Day 270

We were planning on getting up early this morning. My uncle and aunt from California are at my parents house. And we were going to give Christmas a second try this weekend. Jonathan got up a bit earlier then I expected, but I thought he was just going to use the restroom and put a log or two on the fire. So I stayed warm and snuggled under the blankets. Then he came into the bedroom and said, "We have a problem." as he turned on the light and started putting on his shoes. In my half asleep state, I saw him looking at the floor in the corner and thought "Oh, no.... now what." I was thinking there must be some other animal in our house. But not that "lucky". It seems that during the night (-20 temps) the pipes froze. We have water nowhere in the house. So we got dressed and headed down to the basement so check it out. Jonathan got the heat gun and started to warm the pipes where they come into the house. While he did that I made a couple of trips up to second floor and back down to the basement, checking to see if the water had started to run. It actually only took few minutes to get the water running again.

But this seems to be only the start of our problems today. We also have discovered, (by the water running down the wall in the basement) that the drain has also frozen and has a crack in the ancient cast iron pipe. Jonathan has made a trip to Walmart to get another little space heater and some supplies to see if we can get that to thaw out as well.

Christmas or rip the walls down to find out where the water is leaking from the drain. Which would you choose? Well the day is still early, it is only 7:30 a.m. And we have no idea what we can do yet. I will have to update you later.