Adventures of Mandogrl!

Here is some video of the flood.
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Early morning Mike and I woke up (about4:30, 5:00 am) from a gurgling sound in our bathroom, we were so excited it was just like waiting for santa.
'Twas the night before water when all through the house,
not a creature was stirring just I in my jammies (staring at the tap) feeling like a louse.
When all of a sudden I heard such a clatta,
and I sprang to the bathroom to see what was the matta....it was a drop of water....


Today was the fourth day home from work and school due to the flooding and it was monopoly day today. I lost to my six and eight year old, I was never good with money and apparently still not good. It started to rain this morning so I put two pots on the patio to catch rainwater to wash all the dishes, including the ones in the dishwasher. After two hours of washing dishes we get a dribble from our tap.....*&%!# , it would have been enough without having to boil the pots of water I collected. However, at lunch time we all used styrofoam (no cfc's) just in case.
By around 4:30 we had good pressure especially downstairs and looked forward to getting a shower later on in the evening. We were out and when we returned at 8:30, running for our taps we discovered that the water was gone again.....

Here is a link to my flickr site with more pics of the flood.

Well, the water has been turned on in some parts of the town (yesterday evening) and some as well this evening but we still have none. It just feels like I've been camping for a few days, although somehow it feels cleaner in the woods. We just came from one such part of town and had the most wonderful shower!!!!! Thanks again!!! That should last for a few more days, but the dishes pile up anyway. I try to keep it to washing them once a day due to lack of water but I think I may have to do them this evening in case there's school in the morning, who wants to wake up to that. We are using drinking water to do the dishes, totally unheard of. This is the third day home from school, the kids are getting bored, I mean how many times can you play trouble anyway and not go bonkers. We haven't done any face painting since the first day but my face felt like it earlier. Not really wanting to cook a big meal and have more dirty dishes we warmed up leftovers, cooked hotdogs and had deep fried cod tongues and cheeks outside in the deep fryer. Here is a site I was given earlier this evening that have better pictures of the flood areas.

Well, here we are at home again today, second day in a row after the 'state of emergency' has been called for the town of Stephenville because of flooding. The town is starting to dry up today but there are still two major bridges closed in town and we do not have any water for the second day in a row. Luckily, we filled some buckets yesterday in the downpour for flushing and our neighbor has a pool full as well so we are okay on that end (teehee). A total of 150mm of rain fell on us within a 24 hour period, luckily we built our house on a high point of land. A lot of homes have been damaged, some turned around on their foundations, oil tanks leaking through them. Apparently a dam had let go further up the river and that's what caused all of the flooding. I guess most people saw the pic. on tv next to mcdonalds where, literally a river ran through it, or by it anyway. I, personally, have not been out around town to survey the damage but I plan to go out later to get a look. Yestday when we arrived at school and were told that school was closed I did a few things and headed straight for home. We've spent the last few days playing games (checkers, pretty pretty princess)and painting our faces in prep. for halloween. You can see some pics that Mike took at this site.

I have been trying to figure out how to put a video clip into my blog and this is the closest I have come yet. I am using a program called videoegg, bear with me on this. This video was taken at a campfire in the rain at Gros Morne this past summer, Lomond River Campground. Ahhh, to feel that warm campfire again......this will have to hold us over until next summer.... :)

Well, I guess it's about time I updated my blog because things have been happening here. We are all back to a schedule (thank God), although I did thoroughly enjoy my holidays this past summer. I am back teaching (some tech, some core french, math in one grade two class and a bit of special ed) and am very busy. My second year of my masters has begun and now I can say I am on the downward slide towards finishing, by next summer I will be finished :) and our lives will get back to normal. Here is a picture that I forget to add to my blog from Labor Day Weekend. We went blueberry picking with the Blundons. There were not a lot of berries but we had a lot of fun.
Here is a better pic of those blueberries we picked.

Where was this picture taken? We had a great appetizer to our supper (thanks to the Dunphys). We had pesto on Italian crusty bread, smoked salmon pate on peppercorn crackers and a bit of vino. Can you ask for any better?

Well, I didn't know I had Blogger fans but apparently someone has taken the time to keep checking on my blog so I guess I had better 'Put another Blog on the Wire :) I guess the getting ready for school had me quite busy last week and I forgot to post our trip to Barachois Pond Park. We had a great weekend last weekend at the park singing and relaxing and NO rain. It all started Friday evening with everyone meeting at the park. Donny managed to get campsites again and all our ducks were in a row so to speak. We brought some Quesadillas (if that's not spelled correctly excuse me I'm not Spanish, Italian, whatever...) and Kay and Joe brought some Srumptious Scallops fried in onions and peppers, yummy!!! So we shared. Friday night brought an interesting singsong at Donny and Christine's campsite with glow sticks, sparklers and lots of treats for the kids so they could have lots of energy for frog hunting.
Saturday we had to go to town, Marigold had swimming and Mike HAD to get to that auction, (where he purchased, by the way, a General Lathe 260, he'll be turning out the woodwork now buddy) but we returned to the park in the afternoon. We went to the beach so the kids could play in the water while we relaxed. We had quite the picnic there (see pic). Donny made his famous pesto from his own herbs that he had grown and it was delicious. We had another sing song that night at the Benoit campsite. It was a fantastic night. We took several trips out in the dark, even one to the shore, to see Mars, but to no avail. Sunday we slept in and relaxed and got ready for home. It was a super spectacular weekend!