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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

The Good

Some time back my wife went into the doctor’s for a check-up and found out her cho­les­terol was com­pletely out of wack. Since then she’s been on a restricted diet to fix it and since she’s the bet­ter cook, I’ve been on the same diet. We’ve been doing this for roughly 2 months now and this morn­ing when I stepped on the scale, I was quite pleased to see not only have I already shed my “win­ter weight“¹ but I’ve also lost about another 10 pounds.

The Bad

This win­ter we’ve had ~4x our nor­mal amount of pre­cip­i­ta­tion. Our soil is heav­ily sat­u­rated with water and we’ve been get­ting more rain as we move into spring. The end result is we’ve been get­ting water into our base­ment. Our base­ment which hap­pens to have car­pet­ing in it. For­tu­nately, the car­pet was just lying down on top the con­crete floor but about half the car­pet has been get­ting soaked.

The Ugly

We never liked the car­pet down there but hadn’t done any­thing about it; how­ever since we’ve had so much water down there this win­ter. We decided we needed to get at least the wet parts of the car­pet out of the base­ment before it got moldy had destroyed our sinuses. So this past Sat­ur­day my wife and I put on our grungi­est clothes, went into the base­ment, chopped up the car­pet and hauled it out to our garage². It was one of dirt­i­est, nas­ti­est jobs I’ve ever had to do around any house. And I’ve replaced entire toi­lets before, so when I say it was nasty I know what I’m talk­ing about!

¹ Every win­ter where I’ve weighed myself, I’ve put 5–10 pounds which I quickly shed once spring comes.
² Just until we fig­ure out if we can have the city take it to the dump for us, or if we have to get it over there ourselves.

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