It has been awhile but I am still here. We had a incident this winter when the weather went to 40 degrees below an our water pipes froze and burst. We suddenly had a new indoor pool 4 feet deep. It was quite a mess and we have spent the last month or two clearing out everything to either throw away or try to dry out and save. Everything has to be washed with bleach - the walls, shelves, and anything washable. I am now putting wallpaper on the rusty clean shelves. Some time in the future I will try to get them painted but for now the wallpaper will do the trick. All canning jars and lids and plastic containers and whatever I find down there will have to be washed and put back on the shelves. My husband Gary dug out all the dirt that fell away from the back wall and carried out over 50 pails. I had him pile it to make me a raised flower bed. I dug up a spot and laid out newspapers in think layers and covered that with cardboard and spread out some of the pails to cover it. Then we emptied out the compost bin and put a layer of that and then another layer of dirt. The worms should be very happy now as they have all that new dirt to work on for the summer. I may try to plant a few things there but it probably won't be ready until next spring. Praise the Lord that now my basement is about 3 feet longer and maybe we will yet dig out more dirt. The basement has dried up quite well since we removed the basement window and replaced it with a screen so the wind can blow through and air it out. Well, another experience in our life to learn by. But in all that mess the Lord protected our computer which was stored there. What a surprise when we glanced into the little glass partition in the side of the computer and saw DUST not MUD. Hallelujah what a Saviour!
