yesterday my daughter was having some serious plumbing problems… of course, her husband wasn’t home and she had to source solutions on her own…

reminded me of the many years we would have Christmas Eve disasters… one year the water was shut off on the street and we went for 24 hours without water… another year the water tank stopped working and we had to get someone in to replace it on Christmas Eve… another time the furnace broke down and it was in the -30s and the kids were quite small… then there was the sewer back-up…

it got so that we were prepared for whatever the Christmas Eve disaster was going to be…

it sure wasn’t funny at the time but eventually we were able to laugh about them…

did make me think I should have Roto-Rooter in to clean out the sewer lines as they haven’t been done for a few years and the roots from the neighbourhood trees are probably happily filling up the lines…

reminded me of the flood in the basement which happened just before I left for the cruise… and what good timing it was…

hot water tank that burst…

tonight, after work I was able to open the frozen-shut hot tub cover and put in the needed chemicals… it had been frozen on Saturday when I went to do the weekly maintenance and on Sunday I didn’t even bother to try to open it… now the chemicals have been distributed and maybe tomorrow night I will head out there for a lovely tub… not tonight… heading to bed…