Yesterday my agenda consisted of laundry...lots, and lots of laundry. I hadn't done any over the weekend, and Robert specifically needed his track uniform cleaned for this evening. I had completed the first two loads and was going to take a break to wash some dishes when I noticed a serious problem...water was backing up in the kitchen sink. This is never, ever good. We'd had a similar problem occur last October that resulted in damage to our wood floor and a not-inexpensive plumbing bill. I knew that it was a problem and needed to be handled. Of course, Andrew was with his students in Cincinnati for a field trip, so I needed to deal with it myself, it at all possible.
And I'm very pleased to report that I did indeed handle it! I've never exactly been known to be a girly girl and I've tackled plumbing leaks before, but nothing so involved (and downright disgusting) as taking pipes apart and unclogging them. I knew where the tools were kept, and I also knew that it still might not be possible to fix. We might need to rent a much larger pipe snake then the small one we have here. It turns out the clog was reachable though, and by mid-afternoon I had everything put back together! It was a mess to clean up and it smelled very badly, but everything was flowing smoothly again! My kids were even very impressed!
While I was irritated about it, I was very grateful that it happened NOT while I was running the dishwasher or we might've had another kitchen flood. I definitely see the blessing in the way things turned out!
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