Ahhhhhhhhhhh

Water all day long.  Did most of the clothes....all the dishes.....some major cleaning.  

Leaving it slightly running.

Cooper, my little hot pepper!

Cooper Ray Allison 
6 pound 3oz 19 inches
Jan 17,13 at 432am.

My dear young friend, Jessica, is a proud new momma today.  I am the proud new "grammie" to her little boy, Cooper.  What a blessing from God.   

I can't wait till I get back to Texas and can see her and hold him.   

Water, Water everywhere...............

Okay, lets add today's stuff then.

Mitchell came home around 10 to do the joints that were broken. Waited for awhile to let all the glue dry, open water....goes back to work.

I am in the kitchen around 2:30, doing what I can to clean up....basically puttering around wishing I could do some real cleaning....I keep checking the sink, although the faucet is left turned on....you never know. Anyway, I look out back, which I have done all day too......the snow is melting really good. Wait a minute?? That's not melting snow! OH Crap.......water....everywhere at the well house.....I tip toe out the best I can to get to it....sure enough ANOTHER spot broke this time. The well house is about 4-5 inches deep in water, inside the house, and outside in the retaining wall. I had to figure a way to get in to shut off the electricity......I found a grey tub thing, tossed it in the room, stepped in with one foot, used a plastic piece of pipe to sort of row over to the electrical panel, then turned off all the circuits....water stopped flowing, of course.

Now Mitchell is back out there....it appears this time, a whole piece of the pipe split. Up to the little hardware store, more pipe.....back to doing what he is doing...cutting and gluing parts together.

Interesting thing. The water out at the well.....is going down a hole just a tad bit from the side of the retaining wall. Where is it going??? Now mind you....it is A LOT of water....and I am not being shy by saying A LOT. Where would it be going if it is heading back under ground?? Is the whole darn thing on a hole of some sort and will it fall in??

I see him out there on the phone.....I think he is finally back to calling the landlord.

More later when I have something to share.

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OMG OMG OMG......I barely got that posted when all hell broke lose!!! In a great way. We have water flowing in the kitchen. It came on full force....for about 3 minutes and now is a real little trickle....which is to be expected, cause now we have to work the ice out of the pipes under the house. Can flush the toilet so the bath pipes are doing okay, it would seem. Maybe, just maybe it is all going to work out by tonight. Praise God!!!

Cool, clear, water........NOT!!

I don't think it is ever going to stop....er....in our case start?

The water started flowing to the the outside thing where the hoses go to water the yard. It is maybe 20 feet or so to the right of the well house. Yea! Right? Oh you would be so wrong, my friends.

Mitchell goes into the well house to check the guage....the well house is now flooded, an "L" shape piece of plastic pipe broke! Yes, I am serious. bwahahaha Oh, and top it off....it filled up water in the area outside the well room with the retaining wall around where the pump shaft is. What a freaking mess.

He ran down to our little hardware store to get the piece of pipe and the glue stuff for pvc pipe. Oh did I fail to mention, it is now about 15 after 5:00? Can you guess what I am going to write next?? The hardware store closes at 5! Of course it does. This is the crappy middle of forsaken nowhere.

He came back home and used shop vac to get the water all cleaned up. Yea for shop vacs. Awesome contraptions.

Here we were both excited to think we would have running water to the house, cause of part of the pipes in one direction were able to defrost, the rest should do it tomorrow. Ha. Guess not. At least not for me anyway.....till he can get off work, get the part, glue it all back together. Wait two hours for it to dry and then give it a a try.
 

Call the landlord I heard you say? Why? What good is he going to do in Vegas? And the only well person is in Fallon....and probably going to need a couple of days to get us scheduled in. So...................on goes the sage of water. :)

I wish to make note that Mitchell must be a saint somehow.....he just sighs and does what he can for each step along the way. I love and appreciate him. Just so you guys know.

 

Let the pack rat begin

So, today, I start with the total downsizing. Something that probably needed to be done 6-7 moves ago.....I just don't ever want to let go of things.

Since I will start the next part of my life journey staying with the daughter in her place, I will have limited space for "stuff". I don't want to leave a ton of "stuff" here for Mitchell to have to mess with, in case he does decide he wants to move to a smaller space himself.

I have a month to work on it....should probably take me forever cause I will have to touch and feel everything and remember the memories and why I have kept it this long. Most things I am going to take a picture of and let it go to a new home. Only keep those that are such precious memories it would hurt to not have them around. If that makes sense.

I am doing the same thing with my t-shirts. THAT is hard to do! I think I shared before I love all of my t-shirts. I sorted about half of them out of the keep pile yesterday. I am going to cut them down to make little mini quilt tops using the smaller blankies I have. The blankies I use in the front room for watching tv. I am always having to wash them cause of pug fur (have no idea where it all comes from....as I shift my eyes to three sleeping/snoring pugs sitting by me). Making the quilt tops will help keep the memories of the shirts without taking up clothing space.

Also talked to Mr. Awesome about an idea. My shirts are big...cause I am big....I think they would make excellent pillow case covers. I don't really like the regular cases you can get in the store. I like cotton, soft cotton. Using the shirts for this would be pretty neat idea. Seems to me it would be so simple to turn them inside out, stitch a seam, cut off the excess and viola! Memory pillowcase covers. :)

My goal is only one, yes, one, box of totally useless scrap/craft things. The ones that I just "know" I can make something out of some day. hahahaha Yeal, well, that is my goal. We shall see how close I come when done packing at the end of February.

Some more rambles..... to start the day

6:00 Am-ish

It was suggested to Mr. Awesome, while at work yesterday, that we burn some wood in the old barrel outside. Put in a few feet from where the pipe comes out of the well house....that will help thaw the ground and maybe give the well a chance to push the rest of the ice through the pipe. So, we did that last night. It did not get into the negative numbers last night....it stayed in the upper teens. That is a good start. Weather Dude predicts 36 for today....that is a another good start.

So many others around us have the same issue that I feel better. Even those in the town of Hadley are dealing with frozen pipes. It was a long hard freeze with extremely low temperatures. I am not alone in the saga of the well water. :)

You know something I learned about the -temperatures?? When the wind isn't it blowing....it is not all that bad. It doesn't actually feel cold. I guess that is why frostbite can get to you. You don't notice it till it has done its damage.

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Guess who was able to lean over and pet Ms Tuna last night? Me!! I didn't have a treat to tempt her with or anything. She did the slink down and be about one inch thick so you can't reach me, cat thing. I still did it. Ha! She even liked it cause she let me rub her whole back. I am waiting for the first time she gives me a purr. That will be fantastic.

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