July 8, 2007

• Comedy of Errors......

  Yesterday the decision to finish filling the pools was made......and disaster.  Those pools took a lot more water than anticipated and we were out of water again.  Heather had wanted to order water ahead of time but my Husband did not think that was necessary.  Hindsight.......someone should have open the cover to the well and eyeballed just how much water was actually there first.  So, about 3 in the afternoon........NO water!  Jen is having her birthday party this Sunday (delayed since she went to the Christian week long concert called Creation) so this is not good news.  When we lost water on the Fourth, we were able to get water the next day but due to the system that my Husband had in place, priming the pump once it lost its suction was a task onto itself.  We did not actually get RUNNING water until sometime Saturday morning.  I still had all the mess to wash and clean up from the Fourth.

  
  

  Edit and Update:  I had to discontinue entry due to thunder and lightning storm overhead.  Back to business of writing an entry.  So Saturday my Husband redoes the priming system so that it is female friendly while I and Jessie go down or rather up to Oswego to get my van from Josh.  We have to use the van since it has the hitch to the trailer that we use to haul the Karts to the racetrack in Geneva.  My husband has decided that he will step back and let Jessie race his new kart since she has never driven the new one just the old tired ones that we had before.  We had revamped one of the engines but I would have rather just have spent the money on a new one rather than sink it into the old tired (my opinion) engine.  Both Jessie and my Husband were first planning on taking Alex to the track but I finally convinced them that it would not be a good idea.  They have not been watering down the dirt track like they have in the past and the dirt in the air is just incrediable.  You wind up having gritty sand laying on top of your eyelashes it is so bad.  Since there is a lot of clay in the dirt, it just sucks the moisture right out of your body especially your lips.  So while I was running around, we ran out of water the second time and that Saurday I am waiting for the waterman.  10:00 PM ... He arrives!  Heather and I do a Happy Dance since I know I was giving up that he would come that night.  We were his last delivery for the day.  Talk about just making it under the wire!  I do some dishes but more importantly......I take a long soaking bath and wash my hair.  It is now 3:30 in the morning.....I know I should make the salad for the party now but I am so tired that everything is taking me three times a long to get it done.  Decided to sleep and wake up early.  I had told my Husband that I was not going to church and that I had stuff to do.  He only heard that I did not want to go to church.  So he woke up and left without waking me up.  10 o'clock I awaken.....the rush is on.  I go downstairs and put water on for the noodles and start doing more dishes.  Then I start washing the veggies that are going into the noodle salad.  As I am washing the carrots, my water pressure starts to drop.....and drop.....and drop.  WTF!!  We can't be out of water.  Go downstairs......look at pump.....Nothing!  Turn pump off and then on......Nothing!  Check the fuse box......one of the fuses has been tripped so reset it.  Turn pump on...pump starts....blows fuse....pump stops!  I call my Husband but he is still in church so phone is either off or in the car.  Husband gets home and tries to fix pump but not going to happen.  This pump is not fixer friendly....more of a throwaway kind of pump.  So Heather to the rescue with her handy dandy credit card to get us a pump until next payday.  My Husband is not a happy camper since he is missing Jen's two fold party......one for family and one for her friends though he had no idea that he would miss both of them at the time.  He was suppose to leave that afternoon about 3 but never got to the truck until about 10:30 that night since the first pump we purchased was the wrong one and had to be returned and replaced.  We have water now.  When he came up to let us know that water was available .....we gave him a standing ovation.  Both parties went well with a bit of drama in the evening party that caused one of the guest to be told to leave and he left leaving tire tracks on the lawn.  Of course the drama happen after my Husband left or someone would have been hanging on the clothesline hanging out to dry otherwise!   

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