Oh boy

Ok, so I’m a little late with this…I actually wrote it on the plane (July 23rd!) but haven’t had a chance to post it until now.

What at day. It began at 2:45 a.m. with a call from our alarm company in Phoenix (to refresh your memory, we have a house there). The alarm has gone off before due to bad weather so we hoped that was all it was. They called back and said the sheriff saw water on the floor in the kitchen and thought that was what set off the motion detector. Now this would be a bad call on any day, but it was made worse by the fact that Jim was to be at the hospital for minor surgery at 5:30 a.m. (A blockage was taken out from under his tongue last week and it had become infected. Turns out there was another stone in there the size of a marble!)

We decided I would have to go to Phoenix today to see what had happened. Normally, the though of going to Phoenix makes me ecstatic, but without Jim and on such short notice it just isn’t as fun as it should be! On a positive note, it is making me knit again. I haven’t mentioned it but I’ve been in sort of a knitting funk lately. The last time I had the needles in my hand was the last time I was on a plane (about 6 weeks ago). Fortunately, it’s just like riding a bike but I am still loathing the socks I’m working on. The are the firestarter pattern in Lorna’s Laces and I am pretty sure they are the cause of the knitting funk. The tiny cables are not making me or my hands happy. They’re actually already long enough that I could cast off, but I hate to “waste” the rest of the yarn. For the sake of my knitting sanity I need to either finish them this weekend or burn them. I think once they’re off the needles I’ll feel like I can start something fun and hopefully this funk will disappear!

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Fast forward to today…stoooopid reverse osmosis unit was the cause of the damage. I have met with the insurance adjuster and *5* contractors! Fortunately most of them were referred and I like all of them. It’s going to be a difficult decision on who to go with but I think any of them would do a great job. The sad part of the whole thing is the house is only 10 years old and has had a very nice kitchen which will now have to be torn apart in order to repair the damage. Water damage is a nasty thing! We’re also going to have the plumbing separated so that we can turn off the water to the house anytime we leave yet have the outside still going so the drip irrigation (much needed in the desert!) and pool will be unaffected. Too bad we didn’t think of that sooner and we could avoided this whole mess! I have finally booked my ticket back for Thursday. As much as I love it here, I am ready to be home with Jim and the boys!