Dark and Forboding

This was the color of the sky a few weeks ago in Fargo. Tornado sirens went off numerous times as "wall clouds" were quite visible. Luckily it passed over very quickly and wasn't much to speak of. The eery part is that it was breezy all day long and the previous 45 minutes before the storm it turned very still, not an ounce of wind.

Broken Sump Pump = Bad Things Man

Yes... I guess you truly haven't lived until you've had water in your basement. We woke up 2 Saturday's ago to find standing water around the perimeter of the basement and quickly realized that the sump pump decided to give up. With all the rain we'd been getting, the soil was saturated. Clean up was fairly quick, roughly 3 hours, but then realized that things were a little soggy and needed drying out. A quick call to the insurance company and we are on our way to a new basement. At least we were home so the water didn't seep through the sump hole for days as opposed to hours.

Notice the mold that was growing on the sheetrock, paneling used to cover that area, yuck! It is a blessing in disquise as we can now redo the basement, get rid of the mold, and have it paid for.

New Blog

Check out Nicole's new blog for the wolves on the right. "Growing Up Wolf"

From Nicole's trip

The place where they received the wolves was a sanctuary for animals. Somehow the lady at the place has a young male lion. Check out those paws, would have been kind of fun to play with him.

Pile o' Pups

I'm sure this is the first of many wolf posts, but I found this picture in Nicole's camera this morning. Wow. Imagine 30 hours in a Chevy Uplander with 2 other people and 7 wolf pups. Apparently this is nap time.

Wolf Pups

Update: Yesterday at 2:00pm, Nicole (and 2 others) left for Ontario, Canada to pick up the zoos new wolf pups. 7 to be exact, 4 males and 3 females. If I remember the story correctly... its the hope that the zoo will be able to get rid of the 3 females as they are extremely difficult to manage in captivity, it was apparently an all or none offer. She is expected back in Fargo sometime Friday afternoon, then the fun begins.