• Jan. 17, 2008
Invasion of the In-laws, Part II
So on Wednesday morning, I got up at 7 am or so, after having crawled into bed a bit after 2:30, and I met my friend Amy at Curves. I was truly surprised that I was able to put any effort at all into my workout. Amy and I have wonderful visits at Curves and meet there 3 times a week. After our workout, I stopped on the way home and picked up a couple of grocery items and headed on home.
Upon arriving home, I was greeted by a panic-stricken Tara. She was absolutely white as a sheet and may have been hyper-ventilating as well. "MOM, we have NO WATER!!!!" Now an event of this magnitude would normally be a crisis of epic proportions to Tara in particular, who absolutely cannot ever leave the house without showering. (I believe she would say it's against her religion or some other such reason.) However, on a day when we had an extra 8 people in the house......well, lets just say that this was most definitely a crisis of epic proportions! We'd been having a bit of a struggle with our well anyway, but I was hoping it would be more on the cooperative side while we had our houseguests. Especially since the landlord had spent the majority of the previous Saturday working on it and it had worked fine since then. Guess that was too much to hope for. Our last name really should be Murphy. So, it appeared that we were in for another family adventure.
I dutifully went to check the water, hoping beyond hope that the water would magically come splashing out of the faucet upon command. But, much to my dismay, just as Tara had so frantically announced, we definitely had NO water. Not a single drop. Well, this was going to be quite interesting. Things like this have happened so many times in my life that I have learned to look at it as an adventure, or a challenge. Lisa (my sister-in-law) was up for an adventure as well, and so we began to try to be creative about the situation. We sent Mark out to the store to buy a number of gallons of water for flushing. We figured that flusing was probably of utmost importance in a house with 2 working toilets and 17 people! We called Danny and asked him what to do. He told us to shut off the power supply to the pump and let the water build back up. After about an hour, we had a steady stream of water-----for a little while. We called the landlord and let him know what was going on and set up for him to come and work on it on.............Saturday!!!! A whole 3 days away!!
Lisa and I had to determine who was most in need of showering and let that person get a shower, military style. We were able to function quite well like that actually. And, we figured out that if we ran out of water and flipped the switch for the well pump, in about an hour, we'd have more water.
BUT..........what to do with all the mountains (and I do mean mountains!) of laundry that needed to be done? Because we'd been having this problem with the water suddenly just disappearing since before Christmas, my dirty laundry was quickly threatening to overtake the known free world. But, I shall save that tale for another day!
Comments
• Jan. 20, 2008
random blogging...
Posted by OldPathsMom
we've been having some serious water issues as well so I feel your pain :-)
• Jan. 22, 2008
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Posted by Arby
Well, well, well...that's quite a story. What did you do with the laundry?
• Feb. 1, 2008
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Posted by debbiecorley
Hi Shelly!
