Hassles

Hello,

Last night Leroy spent some time working on the computer, but finally I said, “Why don’t you just forget it until tomorrow? You need some time to relax.”

Earlier that day the plumber came to fix the shut off valve for the whole house. That involved having city water people search for the shut off close to the street. I am not sure why, but they could not find it at first. Then the plumber did his thing. When he was done there he also fixed the valve that controls the water going to the icemaker. The last step was to put in a shut off valve by the toilet on the main level.

This all started because there was no shut off for the toilet. The guys who laid the new floor needed that so they could lift the stool and put the floor under it. Unfortunately the main shut off leaked. Consequently they glued the floor to the toilet. If the toilet malfunctions the floor will have to be replaced. For that purpose they left an extra box of flooring.

Everything went smoothly with the shut off valves. The water to the icemaker was a different matter. The floor guys had told us that we must check to make sure the water to the refrigerator did not leak on the floor or it would be damaged. The plumber turned on the water and left. I told Leroy, “I think we should pull the frig out and check for a leak.”

Leroy tried, but the refrigerator fits so tightly that it is very difficult to pull out especially since it was now so heavy with cabbage and oranges. He said, “I don’t think it is leaking.” When I checked later there was still no water in the icemaker. But we sat doing the crossword puzzle at 9:45 when I heard a dripping sound downstairs. Oh no there was water coming out of the ductwork.

Between the two of us we managed to get the refrigerator away from the wall. Sure enough water was dripping from the top as the connection had pulled away. We turned off the water downstairs, fixed the connection, left the refrigerator out, tried the water away from the floor by pulling the metal away, drilled a small hole and finally got a bigger flow of water to the basement. Everything seemed good this morning so we turned on the water again and listened to the sound of falling ice throughout the day.

We thought that was enough stress for one day, but Sarah wanted to web cam with us. Our computer at home did not work so we took the web cam to church. We had had one there, but we just sent it to Stephen. Leroy had taken off the software to run it since he no longer had a web cam. This morning his computer froze so he tried to get it on the one in the secretary’s office, but Sarah needed to go home before we got it done. At the end of all this time Leroy was exhausted and it was only 9:15 in the morning.

The rest of the day was much better, just a matter of cleaning for our fastnacht party tomorrow.

Paula