My leukemia's back.

[ronott1]

Good morning Team Rachel.

Yesterday was an interesting day. I did laundry. I had let about 3 loads of our laundry pile up, no big deal. Dd had about 5 loads piled up. In the meantime, I ran a load of dishes in the dishwasher. I cooked supper, and ran another load of dishes. The kitchen was totally clean.

2 of the 3 grands started running fevers. We gave them fever reducer, and that brought their temps down. They go to the doctor today.

One of our neighbor couples, came and got some dvd's to watch, and visited for awhile.

I thought I was about done with laundry, when I discovered Dd had not taken all of theirs out to the baskets. Her hamper was full. A couple more loads, and I would be done with laundry. Later, I was feeling pretty good about the day, when I put that last load of laundry in to wash.

I had recently put the last load of laundry in to wash, and we were all watching tv. Dd went down the hall to go the the restroom, and I heard her say "this isn't good." She said it again, then called for me. I headed down the hall, and see the part of the hall closer to the bathroom is flooded, and both bedrooms are starting to flood. There was about 15 gallons of water on the floor. Whatever Dd did in the bathroom, when she said "this isn't good", stopped the flow of water. I grabbed my floor scrubber, since it also vacuums up the water. Of course, it does a 1/2 gallon at a time, then has to be emptied.

Dh came down the hall, took one look, and began fussing about not wanting water seeping behind the baseboards, and into the walls, because of mold. He ran to grab the shop vac. It's one of the big wet/dry shop vacs from Home Depot. He took the filter out, so it wouldn't be ruined, and started vacuuming up the water, while I was doing the same. I'm not sure exactly how much water those things hold, but it's at least 5 gallons, and he emptied it 3 times. I know it got it up fast, and that's a good thing. I know I got at least 3 gallons up. It took us about 45 minutes to get all the water up. When we got all the water up, he grabbed fans to blow at the lowest areas, where some of the water might have been able to get behind the baseboards. About an hour later, he was satisfied, and took out the fans.

In the meantime, all the bathroom rugs were soaked. I got a big bucket to put them in, and carry them out to the laundry, before getting up all the water. When we got to the girls' room, they use a few milk crates to store some of their toys in. They mostly put the big legos in them, and a few other plastic type toys, but 1 had some stuffed animals in it. That too went out to the laundry. That'll teach me not to feel a sense of accomplishment, or contentment when I get the laundry all done.

Dh, and I still don't know how the flood happened. There is no evidence of the sink overflowing, so that leaves the toilet. We have talked about it, and the toilet was giving me trouble awhile back, so I replaced all the guts. The only thing I did not replace was the handle assembly, and I've noticed that it does stick every once in awhile lately. I even said that the next time I'm in town, I was going to see about getting a new one handle assembly.

Dh commented that the toilet is 18 years old, an old Briggs, which was good back in the day, but this is our sign that we need to replace it. Normally, I would just get the handle assembly, and be done with it, but in this case, he could be right.

Thanks giving does that sometime!

I have had to blast out the main line after thanks giving. The water comes out of the washer very quickly so the clog shows up when doing the laundry first. It will eventually clog up at the sink and showers too.

Time to use the cleanout!

 

[Alaskan]

Good morning Team Rachel.

Yesterday was an interesting day. I did laundry. I had let about 3 loads of our laundry pile up, no big deal. Dd had about 5 loads piled up. In the meantime, I ran a load of dishes in the dishwasher. I cooked supper, and ran another load of dishes. The kitchen was totally clean.

2 of the 3 grands started running fevers. We gave them fever reducer, and that brought their temps down. They go to the doctor today.

One of our neighbor couples, came and got some dvd's to watch, and visited for awhile.

I thought I was about done with laundry, when I discovered Dd had not taken all of theirs out to the baskets. Her hamper was full. A couple more loads, and I would be done with laundry. Later, I was feeling pretty good about the day, when I put that last load of laundry in to wash.

I had recently put the last load of laundry in to wash, and we were all watching tv. Dd went down the hall to go the the restroom, and I heard her say "this isn't good." She said it again, then called for me. I headed down the hall, and see the part of the hall closer to the bathroom is flooded, and both bedrooms are starting to flood. There was about 15 gallons of water on the floor. Whatever Dd did in the bathroom, when she said "this isn't good", stopped the flow of water. I grabbed my floor scrubber, since it also vacuums up the water. Of course, it does a 1/2 gallon at a time, then has to be emptied.

