Thursday, May 25, 2006

 

"I have an idea...let's move!"

The above quote was my catch-phrase of the morning this morning.

About a week ago, we discovered a problem with the drains in our bathroom. The bathtub stopped draining during our morning showers and the water in the toilet bowl drained and started making a "glugging" sound. We thought it was fixed with some drano and a plunger, then I had the brilliant idea to do laundry. I started a load of laundry and went to work, leaving my darling husband to deal with the mini-flood that eventually happened. I was then informed of this event and that he'd called the trailer park managers, who called DrainTech to come fix the problem. DrainTech came and cleared the drain, but didn't pull anything out, which they found a little odd. The problem was underground, which meant we didn't have to pay for it--the park did. I like that. :-) Our pocket books like that, especially with everything else going on. :-)

So then Monday evening I went to get myself a big glass of milk with supper knowing that the milk has to be fine because we'd bought it less than a week earlier and had a date of May 31. It poured out into my glass all chunky and watery. Almost an entire supposedly fresh gallon of milk completely spoiled. The next day was when we really realized that it wasn't terribly cold in the fridge. The freezer was fine, but the refrigerator portion was not seeming to cool at all. So we called one repair shop and they couldn't get us in until next week. A week without a refrigerator? I don't think so. We got one that came yesterday morning and are ordering a new timer for the defrost function or something. He said we caught it just in time to save everything in the freezer. In addition to the gallon of milk, though, we lost Paul's yummy homemade rhubarb custard pie and the rhubarb sauce. Sad, but it's wonderful to have cold food. :-)

Now last night. I was working on the mound of laundry that had built up. Had done one or two loads spread throughout the day and started one more load right before bed. We were in our bedroom folding the clean laundry and I hear "glug, glug, glug, glug" coming from the bathroom. So I ran into the bathroom and opened the lid to the toilet to see soapy water gurgling up into the bowl. Paul followed pretty close behind and pulled back the shower curtain to show soapy water filling the bathtub. Great. The washer stopped emptying and started on its last spin cycle and the water in the toilet bowl started going down. Thank goodness! We finished with the clothes and went to bed. I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and discovered a soaked bath mat. Wonderful. Just what we need.

So I told Paul first thing this morning and we both took fast showers, but it didn't help. The tub backed up and caused the toilet to, too. Let me tell you, that is one of the most helpless feelings to watch water rising up in your toilet bowl and you know there's nothing you can do to stop it if it wants to overflow. Paul called DrainTech first thing--they open at 6, isn't that convenient? They came out this morning and determined that the clog was in the same spot, again not finding a good cause. The theory is tree roots.

And now we're off to pick up the Lumina from having lots of things done to fix it, then we're off to Illinois for the weekend. Shawnee National Forest.....hehe....yay. :-)

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