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I swear I saw Noah!


For the past two weeks, it has rained. Check-the-back-yard-for-an-ark kind of rain. Normal western-WA-winter rain that makes me want to sit around on couch and never venture beyond the door. Every couple of days I drive over to the house to walk around the back yard and examine (yet again) all the gutter leaks. So far I haven't found any type of water bodies forming, but the forecast for the rest of the month rain and the the closest river looked really high.

I put in a new and much lower offer on the house on Thursday and I should hear something tomorrow either way. Wouldn't it be my luck to finally take the real estate plunge only to see the house float out to sea in a 100 year flood?

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