Our dusty old fixer upper of a house let out another groan yesterday as our water heater had a wazzering incident. Did we forget to wrap that thing in depends? I entered the garage to get the lawn mower to cut the grass when I remember that we didn't have a swimming pool located in our garage. If we were so fortunate we definitely agreed that we would put the pool in the back yard. Hmm, what could it be? My first thought was we really have a problem with our roof but then I realized we were in the middle of a drought as witnessed by my sorry excuse for a lawn. I thought, well, a roof is probably very expensive so that was a relief. What else could it be? Then I realized we had a 40 gallon tank of water in the garage. Well, correction, it was a 40 gallon tank of water. Now, it's just a 40 gallon tank of air, grime and grit as the water, well, I was wading in the water. That nice warm spa water. One would think it would be relaxing to finish a hard day of work and have an instant spa installed in your garage, but it wasn't pleasant at all.
We played the $259 Million dollar Powerball lottery just that morning. I looked online and knew that there was one winner and the Powerball was 27, which we had on a ticket. Yes, today is the day I retire! Then reality...We weren't the Powerball winners, we were the water heater losers. It doesn't sound as glamorous but we did have some guys show up in a big truck, but they wanted a check instead of presenting one. That is the definition of buzz kill. And so we are now the proud owners of a brand spanking new water heater, which was immediately wrapped in depends in case this one doesn't know where the potty is either.
Since there was water all over the place and many things bathing in the water that ironically, don't like water there was some clean up that needed to take place. We realized we have some junk so that got tossed and in the process I came across a snake skin. Carrie, caught a snake trying to sneak into our garage coming home the other day. It may have been actually sneaking out. The entire snake skin was in there and since I had my tools out I had a tape measure handy. The skin was 29 inches long. I wonder what the odds are of that thing getting in your house? That doesn't seem like a very small snake and since it was shedding its skin that means it's getting bigger right? Cue creepy music now. Can that thing eat my boy? No, it wasn't that big, but we saved the skin for Q's first science fair. Kind of neat and kind of gross. I guess every water heater failure has a silver lining.
I would like to congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Sloppy on the birth of their first child, a girl named Jalina, which we nicknamed Sloperina to go with the family theme. This is their first child so they can kiss their sleep good bye for eternity. Congratulations!
The picture is of Q and Carrie at the Rays game last weekend.
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