In the midst of planning our Route 66 trip we still have to live our life. Right now that life will be sans an ice maker in our (25 year old) refrigerator. Luckily, we will at least be able to have running water. That was not a given a few hours ago!
Our refrigerator water dispenser hasn’t worked for several months but we figured we could live with having to walk all the way (uphill and in the snow and into the wind both ways!) to the sink to get a glass of water. But no way could we live without being able to dispense ice from the freezer side for our martinis!
So we called a repairman, Robert from AZ Appliance Repairs. We had to shut off the house water (but not until the fitting to the refrigerator broke off and water started spewing forth from behind it. I had visions of another inside flood such as we had a few years back. Randy managed to get the water off as Robert put his thumb in the pipe (yes, just like the little Dutch boy!) to keep the water at bay.
After that debacle, Robert managed (he thought) to fix the fitting behind the refrigerator and moved it back into place (not an easy thing to do). Then Randy couldn’t turn the water back on! Robert tried and he couldn’t either. I had visions (I apparently have a lot of visions) of having to live at our cabin (tough life!) until we could get a plumber out. Well, eventually—about 30 minutes—Robert managed to get the water on but that fitting, too, will have to be replaced. Soon.
After all that, still no water to the ice maker. So Robert will have to come back; soon, we hope.
We have had a fair bit of rain over the past week, about 1.5 inches. Our Texas Rangers love, Love, LOVE the rain! All of them have busted out in profuse fuchsia-magenta blooms in both our front and back yards. We can even see them at night since we have also just fixed all our front and back yard lighting. And redone the irrigation system so maybe, just MAYBE our grapes will grow? I’m not holding my breath.
Next will be painting the house.
Oh, and my basil plants are going gangbusters! I’ll have to find a plant sitter when we go away.
36 days to go!
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