Comfort zone.
As temperatures finally began to rise our kitchen pipes
took notice not by bursting into
applause but by gushing copious amounts of water into our drafty basement. They
waited til night time when we were preoccupied with brushing our teeth etc to
announce their situation. As we bailed bucket after bucket of water enough to
put out a raging fire and rescued
wet periodicals, scores, and books I imagined being on a storm tossed boat,
longing for dry land.
Even after we turned off the water a small constant, defiant
stream continued to squirt and flow until our plumber arrived at 7:30 am, v
calm he’d seen it all. Fixed in an hour. By that time I could barely stir, flat
out on the second floor, too pooped to move but thankful that our furnace was
still pumping out balmy heat.
Before he left he surveyed the infrastructure and took
stock, pointing in several directions - that needs fixing, that needs fixing
and that needs fixing – but not now, later. O yes we have our projects cut out
for us.
Recent drawings:
Jan 2014©MCL
Dec 2013©MCL
Dec 2013©MCL
Marcia, I'm really impressed with these. Number 1 and 3 I really love the line and ghostly white. Nice, keep it up.
ReplyDeleteDoug
Hi Doug,
DeleteThank you and it's great to hear from you too! I was blown away by the watercolor you posted a few days ago - you are brilliant!
Marcia
Oh My! This takes the saying "may you live in interesting times!" to a ridiculous extreme. So sorry. I hope everything important is dry. Nice of the plumber to say not now. Good. Middle of the night.
ReplyDeleteStunningly beautiful drawings. Thanks for posting these.
Love,
Barbara
Hi Barbara,
DeleteThank you so much for your concern and comment!
I’m familiar with water damage from the past and try to take it in my stride - sort of. The electrical stuff was fine. The furnace was working ee cuming s got soaked but I could still turn the pages. None of my drawings were directly in the line of fire
It felt therapeutic to write about it and when the bill to fix the problem was modest, much less than we expected – we sighed with relief and laughed about it.
Love,
Marcia
Oh my goodness. These are beautiful! Especially the last one.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to hear about your pipes. It has happened to a few people I know. Crazy weather.
Thank you, Kim!
DeleteIt’s been crazy and wild, weather wise thus far. Our pipes have been stream lined and improved – could have been much worse – great plumber, we got off light.
Your painting is very beautiful – I’m in awe of how you handle complex subject matter – masterful!