Sheep Guarding Llama

Friday.  Busy hanging out with the kids, just a general family day.  No news recorded.

Down to Houston today where we will be for about a week.  Lots of time on the Steam Sale this week.  Maybe Spiceworks outage today, too.

Shawn made it over this afternoon and was able to fix the whole thing in no time.  He used to do this for a living; we had no idea.  So the house is functional again tonight.  It is great to have water once again.

Now that the water is working, it is time to get down to Houston for the holidays.  We have been holding off on the trip because we could not leave the house.  So tonight was getting everyone ready and packed so that we can go down tomorrow.

Tuesday. Well the house thawed out this morning.  But as soon as it did and we were able to get water trickling through the house we noticed that the pipe that is exposed in the back yard behind the air conditioning condenser had blown and was spraying water all over.  Just great.  So until we can get someone to fix that we are stuck at the hotel anyway and can’t run the water in the house.

We spent much of the day trying to coordinate someone to come take a look at the leak and get it fixed.  We let it leak for a little bit until we cleared out all of the pipes and made sure that we had no other issues and no ice in the lines.  Then we shut it off all day.

Hopefully we can get things fixed tomorrow or we are going to have a really rough time.  So still living in the hotel for now.

Dominica went over this morning to inspect the house and see how things were.  Verdict: everything is still frozen solid.  No hope of getting in there today whatsoever.  We need to extend at the hotel before we will know if we can get into the house.  It is staying so cold outside.

To make things worse, Dominica discovered that Rachel had shut off the heat at the house, argh.  So the house was down to forty six degrees and had no way to heat up.  We have been having heat issues and this is not going to help.  Nothing to be done now, we had had a hope that the heat from the house would spread to the pipes, but now that the house is nearly frozen that can’t happen.

We turned the heat back on and hoped that it would at least get warm enough to keep any further damage from happening.

We did a late dinner in the hotel.  We tried out the hotel’s restaurant so Dominica and I got baked brie from there!  Yummy.

My DuoLingo is coming along very well.

I went over to the house late and picked up dinner while I was out and went to Lowe’s and got the water key so that I could shut off the water at the street to make sure that the house does not flood as soon as it gets warm enough for the water to flow.  Without someone there that would be a huge disaster.  So no water until we check it manually, now.