Striped Shirts Before the Rain

The day started off well enough. I was consumed by Getting Ready For the Big Storm. Functioning in pioneer mode: making sure all the outdoor gear was secure, bringing in the yard furniture, closing forgotten windows, doing a few loads of laundry. It all went along quite well until we heard liquid gurgling noises coming from the crawl space and found a rather large spouting leak in one of our old lead water pipes. It's the weekend, not an easy time to find a plumber, but someone did come out, and he fixed it, so we have water. The bad news is that we will probably have to replace all the old pipes so that this sort of thing doesn't happen again. And again. That includes the pipes that are in the walls. I put my fingers in my ears at "We'll have to cut a hole in the back of the closet to get to the shower...."   I'm just grateful we can wash the dishes. 


And we are supposed to get some good rain over the next couple days. We're ready.