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A fairly quiet day...
Mar. 5th, 2006 06:55 pmI spent quite a bit of time today cleaning around the garage and my office. Neither job is complete, but progress is visible. Another 6 or 7 sessions like that, and the place might actually brighten up quite a bit.
The water situation has not improved at all, although today I emptied our water storage containers, adding enough water to the tanks of our three toilets to flush them, and it looks as if the pipes going out of the house are clear, but I think I'd need more flow than three flushes to feel confident of that fact.
Afterward, I made a couple of trips to the store, where I refilled our water containers, comprising a 5-gallon, a 2-gallon, and a few 1-gallon bottles, along with a number of 1/2-liter and smaller bottles that we've been "recycling" from the store. We've accumulated quite a bit of the last item, to the point now where each time I go to fill all the small bottles, I'm hauling a little over 5.5 gallons home.
I'm beginning to wonder if, perhaps, the problem is more serious than merely having had the water line freeze. After all, that's never happened before, and you'd think that by now - with all of the snow melted at our elevation - any ice blockage in our line would've melted. I've been keeping the "master valve" to the house closed, to make sure a sudden clearing of the line doesn't result in water gushing out of an inadvertently open faucet (and hence, to overflow the septic system), and I've been opening it every day in the late afternoon hoping for flow, but no luck.
In any event, during my garage time today, I managed to find a decorative base unit that's supposed to be used with the larger bottles (the 5- and the 2-gallon jugs). I seem to recall the unit found its way into the garage because of a slow drip from the tap, but while cleaning the interior of the base, I managed to remove, dismantle, and clean the tap, and it seems to be not dripping right now after having been reinserted, which doesn't prevent me from placing a shallow dish under it, just to make sure.
It's amazing how something as simple as water can take center stage in your life when you don't have it.
In other news, the sky was cloud-covered this morning again, so there was no joy in the comet-watching department. On the other hand, I did manage to find a crummy old telescope in the basement, and it's said that a crummy telescope beats no telescope. I just have to find a way to secure the thing so that whatever image it produces doesn't jiggle all over creation, and then to focus it, to obtain an image. Or the other way around. Or both at the same time. Peanuts, in any case.
Cheers...
The water situation has not improved at all, although today I emptied our water storage containers, adding enough water to the tanks of our three toilets to flush them, and it looks as if the pipes going out of the house are clear, but I think I'd need more flow than three flushes to feel confident of that fact.
Afterward, I made a couple of trips to the store, where I refilled our water containers, comprising a 5-gallon, a 2-gallon, and a few 1-gallon bottles, along with a number of 1/2-liter and smaller bottles that we've been "recycling" from the store. We've accumulated quite a bit of the last item, to the point now where each time I go to fill all the small bottles, I'm hauling a little over 5.5 gallons home.
I'm beginning to wonder if, perhaps, the problem is more serious than merely having had the water line freeze. After all, that's never happened before, and you'd think that by now - with all of the snow melted at our elevation - any ice blockage in our line would've melted. I've been keeping the "master valve" to the house closed, to make sure a sudden clearing of the line doesn't result in water gushing out of an inadvertently open faucet (and hence, to overflow the septic system), and I've been opening it every day in the late afternoon hoping for flow, but no luck.
In any event, during my garage time today, I managed to find a decorative base unit that's supposed to be used with the larger bottles (the 5- and the 2-gallon jugs). I seem to recall the unit found its way into the garage because of a slow drip from the tap, but while cleaning the interior of the base, I managed to remove, dismantle, and clean the tap, and it seems to be not dripping right now after having been reinserted, which doesn't prevent me from placing a shallow dish under it, just to make sure.
It's amazing how something as simple as water can take center stage in your life when you don't have it.
In other news, the sky was cloud-covered this morning again, so there was no joy in the comet-watching department. On the other hand, I did manage to find a crummy old telescope in the basement, and it's said that a crummy telescope beats no telescope. I just have to find a way to secure the thing so that whatever image it produces doesn't jiggle all over creation, and then to focus it, to obtain an image. Or the other way around. Or both at the same time. Peanuts, in any case.
Cheers...
