H2Oooooomigawd,helllp!

[msfledermaus]

My hot water heater just did me a huge favor--it waited until I was home and in the kitchen before it blew some kind of gasket and sprayed hot water all over my kitchen floor. If I hadn't been home, it would have kept leaking and leaking, right into my nice downstairs neighbor's bedroom. As it was, I teetered on my stepladder, trying to get the water lever down, and when that didn't work, I phoned my neighbor Peaty and yelled for help. Lucky me, he was home, and his huge farmer-hands had not trouble shutting off the water.

I just had Tom the nice handyman over to have a look. He tells me that everything should be okay until they can replace or fix the heater, no more leaks. Meanwhile, he'd really like to come and live on the Island too. He totally has my vote--between the smoke detector and the leaking toilet, Tom is my new, very bestest friend. I gave him some handspun yarn for his knitting girlfriend, and he'll call soon to let me know what they're going to do...

So, for now I have no hot water, and a damn clean kitchen floor. But I feel very lucky that it wasn't much, much worse...