I’ve been debating on what to call this post since I wanted to write it Saturday morning! Some stuff went down Friday morning which change things in my house. My water heater broke! We did not discover this until Leia went to the landing by the back door as I was trying to wake up for the day. My Mom went to collect her and noticed that there was water on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. She thought that we had waited too long to take Leia out and she peed in the basement. Then she thought about it and realized the Leia doesn’t know how to go down the stairs. It couldn’t be pee!
My Mom went down the stairs and realized that the water was coming from my water heater that was on the other end of the basement and it had dripped on its way to the drain. She immediately texted my oldest brother a picture of the leaking water heater with the text, “WATER HEATER LEAKING!” He replied to her text with the text of his own. “Okay.” They made arrangements and he said he would drop in water heater off in between his jobs and come over to fix it when he was done working and he wanted to have Sean help him.
So, in the meantime, I still haven’t gotten ready for the day yet! It was like the, “Pioneer Days” because my Mom boiled water to use because she turned the water heater completely off to stop the leak that had ruined a throw rug I had in the basement that I got in my first apartment.
Welk, that rug is completely soaked and therefore, “Dead” and that stinks because I’m a pretty sentimental person and I have had it for 15 years but it was a $20 rug from Target and I have lots of pictures with it in the background but I will cherish more now.
I am not a pioneer but my Mom was wonderful at making it the easiest for me to get cleaned up. Obviously, I had dirty hair that day! I just put my winter hat on and I was able to not think about it.
So, during the day, my brother brought over the new water heater and he came in through the back door. My Mom was in the backyard with Leia when he came and that was Leia’s second bark! She obviously does not like 50% of my brothers! I asked my brother Dave what he thinks will happen after Covid and she sees us all together. We just laughed about it.
So then, Sean and my brother Ray came over to hook up the new water heater. Because they would be in the house for a prolonged amount of time, we both masked up:
But now to take Leia into account. She heard Sean‘s voice IN THE HOUSE as well as my brother, Ray’s. She was going nuts and whining because she wanted to be with Sean. My mom put her harness on her and hooked her leash up to my chair. She wasn’t going to be able to pull a 400 pound chair:
They were working until almost midnight but it all got hooked up. The next morning, my brother called my Mom when we were completing our routine and he asked how it was going. It’s crazy how much you take hot water for granted! He told that that water heater had a good run:
Even Sean said that that’s a long time to have a water heater! My Mom wrote the date on my new one and Ray said that it is NOT going to last that long at all!:
I think it’s crazy that major things in my house are starting to fail but when I bought my house, the inspector said I hand anywhere between 10 to 15 years on my water heater. It has been 11 but now it is reinstalled! Thanks To my brother, the plumber. It’s all about who you know!