WINTER MELT

This lovely puddle is on my street - yup in front of my house. Whenever the snow melts, this is what happens. In fact, whenever it rains, this is what happens.

Up near the top, if you look closely you can see the street drain... hmmm.. not sure if there is another name for it? In any case, oddly enough it is on a bit of a "hill".. making it impossible for water to drain into it.

Yeah.. it's annoying. Last summer the street crews were out for a whole week fixing the street. Took apart the curbs... redid a few things.... never touched this problem -- and it was quite obviously a problem... we were really excited when we saw them too.. thinking "FINALLY! we can get rid of that stupid puddle.

Winnipeg is a magnet for mosquitoes. We are built on flood lands (of some sort).. It's mosquito heaven!! I'm sure half the population of mosquitoes are bred in that puddle. Yup. It's a fertility haven.

It also really hampers parking on the street, as there is no where to park... You don't want to step in the puddle.. or the kids - and trust me they don't step, they jump, jump and jump some more - especially the children who are 4 and under. Even 6 year olds are prone to jump in it. And a 9 year old will do it out of spite sometimes, especially if you are wearing light coloured clothing, and or clean clothing at that... It's a good thing my 9 year old is cute.

Speaking of puddle jumping, I still haven't found any splash pants. Nada. But then again, I haven't looked very hard since my last post -- and I was even in Walmart and I totally forgot to check. But I did have 4 children with me on a Saturday morning.

My backyard is melting too. Hopefully we can get the garage door open soon. Yes, it's frozen solid.. not good drainage over there at all.. water sort of drains down towards the garage, and well, from December on, we can not enter our garage via the door. Yeah, if we ever replace the garage door opener, we would actually be able to enter that way if need be.

We are in for a lot of rain the next couple of days. So our puddles and frozen doors won't go away soon - especially if the temperatures drop below zero at night.. not a chance in heck.

Speaking of rain, I have to seriously think about redoing our gutters... it's high time they were replaced.. they aren't working as well as they should be at all. Every corner of our house has a puddle.. drip, drip, drip.... Yeah... gutter-failure at it's best.