Day 1912

 Woke up at 7:30.  It’s still below freezing and won’t get above it until tomorrow afternoon, MAYBE.  Stayed in bed playing games and watching TV until noon.  Then got up to go to the apartment to turn on the water heater.  That way we could do the wash.

When I opened the door the apartment was flooded.  I ran to the well house and turned off the water.  After a search found that a pipe had broken on the outside wall.  All rooms except the living room were flooded.  There was even some water in the garage.  All of the rugs were soaked.  Some of the ammo was soaked as well as the Theil speakers.  The walls were dripping from condensation.  We have no mop.  We moved everything off the floor.  Then I used  a broom to push as much water as I could out the door.

As I was doing that Ellen decided to take a stupid pill.  First she took a shit in the apartment.  No water to flush.  Then she ran back to the house to take another.  I finished up with the broom and used the old towels to mop up part of the floor.  When they were soaked I took them back to the house.  

The stupid pill was still working.  Ellen was out looking for Cooper.  She’d left the door open.  I looked for tracks and couldn’t find any.  I went back in the house and with some searching found Cooper.  Then I filled up a bucket and took it to the apartment so I could flush the toilet.

It was 2, I hadn’t had any breakfast, and there was nothing to do until the towels dried.  So I made mush.  While I was cooking it Ellen said she couldn’t find Cooper.  I needed to finish cooking and eating the mush, so I told her to look until she found him.  Of course she didn’t.  Walking around aimlessly rarely does.  After I finished I searched in all the unlikely places until I found him - on top of the dresser.  He was freaked, and remained so for hours.  Ellen thinks he might have gone out and the weather scared him enough that he went back inside.

I typed up the blog notes I’d been writing.  There’s no internet so I can’t use the web page.  Then I waited for the towels to dry.  When they dried we went back to the apartment.

Much of the floor had dried.  Actually the water just soaked under the flooring.  We used the towels to wipe up the rest.  Then we started working on the ammo that got wet.  We opened up each case and looked at each shell for rust.  I used a Dremel to remove the rust when necessary.  We did 6 or more cases.  The last two had been on the garage floor.  Almost all of the shells were rusty.  We quit at 6 for dinner.

After dinner we were tired.  We watched TV.  We got enough Verizon internet back to do email.  I cleared out my emails and wrote a couple of long replies.  I also found out that the fuel in the truck has probably gelled due to the cold.  It will be several days before I can drive it.

I think the next few days will be a pain in the ass