Was there drama?
Well, when you call up your trusty plumber and he’s closed up and retired…
First thought was YIKES!
Panic was lurking
Waiting
Just along the perimeter
Of thought.
My curiosity won out though.
Thank goodness really.
I asked the lovely lady who rattled off some other business name, that of course I hadn’t any reference to, so it did not register as having any importance yet…
My thoughts were wanting to lead me down the path to fresh and frustrating memories. The episode of concern was my most recent efforts of watering plants outside using our well defunct faucet in the backyard.
The tap at the front of the house used to be my go to until it broke 4years ago. So we doctored up the back one with tons of plumbing tape, and put a trugg under it to catch the dripping leak…
Last year the leak became bigger, still usable though…
I’m yelling in my head, “WHY DIDN’T WE TAKE CARE OF THIS SOONER?!?”
Yes, we are agreed, we should have just done it.
Supposing that there hadn’t been anything that financially blew our timeline for such things way out of reach in the recent years…
We probably wouldn’t have put it off.
On the perspective of this lense, we did great with what we were dealing with.
Until the leak was so bad…
Just even a slight turn of the tap and it would spray off so far…
It was comical.
Having a hose with just a trickle coming out to water with…
Not to mention that in the brief action of turning the tap slightly…
My knees were soaked, and nearly 10 feet away would be a puddle for the rest of the day… The sense memory of the drips making their way down and into my gardening boots. Gently mixing with the small bits of sand, potting soil and mulch that had already breached the short boot perimeter. Now being married to the socks, and beckoning the toes to squirm.
No trugg, bucket or plumbers tape would save this.
It was time.
The woman on the phone had been very reassuring. Able to recall our recent records of service with the old plumber, and she even had the previous owners of our houses information…
She was going to send out someone to give us estimates for the job of getting both taps replaced.
Part two tomorrow: The What, Where, When & How!
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