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that was "fun".
Feb. 24th, 2022 09:47 amJ woke me up yesterday morning with "there's no water pressure". Five minutes later "but there's plenty of water in the basement". Great. It could have been worse, because it was only the supply line from the pressure tank to the house plumbing - the original thought was the pressure tank itself sprung a leak - and there hadn't been water running into the house for more than an hour or so. And the sump pump took care of a lot of the water. But not all of the water made it to the drain, so there was a lot of water on the floor in the storage room. So that was a few hours of picking up stuff from the storage room floor, putting it on towels to dry, then sucking up the water with the carpet cleaner. Most everything on the floor in the storage room is in plastic boxes, or is cans of beverage, so losing the cardboard boxes is only an annoyance. But we also had to move the litter box. Anna-cat did not like me carrying her down and showing her where we'd moved it to - it was the carrying she objected to, not the relocated litter box - the original location was on the other side of the storage room, and there was standing water....
The only casualties in the storage room were the cardboard boxes that we're storing for my sister (Grandmother K's china, so it will be fine once I repack into new boxes, replacing the packing paper), a half-empty 25lb bag of salt left over from either pickling or dyeing (I don't remember which). and a bottle of beer that slipped out of my wet hand as I was moving it. But the bottle didn't break, just popped the cap off. The kites got wet around the edges, but they're hanging in SR's room to dry. I can probably put them away now if the storage bag is dry. Everything else has been put away at this point.
In other news, playing more means that a reed doesn't last as long! Who knew? When I play Bsax in one band, a reed lasts over a season before I demote it to practice. When I play in two bands, a reed only lasts two-thirds of a season. Fortunately, I almost always have a new reed in the case. (need to order more, as I deployed the last one on Tuesday, just in time to go down to one band until May.)
The only casualties in the storage room were the cardboard boxes that we're storing for my sister (Grandmother K's china, so it will be fine once I repack into new boxes, replacing the packing paper), a half-empty 25lb bag of salt left over from either pickling or dyeing (I don't remember which). and a bottle of beer that slipped out of my wet hand as I was moving it. But the bottle didn't break, just popped the cap off. The kites got wet around the edges, but they're hanging in SR's room to dry. I can probably put them away now if the storage bag is dry. Everything else has been put away at this point.
In other news, playing more means that a reed doesn't last as long! Who knew? When I play Bsax in one band, a reed lasts over a season before I demote it to practice. When I play in two bands, a reed only lasts two-thirds of a season. Fortunately, I almost always have a new reed in the case. (need to order more, as I deployed the last one on Tuesday, just in time to go down to one band until May.)
