I'm tired of complaining...

...but one more time I will grind about the rain!  This a.m. we woke to rain which made me feel like just going right back to sleep. Justin still went to work as they simply cannot afford to get too far behind on their schedules. Especially so for the commercial jobs they have, needing to always look their best no matter what the weather holds. Thankfully it didn't last all day, but did remain overcast and threatening which made the idea of going to the pool out of the question. 

We have enough to grumble about the rain, but add to that one of our owners needing a plumber last night. A lady on the 5th floor had a 'slight' problem which the plumber was summoned to correct, only to discover the problem was much worse and required an emergency shut-off of the water for the entire building. This was discovered by us when Justin went to the kitchen to fill the Brita pitcher and found reduced water pressure. He checked the other rooms and found the same to be true. 

I called the lady in charge of maintenance in our building and she checked her water. They had none at all and set out to see what was going on. She found the plumber in the parking lot and got the scoop on what was happening and where. She stopped at my door and asked me to send off an e-mail to everyone reporting the emergency water shut-off and gave the approx. time frame for getting it back on. That's my part of the job here---communication. Meanwhile my downstairs neighbor was out on the sundeck talking with the plumber, after having discovered the reduced/no water situation. He asked me if the plumber was working in my unit, and I assured him that no, not me this time. I would certainly let him know if I was having a problem water-wise, believe me!!

I no sooner sent off the announcement before I was informed the water was back on again, so another notice went out behind the first one, with a generic apology for the inconvenience to folks. It was right around 7:30 when we discovered it, dinner time for many so I am glad we were all set before this happened. Jeff said to me, "Good thing I wasn't making soup!" which made me laugh. He regularly makes kettles of soup which we can smell up here, wonderful aroma, for his vegetarian wife to eat when he is gone flying. No water? No soup for you!!!