High Humidity??

Well, it was 91 with 51% humidity today. Perfect day for sealing the cement pond out front with Kool Seal. We will let it cure overnight and tomorrow - hopefully - seal it further with waterproofing cement. It looks pretty bad right now - you can see where the pond cracked in several places - but honestly, the KoolSeal was to seal it after we wirebrushed all those cracks down, got the dirt and plants and small crumbling rocks out - the cement should be the smoothing, finishing, filling touch. It looks like it was done backwards the last time - first the cement was spread thickly everywhere, then the KoolSeal used to try to fill in the still-leaking cracks. We had to buff down a lot of that cement; it was crmbling away from the cement like cornstarch.

I say "hopefully" because today and tomorrow were supposed to be rain-free; hot and dry. The first clue was the high humidity, the second was when the wind kicked up from the east. Point blank, low pressures suck - they draw wind. Our vicious storms have come from the West and North so far, so when the sky is clear and the humidity starts building, then the east wind kicks in - POW. We'll probably get rain. Dammit. that means I'll have to wetvac tomorrow AM and wait for the sun to dry the KoolSeal so we can put down the cement. Oh, well, at least we'll see how the KoolSeal holds... it is supposed to cure for at least six hours, we were done by 3 PM, so it may - or may not - have completely cured by the time the rain hits - if the storm doesn't go around us completely and kick Valentine's bootie.

I imagine that there are some pretty pissed-off ants right now; they have been happily building homes underneath that pond, putting their little mounds in the cracks, feeling all safe and sheltered. Now with the KoolSeal, they have - hopefully - no access to that nice smooth cement protection, and the diggable dirt underneath.

Got to get this done; need to get in my daffs and narcissus bulbs for next spring, and finish planting the daylilies around the pond.

Hoping to see if I can lay my handpainted tiles that I made several years ago into the cement. I was making backsplashes for the sink and stove at the old house and just never got around to setting them in. They are, when laid out, a painting of a basket of roses and other flowers. If it works, there will be pretty flowers in the bottom of the pond all year round, no matter what else grows (or doesn't) around it. We'll see.

If the rain doesn't ruin the curing, and if tomorrow morning we have water standing, at least we'll see if the KoolSeal worked... sigh. Just wish I could leap in and do things without so much preparation! But life doesn't work that way... we even missed the Sunday Chicken buffet at the Hub today, we were so intent on our work. Sigh. Oh well - blueberry pancakes, ground sausage, and eggs for breakfast made a good meal for us to survive off of. Think I'll go take a shower and get this sweat and grit off!!!