[bluebutterflyrn]

Hi everyone. Just wanted to let you know that my love is out of the hospital and doing much better (actually I think is feeling better at the moment than I am!) Now for my "moaning" session (dude with the maoning gripe should love this!)
I came home from work Saturday night (dog tired and ready to crash) and opened the door to the sound of Niagra falls coming from my laundry room. This is a brand new house that I just finished building and have lived in only since the end of Sept. Paranoid of what I would find, I walked into my flooded laundry room and found that where the water line hose joins to the sink had came apart. Luckily all the water drained into the air vent into the floor instead of flooding the first floor of the house. I later went to the basement to check on my cats and found the floor standing in about 6 inches of water. All of that water that had poured into the air vent collapsed the duct work for the central unit and flooded the basement. Me, mom and dad worked for about 4 hours trying to get all of the water out. Remind you that I can hardly walk right now because my back is so messed up, so you can image the shape I'm in right now after pushing a broom for 4 hours. Well, anyway the water finally disappeared and I'm waiting on the central air and heat guy to come fix the mess. This gives new meaning to the saying "when it rains it pours". Ha! Ha!
You know the cartoon character that always has the dark cloud hanging over there head? That's me!

Thanks for listening to me "moan". Now i'm going to bed so I can "moan" some more because my back is hurting so bad.


Much love, blue butterfly

[hillarymcarter]

That sucks!!!

All of my shelves fell off the wall of my laundry room. It tore 3 big holes in the wall and all of my appliances broke (food processor, waffle maker, crock pot, bread maker)....huge mess, but nothing compared to 6 inches of water!

[Bob Clark]

Hi bluebutterflyrn,

Here's my "moan".

Why isn't it "standard building code" to put a damn drain in the floor of laundry rooms!? It isn't as though it would cost all that much extra.... the drain pipe is already right there.

It's a good thing that your heating unit didn't get destroyed or worse yet, shorted out and perhaps started an electrical fire.

Look at the bright side. Your basement floor is now "spic 'n span". It's fortunate that cats are good climbers. I bet all that water freaked them out as they thought to themselves "What the hell is Mommy trying to do to us!"

Take care of your back... it's the only one you're gonna get!

Hi Hillary,

Have you sobered up from the holiday yet? Oh no, New Years is just around the corner.

[Bob Clark]

Guest, on Dec 27 2005, 02:35 AM, said:

That was me.....hillarymcarter!

I know your voice.

First Bruce killed poor little Bambi and now he's goin' after Lambchop. Oh, the inhumanity of it all!

Just kidding. I hope he bags a big ol' tough ram. He can take those rubber foam dice off his rearview mirror and replace them with a pair of swinging ram balls. Nice conversation piece.

[Joed]

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I hope he bags a big ol' tough ram. He can take those rubber foam dice off his rearview mirror and replace them with a pair of swinging ram balls. Nice conversation piece.

But seriously, just how long can one really keep up a conversation about ram balls?

[Bob Clark]

Hi Joed,

It's obvious that you don't live with a hunter. I've heard the same old hunting and fishing stories over and over and over again from my old hunting and fishing buddies. Like some wines, they get better with age.

As soon as those old ram balls stop stinking and drawing flies the conversation should settle down to an occasional mention. Until next ram season when the "big hunt" remembrances come back to bloom like croci in the spring.

[Jilly]

Now I know I REALLY need a drink.....I was reading the above and thinking...hunting....ram balls.....WHAT are ram balls? then the penny dropped.... OH!!!!!! Ram Balls! Ha Ha I laughed so much at myself my daughter came in to the room to see what was funny! Good thing Im blonde!!!!!

[Kaz]

Hi i'd just like to ask if the time on your messages are your time or ours (uk) i have noticed a lot of the messages are in the small hours, and realised the time differences. Or is it that we are all so stressed we can't sleep?

[bluebutterflyrn]

Bob,
Just to let you know my four cats are doing fine after the traumatic flood. Well, actually my smallest cat, Shadow, I've barely seen since we moved in. I think she just went crazy! Ha! Ha! Yeah, the floor does look pretty clean. I had just said a week before how dirty it was looking and wondering how I was ever going to clean an area so big. I guess I'll keep my mouth shut from now own. I'm very lucky that the basement wasn't finished yet. I thought the same thing about the water shorting something out and catching fire. It would kill me is something like that happened with my "babies" in the house. I'm just glad my little dog Pumpkin was at her "granny and papa's house" when it happened. She's so nervous she would have probably had a nervous breakdown! By the way, how's your dog?