Monday Blues

Well we had a little bit of unwelcomed excitement at our house today . . . but I guess a life like this will keep you on your toes. This morning I washed a load of towels and put them in the dryer. When I turned it on it sounded like water was swooshing around . . . well that's not good. So I turned it off and started looking around. I noticed a water stain going horizontally across the wall. Then I looked up and saw a water stain at the top of the wall. I didn't know if it was the washer lines behind the wall that were leaking . . . or if we had a roof leak. So I called Joe. He said it sounded more like a roof leak and it must be coming from the dryer hose going up thru the roof . . . great . . . so he came home for an early lunch to check it out.

As he was walking thru the attic, I was walking up the stairs and saw what you don't want to ever see coming thru your ceiling . . . a big black booted foot sticking thru it:
Thank goodness Joe didn't come all the way thru the ceiling . . . but his whole foot sure did. He got a nice gash on his leg to go with it:
. . . and what he thinks might be a cracked rib. Good times . . . so we have a roof leak . . . and a hole in our ceiling : ) And I had a full load of towels that were wet . . . so I've got them spread out all over our house to dry.

We called the guy who fixed the leak at our OTHER house not too long ago and he said he could be here about 3:00 today. He called me at 2:15 to say he was on his way . . . but by 4:15 he still wasn't here because they had completely shut down the interstate and the main Hwy leading to our house because of flooding. The traffic was so bad that it took him that long to get that far to determine that there wasn't going to be a way to get to our house today : (

Because of that road closing it took Joe 2 hours to get home tonight. The schools are closed tomorrow too. The repair guy is going to try to get here tomorrow. We hope our leak will hold off until he can get here.

So how was your rainy Monday?