Whoopsie Splat!

Air Conditioner got wonky last night so off it went. We opened our windows for a cricket serenade and got in TUNE with nature. We started that AC up this morning and it blew water all over the place. So the boys and I kicked Jack out the door to work and aimed ourselves on fixing the stopped up water line. Did that. Thought about writing you about that, crawling under the AC box, going to work with all the dust bunnies to keep me company. I wore my bandana over my face like a real drover. YeeHAW!  That sort of fixed the problem, but the drain was still slow. So our DIY work included using an auger on the roof vent to clear out old mudd-dauber nests in the vent. While we were up there we ushered in the new century ( a decade too late) by removing…get this…our Arial Antenna from the houses pre-cable television days!   Technically we have lived here 15 years and NEVER used it, but I don’t get up on the roof too often.

Now we have a reason for that~ *guffaw*… since after the Arial Removal Celebration I was showing the boys how to get on and off a ladder safely…the ladder slipped and I fell off the ROOF. Now Jack in never going to let me get up there again.    Stick in the Mud! LOL!

I am a little scrapped up but nothing is broken.  I am quite a handful, but God saw fit to bounce me instead of bust me,  for which I am truly grateful. Confused, but grateful!  Thanks God! Freaked out the kids, they of course know I am a teasing, testy child of God. They expected me to smash like a melon. They checked me all over like sniffy dogs, so I know I am fit and ready for action! They proclaimed to be scarred for life.

No drama at our house! *wink*

Drain line still slow, so we checked the clean out to the septic…did I forget to tell you I dropped the auger down the vent hole? Honestly, augers have a holder that doesn’t hold!! I watched the mtal tape come off the reel and slither right down the hole snatching at the air as it went I didn’t even get a piece of it. All I can think to say is that if Women used augers more often the HOLDER would HOLD!! We would demand it! I can’t imagine anyone thinking auger tape should NOT be attached to the handle. DUMB!

 I got to the clean out for the septic to discover I need to clean out the line it was all stopped up. I will have to retrieve that auger…dang it! I WAS going to leave it for Jack… *sly smile*

Lucky for us I found a sink vent that tapped into the main vent stack with good access and I cut away the elbow of the smaller pipe, and there it was. The auger I lost in the main stack. It could have been coiled up at the bottom, so we got a break!  I pushed it back up the vent to Dillon who was waiting on the roof! Weeeee! Nathan held the ladder for him so it didn’t slip. I bet they will be ladder holders from now until they no longer climb ladders! LOL!

We just got back from town to buy new PVC piping I trashed getting the auger we bought two additional treasures. A screened cover for the roof vent, and a Vent Clean Out. The boys are installing both on the main stack one the roof to keep the Mudd-daubers out of the vent and the other in our master bedroom near the sink vent we tore out.  So now we don’t have to go up on the roof to auger ( if we need too and we will need to less because the wasp friends will not be building their mud huts up there.)

Oh! Here they come down the stairs! All done! I love DIY its so fun sharing it with your kids!  The utility panel in the master bedroom is all back in place and ( Phew!) We are done for today! Drain still slow and no showers tonight just to make sure we don’t get backed up. We will run the auger down another pipe tomorrow this time it will be to the septic…not thrilled about pretending to be Mike Rowe and smelling sewer gases in the process, but it will beat falling off the roof!

 So far I feel pretty good so maybe messing with sewage is where the REAL trouble is!

HOOT! 

Checked my email and what did I find? Just what I needed to see today… Have a look!

Thanks Rosie! You sure have wonderful timing! I laughed a lot at this and played it twice!

Mwah!