"Water, Water Everywhere...

...nor any drop to drink!"

I awoke this morning at 1 to the sound of running water. My first thought was "Is someone in our house?!" so I jumped out of bed to figure out what was going on. (And what would I have done if it HAD been someone in our house? Hmmm...didn't think about that at 1 AM!) I walked into the hall and found water spraying out of one of the pipes under the bathroom sink. I ran back into our bedroom to get Michael and he awoke with a start thinking that an intruder was trying to get into our house. I quickly told him it was okay...it was just water :-)

There was water, water EVERYWHERE (nor any drop to drink!). It was pooled on the bathroom floor and had soaked the rugs; had flowed out into the hallway and soaked another rug; had sprayed all over the toilet and up into the toothbrush holder and basket of washcloths on the top of the toilet; had dampened the bath towels on the shelves above the toilet; and had moistened everything in the trash can!

Michael couldn't get it stopped in the bathroom, so he had to turn off the water outside. It was quite the adventure! Our friend Dave--who knows everything about house "things"--graciously came over today and fixed it (with Michael as his trusty assistant). While he was at it, he also redid the seal around the toilet to improve that situation. (That's the repair step pictured below...sorry, no photos of the spraying water or pools it created or the actual repairing of the sink pipe.)

Thanks, Dave!