Snow, Snow and More Snow....

Well it has been snowing since we woke up this morning and its supposed to snow tonight and all day tomorrow too.. Gotta love it..
Here are some pics I took today...
Jordan's First Icicle.. Which by the way , I had to take a bite of..
Jordan working hard in the driveway.. This snow is from about 8 hours worth of snow fall.
Jayme clearing the path on the hill in our side yard...
John Laughing the whole way down.. Oh to be a kid again !!!!!
Jordan always finds time to strike a pose, no matter what she is doing...
John decided to come down on his belly and face first..
Come on now, You really didn't think I would just stand and watch did you????
My pic of my standing in front of my house..
Jordan making a snow angel. In the middle of the street.. Don't ask..
John making his snow angel in the front yard, atleast he's not in the middle of the road... LOL
John and Jayme playing out in the front yard....
Jordan, playing and working both at the same time...
The neighbors cars.. All were snow free when we went to bed last night..

Just some scenic pics from my back deck... Love the way the trees look.

More tree shots.
My back deck railing. Which was empty when we went to bed..

Still alive

Just wanted to say hello and say Thanks for all the good wishes.
I will hopefully be getting a moment or two next week sometime to get caught up on everyones blogs and leave a few comments. I am also looking forward to getting a post in on my own blog. I have been neglecting it something bad.

Well thats all for now. Take care all and God Bless !!!!

I have arrived in Wisconsin

Just letting everyone know that I have finally arrived to my HOME in Wisconsin.

It is Monday morning at 10:09 am and our current temp is 16 below 0 !

We are loving it and could not be happier to be away from Florida and its heat.
This is my cars "FIRST" snow cover. This was as we were passing through a snow storm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the way here. My first time having to drive in snow as well. It was not fun passing alot of cars that lost control and were stuck in snow banks. Oh and driving 30 mph for an hour was not fun either.. LOL
This is the front of my new "HOME". The driveway has a layer of ice on it. Makes it fun trying to get to the mail box.. LOL
This is the view from my kitchen window. Love the view !!!!
Here is the back of my house. We are in a dublex so the fist set of steps is mine.
A view of the back yard.

Passing through tennessee on way to wi.

My last day at work.....

So today is my last day at work. My co-workers have bought me a cake. I really did not think it was going to be this much of a emotional roller coaster ride. But I am here to tell you that it is hard saying goodbye. I have worked with the County here for around 9 years and have formed alot of close friends. I have started yesterday saying goodbye to some of them and tears wanted to flow. I have collected everyones addresses and email addresses so I can keep in touch with them. I will really miss ALOT of people here at work, REALLY MISS THEM. But I am looking forward to making new friends in my new County and forming friendships like I have here. Starting a new life and hopefully becoming happy deep inside myself. If you can understand what I am saying.

I will try and post here before I actually leave Florida on February 7th. I do not know when we will have our internet turned off at the old house. Buy my new house is scheduled to be turned on Feb 9th, My birthday. I may just from time to time post a quickie from my cell phone to let all of my Blogging Friends know I am still alive and well..

Until then my friends Take Care, Be safe and I will be thinking of you all. To those of you who know me personally I will make sure do a face to face goodbye soon..

KissimmeeJohn aka JohnnyOnTheSpot....

All Flows well in Johnnys World....

So here I stand at the over flowing hole from hell, which today has delivered dirt/sand all over my floors. I had to leave work at 11am on Sunday to come home to the water making its way into my kitchen. I called the sewer company again and told them they needed to come TODAY and locate my lines outside. I ran to Home Depot and rented a 75 ft power snake and while at the Home Depot the Sewer company arrives and starts hunting for lines.
After I finally got all 75 ft of snake down the hole the guys from the city said they could hear it in my front yard.

They dug a hole and found a 45 degree elbow pipe fitting. What are the odds of digging at the right spot the first time? they figured out which way it went to the street (which by the way was not the direction or side of house they originally thought) and which way the line was running into the house.

