Okay, so Friday evening my sisters - Shirley and Kathy, my daughters - Andi and Chelsea, my soon-to-be niece Alisha, all go for a girls night out. Went to the movie August: Osage County. Our row was the only one cracking up. Meryl Streep is awesome. Too much cussing, but gave us all a good laugh (no one else in the theatre was laughing) maybe the movie was close to home for us??? idk After that we head to Da Vincis for supper. YUM! And a good time was had by all. Anyway, I get home, come in the door and my house is a frigid 45 degrees (thats the lowest my thermostat would register) and my little dog is shivering. Oh no. Its 9:30 at night I call the furnace man. He tells me he can walk me through out to get it going again. Armed with flash light and cell phone I head to the basement. He gave very good directions and I got it going again. House finally warmed up to about 65 so I put on layered jammies and head to bed with about 4 blankets. In the morning - cold house. Go back down to the basement, repeat the directions, furnace comes back on. All is well.....NOT. Every hour and half Im going back to basement to press that little tiny button in between the two wires. I call the furnace guy back and leave a message. He never calls back, or so I thought. My daughter calls me on my cell phone and says, why didnt you answer when I called the house phone? So I check....sure enough the phone is out. No wonder the furnace man didnt call me back. So I call him back ...... again late in the evening. New instructions. Now mind you Im not very brave when it comes to electrical stuff, but here goes. He tells me....you know that little button I was having you push? me - yeah. well now I want you to get a screwdriver and take that little screw out and remove that button, but.....make sure its not touching anything metal. Hey! Im working on a furnace here, where is there nothing metal? Just leave it dangling, but try to put it on something plastic. DEEP SIGH! Okay. here goes. Done, start the furnace back up and it holds. I sat the thermostat on 80, but it never got above 69. I can live with that, put on an extra heavy sweater. Saturday night...snowing to beat the band, furnace going in and out, home phone out, I better take my shower tonight while I still have water and electric. Im basking in the hot water when I hear the strangest noise. I peek out of the shower curtain and the water in the toilet is bubbling. What in the world does that mean? Get out of the shower, flush the toilet - all is well. Sorta. Get up Sunday morning, decided I would go down and check the furnace.....OH NOOOOOOOOO! My sewer pipes have busted and sewer water is raining down on a whole stack of totes that belong to my sister and her husband as I let them store their stuff in my basement while they were moving to a new place. So my daughter texts me from church, is everything okay? I text back NO, please tell Shirley and Ed to come right away cuz their stuff is getting ruined by sewer water from my pipes. Help arrives around 10:00 and the moment I see my sister, I burst into tears....Im so (blub-blub) sorry, (sniff, sniff). Of course Shirley, being Shirley....dont worry about it, well just get it cleaned up and Ed can fix it. Then she calls sister Kathy to come help. Her and Randy show up and Kathy takes one step into the basement and starts gagging. IT STINKS IN HERE, HOW CAN YOU STAND IT??? Course I tear up again, I know, Im sorry, probably ruined half of Shirley and Eds stuff. Then she reassures me we will get it outta there. So while Ed, Dad are trying to figure out the plumbing, Kathy, Shirley, Randy, and I start dumping the gunk off the totes and loading up the 4-wheel drive vehicles. We load my truck, Randys truck, Johns truck and my Dads truck. Lots of totes, boxes, and misc. We make the trip to Hackney to their new location and start unloading. First Shirley wipes out and goes down, not once, not twice, but three times. Then while unloading, nephew Ethan discovers a round disc sled, he rides it down the hill and knocks Aunt Kathy right off her feet and she face plants in the snow. Not happy! After everything is unloaded (mind you we are doing this in about 6 inches of snow) we head back to my house. By now Ed and the guys have run a snake through the drains and find nothing. So then they have to start diassecting the pipes. They finally find the problem after Ed has been drenched with sewer water. God bless him, he coughed and gagged, but kept right after it. Now my brother John is helping out and he has to work the midnight shift which means he should have been in bed resting, so again, my emotions - ergh. Im so sorry he has to be in that mess instead of sleeping. He says dont worry about it. Right! We ended up taking two rooms of carpet out and washing down the one room with bleach water. All in all, it was a weekend to remember wishing to forget. However, I have the best family in the world. Thanks guys!!!!
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:38:27 +0000
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