Well, I'm back. As some of you may know, I went on a cruise with my son. That is another story that I will perhaps share with you at a later time...maybe not, it just depends on what is going on in my small brain at the time. Anyway, it has been eleven days since I have last posted so I thought I had better post. You can do the math, four day cruise and I haven't posted in eleven. What happened to the other seven. Was I sitting by the pool sipping fruit punch? That would be impossible, since my pool is dry and it is hot in my back yard. Anyway, thank you for staying with me!
You would think that going on a cruise would be a fun thing, and when I looked at the whole experience I had a great time with my son. However, it didn't start out that way. I went to bed Sunday night, eagerly expecting our trip down to Long Beach to board the ship. I was happy! You don't know how happy. Monday morning had a different idea for me. I woke up at 4:00 in the morning to go to the restroom. As I fluished the toilet, I discovered that I had no water pressure. Hmmm...that's curious. I looked out the bathroom window and there was a
geyser in my front yard!
Let me explain. The water main and all the pipes in my house are old, and when one breaks you have to get creative to fix them. The main line that is in my front yard has broken several times. I have had to splice the pipe and join the two ends with radiator hose, because I cannot replace the pipe with a regular size pipe. The size just doesn't exist. Guess what decided to break, just hours before we were to leave for our trip. I looked up to check for clouds because I thought the sky would fall next. Luckily it didn't, why I don't know.
What do I do? I guess I turn the water off to the house at the water main. Let's go get the water key, and turn the water off at the meter. One importnat detail that I need to share with you that I haven't already shared. It is dark, very dark at 4:00 in the morning in the Northern Hemisphere at my latitude. I could not see the valve to turn the water off. Maybe I can feel for the valve and get the key on it to turn it off. Nope...I decided that a strategic retreat to the house to regroup was in order.
Flashlight...we need a flashlight! What flashlight? It was nowhere to be found in all the places that I looked. I finally found one and guess what....No batteries. What now, Old Faithful had been erupting in my front yard for over an hour by now. Old Faithful turns off but my geyser was showing no signs of subsiding. What next?
Suddenly the light came on, or was soon to come on. I decided to drive my car up on the lawn and shine the headlights into the valve. This shined enough light on the valve for me to struggle to get it shut off. Old Faithful's eruption had ended.
Now, let's fix the pipe. Are you out of your mind? Do you realize what time it is? We have a cruise ship waiting for us in Long Beach. Let's pack up the car and go. We can shower on the ship...goodbye!
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