A Bad, Bad Week On Monteith Street!

Super lucky Phil got to go on vacation to Lethbridge, leaving us behind with the Countess's new BFF.  A couple days before Phil left, it came to light the downstairs bathroom toilet was leaking.  Wrong!  It was a pipe in the wall that was cracked.  The Grand Old 100 Year Old Lady is starting to show her age!

We had a plumber come and address the problem.  For those of you who have frequented the bathroom and thought is was pretty ugly (it was!), check it out now!  This makes the old bathroom look like 5 star hotel quality.

Then, guess what!  About an hour before Phil leaves for his vacation, he decides to take a shower.  Phil lives to multi task so he sets the shower running and then moved onto doing something else.  Does anyone remember when he rinsed out a cooler in the shower and then forgot about it for about an hour?  Think flood!  Same thing happened, but on a much smaller scale.  The shower won't drain and there is soil in it.  Now he moves upstairs to have a bath which he also leaves running for so long that it moves into overflow.  Drain the tub and another flood!

This looks cheap, right?  Janet feels very fortunate that Brighton Drains could come so quickly and address the situation.

Turns out the sewage pipe has been slowly clogging for years and having the pipe replaced hastened the situation.  Also, soil was slowly building up in the pipe which explains why the sidewalk was slowly caving.

I have been as busy as a puppy girl can be - especially one that was screwed out of her morning walk  because Phil is living the good life on vacation and Deaf Janet went to work to be Deaf Receptionist.

First, I ripped apart a baseball that Janet then disposed of.

My Teddy Bear Pal also took a beating, but Janet wasn't home and neither myself or Noodles are willing to discuss it.

Janet needs to lay out her quilt to get it ready for Phil to drop off at the long arm quilt lady, Arlene.  Arlene lives by the airport.  Janet was going to drive out herself earlier in the week, but decided she couldn't hear well enough to drive.

No, Janet....I am not moving!

I said no!