Guess what we woke up to?
Frozen water pipes. No shit.
It hasn’t been this cold here in 26 years. It’s been in the 20s at night. We don’t run our heater because it uses too much electricity. I’m tucking the dogs into blankets at bedtime and those bitches (And Oliver. Since he’s not a bitch. But he doesn’t have a scrotum anymore so I guess I could get away with calling him a bitch, couldn’t I? I don’t want to offend him though. Good grief. What a tangent.) don’t move until we get up the next morning and I prod them out with my toes.
Sweety has been getting up in the night to turn all the faucets on and flush the super cold water out of the pipes to keep them from freezing. (Leaving it on a drip doesn’t keep it from freezing. Our water pipes run in the attic and Sweety said that the dripping water has frozen up before.) Last night, I suggested that we drink Crown Royal to stay warm and Sweety didn’t wake up in the night like he usually does.
I had no idea that he was getting up to turn on the water. I’ve noticed that he’s been getting up in the night and I take that opportunity to steal more blanket and go back to sleep while wondering what the hell is taking him so long. I thought he was just randomly turning on faucets because he was really thirsty.
Now that I think about it, if he was really so thirsty that he was going from room to room to drink water – that would probably signal some sort of health issue, huh? I need to step up my wifely attentions.
Um, now I know that he was keeping us in water.
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Hopefully, the ice clogging your pies isn’t big enough to make them burst. I’m sure plumbers are going to be busy fixing problems of people who didn’t have as much forethought as Sweety. Like an auto body shop after a big ice storm. Has it been cold enough to worry about the plumbing to the pool?
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Chickie said:
January 11th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
It has been cold enough to worry about the pool so Sweety’s been keeping the pump and pipes wrapped up. It’s supposed to warm up tomorrow so hopefully we won’t have to worry about it much longer.
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January 11th, 2010 2:24 am
sorry about your pipes. it has been freezing over here to. no frozen pipes yet but this drafty house is expensive to keep warm. argh.
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Chickie said:
January 13th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Luckily it started to warm up today. I’m tired of the cold. :(
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January 13th, 2010 4:44 pm
Reply to “Brrrrr!”