Today was an exciting day. We did some demolition on our back deck in preparation for it's expansion. We now have an even bigger pile of junk behind our carport than we did when we moved in. Kinda wish I still had a truck to I could take it all to the dump. We dug ourselves a little test hole in the ground to see how difficult it would be to pour the new footings for the new part of the deck. It wasn't difficult at all and Darrin went ahead and dug the entire whole in about 20 minutes. It is three feet deep. So now we have a three foot toddler death trap in our back yard. I opted to protect my children by putting a rotten piece of plywood over it. Good job me.
Later in the evening we decided to wash our cars. The spigot on the front of our house doesn't have a handle for some reason. So Darrin got out his trusty tools and managed to turn it on. We had a sprayer attached to the end of the hose and we couldn't figure out why we could hear the the sound of water running at the spigot when the sprayer was turned off. So, sprayer off, water running. Water running where? Oh, into our downstairs. That's great. BIG HUGE FLOOD! I tripped and fell up the stairs trying to get back outside to tell Darrin to SHUT OFF THE FAUCET!!!! Lots of scurrying and scrambling but we got the water turned off. Too bad it was running for a good five minutes or so before the big revelation. So THAT'S why the faucet didn't have a handle...
So now we have extremely soggy carpet and some bad attitudes. At least we are getting a nice big deck.
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