This in turn led them to the spot where my Drain out was buried in the grass. The cap was not even on correctly, thus causing mud to get into it every time it rained outside. So I brought the snake around the the drain cap and fed it through. Let me tell you it was a Glorious site seeing WATER FLOWING with ease through that pipe.

All in all I snaked about 150 ft of pipes to get it all flowing the proper way. I spent a couple more hours getting the house dry and then another hour cleaning my floors, etc with bleach water and pine sol water.
MISSION COMPLETED !!!!!!!!!!

Sewer Nightmare ! Oh and dinner nightmare too...

Well, let me just start out by saying I am EXHAUSTED !!!!!!

I got home at 6:15 pm last night from work and had planned on just getting some dinner and relaxing since Today would be my 3rd 12 hour shift in a row. I washed my hands in my master bathroom which is upstairs and the towels were missing from the towel rack. I questioned my wife as to who stole the towels and she said she did because the downstairs toilet overflowed and she needed towels. I went and got another towel out of the closet and went on with my night..

Why is this titled SEWER NIGHTMARE you are asking... Well let me tell you why...

As I was downstairs making spaghetti noodles to go with the left over meatballs/sauce from the meatball subs the night before the sewer nightmare began.. Before the water even started boiling the downstairs bathroom which is only a half bath (toilet and sink) I hear water pouring out onto the ceramic tiles from the bathroom. I quickly ran to see what it was and My toilet bowl is overflowing and flooding the bathroom and laundry room. I Grab a hand full of sheets from the laundry room and throw them on the floor at the door to the laundry room to keep the water from making its way to the kitchen.

But before I get any further on that let me quickly tell you about the Pasta that I had to throw away. I got the water boiling and slid all the noodles out of the box, broke them in half and added them to the wonderful boiling water. Lifted the lid on the sauce/meatballs to stir, replaced lid and moved my eyes to the boiling pot of BUGS and NOODLES !!!!! YES you read right Bugs !!!! There were there black bugs floating on the top of my water.. I was a victim of pasta bugs. I end up throwing that batch of pasta away and grabbed a box of bow tie pasta from the pantry. Started a new pot of boiling water and returned to the flood.

I grabbed my wet vac from the garage which mind you is only about a gallon big and start sucking up water. This gets old quick as I am standing in a good couple of inches of water. I have a mud room where the garage comes in between the kitchen and laundry room that has a door leading to my back patio. I grabbed the garden house dragging it into the house through the laundry room and stuck it in the toilet bowl. I ran back outside and turned on the water, unhooked the house from the faucet to get a siphon started and began draining the water from the toilet bowl as fast as I could. I ran back to the garage and got my handy dandy carpet cleaner and used it to start sucking up all the water. Let me just say the water coming up from my toilet still hasn't stopped. At this point, I turned off the water to the tank, disconnected the water line, unscrewed the floor bolts and ripped the damn toilet off the floor sticking it in the corner of the bathroom. ***WATER STILL COMING FROM THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR***

Now in case you have forgotten , there is a pot of water boiling on the stove for the freaking bow tie pasta and all I wanted to do was just relax tonight. My mother in law comes and asked if I wanted her to add the pasta, I said yes but just make sure there are no bugs and told her about the last batch.. A couple minutes later she comes into the laundry room as I am up to my family jewels in water ( not really but it gives you a good idea how much water is coming out) and says "Now you have me scared, as she is shaking the box trying to see bugs in the pasta. I told her just add it to the water and if there are bugs she will see them floating.. She adds pasta and NO BUGS !!!!! I go back to the water adventure.

So now I have taken the hose and started feeding it down the hole in the floor and figured I would just get the siphon going and hopefully get the back flow stopped. Oh forgot to tell you that by this time I had already called my power/water/sewer company and got this guy who was a complete ass. He was like I have no clue what your talking about and what you want me to do. I said "I want you to tell me why I have water coming outta my floor when I have City Sewer?"

He told me he would get a tech out. So I have a nice siphon going on and am able to get a good amount of the water cleaned up. I walk through the kitchen and there is the pasta just boiling away with no one watching it. I go upstairs where my wife and 2 older daughters are just sitting on the bed watching TV. Now I am still in my work clothes and my pants are wet up to my knees. I exclaimed "CAN SOMEONE COME TAKE CARE OF DINNER?" to which my 13 year old comes down to finish and serve dinner to the kids.

