It is 12:25 PM as I start this message and I am very, very unhappy!! I’ve been trying to clean up after a flood of water in my apartment. Lo, these several months, I have had slow running drains but it wasn’t a problem I couldn’t work around. The situation worsened this past week and I reported the problem to management. They looked… and I learned this apartment has had the problem “for years.” My throw rugs have been used to soak up the water, and towels, and rags–plus mopping up and squeezing the mop multiple times. I’m so tired!! Praise God, this is a warm day (57 degrees at this moment) and I could have the front door open as I took sopping wet rugs, and rags, to the porch, and wrung the mop in the front yard. I have wet carpet all the way into the living room!! The water came up through a hole (a drain) under the water heater. Designed (I imagine) to catch water “if” the water heater started leaking?!

In the alcove with the water heater/storage closet (with hook-up for a washing machine if desired), I had things that I had listed “for sale.” It was my “staging area” (near the front door) when people came to claim the sold item or free item. Items in cardboard boxes are ruined!! Perhaps of most concern to me: My wood ironing board that is older than myself (my Mother’s). It was sitting in the storage closet and got wet–up about three inches.

I shudder to think how much worse this might have been “if” I were not home this morning. ~~ I’m eating lunch as I write this. Then “decision time.” Do I lug all the wet things to the laundry room? Do I leave them on the front porch for management (and the neighbors) to view? As I said, “I’m tired!!” so not sure what the afternoon will produce. When I was younger, I was able to handle “heavy-duty” projects. No more!! I guess I am “wimpy, wimpy, wimpy”!!  ~~  It’s now 1:05 and I’ve made the decision to get out of my pajamas and put on some jeans and a T-shirt.

Comment regarding picture: I had just finished ironing the dust ruffle, before adding the mattress to the twin-bed frame. That was a day or two after moving into this very nice apartment at the JAARS Center.

Postscript: In double-checking to see how the published blog looks, I’m amused to see that it is followed by “The uncomplicated life.”  Curious how these things happen!!  I didn’t plan the sequence!!