Rain, Rain, GO AWAY!!
I’ve managed to break the drought in Arizona!
This week we are SUPPOSED to be having a block wall put up in the back of the house. We took the old one down over the weekend and yesterday and today it was supposed to be constructed. Instead it rained. The contractor said (understandably) that it’s hard to dig in mud. He said (understandably) it’s hard to pour concrete onto mud. The part I can’t figure out is why the concrete won’t dry while it’s raining (just kidding).
He actually did manage to get the hole dug despite the fact that we got better than an inch of rain. And today they plan on pouring the concrete footings. Those are supposed to dry overnight before the real work on the wall can start and guess what -
There’s supposed to be rain again tomorrow. What was going to be an easy two days will be at least 3 (if it doesn’t rain) maybe 4 (if they don’t have to wait for tomorrow’s rain to dry up) and maybe as much as 5. This all assumes that the rain will eventually stop. The law of averages says it must but Murphy’s Law says just the opposite.
And thus, by trying to get a wall built in two days, I have single handedly guaranteed unstopping rain until the monsoon starts at which point in time there will be no rain at all.
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