Dh came down the hall, took one look, and began fussing about not wanting water seeping behind the baseboards, and into the walls, because of mold. He ran to grab the shop vac. It's one of the big wet/dry shop vacs from Home Depot. He took the filter out, so it wouldn't be ruined, and started vacuuming up the water, while I was doing the same. I'm not sure exactly how much water those things hold, but it's at least 5 gallons, and he emptied it 3 times. I know it got it up fast, and that's a good thing. I know I got at least 3 gallons up. It took us about 45 minutes to get all the water up. When we got all the water up, he grabbed fans to blow at the lowest areas, where some of the water might have been able to get behind the baseboards. About an hour later, he was satisfied, and took out the fans.

In the meantime, all the bathroom rugs were soaked. I got a big bucket to put them in, and carry them out to the laundry, before getting up all the water. When we got to the girls' room, they use a few milk crates to store some of their toys in. They mostly put the big legos in them, and a few other plastic type toys, but 1 had some stuffed animals in it. That too went out to the laundry. That'll teach me not to feel a sense of accomplishment, or contentment when I get the laundry all done.

Dh, and I still don't know how the flood happened. There is no evidence of the sink overflowing, so that leaves the toilet. We have talked about it, and the toilet was giving me trouble awhile back, so I replaced all the guts. The only thing I did not replace was the handle assembly, and I've noticed that it does stick every once in awhile lately. I even said that the next time I'm in town, I was going to see about getting a new one handle assembly.

Dh commented that the toilet is 18 years old, an old Briggs, which was good back in the day, but this is our sign that we need to replace it. Normally, I would just get the handle assembly, and be done with it, but in this case, he could be right.

My house has flooded before... I feel your pain!!

 

[Blooie]

Oh, that stinks on so many levels! Been there, would happily discard the T-shirt. We went through the big floods of 1991-2, and we lived on a creek that was tributary to the Big Sioux River, just a couple of miles from the house. What a mess! And our house was an unusual one - the back half of it...kitchen, huge utility room, and den....were built underground with the front of the house overlooking the Beaver Creek Valley. Yeah. Darn near everything on the lower level had to be gutted and we had to start over. In the meantime we dug extra sump holes for sump pumps, had the wet vacs going almost constantly, and we were trapped in that house from March 17 until the end of August. That's when the water finally dried up. Three weeks after replacing the dry wall and floor in the kitchen, we started the dishwasher then went into to Sioux Falls. Came home and the hose had ruptured.

So we move here, it's a dessert, and we think we're okay. Nope. Every few weeks the toilet would overflow. It got so bad that the first of the month the Roto Rooter guy would have a standing appointment. Finally replaced the line between the house and the street and haven't had a problem with it since. But these old mobile homes have OSB for subflooring. So even now, 20 years later, we have spots where we have placed furniture because if we walk on those places, it feels like the floor is going to collapse. Ken says he ain't fixing it - says we'll be dead soon and then it won't matter anyway, so he can live with it until then. <sigh>

You have my sympathies, my friend!

 

[Blooie]

Blooie, I don't care how big she gets, Fiona is a beautiful dog, and looks like she has a good disposition. All that "wonderful" just won't fit into a smaller package. Thanks for the update. I always enjoy Fiona pics, and stories.

Forgot to respond to yours, @getaclue! She does pack a lot of wonderful and gentle in that big body of hers. Also garden hoses, hummingbird feeders, rocks, her blanket.......

 

[getaclue]

Dog food can make her big, but it's all the unusual stuff that fills her her with wonderfulness. I hope you have a big variety on hand.

 

[Blooie]

Supplies are dwindling, @getaclue, but there’s still the garbage man and the UPS dude if she gets desperate! Nah, she wouldn’t harm a fly. We still crate her when Kendra comes over. The big gallump has knocked her over accidentally twice, not maliciously but just because the back half takes so long to respond to what the front end wants to do. But Kendra lays next to the crate, sticks her fingers in to pet “Fidona” and Fee just loves it...licks her hand a couple of times then drifts off to relaxation land! Fee isn’t always crated when she’s here, though....just if Kendra starts pulling up on furniture because she wants to walk. They are buddies!

 

[bruceha2000]

Ahhhhh

I wear a size 10 shoe....that’s my foot by her head!

So Fiona's head would wear an 18?

 

[Blooie]

Somewhere along in there, Bruce!

 

[N F C]

Good morning Team Rachel!

So nice to see all the photos

 

[getaclue]

That's a great set of pics of Kendra with Fiona.

I've got to go get a couple bales of hay in a bit. It's going to get down in the 30's here later tonight, and I want to make sure there is plenty of hay for the chickens to bed down in.