Bad News: our water heater broke down yesterday and started leaking onto our basement floor
Good News: We weren't still in Chicago. I was at home and heard this awful alarm blaring to tell me something was wrong with it. Luckily hardly any water had seeped out.
Bad News: My husband and I are clueless about home maintenance especially in the plumbing department. For all I knew it was leaking gas as well.... I wondered if the kids and I should leave the house or open the windows... or maybe I was way overreacting.
Good News: I called the plumber. The alarm was a cool little moisture sensor to warn of leakage and I was able to turn it off. He reassured me that we were perfectly safe. He would come after 5:00 to check it out.
Bad News: Unfixable. Need new one, expensive. In an attempt to move something out of his way I smacked the back of my head on a low cabinet. Felt very stupid!
Good News: He was able to put in a new one.
Bad News: He had to turn off the water while I was making dinner.
Good News: I didn't really need water for what I was cooking, but I kept going to turn on the faucet for little things, like rinsing a food or my hands. I thought of how lucky I am to have water on demand whenever I want it.
More Good News: It was all done and we would have hot water again in the morning...and the big burly plumber thought I was tough for not cursing when I so elegantly put my head into the cabinet.
All in all it was a good day.
Kathy
Good News: We weren't still in Chicago. I was at home and heard this awful alarm blaring to tell me something was wrong with it. Luckily hardly any water had seeped out.
Bad News: My husband and I are clueless about home maintenance especially in the plumbing department. For all I knew it was leaking gas as well.... I wondered if the kids and I should leave the house or open the windows... or maybe I was way overreacting.
Good News: I called the plumber. The alarm was a cool little moisture sensor to warn of leakage and I was able to turn it off. He reassured me that we were perfectly safe. He would come after 5:00 to check it out.
Bad News: Unfixable. Need new one, expensive. In an attempt to move something out of his way I smacked the back of my head on a low cabinet. Felt very stupid!
Good News: He was able to put in a new one.
Bad News: He had to turn off the water while I was making dinner.
Good News: I didn't really need water for what I was cooking, but I kept going to turn on the faucet for little things, like rinsing a food or my hands. I thought of how lucky I am to have water on demand whenever I want it.
More Good News: It was all done and we would have hot water again in the morning...and the big burly plumber thought I was tough for not cursing when I so elegantly put my head into the cabinet.
All in all it was a good day.
Kathy
sounds like us last week, but i raise you an a/c unit!
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