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brokenmusicboxwolfe · 10 months

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How’s this for “fun”: I went out to hunt around in a storage room no one had been in since Pop died, only to discover** the faucet off that part of the building was gushing water through a two inch crack in the pipe.

The pipe must have cracked in the winter cold spell at Christmas. It is now late July. It has been gushing for more than half a year!!!

A hose comes off the fitting to go to the dogs. The water had seemed to flow fine, so I had assumed everything was fine. The cut off, submerged in water all these months, no longer shut off entirely.

To fix it I have to shut off ALL the water. The water to the dogs. To Ryoga. To the house. I dunno how long it will take. It took me a week to find the things to fix that tub problem, and I’ve run into so many problems it still isn’t fixed. How can I guess with this new problem, now having to hunt up a whole new fitting.

Meanwhile the pipe from the pump is leaking. It’s leaked almost a decade now. Mom and I have tried multiple repairs and still it leaks. I guess I might as well work on that too. Again.

I live in fear of the day the pump packs it in. The pump for the well is down the bomb shelter, and the leak in the pipe has ruined the rungs of the ladder. Replacing the pump wouldn’t just be expensive, if would be hard as hell to do.

I do not speak of the toilet problems. I have nightmares about that.

You do NOT want to see photos of any of this. Just the pipes to the tub could shatter the mind of the more sensitive. These are horrors beyond imagination. And icky!

Funny thing…I recently got fussed at for STILL not having fixed the plumbing at Mom’s house. At that house everything is wrecked. The toilet froze and fell in half, the ancient sewer pipe isn’t compatible with new stuff, the pipes to both sinks froze and had to be capped off, Pop had been disassembled all the tub and shower stuff to repair them when he got sick, and not only wasn’t it finished, the bits got scattered to the four winds…..

BUT that house doesn’t have electricity and running water until work I can’t afford is done. This house is the priority. This is the “livable” one with power and running water. I just hope I can keep the water from running sooooo much! LOL

For now I have to leave that water gushing, ‘cause there is no point shutting everything off until I have stuff to fix it. I mean, the animals and I NEED water, especially when we are going to be running close to 100F. I know it’s run for months and months, so what’s another week or so. And yet I’m now upset knowing it’s just pouring.

I’m so tired. Life almost isn’t worth it. Almost.

**In my defense, it’s the far end of the building, hidden by vines and fiberglass scrap. I usually only go there once a year to make sure the cold weather stuff is over it. It WAS weatherized last winter too, only that didn’t help.

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