We’ve been busy since that little exercise in water pressure and hydraulic conductivity that led to a couple sleepless nights. The Red Cedar River crested Friday, Feb. 23. As soon as the river started dropping we could see a difference in the amount of water coming in. So, Saturday we drove down to South Bend for the Notre Dame Invitational water polo tournament. In addition to a fun tournament we saw our first sandhill cranes of the year. When we came back on Sunday we were greeted by just a few very controllable puddles. Looks like we may get by with just having to repaint the basement floor.
Molly on the offense
Molly on the defense
Since the tournament it’s been a regular drill eating up our time. For amusement we watch the U.S. Presidency go from being the respected leader of the free world to closely resembling a Mexican soap opera. Always good for a couple laughs. The more serious uses of our time have been working out, doing some work for a land conservancy, getting household jobs done, and a little playing in the workshop. Nothing very fancy or artistic. I built Lise a standing desk from some IKEA furniture and a piece of plywood. I also built a platform that will allow us to set up a ladder on the steps and paint our stairwell.
Lise at her $25 standing desk.
The stairwell platform. It ain’t pretty, but it works.
What we haven’t been doing is getting out much. Molly used our van for a Spring Break trip to New Orleans. We had her VW Beetle, but it wasn’t really suited for hauling birding and camera gear. We got the van back today and made a run up to Maple River, chasing some Lapland longspurs. Didn’t get the longspurs but we did get our horned larks for the year.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 