Tuesday, Ta Dah..

 My sunflowers are all gone. I do get to enjoy my wife's painting all year long. It is a great capture.

 I haven't been to the North Shore for years but I too can enjoy my pastel painting of it year round also. My wife and I would paint for two week periods along the shore and we did it for many years each summer. I can't remember the exact location of this but I suspect it is by the Cascade Falls area. 

 

I was going to throw it away. I have had it for a number of years, carried over each winter inside. I planted it in new soil in a pot all by itself and look at it now. It is almost become a self created bonsai. 

We were at Hobby Lobby yesterday morning and stopped for lunch. When we returned and went inside the house we heard spraying running water. This end connector to the bedroom stool tank split open and water was flying out in all directions. I walked through  an inch or so of water and shut off the valve. Needless to say we spent the rest of the day trying to clean up from two floors of excess water. I think it had to be running freely for a half hour or more. There were so  good things that happen as it went down in areas where we didn't have damage. It didn't hit the closet full of quilts and artwork in portfolios. It came down onto the trundled bed with two mattresses and water ran all over the carpeted floor and it ran into the work room going under the wall. One downstairs closet did get a lot of water and all the antique family pictures and documents were in tubs with lids. Nothing damaged except for shirt boxes and old wrapping paper. One small tub of pictures and funeral cards did get some water, it had no lid,  and we had to take all of it out to dry out. 

I bought the new water supply tube this morning and it was made of stronger materials. The connection to the tank is made of a very solid plastic, heavy, and it will never spilt. the tube itself is metalic and all is installed and working well. We have been running heat to dry things out with the fans and sometime I put on the air to take out moisture in the air. I had a carpet cleaner that sucked up water as if I was washing carpet. I also broke out a Wet/Dry vac and sucked up water for many hours. We are survivors and it is all over with now. It is exhausting and nerve wracking. Things can be put back in place when the floor is completely dry and mattresses are still drying. The mattress pads helped to shed water. Permanent damage was so minimal and our furnace seemed not to get damaged. I was worried about that. Anyway, I didn't blog yesterday but here I am back today. See you tomorrow.