My Home Among The Hills

Home improvements or the Moat Around my Castle

Posted July 27th 2009 at 5:32 am by warren

Last week we had workers here to do all sorts of foundation and waterproofing work on my house. They are certainly not done but they have given me one unexpected, but really cool feature…I now have a moat around my house. Although we had a lot of rain earlier in the summer, we have been pretty dry lately. We were dry until last night that is. Some pretty good storms blew through and dumped a bunch of rain pretty quickly. The drainage ditches the workers are building are basically solid clay still at this point and do not drain…at all. So all around my house, I have a water filled moat! I love home improvement!

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10 Responses to “Home improvements or the Moat Around my Castle”

Comment from Emily
Posted at: July 27, 2009 at 7:01 am

You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to keep the kids out of the “moat” They have mud wrestling on the mind!
Comment from Gizmo
Posted at: July 27, 2009 at 7:39 am

Don’t put gaters or sharks in it yet…wait until the workers are finished.
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Comment from farm mom
Posted at: July 27, 2009 at 7:51 am

You’re so weird! lol
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Comment from Loretta
Posted at: July 27, 2009 at 8:03 am

So does this mean that ‘Tiny’ is going to get in there and swim around? Too funny.
Comment from Capri Kel
Posted at: July 27, 2009 at 8:48 am

Do you need a drawbridge? I think we have one around here somewhere.
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Comment from Farmgirl_dk
Posted at: July 27, 2009 at 11:51 am

Just think how nice it will all look when it’s all finished. Or, if the potential for anyone to storm your castle is there, you might want to consider hanging on to the moat. It can be very effective, I’ve heard.
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Comment from Evil Twin's Wife
Posted at: July 27, 2009 at 6:44 pm

After my parents passed away, I had to deal with all the “stuff” – basically, getting their house on the market, etc. It needed foundation work. I was lucky that I didn’t have to live there while the work was being done, but it was still painful to hand over those checks!
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Comment from warren
Posted at: July 28, 2009 at 7:10 am

They are putting waterproofing stuff on the walls now. I think they must see this as a permanent addition!
Comment from YDavis
Posted at: July 28, 2009 at 8:59 am

Warren, is that your new bathtub? LOL!
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Comment from inadvertent farmer
Posted at: July 30, 2009 at 3:02 pm

Are you putting in a draw bridge too??? You could raise it up when teenage boys come around calling on your daughter. I’m thinkin’ my hubby will try something like that when Sweet Girl get bigger, lol! Kim
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