This is laundry day for me, and I am cleaning out old files as part of preparations to move from South Carolina to Washington State. I got through my stepfather's estate file, the file I had on a property I once owned in Oregon, the file on a house in Virginia that I sold 27 years ago, and then the files that I had one my last four dogs. It was gut wrenching cleaning out the pet files with all the vet visits and remembering those precious moments, but you don't know joy unless you also know sadness. I brought those files down to just a couple of mementos and photos.
Our heat index was 99F today and will be worse tomorrow, so staying cool is very high on my list of priorities.
Unfortunately, I have a water leak in the main feed line from the street into the house. It is leaking at a rate of almost one gallon a minute, so my water bill is terrible. Thus far, (with the help of special detection equipment) the leak has been isolated to about ten feet before connecting to the house. Unfortunately, that leak is also at least six feet down in the ground and covered with tree roots and a sidewalk. This is proving to be a very expensive leak and tomorrow the plumbers are bringing in an excavation machine to get down that far. I will be very happy when this is finally fixed as right now my water bill is nearly $200 a month higher than normal. Home ownership isn't always fun, or cheap.
No, the last four days and the next two are not fun times. So far, the landscaping has not been chewed up too bad.
