McCain sign blocking the drip, drip, drip of my fairly useless gutters on my poorly sloped driveway.
The bad news though, we have a winter storm warning that we are about to get another 6 to 10 inches of fresh snow. Right now I wish we had gotten those 4 signs we were promised so I could block off more of the house. Makes me think of how we could use more Republicans in the House and Senate again - to stop the oncoming storms and drip, drip, drips of the Democratic majority's policies.
An appropriate metaphor indeed.
TTFN,
Jim
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