Memorial Day Weekend

Helena and her friend, Megan, went to Kirsten's last weekend for a sleepover, rodeo kind of Memorial Day weekend.  Will, Bill, and I stayed home and had our own BBQ.  We had a bonfire and Bill grilled lots of yummy food!  It was cool out, our weather just hasn't wanted to warm up this year.  There is still lots of snow up in the mountains.  So much, in fact, that Bill's race in two weeks has had to have a new route created because the original route is snow bound!

That last photo is of Will huddled in a blanket playing games on his iPod.  He wasn't that into the whole sit around a bonfire in the cold idea and went in as soon as courtesy to his parents allowed.

That weekend Bill also took me for a drive to see how swollen the local rivers are.  One night a week or two ago, Bill's phone rang just as he was drifting off to sleep at about 10:30.  It was an emergency call to go up the canyon and save someone's house from being flooded by the river!  He was out all night and didn't get home until four in the morning, but he saved the house!  He took his backhoe and created a diversion trench, which he showed me when he took me up there later on.

A few years ago, when the spring rains were bad, one of the streets in Pleasant Grove turned into a river of overflow water.  At the time, the city put up barricades to slow the water in its onward rush, to try to mitigate the damage being done.  They learned from that, apparently, because they installed a giant pipe in the middle of that same road to accommodate the flooding, and they intend to bury the pipe under that road once the spring thaw is over.  Bill drove me to see that, as well, so here are the photos of where that pipe feeds into the canal above the city.

The first picture doesn't look all that impressive until you realize the size of the pipe when looking at the second picture.  The water was roaring out of that pipe!  In the second picture, you can also see the pipe snaking up the center of the road.  Oh.  And by the way, it was raining as I took these pictures.  It has really been the wettest spring I can ever remember here!  We have moss growing on the patio for goodness sake!