THE PLUMBING IS FIXED!!

Plumber showed up about 11ish. (After I had been awake since 7, so I was rather high-strung and pre-stressed-out about all this.) He explained the problem as this: We have a water softener - well, had, since it's now irretrievably broken - that we were told upon moving in three years ago wasn't hooked up to the lines so we ( Read more... )

 ...at least MONDAY. Yes, MONDAY. The plumber was supposed to come back in 45 minutes and so we made a mad dash cleaning the cat bathroom and the other bathrooms, and rearranging cats so it didn't appear like we have 10 cats in the house.  We then got a call from Richard telling us that it would be at least Monday before the plumber could come back ( Read more... )

 I forgot that the water softener is SURROUNDED on all sides by my stuff. Boxes and boxes of stuff. We're going to have to move EVERYTHING in order to allow him to get to it and change out the filter, etc. And, since there's water involved, I'm now seriously concerned for all of my books and papers and other keepsakes in there ( Read more... )

 He needs to flush ALL the lines. Which means the kitties that generally live in the upstairs bathroom now need to inhabit my room for the time that he needs to be in that bathroom. We've had the litter boxes in that tub for the past year. It's clogged and covered in cat litter. That toilet leaks around the gasket, and so when he tries it, he'll ( Read more... )

 Plumber arrived about 15 minutes ago. While corralling cats, I overheard him say these words: "Do you have a water softener ( Read more... )