Water, Water Everywhere
Today was all about leakage. Not pretty.
First, Sally decided to see what would happen if she shook her sippy cup (not one of the completely spill-proof ones, unfortunately) all over my hardwood floors. I don't think it was the result she wanted, so I doubt she'll be doing that again. She didn't like having to clean it all up herself.
Then, we had serious pull-up leakage issues today.
Then, while I had a load of laundry going in the wash, I was standing at the stove cooking and I suddenly heard a gushing sound. I went to the laundry room and before I got there, I saw our powder room toilet spewing water. Warm water, actually. Gushing from the toilet bowl (not the tank). Apparently a fair sized piece of wood was wedged in the main pipe. Things were slowly backing up, and today, when the laundry started to drain, the clog was big enough that it had nowhere to go, so it took an alternate route. Through the toilet. Yuck.
I ran to get Andy (thank goodness I was inside when it happened -- we had all been sitting on the deck, watching the sun set over hte mountains when I decided to come in adn start dinner) and he turned off the water while I started finding every towel I could get my hands on.
What's intersting is that a couple of nights ago, we had a heavy rain and we were all (except Sally) awakened at 2:30AM to the sound of our smoke alarms going off. The roof had leaked right over Sally's smoke detector, which made all the OTHER smoke detectors in teh house (not hers) go off. She slept through the entire thing.
Interesting how much flowing water has been in our home lately.
Apparently Andy and I may have been a bit too focused on "ease and flow" so now we're changing that to "ease and velocity."
:-)
First, Sally decided to see what would happen if she shook her sippy cup (not one of the completely spill-proof ones, unfortunately) all over my hardwood floors. I don't think it was the result she wanted, so I doubt she'll be doing that again. She didn't like having to clean it all up herself.
Then, we had serious pull-up leakage issues today.
Then, while I had a load of laundry going in the wash, I was standing at the stove cooking and I suddenly heard a gushing sound. I went to the laundry room and before I got there, I saw our powder room toilet spewing water. Warm water, actually. Gushing from the toilet bowl (not the tank). Apparently a fair sized piece of wood was wedged in the main pipe. Things were slowly backing up, and today, when the laundry started to drain, the clog was big enough that it had nowhere to go, so it took an alternate route. Through the toilet. Yuck.
I ran to get Andy (thank goodness I was inside when it happened -- we had all been sitting on the deck, watching the sun set over hte mountains when I decided to come in adn start dinner) and he turned off the water while I started finding every towel I could get my hands on.
What's intersting is that a couple of nights ago, we had a heavy rain and we were all (except Sally) awakened at 2:30AM to the sound of our smoke alarms going off. The roof had leaked right over Sally's smoke detector, which made all the OTHER smoke detectors in teh house (not hers) go off. She slept through the entire thing.
Interesting how much flowing water has been in our home lately.
Apparently Andy and I may have been a bit too focused on "ease and flow" so now we're changing that to "ease and velocity."
:-)
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