Friday, January 10, 2014

Cold snap v extreme

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

6 comments:

  1. Marcia, I'm really impressed with these. Number 1 and 3 I really love the line and ghostly white. Nice, keep it up.
    Doug

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    1. Hi Doug,
      Thank 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

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  2. 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.

    Stunningly beautiful drawings. Thanks for posting these.

    Love,

    Barbara

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    1. Hi Barbara,
      Thank 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

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  3. Oh my goodness. These are beautiful! Especially the last one.
    I am sorry to hear about your pipes. It has happened to a few people I know. Crazy weather.

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    1. Thank you, Kim!
      It’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!

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