If your still here and reading, let me say the nightmare is not over yet. I go to the back corner of my garage (which is up against the bathroom) and my entire back half of garage is flooded. Water is running through my garage and out from underneath the overhead garage door and the back door. I Am just ready to Scream at this point.

After I finally get all the water finally cleaned up and to a point where there is no more water coming outta the hole in my floor. I decide to re-attach the toilet and turn on the water. I should have just stopped right there, but NOOOOO I have to flush the freaking toilet to make sure it works and the Flooding starts all over.... I shut off the water again, get the hose back in the toilet and again get the siphon going. Again get all the water cleaned up and decide I am going upstairs to shower since I have spent well over an hours playing in toilet water and just want to be clean and run to Quizno's for a sub. As I get ready to jump in the shower, I look out the window and the sewer company has arrived. I spend about 30 minutes walking around outside with them as they are trying to find my drain outs at the house and their drain outs at the road. I finally go inside, change into shorts and the wife and I run to Quizno's while they poke around my 1/2 acre lot. Wife and I are gone about 30 minutes , come home and she takes our dinner inside as I head outside to meet with the group of sewer people that are now in my yard. They are unable to find where my sewer lines go to the main sewers and tell me they need to have the locate company come out on Monday to locate and mark my lines. They also tell me that if there are no drain outs on their side, they will have to dig up my yard and install them at their cost.

They leave, I go upstairs take a shower scrub like I was contaminated and throw my PJ's on. I go downstairs threw my sub in the microwave, went and checked on the freaking toilet and STILL EMPTY !!!!!!!! I take my food to my room, ate and went to bed. Woke up at 5am this morning, showered again cause I can not proceed or function without my morning shower. I get dressed for work and head downstairs scared to death of finding my whole downstairs flooded. No water found and toilet still empty !!!!!! So lets just hope it holds out for 2 more weeks and I can move out of Florida and not have to worry about the over flowing toilet again !!!!

Sorry I have made this such a LONG post , but that's what it took to tell you about my night. OH and by the way, it was around 11pm when I finally crawled into bed to just RELAX after work.

Have a safe and enjoyable Sunday !!!!

Wife annoyed at me from a dream...

Have you ever had your wife annoyed at you because of a dream she had? She took a nap this afternoon and had a dream.
Well, As I am sitting here at work, my wife sends me a message that says:

WIFE: I forgot to tell you that I am annoyed with you ... LOL

ME: Me? Why? What did I do now?

WIFE: I was having a really good dream about Dr McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey from Greys Anatomy) and he was rubbing my thigh. When I turned to look at him it was YOU !!!!!!

ME: LOL, That's Freaking Hilarious !!!!!!

WIFE : No that means you stink ! I can't even have a good hot dream without you insinuating yourself in it

ME: Sorry

WIFE: it's OK, your hands were nice and warm .. LOL

So even when I am at work, minding my own business I get in trouble. LOL

My wife has had dreams on several occasions to where she wakes up mad, annoyed or just won't talk to me. Then when I finally pry it out of her she is made about something I did in her dreams.. I find it quit funny when it happens.

Anyone out there with similar experiences? If so Do share !!!!!

Its Saturday !!!!!!

I am an IPOD victim .....

Well, I have managed to last as long as I could. On Thursday night we broke down and became an IPOD victim. I would have never bought one for myself only because I did not see why I should pay money for a brand name. Well my brand new 13 year old Daughter has been asking for once since Christmas time. She has wanted an IPOD Nano and thus far I have been successful in not getting her one. Well Her Birthday was January 20th and she got $70 bucks cash from Grandma and Grandpa and her Nana. My wife has decided we would pay the difference. We found them on sale at Staples for $149. I spent last night trying to set the time and date, etc. Let me tell you what.. WHY of WHY did I avoid buying one of these? This thing is pretty kewl and I now want one for myself... I have included a picture of my Daughter with her new IPOD. Could she look any happier? LOL