Right Click on 'quote' and select 'open in another tab'. That will open your response tab in another window and leave the page you are looking at alone.Holy smoke, there's been a LOT going on here! (On the thread, I mean.) So many posts I wanted to comment on, but I was afraid I wouldn't find where I left off, again. I agree yesterday felt like it was 100 degrees or over. I was NOT believing any thermometer that said otherwise, and neither were my chickens. I gave them frozen melons. Later gave them small tubs of ice water. Sprayed their runs with water a couple of times. Glad I was home. They all looked like they were ready to stroke.
Hubby and I woke up yesterday morning to the sound of water rushing through our kitchen. At first, I thought the dogs had messed with their air cooler (out in the sunroom), but no, a filter under our kitchen sink had cracked. By the time we were up and came downstairs, the kitchen, dining room, living room...well, heck... 3/4 of the main floor was flooded. But wait! That's not all. Water was running down the basement stairs, down the cinder walls in the basement, and dripping off of conduit and beams. The basement had an inch of water standing in some areas (furthest from the drain). All of my empty jars on shelves were FULL of water. Two jars of canned chili were knocked off of a shelf, and I had chili mixed with mason jars to wet-vac.
We worked on the main floor from 7 A.M. until nearly 2 P.M. Pulled out ALL of the flooring and ran the shop vac. Then we worked on the basement until after midnight. We still have work to do.
Plus side? Well, the carpet was old and needed changed.We had way too much stuff in the basement and needed to purge.And I REALLY did not want to go to work yesterday.
Very sore today, though, from the up and down the stairs and loading trash in the pickup.
Very sorry for the novel! Thanks for "listening".
Sorry about the leak, had that happen when I was in high school to my parents house, the toilet upstairs leaked and flooded both up stairs and down, up to 4 inches in the kitchen. The house leaned a bit. Mother got nice pink carpet for the house, everywhere but my room (ugh). Was funny to see her reaction since she also painted the walls a shade of pink before replacing the carpet. My poor brother, he was a mommas boy and paid dearly for it.