Never a Dull Moment

It's been a crazy day at the Thompson residence.  I should have known it was going to be an eventful Monday when I got all the way through the grocery line before realizing I had forgotten my wallet.  I have to say that's a first for me, and I'm hoping there's not a second time. 

We were having someone over for dinner, so I was running around trying to get the house clean and all that jazz.  I had a meeting for church, and then I took a couple of minutes to finish up my Bookshelf Block (based on Elizabeth's tutorial here):

My do. Good Stitches quilting circle is making a quilt in conjunction with an effort to make a quilt for each of the families of the victims of the shooting in CT.  We are assigned to the family of the principal that was killed.  We thought it would be fitting to make a Bookshelf Quilt for the family since she was an educator.  I'm really excited to see this quilt come all together.

That part of the day was ok, but then this afternoon Little Man's aide came upstairs and said, "Um, I thought you might want to know there's water flooding your basement."  Say what?!!  It turns out our washer was leaking, and all the water was traveling down the heating vent that's right in front of the washer.  The water formed a T-shaped waterfall in our basement off the heating ducts.  Luckily, because of Brooke we caught it early.  We shut off the water and started moving things right away.  The loss was minimal, but the annoying part was that all of the hoses were still completely hooked up to the washer and the front door wasn't the leaking part, so it's got to be something underneath.  It's only 2 years old and is still under warranty, but they told us they can't come to look at it until March 7th!  I love that they say they come in cases of emergency, but even with a flooding home they can't make it out until March.  Sigh.  Looks like I'll be washing clothes at my friends' homes until then.  I'm so grateful though that it was my last load of laundry when it started leaking.  At least we have clean clothes for now.  I feel a little like white trash though, because we have stuff lining our front rooms to dry out, and we have tons of towels hanging in the backyard in freezing weather.  Good times.

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