Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Yesterday Hubby had quite a day!

His bathroom had a very unusual problem,unusual for us anyway.
Although, I have heard of this happening to others, but never to us before.
Sure they all have had their moments of stopping up at one time or another.
And after five homes in nearly forty-five years of marriage we had, let's see, 2+3+2+3+2=12, yep twelve bathrooms with toilets and too much paper, or other bodily fluids or solids and the like may have all previously filled the lines with issues to cause stoppage, but we never ever experienced a stoppage caused by this before!
I had only seen it before on This Old House a PBS TV show that we both enjoy.
Well, at first Hubby wasn't sure what was causing the backup and used the usual remedies that he recalled from his apprentice plumber days and has had to use over the many years. A plunger then snaking the line, even running a hose from outside down to flush the system. I suggested my eco friendly sink unclogger nearly foolproof remedy, baking soda and white vinegar followed by hot water and that didn't work either. We didn't have any chemical drain cleaners except for CLR, which Hubby thought might work due to a heavy calcium problem with our city water, but nada.
He finally took the toilet off with knowing he would have to get another seal, but Ace hardware was nearby.
I worried an animal could have somehow penetrated the system, it happens on TV too, ya know?

But nah, after Hubby saw what the problem/stoppage was, a root system from one of our trees, he yanked it out by hand, what a man!
It, the root, filled a disposable grocery bag, yep and had nasty toilet waste included, oops TMI, sorry!
All was put back to normal within moments and all systems flowed without any more problems!

Any-who, as usual Hubby saved the day!
Once a hero always a hero, from his fireman days to his deputy days to his plumbing days he has always been MY HERO! (As well as many a strangers' too, even the plumbing part as a town engineer up north and for neighbors over the years and at work and on and on.)

On that note of sometimes life can be more than ordinary even while at home, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

 Happy third night of Hanukkah!

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